Song of the week: Ride (demo)

This week's song of the week is a demo of Ride:

This is one of several demo versions of Ride, which ended up being recorded for the Octagon album.

Ride was a slow song to develop. The chord structure of the chorus, along with some vague words, were written a long time before most of the rest of the song. At some point the first verse appeared, using a chord structure used quite often on the songs on Octagon.

It was then several months, if not a year or two, before the other two verses and final structure were put together. I eventually wrote them on a train home from Birmingham after making a determined effort to move the song forward and took inspiration from the journey including conversations overheard on the train.

You can hear that the song did not drastically change from the demo to the final product on the album, other than being slightly slowed down, some basic structural changes and the addition of the piano and melodica.

The album version of Ride is included on the Octagon album, available to buy from www.dayve.co.uk.


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