I try to find little things that you can do to move the song along and things that serve the song.
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Yeah, one of the main ways is for songs that make me want to move.
I aim my arrangements at what will fit and colorfully frame the song in the best way possible.
The best thing is when you hear somebody take your song and make something great of it.
There's always a group of songs that I'm working at. Some of them are 10 years old, and some of them are just a few weeks old. I'm always trying to adjust these songs to some position where I can bring them to completion.
The thing I try to do the most is to play in terms of the song and play in terms of what I'm hearing.
For the live shows, I'm just getting my song together. I go back to my hotel room and I just listen to my song over and over again, figure out how to make it different and put my little Pia spin on it.
Presented with a song like Exit Music, It's impossible to know what to add without actually making it worse. How can you play along when It's already there?
When you have great songs that are going to live longer than the composers, everything you can do to bring those different elements and nuances out, serve the song.
I try to focus on the melodies and try to make everything else minimal. The melody and the lyrics are most important to me.
You've got to separate the singer and the songs.