Country music in general

I started comparing my song to other country music and did some listening and artist research to find out about what instrumentation they used.

I looked at Taylor Swift however she plays the guitar which I cannot do and I decided I didn't want this to be the main sound in my song. Many of her songs were in chronological order kind of like a story which is the effect I thought I could achieve with my verses.

 Tim Mcgraw worked with Gwyneth Paltrow and I loved the start of their song, Back to Tennessee which included acoustic guitars, these sound natural and fit with the genre so I want to include them in my own song although I cannot play guitar. I could ask a friend to play chords for me.

Some of his solo songs such as 'BBQ stain' all had common themes such as trucks, horse riding, meeting a romance, the rain, fields,


There were many interesting instruments used such as banjoes and harmonicas which produced a range of sounds uncommon in other genres of music which would make my sound more unique. Since I also cannot play these I tried using Mixcraft to insert pre-recorded instruments however these tunes didn't work even when set to the tempo of my song.