35. Polar Expresso and the Cycle of Fifths

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On this episode we take a little adventure to the other side of the globe. 

I take a "walk" around a far far away town and create a songwriting exercise using the Cycle of Fifths:

F, C, G, D, A, E, B

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And then we think of five things about a town and write a song using repetion and relaxing!

Write using a land formation - a mountain, a river, a natural landscape as the theme. 

I wrote this song using the Cycle of Fifths 

as

the first part of the song uses the chords

F, C, G as major chords, 

and then it goes on to 

Dminor, Aminor, Eminor. As minor chords

The Words! are:

Part 1:

On Badger Road, at the Polar Expresso,

The sun is setting low, the sun is setting low. 

Part 2:

That rivers got a long way to go, if it's searching for the sea, 

that rivers got a long way to go, if it's searching for me. 

And we try to add a Drone Harmony note on the second part. 

Hope you enjoy and Lotsa love to all the folks that live at North Pole, Alaska!

Thanks for listening. 

xx

Shelly

Thats all. 

I made a pretty funny film clip for this one actually. 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lnGw6BrhLkQ

Vocals + Guitar + Keys - Shelly Brown
Keys + Bass - Dan Brown
Guitars - Alex McLeod
Drums - Grant Gerathy
Mixed + Edited by James Boundy @Boundysound
Mastered by - Michael Worthington ‪@soundworthy4724‬ 

Written by Shelly Brown
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