Songs are not just melodies and chords: they all have a rhythmic “groove.” The groove is the rhythmic “pattern” that contains the melody and chords.
This video is about my process making the groove, the arrangement for SO LONG AGO, SO FAR FROM HERE. I started the arrangement in 1988, and just yesterday continued it. I composed the arrangement using music theory without a musical instrument. But I could not compose the song, itself, without a musical instrument. Beethoven could; he would bring a musical notebook with him on walks in Nature.
David Fekete 