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Credits
For Roland, Rebecca and Quirren.
Completed september 2002.
Composed, arranged, produced and performed by Gerard Slooven.
Recorded for the CD "12 Significant Others".
Song
This song is about all the hard work that has to be done when you move to a new home, but also about the good results that can be achieved. The percussive sounds in the first part have to be played as follows: keep the fingers of your left hand (if you're right-handed) in position but lift them so that they barely touch the strings. With your right hand, just keep plucking the strings in tempo in the same way as with fretted chords. This should give a scraping, damped sound, and playing around with the amount of pressure your left hand applies to the strings some nice variations in sound can be realised. Just try to look like you're working really hard when playing this title, you'll impress all your friends... What do they know?
Recording
Track length: [03:19],
Instruments: Furch D-20-CM (lead).
The first idea for this song was to record it three times, and mix it with one guitar left, one right and one in the middle. This proved to be way too much guitar, so I ended up with two identical parts, one left and one right. Another idea that I had but just didn't work was to keep the scratching sounds from the beginning as a rhythm structure throughout the whole song. That sounded really stupid! So it was "back to basics" and I think having two guitar playing the same part is really cool. And apart from that, if it can make even Britney's voice sound slightly acceptible, why not use it for acoustic guitar?
Image
I had given my friends Roland and Rebecca the sheet music for "Umbilical Chords", that I had written for their son Quirren, and Rebecca (being her creative self) decided to use it for a wall decoration in their bedroom. So in a sence, it was used as wallpaper. The sheet music was soaked in tea and torn at the edges to give it a vintage look, and then covered with lacquer. The result, I think, is very beautiful. This picture only shows a detail, the complete decoration consists of about sixty pages of sheet music.
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