Drops of Jupiter - Patrick Monahan of Train

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1st-pass 1-take simplified acoustic as/while recording it - by Patrick Monahan of Train

A track I’ve rarely heard, until just recently covered by someone else and so, just “did it” now for Rocktober, ad hoc. Then - (just now)…
… I find the history of the song’s origin - makes me now, rethink, yet again, how I feel about it (after just recording it);

  • Patrick Monahan is actually singing to his late mother, who passed away shortly before he wrote “Drops of Jupiter” - he was still in mourning from her departure.

It’s a heavily orchestrated, “piano” based track without solid chord separation as one may find with guitar (not piano, so to speak) - no pedal : ) Meaning, I am, or would be, still - finding my “rhythm”, right hand strum to mouth connection : ) lol! Nontheless, his vocal inflections are interesting as they are - and not what I heard from the other cover artist “head liner” that spawned this cover, just now from me.

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I don’t know the song or the artist here, so I’m flying blind as a listener, but I enjoyed listening. I like the time you take with it. The chords that hang in the air for a moment ring beautifully. Well done!

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Wow, thank you.

I heard some older tracks (was listening through some) - from Taylor Swift and didn’t feel it was hers, so looked into it; however, after I did this track, which made me feel different about the lyrics.

  • That was thing about P. Monahan of Train and his Mom passing. So, I was kind of glad I didn’t know that since may have influenced me. However, it made me like the lyrics, more, more-personally.

That band “Train” may be “famous” for some, but for me - I had not heard of them or this track - but, I have not heard many “top-40” radio tracks, hahh!! I know I have one (a radio) in my vehicle somewhere, but not sure where : ) or how to turn it on. I still use CD’s lol!