Monty Harper has a guest this month on his podcast, Mr. Billy, with whom he collaborated on the very sweet night-night song, "Goodnight Sun". They have a really interesting discussion about how much goes into what many people think is a simple endeavor...creating a kids song. Monty tells a great story about spending the better part of a day working on two lines from the song until he got it right. Monty always shares great insight into the creation of his songs, including samples of early demos. In this case, you get to hear the difference between the original demo version and the finished version which includes an unexpected minor chord change...sorry Monty, I think you did lead Mr. Billy astray on that one :-) .
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Mr. Billy and I get a big kick out of the idea that other people are registering their opinions on that minor chord change. It seems to be a love or hate it kind of thing. Thankfully, Mr. Billy likes it and so do I so there you go! ;-)
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Posted by: Monty Harper | August 25, 2006 at 08:42 AM
I think I just have a bias against Minor keys...we were making a song for our students and in the second verse it switched into a minor key, and I couldn't for the life of me sing it! I was scarred I think. I think it is VERY cool you included that in the podcast...great insight into songwriting.
Posted by: Devon T | August 26, 2006 at 07:55 AM