Don't Ever Dismiss What Happens

Don't Ever Dismiss What Happens

I remember one of last year's Jadiid practice session, I was messing around on the guitar. It wasn't serious or anything. and Matt goes "hey, keep playing that" and I was like "ok..." but I was really thinking "is he seriously going to try to write a song over this guitar riff?" I didn't think it was anything worth keeping. But I'm glad Matt did something with it because it's one of my favorite Jadiid songs, "Blue on Blue" (which is coming out on the new record!).

The same sort of thing happened last week. I was hanging out with one of my bandmates and I was dicking around on the guitar. I was playing the chords to one of our songs, but with a melody that I was singing in the moment. I kept singing it and singing it, and I didn't think much of it. But my bandmate was looking at me saying that it was really cool, so we recorded it on Garageband so that we wouldn't forget it. The funny thing is I was actually using the beginning melodic idea from "Blue on Blue". Does that mean I have to pay Matt royalties? I'll probably play it off like Coldplay vs Joe Satriani.

A few minutes later. The same thing happened. I was just playing around and my bandmate secretly was recording it and I listened back to it and I liked it a lot.

So I guess the lesson is wash your hands before you eat. And keep a journal of the times you fool around with any musical idea, because it can become a song you love to sing and play.

Cheers
E