a musing is…

mus·ing /ˈmyo͞oziNG/

noun a period of reflection or thought.

in other words, me bullshitting around on a guitar over the same three or four bars of piano accompaniment repeating endlessly. you could call them guitar sonatas. i usually have one specific musical element that i’m concerned with exploring (a particular scale, time signature, whatever) and after i write and record a piano part that repeats for a few minutes, i just explore on the guitar until i have enough phrases that i like and arrange them in some semblance of a progression that might keep someone interested. oh, and then i put reverb on everything. reverb sounds like musing (as a present participle).

the newest one took a little bit of extra effort. it was hard to use the flat second without adding this psuedo-”oriental” sound that i find super tasteless. but in the end i think i’m pretty happy with it.