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I haven't had the privilege of meeting Darcy yet but when I do I'm going to ask her to do some session work for me as well. Give my fingers a rest. Hope she charges a reasonable hourly rate. After I show her my drum stick I'm hoping it will be mates rates!
I hate to say it @richardyot but I think Darcys cheating on you...with...me...dun,dun,DUUNN!! I bought GB a couple of days ago.The drums are a very cool feature.
Noise is great with me. Riding a bike? How the hell did you manage that. That's brilliant. Wouldn't recommend that down here. They would run you over to thieve your dust cap let alone an iPad. Keep the noise........love it!
thanks for the listen and observations, and yup it could use some shortening. I have tendency to find some juicy orphan tidbit at the end of a mix and stick it on, like a treat to myself for finishing the critter.
cheers, bardico
kings-of-nothing
Big phat sound, and wow the vocals are splendid. I would say that Darcy for all her skills does betray a hint of, shall we say, zombie slave.
This tune shimmers.
You've got a great turn of phrase - do you write lyrics?
thanks, writing is where the music started for me
My song this month started out as a "music memo" , which I then imported into GarageBand and I think Darcy was already there in the song, but I did tweak her (ooer) a little afterwards.
You should try it out with your Ukulele: strum a few chords in the free Music Memo app, then tap the little drum and bass buttons, and watch as miraculously your shite strumming turns into a 3 piece band. You can then send the whole lot to GB and edit the bass and drums. It's crazy.
@Richardyot haha! Oi! Who's strumming are you calling shite??!!
That does sound like a cool idea though mate.Thanks!
heres an instrumental i like alot. cant seem to put anything to it
i strapped it on handle bars... im not ok singing around others.. so i have found the craziest places to track my vox. where are you from
This is Different Drummer, Droneo, Logic...or not..
Hey everyone, I'd appreciate it if you could check out my SoundCloud page. Right now, I'm uploading productions and edited music, soon enough I plan on recording some music. Thank you. https://soundcloud.com/raestro
I agree with the one a month. I can't even get one done a month, so won't bug me.
But I like the variety as well. It's a good thing to hear different stuff. It's all grist for the mill.
@richardyot, probably my favourite of yours I've heard so far. Great mix and sounds. There's one vocal spot near the 1 minute mark, where you drop much deeper quickly, and that sounds a bit rough. That's about as much of a nitpick as I can muster. I also really liked the drums, and even if you didn't play them, you set them up and decided on the rhythm. As usual, I'd like more of a break/bridge, that's my thing, but the changes in the percussion really helped make it feel like that was happening.
@trackedout, Got some great sounds in there. Some of the lead guitar sounds very 60s/Jefferson Airplane in the tone. As a whole, I'm not sure it hangs together, and I also don't know what you'd hang over top of it. It's also a bit punk at times, so you could take it in that direction.
@technemedia, that is a brilliant bit of work. The use of the elephant sample is amazing, really brings it all together. Love the energy and vibe throughout. Might be a tad long - I was starting to lose interest a bit by the end. But a great contribution.
Here's my contribution for the month. Hopefully folks are still coming back to review. Can't believe I got this done so quickly. Started with initial guitar riff, entered into notion, exported as midi to Auria. Then played guitar and bass live, drums on my Percpad, and the bit of GeoShred, (Tibetan bowls,) in the middle. Lead guitar added at the end is live, though not without overdubs.
This came out the last year, where I dropped into a pretty black place for a while. With some good help, I have managed to pull myself out of it, and felt compelled to write this.
This piece can be about many things that interrupt a life.
It starts out smoothly, a little jog in the beat, because that's normal life.
But then there is a break, something happens, something painful. You deal with it, you continue on.
Then it happens again. It's worse, discordant. And life is not quite right anymore, because you're afraid of it coming back now, because you know it can. You continue with more urgency, worry. It happens yet again, but you soldier on, because you have to.
Then comes the real fracture. This time, you feel beaten. You pick up, slowly, but not well. The disfunction accelerates, and accelerates again, until you crash once more, and this time, it's too much.
You retreat into yourself. You pull back. You drift, trying not to feel. You need to do something about it, because going on as you are is not working. So you reach out to try something, maybe within yourself, maybe from something or someone else.
And it helps. For a little bit, it's rough, but then it starts to smooth out. You hit a flow, it gets better. The healing process, whatever it is, works. You get back to the place you were in at the beginning. It's never going to be perfect, because life is never perfect.
The ending is abrupt, because this is about life, and life's not over. Hopefully it will continue on in the good place for a long time, and you never know that feeling again. But it's a long story still to come.
I loved the different time signatures and the quasi-dodecaphonic feel. Really nice progressive music. Congrats, @rickwaugh!
Thanks, @theconnactic. It's a therapeutic piece for me. And I'm pretty happy with the recording.
I'm not ok singing.........Full stop! I've learned through this Club that folks sing their songs in all sorts of places. Forms of transport seems to be quite a popular choice.
I'm an M4 extremist! London/Wales. Wales at the mo cos the drugs are cheaper!
@rickwaugh First of all, thank you for sharing the personal back story to your song. I can feel the stark contrasts of emotions in your words & the translation of those feelings into & through your music. I also find it therapeutic & am pushing "music therapy" (on iOS of course) on the counselling course I'm on. It works! Happy to hear you're now in a much better place Rick
Your title sums it up. Fractures........which thankfully, can be fixed. Even without lyrics (although I'd love to experience those raw emotions by way of vocals...sorry, I'm greedy) I can still follow your journey through the sections of your tune. The part 1.30 to 1.42 where you up the pace, change of mood, mania. Followed by those serene, peaceful sounds that possess a reflective quality are just two examples that highlight your skill of mood/dynamic changing. Top marks for marrying up the time sigs with (to me) those obscure chords. Really different, unexpected & memorable for all the right reasons.
