{"id":3479,"date":"2016-12-21T08:12:29","date_gmt":"2016-12-21T13:12:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/baselines.com\/?p=3479"},"modified":"2016-12-22T07:51:01","modified_gmt":"2016-12-22T12:51:01","slug":"starting-a-new-song","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/baselines.com\/?p=3479","title":{"rendered":"Starting a New Song"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>All right &#8211; I know I haven&#8217;t finished the last one yet (Horse Latitudes), but I am reading Keith Richard&#8217;s book &#8216;Life&#8217; and he talks about open D tuning.  Wow!!!  It makes a lot of songs (Rolling Stones, Steve Miller, etc) a lot easier.<\/p>\n<p>I love the semi dissonances..one chord sounds just like &#8216;It&#8217;s Getting Better&#8217; &#8211; the Beatles probably used open D for that&#8230;maybe.<\/p>\n<p>Anyway, Keith&#8217;s book is surprisingly good &#8211; if you haven&#8217;t read it yet you should pick it up if that sort of thing interests you.<\/p>\n<p>Here&#8217;s my studio setup, getting ready to record.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/baselines.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/2016-12-19-17.33.01-e1482325922190-900x506.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"900\" height=\"506\" class=\"alignnone size-thumbnail wp-image-3480\" srcset=\"https:\/\/baselines.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/2016-12-19-17.33.01-e1482325922190-900x506.jpg 900w, https:\/\/baselines.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/2016-12-19-17.33.01-e1482325922190-768x432.jpg 768w, https:\/\/baselines.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/2016-12-19-17.33.01-e1482325922190-1024x576.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/baselines.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/2016-12-19-17.33.01-e1482325922190-440x248.jpg 440w, https:\/\/baselines.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/2016-12-19-17.33.01-e1482325922190-640x360.jpg 640w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 900px) 100vw, 900px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Open Me:<br \/>\n<audio class=\"wp-audio-shortcode\" id=\"audio-3479-1\" preload=\"none\" style=\"width: 100%;\" controls=\"controls\"><source type=\"audio\/mpeg\" src=\"http:\/\/www.baselines.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/all-songs\/mp3\/Open_Me.mp3?_=1\" \/><a href=\"http:\/\/www.baselines.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/all-songs\/mp3\/Open_Me.mp3\">http:\/\/www.baselines.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/all-songs\/mp3\/Open_Me.mp3<\/a><\/audio>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/baselines.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/guitar_mics-506x900.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"506\" height=\"900\" class=\"alignnone size-thumbnail wp-image-3482\" srcset=\"https:\/\/baselines.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/guitar_mics-506x900.jpg 506w, https:\/\/baselines.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/guitar_mics-768x1365.jpg 768w, https:\/\/baselines.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/guitar_mics-576x1024.jpg 576w, https:\/\/baselines.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/guitar_mics-360x640.jpg 360w, https:\/\/baselines.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/guitar_mics.jpg 1152w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 506px) 100vw, 506px\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/baselines.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/open_me_piano-e1482411050342-900x506.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"900\" height=\"506\" class=\"alignnone size-thumbnail wp-image-3485\" srcset=\"https:\/\/baselines.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/open_me_piano-e1482411050342-900x506.jpg 900w, https:\/\/baselines.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/open_me_piano-e1482411050342-768x432.jpg 768w, https:\/\/baselines.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/open_me_piano-e1482411050342-1024x576.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/baselines.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/open_me_piano-e1482411050342-440x248.jpg 440w, https:\/\/baselines.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/open_me_piano-e1482411050342-640x360.jpg 640w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 900px) 100vw, 900px\" \/><\/p>\n\n<script>\nvar zbPregResult = '0';\n<\/script>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>All right &#8211; I know I haven&#8217;t finished the last one yet (Horse Latitudes), but I am reading Keith Richard&#8217;s book &#8216;Life&#8217; and he talks about open D tuning. Wow!!! It makes a lot of songs (Rolling Stones, Steve Miller, etc) a lot easier. I love the semi dissonances..one chord sounds just like &#8216;It&#8217;s Getting [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[35],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3479","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-music"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/baselines.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3479","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/baselines.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/baselines.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/baselines.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/baselines.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3479"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/baselines.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3479\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3486,"href":"https:\/\/baselines.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3479\/revisions\/3486"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/baselines.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3479"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/baselines.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3479"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/baselines.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3479"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}