What more can I say about Elliott Smith? I consider him to be the best songwriter of our time. It’s an absolute tragedy that we lost such a natural talent. He left behind a remarkable but sadly incomplete body of work that receives constant play in my listening rotation.

Sometimes a great song can surround and swallow you up in all of its sounds and colors. Using creative instrumentation and serving your song with melodies that fit right into place with one another are a great way to achieve this effect on your listeners. We often hear a complete melody or phrase without realizing the sound is composed with more than one instrument or voice. The instruments are similar in tone, and their parts blend nicely into one another.