Songfighter Album-a-day Thread

ken · Post by **ken** » Wed Dec 27, 2006 11:58 am

i'm gonna start on one soon.

See you in 24.

Ken

ken · Post by **ken** » Thu Dec 28, 2006 12:08 pm

11am, and I'm done. I think it is long enough, but I'm too tired to check.

Ken

GlennCase · Post by **GlennCase** » Thu Dec 28, 2006 4:15 pm

ken wrote:11am, and I'm done. I think it is long enough, but I'm too tired to check.

Ken

We get to hear it soon, yes?

ROCK!

Glenn Case

rone rivendale · Post by **rone rivendale** » Thu Dec 28, 2006 8:39 pm

What a spaz.

Post by **Lunkhead** » Fri Dec 29, 2006 1:27 am

Yeah, show us the goods!

GlennCase · Post by **GlennCase** » Fri Dec 29, 2006 8:10 pm

ken wrote:11am, and I'm done. I think it is long enough, but I'm too tired to check.

Ken

MAKE WITH THE MUSIC, YOU FREAKING TEASE!

ROCK!

Glenn Case

Billy's Little Trip · Post by **Billy's Little Trip** » Fri Dec 29, 2006 9:00 pm

GlennCase wrote:
ken wrote:11am, and I'm done. I think it is long enough, but I'm too tired to check.

Ken
MAKE WITH THE MUSIC, YOU FREAKING TEASE!

ROCK!

Glenn Case

I know, I keep checking back like a music junkie strung out on tunes hoping for a fix. 8)

drë · Post by **drë** » Sat Dec 30, 2006 12:50 pm

Can’t let 2006 pass bye, without me doing 1 AAD this year. I been meaning to do one for months, but recording has been the last thing on my mind recently.
I think am going to summaries everything that happened to me in 2006 and the plans for 2007. I’ll start later when it gets dark.
Can’t wait till hear what KEN has done.

Post by **Lunkhead** » Sun Dec 31, 2006 9:36 am

I'm listening to an exclusive preview of Ken's AAD and it is good. Way to go, Ken!

drë · Post by **drë** » Mon Jan 01, 2007 4:48 am

It was a marathon, but I finish my 6th Album a day, on the 31st.
Man was it fun, I had forgotten how fun those things are to make, I suggest everyone gives it a try, and just have fun making music.
I know I did, and it probably shows here. My best album a day up to day.

my favorites are, "i have a plan", "hello" and "goodbye 2006". enjoy.

as a side note the album was record on a delta blues slide guitar tunning of eBG#EBE.

<a href='http://fvs.blaststream.com/testapp/shar ... aylist.m3u' TARGET='_NEW'>

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tracks . . . . . . .. . .... <a href='http://fvs.blaststream.com/testapp/shar ... aylist.m3u' TARGET='_NEW'>STREAM ALL</a>. . . . . . . . <a href='http://fvs.blaststream.com/testapp/shar ... yrics.html' target="_new"> View Lyrics</a>

1. The ballad of a songfighter
2. The worse is over
3. I have a plan
4. Hello ( I have dreamed about you)
5. Selfishness would eat you alive
6. A hike around saddlebag lake
7. Goodbye 2006
8. I hear music (theres only one way to take it in)

total time 20:36

EightLeggedOedipus · Post by **EightLeggedOedipus** » Tue Jan 02, 2007 10:45 am

I made another AAD EP in May or April of this past year that I never posted. Mostly because it wasn't very good. It's under an old moniker - Abortion By Bullet. Happy New Year!!

-Mbeanis

<img src="http://www.mbeanis.com/DPR/Placebo.gif" width="250" height="250">

1. <a href="http://www.mbeanis.com/DPR/01.%20The%20 ... s.mp3">The Ass Knights</a> 2MB

2. <a href="http://mbeanis.com/DPR/02.%20The%20Beat ... y.mp3">The Beatles Ate Chuck Berry's Baby</a> 2MB

3. <a href="http://mbeanis.com/DPR/03.%20Condoleezz ... ondoleezza and the Delivery Guy</a> 2MB

4. <a href="http://mbeanis.com/DPR/04.%20Orange%20S ... p3">Orange Shasta</a> 3MB

Or... get everything including lyrics <a href="http://mbeanis.com/DPR/">here</a>

Reist · Post by **Reist** » Sat Jan 20, 2007 10:34 pm

Yo. Just thinking I may or may not give this a try on Monday. Not sure though.

Reist · Post by **Reist** » Mon Jan 22, 2007 10:01 am

Well, I'm an hour in, and I have ideas for eight songs. This is really tiring. One of the songs is a one bar circus tune, so if I run out of time, I'll probably just be looping that. Well, it's time to record. See you guys in a few hours.

fodroy · Post by **fodroy** » Mon Jan 22, 2007 10:14 am

jolly roger wrote:One of the songs is a one bar circus tune, so if I run out of time, I'll probably just be looping that.

