Phew, I'm getting there with catching up on blogging about FAWM aren't I...
So, on we go then.
Tuesday 26th February
At twelve minutes to one in the morning I suddenly thought about pieces I'd got that were just one verse or snippets of ideas lyrically. The first one I looked at was one with the Titular suggested title of Just Around The Translation. I had a chorus but nothing else up to that point. By two minutes past one I had added three verses and a pre-chorus idea. Brilliant. It's okay to be that quick, even if you're not absolutely 100% certain - you can go back to them because you have a rough outline for the whole song.
Then between 1.03 and 1.12 I took what I had of another Titular suggestion - Don't Teach Me To Worry (I may change that in time to Don't Teach Me How To Worry). Again I only had a four line chorus idea. I finished with two more verses and a pre-chorus. Good work again I think.
Between 10.18 and 10.26 in the morning I turned the one verse and chorus I'd already had about a children's party gone wrong into a complete song with a second verse and then an outro section. Followed at 10.29 by looking at a chorus I had for a piece based on a lyricloud view (where it gives you potential words to inspire you lyrically). I took this, added two verses, a little middle eight thing, and Dance was born.
At ten past eleven I looked on Titular again. From ten past one to twenty to two I wrote and recorded Coloured Marbles. My idea there was basically because of my love of background "chilling" music such as Boards of Canada, and the like. I wanted to recreate that using my acoustic guitar (whose jack socket has unfortunately loosened and I can't get it back into place). Listening back to what I had I could hear some interference coming through on the original guitar track, but kept it in because it sort of adds to it (perhaps a slight irritating at times, but you get used to it in a way).
Between 3.20 AND 5 in the afternoon, I wrote and recorded music for Don't Teach Me To Worry and something else that I will be doing words for I hope, because it rocks! For the first of these, I thought of trying to do a Latino feel musically with a samba, so I had to play some piano (I just about get away with it I think).
After that I suddenly found myself starting on the second FAWM notebook. I know, a bit late in the day, but I plan on carrying on taking notes in there of what happens to what I have come up with during FAWM, even including the snippets of ideas that I hadn't done anything with, just yet.
From seven until eight I worked on a mix for Don't Teach Me To Worry (without vocals), followed by doing file transfers from the 12-track to the laptop from 8.15 to 8.45 and 9.20 until 10.40 - a long and laborious process considering there is no other way to do it, yawn.
From five past eleven until 11.45 me and Louise listened to some other Fawmer's music and left comments.
Wednesday 27th February
I did a Titular at some point in the morning I would guess (I strangely enough didn't put a time). From 2.30 in the afternoon until half past four I recorded You Could Love. I put down three acoustic guitars (the first with vocal) and an acoustic bass part. Then I remembered that Louise (my sweetheart) had said that she always fancied playing the tambourine and "I have a good sense of rhythm", so I thought I would ask her to play tambourine on there. She was excited while she waited, but then when I said I had got it ready for her she was very wary. Unknown to her I had already recorded tambourine myself just in case she had changed her mind. After a good, erm, twenty minutes, she eventually tried it and got it on the fourth or fifth time through I think. I thought, well if Phil Spector can have more than one tambourine in a song, then what's wrong with that, so I kept both - one more over to the left and one more over to the right.
From 7.30 in the evening until nine I played around with a copy of Reason 5.0 that I had received through the post that morning from my uncle (thank you).
I'm leaving that there because, to be honest, there are only 28 days in February and I think the next post will possibly be a long one!
Thank you for reading. Please take care.
March 1 2013 (42 years, 3 months, and 3 days old).
Thursday, 28 February 2013
More FAWM catch-up part two
Here we go again then, even more about FAWM. I was hoping that during February I would do more blog posts on here so that they wouldn't all be about FAWM, but it never came out that way. Oh well, there's only this and one more that are JUST about FAWM. Then it is back to the relative normality of my blogs.
Sunday 24th February
At midnight then there was another skirmish, this time with the title being Kick The Can. I don't know why, but I just saw it as an alternative to the "kick the bucket" saying. From there it became quite a complex and elaborate, possibly too much so. From that I thought of someone who was scared of going anywhere because of what could happen. I somehow caught onto the fact that the narrating character had watched a lot of films that included assassins in them, name-checking Leon and The Jackal for instance. The verses were slow melancholic pieces, the choruses were supposed to be punky at a much faster pace, and the middle eight was a rapped section over funky guitar, and all of that was pieced together. Quite a thing. I do like it because it has all of that going on in a little over three minutes. I posted up the lyrics at about twenty to one (well within the time), and the demo went up at ten past one. I have to say that I loved a few other people's versions (Brownium's version, Nick Sypniewski, Randy Xypher, John Staples, and Kevin Emmrich among them).