I am partial to an abrupt ending & in the case of your song/story it's like you've screamed "No fade out/away into the abyss for me. I'm back!" Inspiring. Great work.
Thanks so much @Bluepunk. I have never written something that was this emotional before. Having that story in my mind guided the piece, and even if life is a bit calmer going forward, hopefully more storeys will present themselves.
Thanks @rickwaugh yes it's a tad on the long side for intensive listening but probably my favorite part is at the very end when you hear only Droneo's perfect waves fading out.
@rickwaugh interesting back story which definitely helped me to understand your intent with the track. However for me the whole thing sounds far too cerebral to really carry the emotion that you are trying to express, the track sounds like an intellectual/formal/technical exercise and doesn't have enough feeling in it for my tastes.
The flute sound that comes in at 1.50 has a haunting beauty to it, and that part was effective I thought, but the rest of it is too formal to really move me. I wonder if in part that comes from your workflow, using notion to write the parts rather than coming up with them at your instrument? I think it's easier to play by feel than it is to write notation by feel.
It also makes me wonder where emotion comes from in music, that's an unfathomable question of course, but a lot of it is to do with vibe and atmosphere - a violin or a slide guitar can sound incredibly sad for example, so the choice of sounds is as important as the notes you play, and maybe that is also one thing that jars slightly in your piece, the choice of instruments and sounds don't really reflect the feel that you are going for IMO.
It's possible that there is a genre issue here of course, and that I don't really "get it" because the style of music is outside my comfort zone. Also it's clear that going for something more emotional is new for you, so it might take time to get it right.
As a final thought, I thought I would post something that very obviously has a vibe, a feel. From the opening bar, the guitars (including the violin-like lead guitar part), the piano, and the voice, the tempo, you can hear that everything is working together to create a feeling of melancholy, it's undeniably emotional:
Thanks @richardyot. I actually find it much easier to come up with pieces that "feel" more the way I want the piece to go away from the instrument. It's too easy to go down old paths, or think along standardized chord progressions, when the instrument is in the hand. That's the main reason I have gotten away from it. I would be stuck for weeks on a part. With notation software, I can tinker, move things around, not have to relearn and remember as I'm going. I then play the guitar parts, trying to stick to my rhythm, but I get enough "feel", at least I hope so. I obviously fell down for you.
Musical emotion is tough to express. I listen to a lot of classical music. Some pieces, like a lot of 19th century composers after Beethoven, who are lauded as masters of emotion, such as Strauss, sound over the top to me. I get more feeling and life out of Bach and Mozart.
"Helpless", and most anything by Neil Young in that time, still makes me feel emotional. It's great music, written with a huge amount of heart and soul. It's also very much tied up in the fact that I was a teenager and twenty year old at that time, and it all pulls me back. I have musical friends who hate Neil Young, can't get over the voice. I love it. I personally dislike Bob Dylan, except for a few tracks. I find him dull. But to many people, he's a genius.
Thanks for taking the time, as always. I know it's not easy music to listen to. I guess part of it is that it's not all about sadness. It's also about fear, and anger, and happiness. So it's a bit mixed up. But I do understand where you're coming from.
I realise that - the Neil Young example wasn't directly relevant to your song, it was just an example of music that had a strong feel.
I also appreciate what you are saying about Bach and Mozart, I'm not really a classical music fan, but what I do like tends towards the more understated end of the spectrum - subtlety is more effective than the full Wagnerian orchestra.
And thanks for engaging in this discussion with an open mind, because I am not trying to be critical, but just to convey my reaction to your work as a listener. I think you can find a way of getting your message across more expressively - you're a technically excellent musician with a wide range of skills, but my hunch is that maybe you over-think things. Sometimes you just need to play, to improvise, to let the music flow through you - because in it's in those moments that the magic happens, and when it happens you have no idea where it came from.
@richardyot, it's a great discussion. That's the purpose of these threads, at least for me. We're basically questioning how we use our creativity. My work always starts from something I play. But one of my goals I have through my current round of musical training/learning, is to not have to rely on the instrument at all. I want the things I hear in my head to be something I can bring out, partly because I'm fascinated by the process, (it's pretty normal for classical composers,) and by how much it has made me think outside my box. At the same time, my playing has improved immensely, and I want to work on my improv/off the cuff stuff. But my anal/OCD side tends to get in the way of that, and tell me that if I just sit down and plan everything, it has to be better. There's a happy medium there. The drums in this track, I didn't plan at all. I sort of thought about what I wanted to do, but that all went out the window when I actually started to play. I'm surprisingly pleased with how they turned out. Same with the solo. It was an actual solo. There were some overdubs, and I worked it a few times, but it was not planned, and I'm pretty happy with the way it turned out as well.
Yes, it is a great discussion & has forced me to rethink my SOTMC first listens. I'm going to listen to the song BEFORE reading any back story.....with or without vocals. Empty my head (an incredibly short process) then listen if I can feel what the writer wants me to feel. Then.....read any story to compare. I only wish I'd done this sooner, like with your tune Rick.
Did your story influence the way your music made me feel?
I will never know for certain but I did a quick tester on the wife. I played a G chord on Guitarism, clean then distorted.
"Did any of those two sounds stir any emotions inside you."
"Yes. They both made me want to cry...........in extreme pain!" Followed by..please let me read my book..raised eyebrows.
Well, at least it worked boys! There's some unscientific data for you.
@LostBoy85 this track is cool lostboy85 i like the reverb vocals and delay in the far back and main vox is clean too. im trying to imagine where and how this was recorded... also i think your kick should have some more low thump.. atleast thats my personal prefence