{"id":106,"date":"2018-09-21T19:29:19","date_gmt":"2018-09-21T19:29:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/kenmenard.com\/blog\/?page_id=106"},"modified":"2022-06-24T14:27:58","modified_gmt":"2022-06-24T14:27:58","slug":"watching-time-go-by","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/kenmenard.com\/blog\/watching-time-go-by\/","title":{"rendered":"WATCHING TIME GO BY"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This song was kind of a re-write of an older song. Once Ken got back from Nashville, he wanted to apply some of the things he learned to older songs to make them better. Re-writing a song that was &#8216;not-so-good&#8217; into a great song is not an easy thing. By trying, Ken came out with a totally new song all together.<\/p>\n<p>This song was inspired about an old mirror that has been in his family a long time. If one came somehow play back all the things a mirror must have seen over the years, it would be a wonderful memory of the past. Ken tried to capture that and put it in a song. He also wanted to use some of those different chord progressions that he had learned from the Nashville instructor Steve Leslie. &#8220;I have many songs that use the &#8216;BM&#8217; chord&#8230;but Steve Leslie would also invoke an &#8216;F#&#8217; to give it a little unexpected contrast. When I was writing this song, I purposely did the same chord progressions Steve Leslie would have used&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>This is also the very first song Ken has ever written that has a &#8216;Bridge&#8217; after the chorus. A bridge is a contrasted partial verse or highlight to get across more information in a short time. It usually off-sets the song when it is sounding too &#8216;blah&#8217;. This bridge was actually a verse in the first writings.<\/p>\n<p>Some say this song is a little creepy&#8230;but Ken thinks it is very common for people to kind of fear a mirror and everything it must have seen over the years.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;&#8230;But now I see, an image reflecting back to me, of a face who&#8217;s seen years of news&#8230;&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This song was kind of a re-write of an older song. Once Ken got back from Nashville, he wanted to apply some of the things he learned to older songs to make them better. Re-writing a song that was &#8216;not-so-good&#8217; into a great song is not an easy thing. By trying, Ken came out with &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kenmenard.com\/blog\/watching-time-go-by\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;WATCHING TIME GO BY&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-106","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/PahUWk-1I","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kenmenard.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/106","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kenmenard.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kenmenard.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kenmenard.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kenmenard.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=106"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/kenmenard.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/106\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":265,"href":"https:\/\/kenmenard.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/106\/revisions\/265"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kenmenard.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=106"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}