A song skirmish is a fascinating thing really. A song title is given at the head of an hour and then people have to come up wit a song that has that title. Just imagine the fact that each person has a slightly different interpretation or way to look at that title, and then there are the different styles that people play. It's incredible to me every time because I try to listen to every song written with that title.
At two in the morning the super-skirmish was the title A Woman I Can Trust. Actually the title given was A Woman You Can Trust, to which I asked if I could write this title and they said "said yes, any variation thereof". So here we have something where I was going for a very straight folk feel because I really wanted to get some harmonica into a FAWM song as I miss playing the harmonica.
From 4.05 in the morning until 4.55 I wrote the super-skirmish song Across The Pond which is something where I was thinking of, but not copying, a Venetian Waltz in timing/style, played on acoustic guitar though, and lyrically I was basically being myself where I have always dreamed of visiting the US and this is the sort of thing that I think of. Somebody suggested that if I were to take it further then perhaps extending on the "Across the pond" break would be an idea or write something else for that to be a link to. That is something that I will definitely look at because there is something sweet about the song.
I missed out on the 6am super-skirmish because all of my computer and music stuff was put away as I was expecting people to turn up at the site where I was working.
At 2.41 in the afternoon I looked at the titles from the super-skirmishes that I had missed and took note of them as potential titles for things.
Then I realized that there was a super-skirmish going on at that moment and looked at 2.45. By 2.53 I had written the lyrics for Think Big. At eighteen minutes past three I did another of those review things where I looked at what hadn't been done yet.
I was at work again that night, so between eight and nine I took part in the skirmish that gave us the title That's All. Now, a guy named Woody on there said that he just couldn't stop thinking of Porky Pig which meant that it was stuck in my head. With that firmly there then, I just wrote a fun little song with both words and music (on the ukulele that I had with me) about my memories of Looney Toons. It was so much fun, especially the Porky Pig bit, I really smiled when I thought of that hook - "me na me na me na me na, that's all!" Brilliant - so much fun.
At three minutes past eleven I looked at Titular.
In some ways I think that I could possibly have spent less time creating an perhaps more time listening to other people's music. I'll see how it goes for next February as to how I work it. If the muse is good again next year, then that will almost certainly be the way that I go. It almost feels selfish that I was just paying attention to my own material, especially considering that I had already smashed the fourteen songs thing within the first five days alone I think it was.
Monday 25th February
Between 1.58 and 2.50 in the morning at work I worked on the music for the earlier skirmish based lyric Think Big, and recorded it. I had seen people's chord changes written out and there were some astonishing changes going on in the some of them, especially Hoopshank's stuff - wow! With those chord changes in mind, I thought of the Peter-Gabriel led Genesis era where there were some very dramatic melody lines that he had to sing. So I have a progression that goes, erm, F-Fm6-Bbm-D7-Bm,D7,Bm for the verses and D-Dmaj7-G7-F-D7-Bm-D7-Bm for the chorus. A song that I am really happy about in the end. The melody is just spot on (perhaps my singing of it isn't perfect), and I love the big chords. The words are good as well I think, but I am tempted to think of different words and expanding on it at some point. Not sure about the word changing though, hmm.
Between 4.20 and 4.38 in the morning I went online and joined a Google Plus hangout with some other people from FAWM. That was fun speaking with those people from all over the states and hearing their stories. I'll be taking part in more of them next time as well, that is for sure.
At 1.48 in the afternoon I looked on the forums for challenges. I saw one which was to "write a song using the sounds around you." Now, from that I got that it meant basing rhythm and feel on the sound of the things around you (washing machine, etc), but I thought "what about talking about the sounds that you hear around you while waiting for something and include those sounds in the actual song eventually (when I've written the music and recorded these sounds of course). I'd written the lyrics by 14 minutes past 2. I was looking at somebody waiting at home for their partner to come home with nothing to do while they waited, and mentioning the sounds that could be heard while they were waiting, because strangely enough when you're bored and have nothing to do, you notice all of those sounds. It's called 'A Waitin' On My Girl To Come Home'.
I have a few pieces on FAWM that are lyrics only, which is bugging me to be honest.
At nineteen minutes past five I looked on the obligatory Titular again, followed by me typing stuff out onto the FAWM website. I had been silly and deleted songs (lyrics only) from the FAWM website in a ridiculous attempt to take off things that I thought were "filler". I realized, through what other people said, that I had sort of missed a point to FAWM. Through putting up those songs, it is possible for others and yourself to see how you got from A to B, and there are also the times where people like the things that you don't so much (which has sort of happened with a couple of those sets of lyrics). That was one of many things that I have come out of FAWM learning.
