I’ve written more than 20 songs during the past year or so, and I have somehow managed to record sketches for at least 11 songs that will go under the The Peak Point project, maybe good enough for a next release. Yes, most of the stuff I write is still fiting the original Peak Point’s purpose: cinematographic instrumentals, simple songs with a little twist and guitars ranging from cristal clear to total saturation.

But not everything is continuity here. Since I became a freelancer the time slice that goes to making music has been cut down to, a random saturday afternoon, hopefully once per month, and the creative process had to be dramatically changed.

First off I used to jam a lot. I used to record some bass tracks and some drum loops and then spend hours playing along, recording endless jams so I could later look for accidental ideas. And that’s just not possible at the moment.

But, luckily enough, I discovered a little café called “Al Café” where I go every other night. The owner of the Café, the humorous Tó-P is also a guitar player and a great music lover. The café has musical intruments all over, traditional, classic and exotic, including a couple of electric and acoustic guitars, some digital stomps and two amps.

More than enough to spend some musical 30 minutes after dinner. Well, the thing is: sometimes it just happens. One of these days I came up with this:

“Seven is My Lucky Number” (work in progress)

Warning: This is just a rough mix of a current work-in-progress, a couple of guitars playing over a drum-machine loop.

Yes, yes, but I just love it.

I’m still unsure about going over verse/chorus 3 times during the song, doing the riff in the 1st chorus, the solo in the 2nd and back to the riff, expanding it, in the 3rd.

I think it might work, but I will only know when I record some drums and sculpt some real dynamics into these transitions. I also like the outro but think the intro is just too long. Too much indecision going there before it kicks of with the verse riff.

If you want to play the bass, the drums, or anyother instrument in any of my tracks, you’re more than welcome. We can meet here in any studio or we can even do it remote, I’ll just send you the source tracks!

The song is unlicensed so you might also want to steal it from me. If you plan on hiting the charts with it and make me proud about it, make sure you contact me before you steal it: I will clear any doubts regarding majors and minors and might even help you set it up.

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