SONG TWO (ON THE EDGE) – VERSION 2

Hello Saturday!

Version 1 of Song Two (On The Edge) is rather “vanilla” musically. It was one of the first few songs I wrote, and I didn’t know much to play around with.

Then the other day I was doodling on the piano, and a strange chord caught my ears. It sounded very different from the other chords. It stirred something up in me. I looked it up online, and it’s called a diminished chord. I thought, hmm… I’d like to use that in a song!

So I sat down and wrote Version 2 for Song Two (On The Edge), adding a diminished chord to the chord progression to make it a bit more “spicy”, and then ending the song on a suspended chord, which seems rather fitting.

Let me know which version “tastes” better for you!

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My Mom helped me pick out the best recording for Version 2. I had recorded several takes last Friday in Toronto, before leaving for California to spend Thanksgiving holiday with my family. Here I caught a bad cold, that made my head cloudy and my body ache. I couldn’t trust my judgement in that state, so I asked for Mom’s help.

Here’re her reviews of the three takes I had her listen to:

First take: smooth and easy on the ear, one can listen to it over and over.
Second take: not as smooth, but there are accented parts that make you pay attention to the words being sung.
Third take: the accented parts are not as subtle as those of Second take.

So Second take is Mom’s pick, and that is what you’re listening to here.