borrowing a bass guitar today, started using the bass to determine some rhythms
like a puzzle, for the percussion to work it has to be closely linked to the bass and vis versa
each time i add an instrument i am muting everything but vocals
this gives me a chance to experiment, instead of being locked to the guitar part i composed it to
this way all the instrumentation will support the melody
in folk music it is often the melody and lyrics that are important, hence why there are so many different versions.
the originals sometimes only contained a very loose vocal line
