An abstract, stylized image of two faceless rock musicians, possibly on stage with their instruments.

This song is about the joy in playing music, inspired by musical collaborations I’ve had both in the past and in the present. The main riff is a little odd — it ends with a bar of 5/4, except before a verse, where that’s replaced by a bar of 6/4 to give the sections a beat to breathe. I left the first, false ending chord as a measure of 6/4 as a call-back to this. There’s also some sneaky double bass drum action going on right before the solo because… why not?

Again, I had weekend time, so I put in a little bit more work on this one. It’s kind of funny, because I say that but still left out at least one extra part — I wanted to add an acoustic guitar track — and one extra vocal (some “Oozin’ Awes” on the second half of the choruses). I guess that’s why these are just demos, right? Anyway, I picked the key because Db is the only one unused on a Jamuary song so far. Since C# is a rough key on the ukulele, I used a capo but had a hell fretting chords because of how tiny a uke is in my big, sweaty meat hooks.

Lyrics

Gonna tune up my guitar for later today
When I can find my voice, and banish the doubts away
‘Cuz there’s music to make, and I won’t be alone
And I’ll cast away the doubts, banished with my microphone
And we’ll sing our stupid heads off
And everything will feel right

I don’t care what they do and
I don’t care what they say
Because we get to make
Music today
I’ll play till my fingers bleed,
my voice it fades away
Because we get to make
Music today
We’ll play our favorite songs
Every note up and down the clef
And we’ll keep on playing, we’ll keep on slayin’
Until we think we’ve gone deaf