The app for independent voices
Cris Cohen: Getting back to the line, “I like to write away from the instrument,” I would think most people would assume you have a guitar in your hands 24 hours a day, always noodling. Is it more that you sing these parts and that’s how you get the ideas out of your head?
Nili Brosh: Yes. I sing the parts into the voice memos.
If I hear any other arrangement ideas around it, I’ll take notes on it. I’ll sing the drum groove.
Everything is with the ear leading first. I’ve always believed that sometimes when you have a guitar in your hand, most people can overplay. That can derail you. That can turn a really good, succinct, cohesive idea into something that now has too many notes, or is now unrecognizable. I don’t want that to happen.
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