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Song of the Month Club - February
As you may have seen (http://forum.audiob.us/discussion/7607/you-made-a-mistake/p1) the no doubt estimable @richardyot is a hardworking, honest, decent sort of chap who has set himself the task of writing a song every month, soup to nuts, get it done and out the door etc.
I, who have little decency left, but am an enthusiastic fool, jumped on his bandwagon and committed to doing the same. I just haven't got anywhere yet. My own fault. Had a few internet drinks and got all mouthy and said even an Englishman in Texas could write a country song. May not be so easy.
Anyway, thought I'd try the public shaming method of getting past my procrastination by starting this thread to a) publicly shame me into getting my spurs on and so forth and b) encouraging any other fools to take a shot at the same exercise. Don't blame you a bit if you keep your powder dry. Wish I'd done the same, but there you are.
Will report back.
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I'm in. Whole album in Feb never going to happen. Song a month, album a year sounds more doable. having said that last album took me 9 months longer than I planned
I planned to publish a song on 12/13/14 (only works US date format) at 15:16. missed that opportunity of a lifetime also.
That's a lot more elegant, yer git yer
(But welcome along, don't show us scufflers up too badly 
All I can add is encouragement because I'm still pretty green. I have a lot of loops and phrases recorded but no songs yet. The hard part is making some of them into a full song.
@mkell424 very kind. But don't let the fact of not having a song stop you. Me neither. That's the point. Get from lonely bits and bobs to something the critics can rubbish you for
I don't have anything in mind or ready for this thing at all. Well, apart from the foolish 'country song' boast that's come back to bite me and -don't ask, no idea- the certainty that I need to slip the word lube in there somewhere.
We'll see.
JG your song about your Aunt is almost ready. But about halfway through the lyrics I felt weird because I realized I was making stuff up about a family member of somebody I've never met. So now I don't know if I should release it.
@NoiseHorse Ah, no worries old man. I think of my Aunt as a gift to the world.....
Nice one Johnny, I thought of inviting a larger audience but wasn't sure if people would be interested. I think it's worth pursuing for a few months and seeing if it takes off at all. I'm definitely committed, I'd like to try and keep it up for at least a year, and to me it doesn't matter whether the thing takes off on the forum or not, as I'm doing it for myself, but if others do join in then it just adds to the fun.
First deadline: march the 1st.
It needs a better name though!
I'm in.
I have about 6 'nearly finished' tracks that actually need finishing off. So i'll be cheating a little bit - but there you go. It will be good to have an incentive to get them finished.
I might actually go for 2 a month if i'm allowed.
Yeah, why not? No point imposing stifling rules, I think the idea is just to encourage some productivity by setting a monthly deadline. If it encourages people to listen to each other's songs and (more importantly) foster debate, constructive critique/advice and maybe talk about the nuts and bolts of songwriting and production then it's all good.
As the man said: There are no rules, all things are permitted, but you have to finish something. You can start where you like with what you like, but by month's end you have to set the dish before the king (and we're all kings here...).
So far I've got no further than:
I've got a little piece of Jesus
in a box beneath my bed
I think it's from his ankle
I wish it was his head...
Long way to go.
I'll take him for a ride on mah big green tractor
I got the son, but I don't have the father...
Using the US date format while using a time format not used in the US was a bit odd anyway, no ? ;-)
@ElGregoLoco Hey! They have the 24 hour clock here. Indoor toilets, telephones, the whole nine yards (an odd unit of infinite measurement, I grant you).
Mainly working on collabs at the moment, with someone who IS taking part in the FAWM thing (14 tracks in one month!) but will be happy to join in with a song a month of my own too!
For the public shaming, hire a domnatrix to spank you, use the tempo of her spanks for your next song! It's win win.
The FAWM would be fun if I didn't have the responsibility of having to make a living and support a family, but as it stands I only have about 5 hours a week for music, which has to include some practice as well as writing/recording/mixing. At least I can try and make that time count.
I watched an interesting Elton John thing a while back - when he was having his good spell in the early seventies he would write all his songs in around half an hour each (the lyrics had already been written by Bernie Taupin, so this was the chords and vocal melody), he would do this after breakfast at the chateau that the recording studio was located in and then they would record the song that day. It's pretty impressive considering that's how most of his classic songs were written.
I know he's considered cheesy as hell, in fact even when I was still a kid in the eighties he was already seen as super-cheesy, but he had a brief spell of writing some great songs.
@1P18 as an ex-public school boy, I am happy to say that those days are long behind me....
@AlterEgo_UK think of your 'Elpee in a Month' workout as bootcamp; you'll find knocking off just one masterpiece at a time come March or April easy peasy...
I generally create about a track a week - but they never get properly finished. There's always 'need to add some samples' or 'the break section isn't really working' etc. etc... And of course, mastering.
