My Week in a Song for Week #31 of 2015

I BELIEVE IN YOU was written by Roger Cook and Sam Hogin and was sung tenderly and I believe perfectly by Don Williams in 1980. I challenge everyone not to enjoy listening to Don Williams sing this song.

What I have learned while learning this one is how deceptive simplicity can be. I've re-learned that phrasing is everything and that singing a song that is "simple" like this one in one take is lots harder than I think when I hear a song on the radio. Most of my career in song I sang in a small chorus, in a studio. There was lots of "punching in" phrases - this is called editing.

I've learned I like editing. But I'm not going to edit my week in a song tunes. Not for a long time. The whole point is to get through them in one take (and in one piece emotionally!)

I've also re-learned that less is NOT always more - this started out as a three chord arrangement. I prefer the way I am playing it much more, with the chords I added to fill it out.

Oh, and I learned that I am capable of transposing a simple three chord down down two steps and making it complicated by adding lots of flourish-y chords.

As my friend and breathwork David Elliott says, "How you do anything is how you do everything."

I tend to make things more complicated than most folks. Is it because I care so much, or because I am insecure? YES!

Thanks for listening.