There's a Place

 There's a Place

 

Original first version written sometime between 1984 and 1987 .

I dug it out from a cassette. I don't remember what inspired it? But the first chords are maybe similar to bands like Santana or America...or it could have been something else... I really don't remember? It's A to D-ish with a Latin feel

I wanted to revisit it.

 

I dug around and found the chords. They were actually much more complicated then I remembered.

 

 

 

Once I got the chords, it actually took me a very long time to work out the melody and instrumental part.I tried different combinations of sounds. Originally I wasn't going to use a lead guitar for the melody but the synth sounds were not cutting through, that's why you hear a mixture of sounds playing the melody. In the end, I was happy with the result.

 

 

Not in pure order but these are the chords I used, according to the scraps of paper I worked from:

A9       D2           A9     D2

A9          D2       A9      D2

 

F Major 7            C Major7

Eb    Dm

A major 7        C Major 7      F    Esus4    E


A9       D2           A9     D2

A9          D2       A9      D2

 

A major 7      D major 7

F              E minor

A Major 7     C Major 7      Fsus4   Esus4  E



D minor (bass e-eb-e)  E minor

D minor                E minor



Em  (bass e-f#-g) G

Em  (bass e-f#-g) G

Em

Some of the screenshots I took on the way:

I used LMMS to work on the melody and try out a LOT of different VSTi's

 

 

 

 

Here are some of the VSTi's and settings I kept:

I used a mixture of 'live' guitar through RP50 and Boss Delay pedal and also through Cakewalk's modelling guitars.

 

How's that? Boom.