“I was using those kinds of chords before I knew what they were called before I made an effort to learn theory beyond just major or minor. Can you talk about their appeal to you as a songwriter? I hear quite a few major and minor 7ths on The Slow Rush songs like It Might Be Time and Instant Destiny, and also on songs on InnerSpeaker. And then you can decide whether you like it or not.” “I think there's a magic to that rather than going, 'Right, I'm gonna play A minor and then C major.' There's a magic to not knowing what you're doing, because it leaves it up to chance and for the universe to decide what happens. I forgot that that was how so many great guitar riffs and chord progressions were written, just by feeling it out. “I've rediscovered the joy of just trying random shapes and seeing what happens. I've rediscovered a bit of mystery with it, because for a while I had this idea that I needed to be growing as a musician, so I needed to know exactly what I was doing. “But I've gone back to that way with guitar. For a while I had this idea that I needed to be growing as a musician, so I needed to know exactly what I was doing I've rediscovered a bit of mystery with the guitar. It was nice to switch to an instrument where I didn't know what I was doing. With guitar, I'm like, 'Okay, that's D major, that's an E major 7th.' I know exactly what they are. That's why it was nice when I started writing songs on the synthesizer, because I didn't really didn't know how to play one.
“At the same time, I seem to be the most creative when I don't know exactly what I'm doing. Guitar is the instrument I’m probably the most proficient on, so it's probably the easiest. My palette of instruments has expanded over the years, so now I use different things to write songs. “Well, it used to be the only way I knew how to write songs because guitar used to be the only composing instrument I knew how to play, and the only instrument I owned. Have you found over the years that you use the guitar more or less as you’re composing? Is it still integral to your songwriting process? I don't know how to describe it, but it's just this really good feeling with the song, kind of like falling in love with it.
It's almost like getting to know someone, like having this moment of sheer. “I'll start a song and keep working on it until I have a moment with it. The only thing that I have is that it's essential for me to have a 'moment' with the song, whether it's late at night, when I'm just starting to write the song or halfway through it. “Honestly, I don't really have songwriting habits or any kind of method.
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