I realize that I never shared the rough mix of my last song, To Be a Rock. That\u2019s because I sort of parked it once I got the vocals down. It still needs some synths or guitars or something to really make it work. Still not sure exactly what, so instead I decided to put together the next song and bring it up to rough mix too, and then finish them off together.<\/p>\n
This one is a jazzy, dancy number, sort of hybrid of swing, funk and disco. The main musical ideas I\u2019ve had hanging around for a while; it just had to be hammered into shape. I did teach myself to play a pretty groovin\u2019 walking bass line for the middle section. The lyrics are just something to sing that sounds good over a song that sounds like this. More or less about watching someone in the audience dance to the music while you\u2019re playing sax at a gig. Inspired I suppose by the funk bands I was in in California. Still, I laid down the vocal track the other day and the performance brought the whole thing up a level. I did three takes straight thru with no overdubs, took less than an hour. Now of course this one needs the arrangement fleshed out too before I can share the track.<\/p>\n
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Soul On Fire<\/strong><\/p>\n She don’t wanna hear no DJ She like a dancin’ and a bumpin’ Spirit in the night She dance till dawn and the devil himself may care She got the groove I got the horn She don’t wanna see no DJ I realize that I never shared the rough mix of my last song, To Be a Rock. That\u2019s because I sort of parked it once I got the vocals down. It still needs some synths or guitars or something to really make it work. Still not sure exactly what, so instead I decided to put … Continue reading “New Song: Soul on Fire”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[26],"class_list":["post-2978","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-music","tag-buzzy-tonic"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.zingman.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2978","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.zingman.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.zingman.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zingman.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zingman.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2978"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.zingman.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2978\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.zingman.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2978"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zingman.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2978"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zingman.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2978"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
\nShe wanna come and see the band play
\nAh listen what the man on the stand say<\/p>\n
\nAh the room is really thumpin’
\nListen then man on the stand tell you somethin’<\/p>\n
\nBlinded by the light
\nIn the midnight hour
\nWhen my soul’s on fire<\/p>\n
\nSmoke in her eyes and fire in her hair
\nSpice in her smile and snakes stare in her glare<\/p>\n
\nYeah she got the moves
\nShe got the legs
\nShe even got the shoes<\/p>\n
\nAnd I got the news
\nI got the sound
\nI even got the blues<\/p>\n
\nShe wanna go and hear the band play
\nListen what the man on the stand say<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"