Tag: behind the scenes music creation

  • Digital Empire Music Release and a Year of New Music

    Digital Empire Music Release and a Year of New Music

    Looking into 2026 it’s already a year with wild amount of opportunities sprouting up. Waiting to hear final word on a commercial looking to use some music. New music every week this year! Creating more cool items for my store. Another new song release called Digital Empire, And Improved communication from me.

    Spent yesterday getting a few new items up and running on the store. Including wall posters, and more transcriptions of songs. More items coming soon.

    The bigger switch is I’ve opted to offer up free shipping on all items, worldwide! I want all purchases to be as easy as possible. Don’t worry about the shipping, it’s on me.

    Sadly as much as I wanted Publicity and Digital Empire’s releases to have their animated art on release day, there’s been some difficulties beyond my control and I’m waiting on external forces to correct the delay. They were in on time and you can see them here on my website, until they’re on Apple Music.

    BTS I’m getting another batch of animated covers ready for releases several months from now. As I progress, I’m getting bolder on the cover art ideas and I’m hoping I can pull them off. Time will tell if the vision is too bold to make happen.

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    This week’s song is Digital Empire. It’s quite apropos for what I’ve been building and all the fan oriented updates I’ve been adding to the website, store and email system. Building a Digital Empire bit by bit.

    Are you part of the Jody Army, on the email list? There’s new stuff happening there too. I’ll make it worth your while to join.

    In the mean time I’m about to hit New Orleans with a Jazz band. More amazing things coming next week.

  • The Truth – Inside My First Co-Writing Session with Manda Mosher

    The Truth – Inside My First Co-Writing Session with Manda Mosher

    I’ve recently finished writing a song with the lovely and formidable Manda Mosher. It’s our first foray into doing a co-write and I’m hoping it leads to many more. She’s a pleasure to write with. I’m here to give you a sneak peek at The Truth lyrics which is the title of the song we penned.

    Without further ado (on the day of the release of #MuchADo):

    The Truth

    ©2013 Mosher/Whitesides

    I was reading back through the pages of my history
    I found you there – so innocent
    Your eyes your hair the way you smile the way you touch
    It all inspired me – to trust you

    Those conversations you were having always hiding
    All came back to me – those conversations
    You were always searching you were feeling all that loneliness
    When you’re with me – have you filled it

    Your side my side
    The Truth it can not hide
    You once were mine
    Those stars they weren’t aligned
    Your side my side
    The Truth it can not hide

    I don’t regret all the time I shared because I cared
    So much for you – every moment
    Go and bleed me out of your heart and let it beat again
    For someone new – I’ll miss you

    Chorus:
    Your side my side
    The Truth it can not hide

    Sneak Peek of The Truth

    We’ve got a demo recorded and I’m sure we’ll be sprucing it up before too long to present to the world in fully finished form. In the meantime make sure you follow her band Calico on twitter or Facebook. On that note, do the same for me Twitter <– follow Facebook <– follow. If for no other reason that to stay up on other sneak peeks either of us may be unleashing into the world. Why would you want to be the last to know? Be the first, it’s so much better!

    Stay tuned.

    – Jody

  • The Big Sound That Ends the Preproduction Journey

    The Big Sound That Ends the Preproduction Journey

    Doling out the news… That’s what’s happening. Since the last post about song seventeen, I’m now on the final leg of the preproduction stage. That’s the word finally song eighteen is “I Miss”.

    The song underwent a bit of a transformation. I changed the rhythm of the piano part. In a way it’s a bit more simplified. It also changes it from feeling too much like a song from the 80’s in it’s rhythmic value on the piano.

    Lyrically it has stayed the same. I’m positive they were right the first time.

    Vocally is where the most change happened. I’ve added an insane amount of vocal harmony. Think Queen, if you’re familiar with them. It’s going to be vocally HUGE. It will be interesting to see how it vibes out in the studio with extra singers on it. I’m thinking it will have somewhere in the neighborhood of 160 tracks of vocal harmonies. Big big big.

    There it is. The last song on the list for the new CD/release. Song eighteen is called “I Miss”. Now it’s a matter of hunting down that investor money. Once that happens, I’ll be heading into the studio and pumping out these tracks with pure awesomeness.

    Stay tuned for another update in a few days.