This song was, among other things, a learning process in recording a song.

Things started years ago when I was playing around on guitar and came up with the main guitar parts. I decided to experiment with making as high a quality recording of it as I could, but I wasn’t real familiar with recording then. Jumping into things, I went to the music store to get an SM57 microphone and set off recording. I wasn’t getting things to sound how I wanted though, so I put the idea on the shelf, where it stayed for some time.

Fast forward several years, I was looking to finish some songs and I dusted this idea off. I had recently heard a tip about using the structure of another song as a blueprint for your own. Inspired by the multiple guitar solo sections in the Red Hot Chili Peppers’ song Scar Tissue, I decided to try something similar. Also, partly inspired by a fun video series on the writing of Weezer’s song, Turning Up the Radio (rabbit hole here), I included two different chorus sections back-to-back.

I next fleshed out the rest of the music and lyrics and then set out to make a recording a second time around. There was a lot to learn. Later on, after recording a few more songs, I came back a third time to further redo some things. At the end of that process, I’ve now learned some things to carry into future songs.