I think I love you

Posted on August 20, 2009 by Sami

I have a brand new song online now, called “I think I love you“. As always, you can download the song for free and share it with anyone you like.

I had a lot of fun writing and recording this one, at least after I fixed the shockmount that broke. I wanted to write a love song, but realized it’s quite hard to do that without having it sound like a cliché or incredibly cheezy. Everyone always “shines like a sun” and “flies on the wings of love” in love songs, so I figured I would try to use phrases that you don’t hear in love songs that often to make it a bit more interesting.

There are no drums in this song, only bass, guitars and vocals. The acoustic guitar took a while to record, it’s surprisingly tricky to play a fingerpicking style accompaniment completely evenly and with an even tempo. I re-did it several times before I was happy with it. The electric guitar parts were fun too, I pretty much just hit record and improvised until I got something that sounded cool. All in all, I’m pretty happy with this song.  :)

Now, only two more songs to record for my album!

About Sami

I was born and raised in Sweden and started studying music at the age of 10. Over the following 16 years I learned how to play the guitar, mandolin, bass, drums, trumpet, flutes, piano, sing and a few other things, and eventually graduated from college with a degree in performance. Now I'm trying to put all that stuff to good use and build myself a career, so that I can become incredibly rich and powerful and take over the universe.
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6 Responses to I think I love you

  1. Melinda says:
    August 20, 2009 at 20:30

    Rainhat–I really love your music–and I love this new song. You have such a soothing and magical sound–I could seriously listen to your music all day long. I’m so glad I found your blog!

    Melinda

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  2. Rory says:
    August 21, 2009 at 19:46

    Well done Rainhat! I found your melody extremely soothing – although complicated, as you discussed, it’s simplistic in ways that put me at ease. (Hope that came across right!)

    Nice! :)

    Rory

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  3. celticmusicfan says:
    August 28, 2009 at 14:26

    Your music has a soothing magical quality. Your voice is mellow and beautiful. The guitar playing reminds me of Kings of Convenience and Simon and Garfunkel. This and the other one I heard from you are simply wonderful. Someday…you will definitely have an album out!

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    • Sami says:
      August 28, 2009 at 22:28

      Thanks! Simon and Garfunkel are some pretty good role models for guitar playing, I love their music. I haven’t heard of Kings of Convenience, I’ll have to check them out.

      A self-published album is in the works, I have 2 more songs to record and a bit of tweaking and then it’ll be done. Shouldn’t be too long now. :)

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