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Post by Kapitan on Mar 28, 2021 18:57:43 GMT
Another new one. This is a kind of off-kilter song I did with an old band around 2005-06 but never really recorded. So that's what I did the past couple days, with a few lyrical tweaks from the original (maybe 25% of it).
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Post by jk on Mar 28, 2021 21:31:32 GMT
Another new one. This is a kind of off-kilter song I did with an old band around 2005-06 but never really recorded. So that's what I did the past couple days, with a few lyrical tweaks from the original (maybe 25% of it).
I certainly did. Some nice chord progressions in there, Cap'n. It's all you, is it? Respect! Are those paintings your own work?
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Post by Kapitan on Mar 28, 2021 21:44:08 GMT
I certainly did. Some nice chord progressions in there, Cap'n. It's all you, is it? Respect! Are those paintings your own work? Many thanks. Yes, everything is me except the drums, which are programmed by me but use the recording software (Logic Pro) AI drumming. Funny you mention the progressions, in that I had decided to (finally) record it last week but couldn't find my old notebooks that had it or any recordings of it, and so I was struggling to remember it.
The paintings are not mine (I don't paint at all.) The old man is something I found in a thrift shop years ago and I just love it. It's disturbing, not clear whether this guy is sleeping or if it's a death painting? And since he kind of looks like a composer, it just seemed the perfect balance of stately and creepy. (It's above my piano!)
The little weird face is a painting that I literally found in the street one day. And speaking of disturbing, my gosh. There is just something wrong there, and it makes me love it. The little fellow is an especially nice pairing for the name "beau mondes."
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Post by Kapitan on Apr 10, 2021 18:07:16 GMT
Today I finished and posted a brand new recording of a 20-year-old song I'd never recorded (though an old band of mine played it live some about 15 years ago). It's probably the first ever uptempo country tune to include the Latin requiem lyrics!
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Post by Kapitan on May 23, 2021 14:18:37 GMT
Another new recording posted. Almost entirely recorded yesterday morning, with the exception of a second rhythm guitar this morning. This is another 20-year-old song, originally a smartass country song. Then I was going to do it a la Paul Stanley, mid-late 70s KISS style. But that sounded ridiculous. (Paul Stanley sounds ridiculous, too, but he owns it. I'm not so confident.)
So now it's kind of in the classic rock style, but not quite so over the top. This is as "big dumb rawk" as I get. Pair of guitars, an organ, a piano, a bass, drums, and in the pre-solo bridge, a couple acoustic guitars and a flute organ. And voices.
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Post by Kapitan on May 28, 2021 22:58:14 GMT
This one uses for the basic tune something I wrote around 2008 (though the middle 8 is entirely new). I'd never really recorded it except for myself as simple demo. This has almost entirely new lyrics--everything except the first line of the refrain--and a generally new arrangement. I kind of like it, don't love it. Very intentionally nodding to "Getting Better," which I had just been discussing in the Beatles thread, for the intro and end of each refain.
Hope you enjoy "Bring On the Summer." I think it's a pleasant little song.
I did a little work on this one. A new mix, a new lead vocal (now just single-tracked) with some new lyrics here and there, a few minor tweaks throughout. Still a very simple thing, even simpler now than the other version. "Bring on the Summer" again, now a little nearer summer...
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Post by Deleted on May 29, 2021 4:53:42 GMT
This one uses for the basic tune something I wrote around 2008 (though the middle 8 is entirely new). I'd never really recorded it except for myself as simple demo. This has almost entirely new lyrics--everything except the first line of the refrain--and a generally new arrangement. I kind of like it, don't love it. Very intentionally nodding to "Getting Better," which I had just been discussing in the Beatles thread, for the intro and end of each refain.
Hope you enjoy "Bring On the Summer." I think it's a pleasant little song.
I did a little work on this one. A new mix, a new lead vocal (now just single-tracked) with some new lyrics here and there, a few minor tweaks throughout. Still a very simple thing, even simpler now than the other version. "Bring on the Summer" again, now a little nearer summer... Hey Kapitan, I am now following you. I am soundcloud.com/user-342781381
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Post by Kapitan on May 29, 2021 12:19:50 GMT
Cool, thanks. I'd be curious to hear your feedback, if you've ever got any.
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Post by Deleted on May 30, 2021 4:53:17 GMT
Cool, thanks. I'd be curious to hear your feedback, if you've ever got any. Definitely. It was getting a little late for me last night, so I haven't had a chance to comment. I like what I've heard so far, and I will give you a fair response in the next day or so.
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Post by Kapitan on May 30, 2021 11:43:18 GMT
Nice. And no pressure about it, not like I want to badger anyone for responses, either. For context, this music is all just for, well, nothing. For this. No ambition here, so it's not to be taken too seriously. I just make it for me, share with a few friends, and point it out here.
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Post by Kapitan on May 31, 2021 16:02:57 GMT
Most of what I've been posting are old songs newly recorded (and rearranged, slightly rewritten). This one is altogether new. It's not in line with most of what I've been up to lately. The stop-start, off-kilter rhythmic feeling of the first two verses is what really got me excited. The latter parts actually relate to another (new) song that I haven't done yet.
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Post by Kapitan on Jun 6, 2021 17:07:12 GMT
Yesterday and this morning I recorded another old one, a 21-year-old tune originally written by two of my college friends that I had tweaked and recorded in 2000.
Many years later and with a few more tweaks, here's the 2021 version of "Their Eyes Were Watching God," an ode to (or ballad of) television and (more recently and generally) screens' place in life.
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Post by Kapitan on Jul 23, 2021 20:25:04 GMT
Spent the past hour or so trying to remember how to play and then lay down basic tracks for a rockabilly sort of song I wrote a dozen years ago. I have a guitar-and-voice crappy scratch recording from 2009 to work from. (Thankfully it wasn't very hard. Just an oddball chord or two.)
Alas, my left hand started cramping going from a month or so of barely playing anything to trying to keep up eighth-note walking bass through most of the song! Guess I'll return to it later...and perhaps I'll stretch and warm up properly next time. And now, back home, I finished this song this afternoon. I did the (dopey) vocals and mixed it in relatively short order. It reminds me more of the movie Grease than actual rockabilly, but that's always how songs go, in my opinion: what the musician is thinking about or inspired by often comes through only in a filtered way.
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Post by Kapitan on Jul 24, 2021 21:40:13 GMT
Speaking of how intentions end up filtered through the musician...
While away last week, I wrote a song that in my head was absolutely Zeppelin III. A vaguely modal (or at least partly modal) acoustic guitar-based song loping along in 6/8. Well today I worked on the recording, starting from that base and adding some percussion and drums, bass, electric guitar, organ, (real) piano, another acoustic guitar, and a few voices. And it does NOT sound like I initially thought. Not at all. It started veering toward a country waltz (yes, it went from 6/8 to more a 3/4) and then a few touches sounded like gospel (which I don't even listen to). A doubled acoustic-and-piano line reminds me of the (electric) guitar-and-piano of Captain Beefheart's "White Jam."
In other words, it amuses me how little control I sometimes seem to have over my own songs. I mean, obviously I have full control. But I hope you get what I mean. They wander on you, and next thing you know, they just sound like your songs, for better or worse!
Hoping to give it some fresh listens and tweaks tomorrow; I'll post it then.
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Post by Kapitan on Jul 25, 2021 13:00:28 GMT
The aforementioned is done and posted. If you're looking for an amateurish country-folk waltz ballad, perhaps "Revelation in the Passive Voice" is for you! Hope you enjoy it.
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