Waiting Within... one of the new Toxic Minds songs in early stages of creation...

I thought it would be interesting to give you all a bit of a "blow by blow" of the song as we create it.

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Waiting Within Part I - the beginning of an idea...

In my writing, I have found there is no one “formula” to creating a new song. They get their start in so many different ways:

~ sometimes it’s from a poem or a snippet of a lyric or a concept,
~ sometimes it’s from a melody idea (as in my song “Facing Medusa”),
~ sometimes from a chord progression.
There are many different ways our muse speaks to us, different triggers that stir up the creative juices… setting us off on a creative journey to craft a new song .

Lars and I were in the studio the other day in one of our free-form writing sessions. As often happens when we write, Lars was noodling around on the acoustic guitar with no particular song in mind, just playing with progressions. Lars has a wonderful ability to just instinctively play interesting guitar lines/progressions that become the catalyst... a jumping off point... to a new song.

He played a riff that caught my ear, so I started vocalizing over what he was playing... and a haunting, yearning melody started to emerge.

... Read/Listen on ...