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In It For Love
Hi, i have a question about In It For Love, but first i have to mention, watching the end of the club version of Two Of Us, made me laugh and spill my coffee, so Lisa finally got her revenge for Mona
s tweet about the messy room long ago. In It For Love is a beautiful song, my favourite together with Count On Me and Still A Friend Of Mine and such a perfect pastiche, with the almost Cole Porter like wordplay, over a 40s song that, if you ever make a public video of it, you`ll have to do it in a smokefilled club, with period dresses and hairstyles, but it made me curious about the inspiration. Did you just write it that way, with that feeling and using jazzchords, because you wanted to write a song in that genre? Or was there specific songs and artists, which made you do it that way? I know both Lennon and Harrison used jazzchords in the early songs, and Paul Simon uses them a lot too -
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Great question! It was definitely one of the songs where the melody came before anything else. It was super “hummable” and had this old fashioned, swingy flair about it. That in turn inspired the lyrics, which then inspired the minimalist, jazzy Club flair old-school arrangement.
I remember when Dad and I discussed how great a Jazz guitar would sound with it. My first reaction was “Well, I can’t play Jazz, so we got to find someone who can for the record.” I had no idea where to even start but Dad convinced me to give it a try myself and some hours and plenty of YouTube guitar tutorials later we recorded my guitar track. If you don’t push your own boundaries you don’t learn 🙂
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Hello Ladies,
Lisa you are so right, if hpu dont push yourself, you will never know what you can do. Jazz sound, flute, percussion chair, and background percussion, lead guitar, bass,piano,washboard,producing, instrument switch, blues harp,and uke. All these you have tried and expanded on.
Thank you both for ypur incredible gift of music-
Thanks for the answer. I
m glad he talked you into that, its perfect for the song. My students can play the rhytm guitar, but i wish you hadn`t said that about pushing yourself, because now i have to see if i can figure out your part, he.
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