Isn't that a rule violation? I'm pretty sure you have to work on one song until it's finished and then the next song until it's finished, etc.

GlennCase · Post by **GlennCase** » Mon Jan 22, 2007 10:36 am

fodroy wrote:
jolly roger wrote:One of the songs is a one bar circus tune, so if I run out of time, I'll probably just be looping that.
Isn't that a rule violation? I'm pretty sure you have to work on one song until it's finished and then the next song until it's finished, etc.

To create an Album-a-Day, you record a piece of music following these rules:

# It must be written, performed, recorded, post-produced, etc. all in one contiguous 24-hour period (preferably with no sleep break in there).
# It must be at least 20 minutes or 30 songs. (many short songs tend to work better than long songs which drag on forever, trust me.)
# Your band may have multiple participants, but they should not work on different songs simultaneously. (So just one song being worked on at a time.)
# No ideas from before the chosen day! This means covers or reinterpretations are not allowed.
# No out-takes! If you start a song, finish it and put it on the album.

I believe the rule you are referring to is:

# Your band may have multiple participants, but they should not work on different songs simultaneously. (So just one song being worked on at a time.)

I think that's worded as it is to specify that you can't have one person working on one song while someone else works on a different one.

There is no rule that specifically states that you have to finish a song before moving on to the next one, but you are not allowed to have out-takes.

So, in theory, you could move on to another song as long as you come back to the one you skipped, and you finish it before the deadline.

ROCK!

Glenn Case

Reist · Post by **Reist** » Mon Jan 22, 2007 11:06 am

I would hope it wouldn't be like that, since I just did all my acoustic tracks, then I'll do my electric guitar tracks, then drums, then vocals in between all the songs. That way there's less setup time. Now I'm having a drink, then I'll be heading back up to do electric tracks. Wish me luck!

glennny · Post by **glennny** » Mon Jan 22, 2007 11:09 am

# No out-takes! If you start a song, finish it and put it on the album.

I think this might be right up our alley, but I'm not sure if our usual ethic is against the rules. If we improvise/write a 15minute jam then edit it down to a 3:30 song, is that legal? Or would that be an out-take violation?

thanks

glennny

Eric Y. · Post by **Eric Y.** » Mon Jan 22, 2007 11:19 am

that sounds legal to me -- what you are doing is still in the spirit of the regulations.

after all, it doesn't say if you write lyrics for a song, you have to include every word you wrote in the final product... or that your first-take guitar solo where you broke a string can't be re-recorded in the finished track.

if your songwriting process includes playing a bunch of stuff and keeping what you like, then that should work. as long as after you are done editing you are left with at least 20 minutes or whatever it's supposed to be.

Reist · Post by **Reist** » Mon Jan 22, 2007 3:23 pm

Man. This blows. I was pretty far in, then I realized - I have no lyrics. I have no ideas for lyrics. I sit there for an hour trying to think of lyrics. I can't think of any lyrics. I try to do a song with lyrics, and it's horrible. I'm sending these files down here, and you're hearing my terrible AAD with little to no lyrics.

Reist · Post by **Reist** » Mon Jan 22, 2007 4:46 pm

Well, here it is.

Wordless Music by JR

1. Welcome To Wordless
2. Barre Chords are Hard
3. Circus Party
4. Sweaty Feet
5. My Cow Got Stole
6. Falling Apart
7. Sometimes I Wonder
8. Lullabye

Hope you like at least some of it. I may put lyrics to some of this later.

EightLeggedOedipus · Post by **EightLeggedOedipus** » Mon Jan 22, 2007 7:22 pm

Hey JR, I just listened to Wordless. I really like some of the ideas on here, and I think you open and close the album with style. "Lullabye" is surprisingly good. I also thought Circus Party was intriguing to say the least, with a nice acoustic/electric dynamic. The real surprise, though, was "Falling Apart" -- the way you play the gain on that is wicked, like dub in rock zen.

The other tracks sound clearly like what they probably are - sloppy backing trakcs to songs that are meant to have a melody on top. This was only my first listen, though.

Cheers, anyway. It's always good to see and hear someone attempt this, and this album is still quite solid. Nice cover, too.

drë · Post by **drë** » Mon Jan 22, 2007 9:04 pm

JR... Here’s an interesting observation.
On you electric guitar, you’re a metal maniac, making your influences strongly be heard.
But yet you switch to an acoustic and is like you become some kind of sad lonely cowboy.
Talk about opposite ends.
Then again I could be completely wrong.
Liked the acoustic stuff better.

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