Youre Going To Be Ok
b"Episode#129: You\\u2019re Going To Be OK\\xa0 \\xa0 (Song starts at 3:06)\\n\\nWelcome to another episode, I hope you\\u2019re having a great day wherever you are n the world.\\n\\nI am, living here on the Mornington Peninsula in Melbourne Australia - it\\u2019s a busy day, plenty on.\\n\\nI mention this because no matter how busy I get, I have a sort of a pact with myself that whenever a feeling that a song may be coming through, I\\u2019ll stop whatever I\\u2019m up to, go to the piano and see what\\u2019s on offer.\\n\\nI had the feeling a song was \\u2018coming through\\u2019 the day I wrote the lyrics for \\u2018You\\u2019re Going To Be Ok\\u2019. The image of \\u2018running along a beach, pretending for a moment you\\u2019re a bird\\u2019 came to mind as I picked up my pen. \\u2018Fair enough\\u2019, I thought. I\\u2019ve learned not to edit what comes through, initially, just go with the flow and see where it takes me. Often it\\u2019s not evident for a few lines, or even halfway through the song as to what a song might be about.\\n\\nThe words came quickly, as they do for me. The same with the music - for myself - and for Paul Dredge, the co-songwriter of what turned out to be track number 6, the first single of our new folk rock album 'The Untrodden Track'.\\n\\nOn this episode I look at the way 'You\\u2019re going To Be Ok' came together. I\\u2019ve included snippets of recordings to illustrate the process, isolating my parts and Paul\\u2019s and then showing how they came together.\\n\\nIn a nutshell, I came up with the lyrics. Then I composed the music to the verse and mid-section. I stopped there and, as planned, didn\\u2019t continue, because I\\u2019d earmarked this particular lyric for a co-write with Paul.\\n\\nI sent the lyrics and an mp3 of the verse and chorus (piano / vocal) to Paul. He then came up with the chorus guitar and vocal, and sent that back to me. One Sunday evening the bridge came through and it seemed to me the song was going to work.\\n\\nIt was great to be able to write and arrange this song by sending wavs back and forth via Dropbox on the internet. I cover some of this on the episode.\\n\\nIt is such good fun. The instruments are arranged in a way that\\u2019s best for the song. It seems an obvious thing to point out, but with songwriting, it\\u2019s really about finding Melody and chords and instrumentation that gets across the feeling and the message of the song, best (rather than any tacky /flash playing or complicated chord changes for the sake of it, which can get in the road of the song)..\\n\\nYou\\u2019ll hear how the harmonies were added in the chorus, how the song takes shape.\\n\\nThe whole album, The Untrodden Track (streaming now - including on www.petepascoe.bandcamp.com - where you can stream it for free, and download tracks, read lyrics, read about the album., and hear another 13 albums) was recorded in this manner, bouncing tracks back and forth between Australia and New Zealand, where Paul lives.\\n\\nIt works for us, I think, partly -or mostly - because we\\u2019ve played thousands of gigs together. We\\u2019re on the same page, in many respects..\\n\\nOk if you\\u2019d like to get more of an insight into our songwriting relationship, sit back. Grab a cuppa and have a listen to see how You\\u2019re Going To Be Ok came together.\\n\\nEnjoy."