Some of you may have heard this track before, but I feel like reposting it for everyone who is newer to the blog.
I came up with this simple melody in GarageBand on a Mac I previously owned a few months ago after a trip to Wichita, Kansas. I was traveling eastbound on US-400 toward the Missouri border when I hit a stretch where I passed miles and miles of wheat fields…they were endless, as far as the eye could see.
I thought up the melody you’re about to hear, then I took a bit of time when I got back to my then-home in Springfield to tweak the audio and throw it all on paper. It was really tough coming up with something so simple, because I don’t understand sheet music one iota.
Anyhow, I decided to recycle it when I thought of the melody again once I left Springfield for good. One of my favorite albums is the KLF’s Chill Out, which is basically an auditory tour of an imagined trip from the Tex-Mex border to Louisiana. I drew inspiration from them on a project I am currently working on…and I’m using the same melody I thought up on my Wichita trip to be the theme throughout the album.
Bear in mind this is a rough edit and I’ll be working on it a bit more as time progresses. For now, enjoy a track I titled “Homeward Bound, with a Vision and a Dream.”
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