song changes & future plans

This first bit is mainly just for my own records, so you can skip it if you like.

Today i was fucking around recording and i hit upon a chord progression i want to use to substitute for the refrain in “like we are.”

original:
||: G – D/F# – Em – Em :||     <– like the 2nd half of “Comfortably Numb” verse at half speed – hackneyed!

modified a few months ago:
||: Em/G – D/F# – Em -Em :||      <– sounds a little more refined, leaving behind Floyd for perhaps Toad the Wet Sprocket

new version:
||: Em/G – D/F# – Esus4 – E :||      <– now it’s more refined still, a bit more Coldplayey

The harmony in there is beautiful; there’s so much chromatic content when you move thru the chords. Between them, we’ve got F#, G, G#, and A (in order: G, F#, A, G#). I love the way it flows now. It’s come so far since i first wrote it, over ten years ago now.

I’m recording it now, and these changes have been a little trying. I have to go thru and re-record things all the time. I think it’ll be worth it in the end.

So my plan now is to finish this one and then kick out as many tunes as i can over the coming months. I want to have about 10-12 really good songs for a CD. not too long, and not too short.

How much would you honestly pay for a CD of my tunes? For a download? Is 45-55 minutes long enough, or too long? Any other suggestions?

I’m sort of half planning on offering each song as a free download as i record it, including tunes that may not make the final cut.

I’m really not into the business thing. I just want to share this awful noise inside my head, but i would like to make at least a couple bucks when i’m done. Cover my expenses.

On another note, i have a strange burning sensation in the tips of two fingers and the side of my right hand, plus a sore spot on my ass. In the old days, i would just ask somebody else what happened. Now i have to rely on my sober memory. And i cannot remember being scalded, or saving any kitties from raging infernos.