I wish I had 1/100th of your creativity and eccentricity. 
You are such positive person, Brian! I love the song!
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worth it for that alone 
More pearls! 
Tbh I forgot that was an F#7
I never did learn the ‘small F’ so I think would find that fingering a bit tricky, but I see that you’d have both E strings ringing out which might accentuate the 7th quality? 
(I don’t know what possessed my to try to sing that dominant C7 without practicing properly 
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Hey Digger, it’s been a while. Good to see you pop up again 
I see The Cure are back in business- any chance of something strange from you 'n Katja? 
err… spare time and thick skin goes a long way, but thank you
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This one fell out of my pocket today.
I thought I’d try something in the key of A (well, why not) and my only other idea in advance of shaping it occured when I wrote down the word ‘rocky’ … meaning a little uptempo, driving sort of thing.
This came along after a bit. Seven layers of guitar plus bass & drum from the Trio+.
When I listen to it now (with fade out added after the fact) I have in mind the outro to a longer song where some motifs and melodies from earlier all recur and overlap in a big ending.
More fun than you can shake a stick at!
Whoopsie - just dropped another one.
I’m finding this whole business of spending some time playing, having fun and being creative just a little addictive.
The story behind the track.
I decided to create something in the key of D major using diatonic chords.
An online die randomly generated the numbers 3, 4, 2, 6, 2, 5. That gave me a chord progression.
| F#m | G | Em | Bm | Em | A |
The online die had not given me a tonic chord so I knew that placing one after the dominant V chord was a good option. That gave me a 7-bar progression. A little unconventional. So I placed a tonic D major chord at the beginning also. I had this progression.
| D | F#m | G | Em | Bm | Em | A | D |
I wanted slow-ish tempo so I programmed a 72 bpm drum beat to follow for my loop. From there I just added layer upon layer of rhythms and arpeggiated chords and more as it came to me. I devised a melody then a harmony part to go along with it.
But, I wanted more. So I wrote a second section. I took more control over this. I decided to stay in the same key and simplify things, choosing a progression of:
| D | F#m | G | A |
Some more layers and noodling and I had two pieces to join together.
Which is verse / which is chorus?
Who knows.
Does it matter?
I did a little drum then bass intro thing and a fade out. But other than that this is how I made it.