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.