Make Me Proud

Sigmund Nagy, Párizsi muteremablakban (In the window of the studio in Paris)

Demo coming soon! I made one, but the mixdown file got messed up somehow!

Lyrics

don't dress by the window
please pull the shade
don't spill out the sugar
from which you were made

remember that i loved you
and knew you in a crowd
go if you must
i know you'll make me proud

Music

Structure

A B
It's linear right now. I am toying with the idea of having a quiet time through and then a crazy guitar solo-playing-the-melody-sort-of time through.

Chords

A e7
DM7 b%7 E7/G#
E7/G# A
b/F# b7/F# Esus4 E7

c% F#7
b b7 b%7 E
A
d E7 D
A

Author's Notes

• Add seven days of Weezer's Pinkerton to seven nights of the original Broadway cast recording of Guys & Dolls.
• Mix in a bowl made of Bicycle Day, and simmer for Emily minutes.
• Serves several.

I have been wanting to use a minor five chord for a while, and i sort of decided that this would be the song. So the first change is I-v. It took about an hour to come up with a melody I really liked that worked over that change, but once I got it, it set the tone, and the rest of the song pretty much wrote itself.

As mentioned above, I'm still playing with the structure for this. I think it could have a nice keyboardy time through with the singing, and then a Weezer-esque fade up the guitar noise into a crazy guitar-driven time through.

I'm afraid to write any more of this song, because I think it pretty much gets the job done here. Maybe I'll do a California-style instrumental second verse and then a second refrain. I'll try that.