Aaron J. Trumm – Don’t Stop – Digital Album Experience
Welcome to Day 2! Today’s song is called Jump…
Song Audio - "Jump"
Lyrics
shake it up everybody wake it and take it up
bake it up make it like a cake and just eat it up
live it up even if ya think you may give it up
and i don’t care if you love it or hate it
i’m gonna work this plan til i’m super elated
i’m gonna 1 2 3 4 hittin the floor
i’m gonna jump til i hit the sun that’ll be fun
manilla envelope full o dope rhythm and cantelope
and i hope you maybe wanna
jump with me
jump jump jump everybody
come on jump up jump with me
it’s good good good everybody
it’s good to be alive so jump with me
jump jump jump everybody
come on jump up jump with me
it’s good good good to be alive
some on jump up make good with me
well it’s been a long way and a long damn time
but i’m happier than ever before
i’ve seen a few days that I wouldn’t want back
had trials and I may have more
they been makin me formin me moldin me
givin me freedom and reason to be
but i came to the edge and i saw what i see
and now everything’s better for me
so i’mon jump up venerate
motivate and celebrate
and i want everyone to jump with me
jump jump jump everybody
come on jump up jump with me
it’s good good good everybody
it’s good to be alive so jump with me
jump jump jump everybody
come on jump up jump with me
it’s good good good to be alive
some on jump up make good with me
jump jump jump everybody
come on jump up jump with me
it’s good good good everybody
it’s good to be alive so jump with me
jump jump jump everybody
come on jump up jump with me
it’s good good good to be alive
some on jump up make good with me
Back Story And Credits
Jump was a song – like a lot of these, that took a LOT of tweaking to finally get to where we wanted it. When I say we, I mean me and various people I ask for feedback for pretty much everything. My girlfriend Sandra, whoever else plays on the song, my buddy Larry, and a host of great producers and musicians I know on Facebook in various feedback groups. In this song, we had some different choruses, we had the second verse first for a while, so many things changed! In the end, it became what you hear.
Little secret: I wrote Jump mainly so I could have something to play in a concert and have everybody Jumping up and down. Turns out that’s weird if I’m the only one doing it! LOL! Another secret: I actually wrote the first version of the chorus to be an a-hole, just one day after Kung Fu class, I was trying to make the dumbest song I could, and I figured that would actually be cool to people. That was years before we actually did the song, and years before I realized that what I was thinking of as stupid was actually just accessible and fun!
The second verse is a verse that was originally really dark, I’d written it down on a paper about 15 years ago. I realized that all I had to do was change a word or two, lop off a couple lines at the end and put something better, and voila!
Next I called my friend Rodney Bowe, who is a great bassist in Albuquerque who I’ve known for more than 20 years. We were in class together in the FIRST recording class I ever took! I think VERY highly of Rodney so it was awesome to find him and work together again!
And of course, eventually I brought my friend D’Santi Nava of Underground Cadence in to play some guitar. At first I had way more guitar by him – a lot of bluesy rock solo stuff, but I overused it, and people said it sounded dated or like it came from another world. In the end, I just used his funk wah wah guitar to make the verse sections swing a bit.
So – the final credits are:
- Aaron J. Trumm “Jump”
- Produced by Aaron J. Trumm
- Piano, drum programming by Aaron J. Trumm
- Bass by Rodney Bowe
- Guitars by D’Santi Nava
- Vocals: Aaron J. Trumm
- Mix: Aaron J. Trumm at NQuit Music
- Mastering: Aaron J. Trumm at NQuit Music
And that’s it! Thanks for reading about “Jump”!
— Aaron
PS: As usual, if you have anything to say about Jump (or anything else), just email me at aaron@aarontrumm.com or come talk to me on Facebook – https://www.facebook.com/AaronJTrumm