Digging Deeper: "Boat To Sail"

[Rick Henry]

Hi all... this is my new series which is called "Digging Deeper". In this series I will take Carpenters/Karen (solo) songs and dig a little deeper into the musical and vocal arrangements and explain how they were put together and which instruments are combined and how they're combined as to give all a deeper understanding of these songs. I will speak of stereo channels, over dubbing, mixing and all the technical stuff which are probably the most important factors of the songs themselves - how they were constructed.

I won't really be focusing on the lyrics or really even Karen's lead vocal (as that's what we hear on the surface) - but I'll focus on how the vocals were put together and how to music is arranged to compliment the lyrics.

The first song I've chosen is "Boat To Sail".

I will come back late on tonight with my instrument by instrument assessment of this song.

[Rick Henry]

I know I said I would come back this evening with an instrument by instrument dissection of the song "Boat To Sail" but unfortunately my time is very limited tonight so I will come back tomorrow with what is really lurking within this song.

At this point I will say that there are factors in the song which give it an ethereal and celestial sound coming from the stars above.