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Over my latest musical funk... Got chd prog. and lyrics written--should be in barring another bout of musical funk...

I was so happy when I saw it was due wednesday next week, not tomorrow
Might actually get this one done, got full lyrics and guitar for verse and chorus... could end up just being an acoustic number but I hope to flesh it out.

Production Update: Rough draft done, sounding good. Broke out my Melodica for it's SongFight inaugural performance. Coming along quite nicely

If I end up being in, it will be 50's rock-n-roll, which means I don't have to come up with any chord progressions. Just fit my words to "That's Alright Mama" or "Blue Suede Shoes".

I've been walking around mentally singing "I know a little 'bout love (and baby I can guess the rest)" by Skynyrd, which isn't actually a cover of a 50's song, but sure sounds like it should be one.

Got a wicked little idea this morning. Now we'll see if I can find the time.

Well, I've got a pretty cool chorus with a bit of a porn groove and bee-gee-esque falseto-y goodness. I'm not sure that it'll turn into anything more than a cool chorus though.

big crouton wrote:Well, I've got a pretty cool chorus with a bit of a porn groove and bee-gee-esque falseto-y goodness. I'm not sure that it'll turn into anything more than a cool chorus though.

(Pretty cool chorus + Mediocre verses) > Nothing

I think I'm in, pending some major revisions.

I took a pass at a tune on Monday, but the end result was so mediocre as to be painful. Just... bleh... too slow, too predictable, you know...

But, I like the lyrics and I'm going back to the kernel I originally had: a blues song. Straight-up 12-bars, no bullshit. I think my initial mistake was to drive the whole thing with a guitar rhythm. That's the bass's job in this genre, no? So, we'll see how well I can emulate a blues bass and get a good driving feel.

... then we'll see if I can actually pull off some bluesy fretwork.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F49S7gDuzVU

Here's a video for a song with a similar title. The dance moves are fantastic. And ridiculously catchy!

(Also, this title is so damn adorable and twee. Sadly, I'm ridiculously busy this week to take time to record anything. Maybe I'll just bust something out and record it live for YouTube.)

I had a semi-decent idea but I think I'm going to pass on this round. My voice is still shot and somehow I find myself having other things to do for once.

I will be in for this one. As I said in the DRC thread for today the recording is being done tonight. So my best SF song ever is immenment. Although it won't technically be a Rone Rivendale song cuz it's a collab. We haven't come up with a name yet but I'm gonna suggest the band name Country Martyrs. We are the 2 hardest working sackers at a grocery store called Country Mart. The bosses suck, the other ppl who work there suck, the work can suck sometimes when the boss only schedules the 2 of us for the whole morning shift and somtimes just 1 of us. Nothing like being the only sacker when there are 4 or 5 different cashiers checking out ppl at the same time while the carts outside pile up and the boss needs you to clean up a mess on one of the aisles while someone else asks you where the ice cream is (try the freezer dept lady) and someone else knocks over a display of cans. You know, the joys of min wage.

Ding! Hostess Mostess is in. We've finally dug ourselves out from under the dirty diapers, unfolded laundry, and accumulated snow.

Thought about changing the band name and general style, but this one sounds like classic Mostess.

The advice I have to give to up-and-coming home recording artists who don't want to become musically unproductive for an entire year is this: don't have a third baby, two tenure-track jobs, and a major home renovation project all at the same time.

Mostess wrote:The advice I have to give to up-and-coming home recording artists who don't want to become musically unproductive for an entire year is this: don't have a third baby, two tenure-track jobs, and a major home renovation project all at the same time.

Yeah, if you left just one thing off that list you'd have done so much more

Looking forward to hearing it! And to finishing my GOM so I can record the song for this fight I've written. Recording is always the bottleneck.

Submitted.

Rone Rivendale wrote:Submitted.

You know, you still have almost a week. If you're done, why wouldn't you use the time for production and sound quality.

edit:...but then again, who the hell am I to tell you what "your" production and sound quality should be like. It might be perfect. Besides, it's your art form, not mine, right? Sorry, sometimes I forget that. Rock on Rone.

All I can say, Rone, is: If I wind up hating your "Love Me a Little Bit More" as much as I hate your "Elegy for Industry" (or, whatever, the 33% of it I felt compelled to listen to), the first thing I'm going to ask is why you didn't spend that extra week polishing it?

Alright, I am working on one. It's, well, it's kinda about fish.

(referring to a thread I read, it's not literally like about cold blooded underwater creatures)

Hope I don't scare you all too badly, as I said in my intro thread i am not so good with love songs. And the first rhyming words that came into my head kinda led the song down this path.

I like how our song sucks before it's been posted.

There isn't alot I can do with the song at this point. I think I need to up the volume on the vox, cuz it may suffer from a common affliction my songs have where the guitar outpowers the vox. Other than that, it's gonna have to stay the way it is. It's not a solo effort it's a collab. Anyone in a band knows you can't always go redoing stuff in a short time span when you have to organize mult ppl to be in one spot at one time. Besides that, as I have mentioned several times I only record on Thursdays. It's the only day the house is empty. If I had a place of my own I could record every day (and I would).

All I gotta say is, listen to it (all the way) before you review it. Don't tell me it sucks 5 days before it's posted. Thanks.

Rone Rivendale wrote:All I gotta say is, listen to it (all the way) before you review it.

Dude, people skip through songs all the time. You can't expect someone to listen to 3 minutes of something they don't enjoy ... I know I wouldn't do it.

Rone, post your lyrics. I want to try something.

Alright, I'll do that.

Rone Rivendale wrote: I think I need to up the volume on the vox, cuz it may suffer from a common affliction my songs have where the guitar outpowers the vox.

Bringing the rest of the arrangement down (or the guitar down) might be easier to suss out, mixing-wise.

See also: duping the vocal track (aka doubling, sort of) and bringing that duped vocal track down to ±50% with no fx on it gets the job done too, if you like the way the rest of the mix is fitting together.

Last suggestion: If you're listening to the mix loud while mixing (and who doesn't ), after the mix gels for you, turn the listening volume way down and adjust the levels on each track again for that lower listening volume. You might be surprised...