Scott Andrew - lo-fi acoustic pop superhero!

Just so you know, there’s another redesign of this site headed your way. I’ve made some fairly major changes in an attempt to make it more band-y, with more emphasis on the music. The weblog will remain on the front page, but only the most current entry. I don’t plan on breaking any links so all the stuff from the past five years will still be here, somewhere. Anyway, I’m working very hard on it and I hope you like it and don’t think it sucks.

Yesterday I spent a few hours transcribing most of my songs onto paper, charting out the chord changes and structure and stuff. I had to do a lot of guessing; I’ve taken music theory courses on several occassions but it just doesn’t sink in.

It was pretty neat to find out what I was playing, though. A lot of times when I’m using some weird tuning and using the capo, I have no idea what chord I’m strumming, only that it sounds great. I’m amused to find out that a particularly complex-sounding and difficult-to-fret chord is actually just some variation of G major. And like I said, I’m guessing a lot of the time. I mean, I really do want to claim that “Have We Learned” contains an F#m7 add 11 just because it sounds impressive, but I can’t confirm it because I really can’t read music. Which is the part you’re not supposed to know.

As to the reason why I’m transcribing my songs — I’ll announce that as soon as I’m certain of a few things. I’ll probably know within an hour, so I’ll likely post about it here tomorrow.