The technical limitations of playing an instrument that isn’t your first aren’t the only benefit to a more honest writing process, but they definitely help.

Over time my piano chops have become fairly robust, but they are nowhere near my bass playing, and as a result I’m able to sit at the piano and play things that aren’t super technical and baked into my playing. It forces me to simplify my approach to the composition process, and I find many happy accidental changes of direction due to my fumbling of a melody or a chord.

I come across far more things this way than I would at the bass, and today’s episode takes a look at my writing process as I get to grips with composing for a large scale choir ahead of the sessions for my new album in Argentina in a few months.

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Cheers,

Janek

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