A Little Secret

I am going to let you in on a little secret, but you can't tell Jetsunma, OK?

We are writing a song for Jetsunma, using her Long Life Prayer. In other words we are writing Jetsunma's long life song, just using the words of a master so there is some actual weight behind it. The song will be presented to her at Lha Bab Duchen. This came about as a special request from Ani Yeshi, who having recently had some medical problems, asked us to compose a song for Jetsunma's long life. Talk about devotion, to think of Jetsunma's long life when your very own is in danger.

Its the first time that Blinded By View has been "commissioned" to write a song, and now with a deadline its a bit of a challenge. Fortunately we are endowed with Tara's amazing songwriting talents. At around midnight last night Tara sat down at the piano, completely inspired and raring to go and within no time at all she had the basic out line of the chords and the melody. This afternoon we invited David to come in a learn Tara's basic piano chords, allowing him the room to embellish her original with his own interpretation. Of course David picked it up right away and now its quite a thing to hear, he really knows how to add just the right touch to a song.

Here is Dave working out the piano parts.

Nathaniel began working on the drums, using our trusty Akai MPC. Because this is a new song we weren't sure what type of beat this song should have, funk, rock, downtempo, or hip hop. But regardless Nathaniel pulled it all together with his brand of rhythmic ingenuity and crafted use a nice little back beat to drive the song.



Although we didn't track it, here is a nice little photo of Nathaniel working out a guitar part.

We were so caught up in the process that we skipped a meeting we were supposed to attend, because of the nature of the session it was probably OK.

Lha Bab Duchen is on November 1st, just about a week away. It is going to be tough, but we'll pull it off. Next step will be adding guitar and bass, sounded like Nathaniel was getting something and I had a moment on the bass and I have a pretty good idea of what I can add. Then it'll be synths and texture and then the magic moment; tracking Tara's vocals. Its exciting. I wonder how we are going to present it? Anyhow this one is gonna be special.