05 March 2004 (Friday)
mhopper
[04:30PM CST]
2 Comments
FAWM Self-Anaylsis
FAWM was amazing in that it cause myself and the other songwriters to really kick out the jams. It's so easy to start working on a song idea and either give up or just not explore it enough. Like working out or running, the beginning stages were a little rough. You had to sit down and get up an hour or two later with something to show for it. Some of the songs turned out subpar because they were rushed and not well thought out...others turned out like absolute gems that will become stapes of my live set and hopefully future recordings.
I have been listeing to my own demos alot though the past month, trying to figure out which ones I like, hate, etc. More...
FAWM was amazing in that it cause myself and the other songwriters to really kick out the jams. It's so easy to start working on a song idea and either give up or just not explore it enough. Like working out or running, the beginning stages were a little rough. You had to sit down and get up an hour or two later with something to show for it. Some of the songs turned out subpar because they were rushed and not well thought out...others turned out like absolute gems that will become stapes of my live set and hopefully future recordings.
I have been listeing to my own demos alot though the past month, trying to figure out which ones I like, hate, etc. More...
01 March 2004 (Monday)
wferenbaugh
[03:55AM CST]
1 Comment
numero 15 - in my back tavern years
WMA file here
el fin de FAWM
i planned to write a dylanesque ballad (or dylany ripoff, depending on how you look at it) all along, and like the spanish song, it always seemed like something i really wanted to labour over. so i kept putting it off.
in the end, i threw this down a little too fast to have a solid lyric, but i might work on it. ten monotonous verses. i was debating whether i should do straight monotonous music or throw in some twists. however, since i was late recording this, i decided to play it straight. it still turned out funkier than i thought it would.
i don't know where burr, hopper, and eric stand on dylan, but i figured i should throw this in here.
WARNING: EXTENDED NOTES ABOUT DYLAN INFLUENCES... More...
WMA file here
el fin de FAWM
i planned to write a dylanesque ballad (or dylany ripoff, depending on how you look at it) all along, and like the spanish song, it always seemed like something i really wanted to labour over. so i kept putting it off.
in the end, i threw this down a little too fast to have a solid lyric, but i might work on it. ten monotonous verses. i was debating whether i should do straight monotonous music or throw in some twists. however, since i was late recording this, i decided to play it straight. it still turned out funkier than i thought it would.
i don't know where burr, hopper, and eric stand on dylan, but i figured i should throw this in here.
WARNING: EXTENDED NOTES ABOUT DYLAN INFLUENCES... More...
wferenbaugh
[03:04AM CST]
3 Comments
numero 14 - Michelada
WMA file here
from early on, i planned to write one song in spanish. and i decided on this topic weeks ago. but i put it off because... well, my spanish isn't very good, so i figured i'd have to put significant effort into it.
this is mostly a true story pulled from my holidays in mexico two months ago.
More...
WMA file here
from early on, i planned to write one song in spanish. and i decided on this topic weeks ago. but i put it off because... well, my spanish isn't very good, so i figured i'd have to put significant effort into it.
this is mostly a true story pulled from my holidays in mexico two months ago.
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29 February 2004 (Sunday)
Song #14 In God's Time
MP3 Here 4.0Mb Download
Ok. Here come the apologies. The last two songs and this one were done very rushed and so they are not as good as I would like. For some reason I thought the month ended on Monday, so I agreed to go out to my Father-In-Law's place to hang out, thinking I would have time on Monday to wrap the ideas up. My wife informed me that, oops, Sunday was the 29th. Doh. So I rushed through the 3 songs, writing quick lyrics down while my wife drove out to Dassel, where her dad lives. I slapped some guitar tracks down on my laptop while I was out there in about an hour and just finished cramming some vocals on here. In other words, I apologize.
This is my answer to the "End" challenge. Because I was so rushed, this came out as a song I always promised myself I would never write - a sappy manipulative drivel breakup kinda song. It's actually about 2 things: My band breaking up and me quitting my job. (I haven't officialy quit, but they know I'm intending it, which is why the last couple weeks have really been stressfull and difficult to write some nights.. etc...)
Anyway, forgive the rushed fingerpicking and the nasty vocal pitch problems.. It's no way to end FAWM, considering some of the stuff I've cranked out. Maybe I'll write something less sappy and post it in a day or two as an addendum. More...
MP3 Here 4.0Mb Download
Ok. Here come the apologies. The last two songs and this one were done very rushed and so they are not as good as I would like. For some reason I thought the month ended on Monday, so I agreed to go out to my Father-In-Law's place to hang out, thinking I would have time on Monday to wrap the ideas up. My wife informed me that, oops, Sunday was the 29th. Doh. So I rushed through the 3 songs, writing quick lyrics down while my wife drove out to Dassel, where her dad lives. I slapped some guitar tracks down on my laptop while I was out there in about an hour and just finished cramming some vocals on here. In other words, I apologize.
