HeyJaredAhem! with Andrew Bird
Dispatches from the Great Room, process and technique on my instrument, and songwriting from conception to execution. Also, some broader thoughts on the world we live in from Andrew Bird.
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Tenuousness (opens the original)
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This is a bit of a case in point. When the song is talking about how impossible and tenuous the world order seems, let’s make the song nearly impossible accordingly. Tenuousness is an example of a song that has many anomalies: connecting bridges and a big modulation that makes it hard for a loop to follow into those places. I’ve tried making a second lo… Read more
“Roma Fade” (opens the original)
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Gezelligheid 2020 (opens the original)
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Live from an orange grove in Ojai, CA. Gezelligheid 2020. I forgot this even happened…I do recall that it was a group effort of family and friends. Filmed by Tyler Manson. The first-year we went fully live-streamed. Read more
Behind the scenes of “Need Someone” (opens the original)
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Here’s a breakdown of how I might go about dressing up a song with a violin loop. Extended techniques, gear and a little theory. Let me know if you have any questions.Correction - I recorded the loop at 13 seconds not 16 so when I drop it an octave it stretches to 26 seconds. Read more
Gezelligheid (opens the original)
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Since 2009, I’ve been doing these special shows called Gezelligheid. They were meant to be a reaction to shows where the persona of the performer is the focus. An attempt to disperse that attention through the acoustic and visual and expand into more long-form, spontaneous pieces, where the listener can zone out and let the music wash over them. That held for the first few years until I felt I was indulging a bit too much with a 20 minute Barn Tapes odyssey. Now, Gezelligheid shows have become w
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