My songwriting week. Last week, I was working through some ideas, but this week I abandoned all of that when I hit on a great new riff.

Bombero's great mix of my original song from ccMixter.org.

The second songwriting podcast by Ian Duncan Smith of The Hexyl Circle. The Beatles', I Feel Fine. The greatest riff and bridge of all time. Plus news of my own riff, Don't Know What I'm Doing.

Welcome to the first of my podcasts on songwriting, The Riff. My name is Ian Duncan Smith. My songs are up at www.myspace.com/thehexylcircle, and ccMixter. In this podcast, I play my song, Who Am I To Disagree  (MiNiMa) remixed by MiNiMaL.aRT, featuring Stefsax. I play a recent riff I'm working on, and show how it's developing. Work In Progress.

Doodling with D7 and Am produced this riff a few months ago. Recently, I started a resonant high vocal to sing along with, and I thought I'd record it.