This is my answer to the "End" challenge. Because I was so rushed, this came out as a song I always promised myself I would never write - a sappy manipulative drivel breakup kinda song. It's actually about 2 things: My band breaking up and me quitting my job. (I haven't officialy quit, but they know I'm intending it, which is why the last couple weeks have really been stressfull and difficult to write some nights.. etc...)
Anyway, forgive the rushed fingerpicking and the nasty vocal pitch problems.. It's no way to end FAWM, considering some of the stuff I've cranked out. Maybe I'll write something less sappy and post it in a day or two as an addendum. More...
edistad
[05:23PM CST]
5 Comments
Song #13 Ode to Homebrew
MP3 Here 3.5Mb Download
This song is an ode to one of my hobbies, which is brewing beer.
It is a lot of work, but it's fun and what hobbies are there that net you 2 cases of beer at the end?
It's a little silly country riff, but it details basically all the steps in brewing your own. The alternate title was "Everything you wanted to know about making beer but were afraid to ask".
More...
MP3 Here 3.5Mb Download
This song is an ode to one of my hobbies, which is brewing beer.
It is a lot of work, but it's fun and what hobbies are there that net you 2 cases of beer at the end?
It's a little silly country riff, but it details basically all the steps in brewing your own. The alternate title was "Everything you wanted to know about making beer but were afraid to ask".
More...
Song #22 This Is The Sound (Of My Heart Breaking)
Download MP3 Here!
For some reason the title of this song jumped into my head yesterday. Of course, I have no idea why, it just did, but also - after you listen to the song - don't think I'm like hurting or anything, cause I'm not. I just thought this song fit these lyrics. I challeged my friend Karie to write a song with the same progression on her piano, and we thought a good theme for the song would be all the things that can go wrong in a relationship. Of course, as soon as I started writing my brain took on a life of it's own and this is what came out.
Now to write a song for my own challenge :) More...
Download MP3 Here!
For some reason the title of this song jumped into my head yesterday. Of course, I have no idea why, it just did, but also - after you listen to the song - don't think I'm like hurting or anything, cause I'm not. I just thought this song fit these lyrics. I challeged my friend Karie to write a song with the same progression on her piano, and we thought a good theme for the song would be all the things that can go wrong in a relationship. Of course, as soon as I started writing my brain took on a life of it's own and this is what came out.
Now to write a song for my own challenge :) More...
edistad
[05:18PM CST]
3 Comments
Song #12 Linton
MP3 Here 3.4Mb Download
This was an alternate tribute song that I had started on, but it was so strange I thought about not doing it. But that isn't in the spirit of FAWM, so here it is.
This is a tribute to my first year Music Theory/Composition teacher. The lyrics are very-close paraphrases or direct quotes of things he said often. He was a big proponent of Dissonance, arguing that consonance didn't go any where and the more tension you built in a piece, the bigger the release when you removed that tension. Philosophically I see his point, but it's hard to sell a song to the "average" audience when you stack lot's of minor seconds on top of one another.
This song is dissonant, so be forwarned. But it is not nearly as dissonany as what Dr. Linton would have wanted. If I had submitted this for Composition I might have gotten a D. (That and it's extremely sloppy.)
Anyway.. Um... Well. Enjoy... sorta More...
MP3 Here 3.4Mb Download
This was an alternate tribute song that I had started on, but it was so strange I thought about not doing it. But that isn't in the spirit of FAWM, so here it is.
This is a tribute to my first year Music Theory/Composition teacher. The lyrics are very-close paraphrases or direct quotes of things he said often. He was a big proponent of Dissonance, arguing that consonance didn't go any where and the more tension you built in a piece, the bigger the release when you removed that tension. Philosophically I see his point, but it's hard to sell a song to the "average" audience when you stack lot's of minor seconds on top of one another.
This song is dissonant, so be forwarned. But it is not nearly as dissonany as what Dr. Linton would have wanted. If I had submitted this for Composition I might have gotten a D. (That and it's extremely sloppy.)
Anyway.. Um... Well. Enjoy... sorta More...
bsettles
[04:16PM CST]
5 Comments
Song #15: It's Over
MP3 Demo Here (1.5mb)
So, I guess this is my answer to Hopper's "the end" challenge... arguably, "All My Sins" (song #12) could qualify, but (1) it used recycled music, so now I've written 14 complete songs, (2) my friends Mark and Laura gave me their old beat-up casio keyboard and I was dying to experiment with, and (3) after that trilogy yesterday, I needed to write something goofy. I think we can all relate to this kind of "ending." More...
MP3 Demo Here (1.5mb)
So, I guess this is my answer to Hopper's "the end" challenge... arguably, "All My Sins" (song #12) could qualify, but (1) it used recycled music, so now I've written 14 complete songs, (2) my friends Mark and Laura gave me their old beat-up casio keyboard and I was dying to experiment with, and (3) after that trilogy yesterday, I needed to write something goofy. I think we can all relate to this kind of "ending." More...