Channeling My Inner McCartney

Gordon and I have been rockin!!!!!!!

3 songs in 2 days.... They are complete other than... ummm.... lyrics.
Some may think.... well then is it a song if you don't the lyrics? But
getting chords, melody, and structure all nailed down feels like a
great accomplishment! We have been having so much fun. And all of the
songs so far have been divinely inspired.

Yesterday we had a really awesome conversation just catching up from
the last 8 months. We haven't written together since March of last
year. And when we walked into his studio, he started playing guitar, I
started singing, and BAM! It just happened. Full song.
And today he started singing a melody out of NOWHERE.... and then we
played around with it and it morphed into 2 different songs!!! One is
really driving and up-tempo, and the other is sweet and laid back. Go
figure. They came from the same place. :) And the most fun part is
that I have the whole evolution of when one song started to turn into
another on my phone. I had the recorder on for 40 minutes and didn't
even know it! iphones ROCK.

It's so fun to write with other people because it has really expanded
my musical vocabulary. When I write by myself, I typically write
lyrics and melody together and then I edit later. Gordon and I
usually come up with the melody first, figure out what it sounds like
and then add in the lyrics. But it is different with everyone. I've
written with a lot of writers where we pick the topic first, figure
out the story and then worry about the music part. It all just depends
on the day, the mood, and the people in the room!

I'm pretty encouraged that Paul McCartney's first attempt at
"Yesterday" was "Scrambled eggs... Oh baby how I love your legs". He
says it took him months to actually finish the song and they all
referred to it as "Scrambled Eggs" for the longest time! So who
knows.... currently the songs are titled by the dates and the two from
today are "1/6/09 Nat & G" and "1/6/09 Nat & G up-tempo". But maybe I
should come up with ridiculous titles and I then I can channel my
inner-McCartney. :)-