Tale of the Tunes
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Jonathan Brader's songwriting diary.
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First Take Friday - Episode #65 Let's go to the Moon Written by Jonathan Brader What up, what up!? Hope everyone reading this had a nice Christmas! Mine was filled with love and family. So, it was pretty awesome. This tune is a New Year’s song, even though I only mention New Year’s Eve once. Last year, I wrote a song about my perfect NYE. I realized that that tune (or idea for NYE) could not be beat….not in this world anyway….hence this week’s First Take Friday – Let’s go to the Moon! The final version of this song will have a sweet bass part and a nice beat. Here’s to a happy, healthy and prosperous new year! Cheers!! Happy New Year! No more holiday songs until next Christmas! Thanks for watching/listening. JB
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First Take Friday - Episode #64 Under the Tree Written by Jonathan Brader Tale of the Tune: Well folks, it has been an extremely busy week, what with Christmas fast approaching. My evenings have been filled with getting stuff ready for Christmas. Anyway, this song is about the Christmas Tree, more specifically, underneath the Christmas Tree. When I was a little kid I discovered that hanging out underneath the Christmas Tree was a magical experience (It was a real tree, by the way – a fake one doesn’t have the same effect). Try it, I bet you’ll like it. Speaking of being busy, I have to go. Merry Christmas! Thanks for watching/listening. JB First Take Friday - Episode 63 The Christmas Blues Written by Jonathan Brader Tale of the Tune: This song is written from the perspective of Father Christmas, aka, Santa Claus. It is basically a blues song. Santa is depressed that he can’t spend Christmas Eve with his wife because he has to work. One day a year, I realize, but it’s a 24 hour day without seeing his wife. Somewhere over Europe, he finds a note that she wrote him (which may be a song for next week, or next year…not sure yet), but that note helps Santa finish up and get home to Mrs. Claus. Merry Christmas! Thanks for watching/listening. JB First Take Friday - Episode #62 Saint Nicholas Written by Jonathan Brader Tale of the Tune: When I was a kid, St. Nick’s Day was a fun sneak peak of Christmas. I remember getting oranges and maybe pajamas on St. Nicholas Day, but that memory could be from a movie. Not sure. Anyway, I have fond memories of St. Nick’s Day, but you don’t hear too much about it nowadays. For those of you who don’t know, St. Nicholas’ Day is celebrated on December 6th. The night of December 5th, kids can place their shoes by the fireplace, or near the door to ones home. Some traditions include leaving some hay and a carrot for the horse of St. Nick, inside of the shoe. When St. Nick drops by your home, the horse eats the carrot and hay and St. Nick leaves some coins and/or a treat of some kind in the shoes. It makes for a magical morning on the 6th (shout out to Jenny and Lauren – Happy Birthday!) This song started out as an email to a colleague who lives in Vermont. She drove home to a winter wonderland last week – close to 25 inches of fresh powder. I inquired about the snow in the email. As I was writing the email, I thought I could turn this into a song somehow. This is the result. I imagined a lot more guitar work on this one, but that will come with the studio version. Merry Christmas! Thanks for watching/listening. JB |
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