Jammin'!

Phew! This was hard! To misquote Barbie, "Writing music is hard." Especially when you don't really know anything about music. Oh, music notation I've seen. I know what all the little things are supposed to mean, but I'm that not-quite-illiterate-thing with music. And I wouldn't know a guitar chord if it bit me in the butt! (Pardon my language.) This must be torture to my poor husband who has just received my first ever (written*) musical composition thanks to Jamstudio.

Now, the people at Jamstudio have made this process as simple as they possibly can. It's just not quite simple enough for the simple-minded. You get a choice of chords in one box (which you can preview before you put them on the chart, but you can delete them at any time afterwards anyway), but what chord sounds good after that last one? I chorded myself into a "chorner" and there was but one way out: listen to twelve bars of dull music and continually try one chord after another until the last and final line was built. After that it was easy to choose base lines, drums, piano, and their respective mix levels. Then I saved it and sent it to my musical genius of a husband who even now is probably writhing in agony and ready to chew his arm off to make it stop.

If anyone else wants to hear my composition, let me know and I'll e-mail it to you. You can share it by e-mail. Be sure to have headphones nearby ... and probably insulin, and whatever you normally use to combat nausea and vomiting.

* I have written songs in the past, mostly for my cats. The one for Katisha was written in the key of Kitchen Fan and went: "Love my kitty, here we go 'round. Love my kitty, here we go 'round. Here we go 'round, here we go 'round, heeeeeeeere we go 'round" finished off with some Tuvan tone-singing.