Here we are with the fourth demo for our next album. What can I tell you about this song?

Chorus

Riff brought back from the dead - :35-:50

The chorus was the first thing written for this song. An early version of it was actually used as a bridge in an old song that was never recorded or released. We played it live a few times and then dropped it from the set. You can hear it on YouTube, and the section I’m talking about plays from :35 – :50.

I always liked that part and so I brought it back, changed it up just a little, and wrote some new parts around it.

When I get tired of using power chords, I often mess around with chords made up of the root and the third. And I like using pedal tones, and inverted pedal tones (another Megadeth influence, as well as classical music obviously), so that’s where this chorus comes from.

Intro/Turnaround

The section that I used for the intro and turnaround was written next. And I don’t remember if I wrote it with the intention of using it for the already-written chorus, of if I matched them up later. But it also uses chords made up of the root and third, as well as an inverted pedal tone.

And for some reason, I was messing around with the idea of playing all the chords with upstrokes. I ended up playing all the chunking on the low E with downstrokes and all of the chords with upstrokes.

Verse

I wasn’t exactly sure where to go with the verse on this song. I played around with a slow variation of the intro/turnaround and liked where it was going. But I needed some modulation since everything was in E minor and based around only three chords (E, D and C).

So I wrote a variation of the intro/turnaround in B minor to add some contrast and movement.

The Demo

Here it is. Check it out!

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