- Heavily acoustic driven, at least in the first half. It's not that I never add acoustic guitar to anything, both Pocket Full Of Bones and the Dregs have them present, just not really as the main element leaving the song. But I didn't introduce another instrument other than the acoustic guitar until like 1:10 or thereabouts this time, so that's new.
- Tempo change. Never done a tempo change before, it switches from 114bpm to 135bpm about halfway through.
- Multitracking of the same instrumental track. I was trying to get the acoustic to sound a lot fuller, so I recorded it in stereo 10 times, overlaid all 10 of the tracks on top of each other in the song, and mixed each one slightly differently. Also each one has slightly different mic placement, and some of them I was strumming halfway up the neck and some way down near the bridge with different thicknesses of pick. Sort of gave it a bit of a dreamy sound. There are also 6 tambourines and the backing vocals are layered 3 times.
- Major key heavy rock in the back half. Well. Not technically major key, actually Lydian cause I still keep the flattened 7th. The first part of the song is sort of ambiguous major/minor cause I use so many suspended 2nds throughout, which isn't new for me.
- Drum brushes in the first half.
- New, for me, mic placement for the drums (on the floor kind of close to the kick drum underneath the snare). This made the cymbals less overpowering. And while it made the kick sound way too "thuddy" in the mix, I sort of got it to work through creative use of limiting.
- Can't say I've ever written a song this unabashedly sexual before, though Personal Space had that verse about my cat staring at us. Oops. At least it's mostly poetic about it.
Take a walk down (Liberty Street prefight)
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New things for me:
"There's a lot to be said about a full-on frontal assault on the ear drums" - Pigfarmer Jr.
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Re: Take a walk down (Liberty Street prefight)
Ooh - will this be like My Morning Jacket’s beautiful ‘Wordless Chorus’?
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Re: Take a walk down (Liberty Street prefight)
New stuff for me?
Well, I write a song, which was new for 2020....
and I stole a lyric from one of my favourite song fighters...
and I held back from submitting for a few days...
But nothing too adventurous. I was just happy to have the headspace to make music this week.
Well, I write a song, which was new for 2020....
and I stole a lyric from one of my favourite song fighters...
and I held back from submitting for a few days...
But nothing too adventurous. I was just happy to have the headspace to make music this week.
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New things I tried:
- submitting before the deadline
- recording before the deadline
- starting writing before the deadline
- not being part of the EU
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I can already safely say these are the most poetic lyrics about post-vasectomy barebacking I have ever heard.sleepysilverdoor wrote: ↑Tue Feb 04, 2020 4:19 am
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Ha, thanks! I asked my wife for ideas for the prompt, cause I was drawing a blank at first. Without missing a beat, she immediately said, "a vasectomy!". I couldn't NOT roll with it.
I actually haven't had it done...yet. But I have big plans for my tax refund cash. And only part of it involves music gear.
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Re: Take a walk down (Liberty Street prefight)
I'm in! First entry since last year's Nur Ein...
I did try something new: recording the heaviest song I've ever done. Heaviness is usually not something I am trying to achieve in my songs, so not sure how it turned out. Guess it's kind of metal.
Also, I used "Liberty Street" metaphorically in my lyric, it doesn't refer to the famous one in Manhattan or any other specific street of that name.
I did try something new: recording the heaviest song I've ever done. Heaviness is usually not something I am trying to achieve in my songs, so not sure how it turned out. Guess it's kind of metal.
Also, I used "Liberty Street" metaphorically in my lyric, it doesn't refer to the famous one in Manhattan or any other specific street of that name.