New Song - Real Enough

Here is a new song called "Real Enough". The chord progression for this song has been something I have been playing around with for several years and from time to time it comes up when I'm just noodling around on the guitar. Actually it is the chord change from E to Bm that I have been trying to work into a song. Well I finally got something to work and I have the beginning of a song. I'm trying something different and instead of just giving you clips, I've recorded a bit that shows the progression. This goes through my last attempt a few month ago to what I have today. As always forgive the bad singing of the melody. Here is that recording



Real Enough - Song Progression by tazthecat

I have a few preliminary lyrics that are (this is very early in writing the song so these are rough):

Well I didn't know that you were here
Cause I didn't stare
Feel that my thoughts are real enough

I see it in your smile
I feel it in my heart

You say you want to dance
I say I don't know how
The pain as I step on your feet is real enough

I was trying to come up with lyrics and the phrase 'Real Enough' popped into my head so I started writing lyrics around that. Sometimes the lyrics come from an idea, sometimes I come up with one or more verses, and sometimes I come up with the chorus first. This is the first time I've been able to write a song starting with just a phrase.

The chord progression I finally ended up with is E - Bm - Am - F - G - C. This started out as being E - Bm - Am - G - F - Am but this chord progression descended down the scale from the Bm and I wanted to break up that progression to make the song more interesting (that and I'm working on another song that has a similar descending chord progression). The last thing that I needed was a transition from the C chord back to the starting chord in the verse, which is the E chord. What I came up with is the riff that started on the c note on the fifth string of the guitar and descended down the scale. The notes in the riff are c-b-a-g-e. This was good but I needed something better so I ended the riff on an E chord instead of just the e note and to make it more interesting the second time through, I end the riff on a G chord. That is what you hear in the recording.

That's it for now. As I make progress on this song I will post updates.

Enjoy,

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