But then i'm onto the next one because i've found some other exciting technique I want to try out or something.
Guess that's just my way of working though - I'll make sure I go back to the good stuff...
@JohnnyGoodyear You had a dominatrix at your school?! Man, Pink Floyd was wrong, we do need no education!
I was a scholarship boy, got it every day and for free.
Another factor I run into is lack of time. I have a job that requires me to work 50-60 hours a week.
I find parenting the same, except you have to pay them
Man, If I had a song for every excuse...
- I'm shooting for 1 song per year.
After a false start - I spent two weeks recording a track which I eventually decided was truly awful, I have recorded a demo of my February song, I will do a proper recording by the end of the month.
I wrote the song last week, came up with a vocal melody in the shower and made sure to record it on my iPod before I forgot it, then that evening I hacked some chords around it. It took me a couple of days practice before I could sing and play it at the same time (I've only been able to sing and play at the same time for a few months, and I still find it quite hard with some rhythms).
I'm finding that recording a demo version first is actually a really useful trouble-shooting tool, in this case I found that no matter what I did I couldn't get my voice to sound good so I redid it in a higher key (capo two frets up) and it immediately sounded better. Doing a demo also allows me to experiment with compression etc, although it's difficult in this track because of significant bleed between the vocal mic and the guitar mic - this demo is a live performance recorded in one take, but for the final mix I will record the vocals and guitar separately.
The main thing I need to do before recording the final song is just to practice the hell out of it so I can get the vocals to sound consistently better, this demo shows up my singing as being pretty ropey at the start especially. The instrumental sections also need to be a bit more interesting, so I might add some piano or guitar melodies to them.
On a plus note I think it's a definite improvement in songwriting over my previous efforts, and I like the sad vibe that's in the song. I'll post the final in a couple of weeks.
Hey. Good for you. Especially for two things: A) Ditching what wasn't really working and
Working up a demo first. I am a bugger for getting something I like a bit and then papering over the cracks rather than practicing, analyzing and improving.
Look forward to seeing what difference you see/find by recording vox/guitar separately etc.
For the record, in the couplet "All our dreams will die and you will....." I have no idea what that last word is. Sounds like 'Disalie'. Don't know what that is.
I think it's brave to share a bare bones effort. By that I mean this is the unadorned song, no guitar break, no piano, say, as you mention, no backing Vox or doubling/whatever. But it means you get to see the meat of it clearly.
To be honest, I hadn't even thought about the idea of posting a WIP. As mentioned elsewhere, I DID write an outline for a 'country' song and ditched it because it was derivative rubbish. Grateful to have got that out of my system, but stuck for the next step. However, grateful to this trick/process of SOTM because rather than just running away and doing another half-assed job on something distracting and new I am still banging my head on the wall of my commitment. And for that I thank you. I think.
This whole thing has led me to a fair amount of introspective existential angst ("What are you doing?" "What's the point?" "You're an imitative wanker."), but on the other hand it's good to have a hobby
Thanks for posting this and I look forward to seeing what the next step(s) leads you to.
Thanks for pointing that out - I need to enunciate more clearly. I also need to stick to my english accent, for some reason I sing that second line as if I'm a native of Alabama. The line is "All our dreams will die, Our new world is a lie" (the song is about the death of the hippie dream and boomers selling out).
I wasn't planning to post a WIP either, but it seemed like the bare bones song had some potential, more than more previous efforts anyway. I always find once a song is posted I'm more aware of the flaws, some kind of psychological trick to listen more critically - and being constructively critical is (I think) one of the best ways to improve, but it's constant battle to look at your own work objectively.
I'm in the same boat as you regarding the whole process, which is exactly why I'm trying to stick to this schedule, you need to make stuff, make bad stuff, make mistakes and learn, and slowly (hopefully) you improve. I think with persistence something interesting should eventually emerge (not talking about you personally! just offering my perspective).
I don't suffer from existential angst though, I got back into music after an 18 year break and I am really enjoying the ride. The person who is really questioning the whole of point of it all is my wife, she is completely baffled by the whole thing!
@richardyot perhaps she mourns the loss of her metaphoric mohair
I agree with you about the psychological clarity that comes with the release of posting. I feel this exactly with email even. Once you know someone has read your note of admission/reflection/apology/confession/request the thing becomes all the more real/toe-curling/clear than when writing it. Odd ducks we all are.
As for the accent thing; I have given up. A thousand years ago my engineer at the time would complain about me americanizing phrases. And so I did the honourable thing and left for America where there is no U in Honor. By now I probably sound more mid-Atlantic than anything else. A man without a country and no loyalty to language.
Time to yodel.
I humbly throw out my Song-of-the-Month, with inspiration from the "You Made A Mistake" thread. So now Audiobus not only turns the IPad into a musical instrument, it is also a idea generator! (The accent is FAKE!)