Welcome to Songversations, The Long Wait’s podcast where we interview songwriters about their methods and approaches to writing songs and living the musician life. I’m Bjorgvin and I play guitar and sing in The Long Wait. Visit us at www.thelongwait.com.
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Songversations Episode 08 – Eric Schaffer: The subtractive process of adding the final 5% to a song to really make it shine
In this episode of Songversations we talk to a great friend and collaborator, Eric Schaffer.
We owe a lot to Eric as he helped us out when we started playing out live again, letting us play in the breaks of their monthly gig at Monterey Court with Eric Schaffer and the Other Troublemakers.
In the interview we talk about how you sometimes make a song better by taking stuff out, how some of the biggest songs in history have been just a simple I-V-IV progression and the paralyzing self doubt of knowing whether your song is shit or not (and the 7 Step Process to Not Feeling Like a Shit Songwriter)!
Check out Eric Schaffer and the Other Troublemakers on their Reverbnation page.
Enjoy!
Björgvin