I did a gig with Annie in the Providence again last night. The Providence is such a dive! Loud, shitty music before the bands came on, pissed old men laughing at nothing... As soon as I got there I just wanted to be somewhere else... anywhere else. The gig went well and neither of us made obvious fluffs. I think because I wasn't expecting it to be a good gig I just did it without worrying about it.
I'm meant to be collaborating with some people off my songwriting class but it sounds like it's all gone pear-shaped already. The three girls I'm collaborating with met up without me because I couldn't make it (had to watch Lost!) and couldn't agree on anything. Songwriting class tonight will be interesting.
Anyway, I'm so excited by this video I found the other day:
Friday 20 February 2009
Monday 16 February 2009
Scrabble
Apologies for my absence... work is crazy. (As if anyone cares!)
I've started another songwriting class. And I've just written a new song called "Grace is Just Her Middle Name". Listen to it on my myspace page. I wrote it by this method:
I had a game of scrabble with my girlf. At the end I wrote down all the four or more letter words. Then I picked every other one. I then tried to include as many of these as I could in a song lyric.
For this exercise, 'grace' was the strongest word that I came up with so I based it around this. Once I came up with the phrase "Grace is just her middle name" I had the idea for the song. I was trying to write a new melody for it but I found myself singing it to a harmony I'd written the week before. So I followed that through to it's conclusion.
I debuted it at the songwriting class on Friday. The feedback I got was good. One person suggested leaving more gaps in there. I changed the arrangement a little and added bars here and there which have stretched it out a bit and actually made it easier to sing and to remember the lyrics.
I'm quite please with this one. I wrote it all within the space of a week too.
I've started another songwriting class. And I've just written a new song called "Grace is Just Her Middle Name". Listen to it on my myspace page. I wrote it by this method:
I had a game of scrabble with my girlf. At the end I wrote down all the four or more letter words. Then I picked every other one. I then tried to include as many of these as I could in a song lyric.
For this exercise, 'grace' was the strongest word that I came up with so I based it around this. Once I came up with the phrase "Grace is just her middle name" I had the idea for the song. I was trying to write a new melody for it but I found myself singing it to a harmony I'd written the week before. So I followed that through to it's conclusion.
I debuted it at the songwriting class on Friday. The feedback I got was good. One person suggested leaving more gaps in there. I changed the arrangement a little and added bars here and there which have stretched it out a bit and actually made it easier to sing and to remember the lyrics.
I'm quite please with this one. I wrote it all within the space of a week too.
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