Between 8.20 and 8.50 I did some more typing up and wrote tentative music for Tears of Their Peoples, which was a set of lyrics from very early on in the FAWM month. The music I put down was reggae based, but I think needs looking at in the future. I did more typing up of stuff (including what I had for the gospel music) between 9.40 and 10 at night, and finally at three minutes past eleven, yep another Titular visit.
Thank you reading, please take care.
28 February 2013 (42 years, 3 months, and 2 days old)
Sunday 24th February
At midnight then there was another skirmish, this time with the title being Kick The Can. I don't know why, but I just saw it as an alternative to the "kick the bucket" saying. From there it became quite a complex and elaborate, possibly too much so. From that I thought of someone who was scared of going anywhere because of what could happen. I somehow caught onto the fact that the narrating character had watched a lot of films that included assassins in them, name-checking Leon and The Jackal for instance. The verses were slow melancholic pieces, the choruses were supposed to be punky at a much faster pace, and the middle eight was a rapped section over funky guitar, and all of that was pieced together. Quite a thing. I do like it because it has all of that going on in a little over three minutes. I posted up the lyrics at about twenty to one (well within the time), and the demo went up at ten past one. I have to say that I loved a few other people's versions (Brownium's version, Nick Sypniewski, Randy Xypher, John Staples, and Kevin Emmrich among them).
A song skirmish is a fascinating thing really. A song title is given at the head of an hour and then people have to come up wit a song that has that title. Just imagine the fact that each person has a slightly different interpretation or way to look at that title, and then there are the different styles that people play. It's incredible to me every time because I try to listen to every song written with that title.
At two in the morning the super-skirmish was the title A Woman I Can Trust. Actually the title given was A Woman You Can Trust, to which I asked if I could write this title and they said "said yes, any variation thereof". So here we have something where I was going for a very straight folk feel because I really wanted to get some harmonica into a FAWM song as I miss playing the harmonica.
From 4.05 in the morning until 4.55 I wrote the super-skirmish song Across The Pond which is something where I was thinking of, but not copying, a Venetian Waltz in timing/style, played on acoustic guitar though, and lyrically I was basically being myself where I have always dreamed of visiting the US and this is the sort of thing that I think of. Somebody suggested that if I were to take it further then perhaps extending on the "Across the pond" break would be an idea or write something else for that to be a link to. That is something that I will definitely look at because there is something sweet about the song.
I missed out on the 6am super-skirmish because all of my computer and music stuff was put away as I was expecting people to turn up at the site where I was working.
At 2.41 in the afternoon I looked at the titles from the super-skirmishes that I had missed and took note of them as potential titles for things.
Then I realized that there was a super-skirmish going on at that moment and looked at 2.45. By 2.53 I had written the lyrics for Think Big. At eighteen minutes past three I did another of those review things where I looked at what hadn't been done yet.
I was at work again that night, so between eight and nine I took part in the skirmish that gave us the title That's All. Now, a guy named Woody on there said that he just couldn't stop thinking of Porky Pig which meant that it was stuck in my head. With that firmly there then, I just wrote a fun little song with both words and music (on the ukulele that I had with me) about my memories of Looney Toons. It was so much fun, especially the Porky Pig bit, I really smiled when I thought of that hook - "me na me na me na me na, that's all!" Brilliant - so much fun.
At three minutes past eleven I looked at Titular.
In some ways I think that I could possibly have spent less time creating an perhaps more time listening to other people's music. I'll see how it goes for next February as to how I work it. If the muse is good again next year, then that will almost certainly be the way that I go. It almost feels selfish that I was just paying attention to my own material, especially considering that I had already smashed the fourteen songs thing within the first five days alone I think it was.
Monday 25th February
Between 1.58 and 2.50 in the morning at work I worked on the music for the earlier skirmish based lyric Think Big, and recorded it. I had seen people's chord changes written out and there were some astonishing changes going on in the some of them, especially Hoopshank's stuff - wow! With those chord changes in mind, I thought of the Peter-Gabriel led Genesis era where there were some very dramatic melody lines that he had to sing. So I have a progression that goes, erm, F-Fm6-Bbm-D7-Bm,D7,Bm for the verses and D-Dmaj7-G7-F-D7-Bm-D7-Bm for the chorus. A song that I am really happy about in the end. The melody is just spot on (perhaps my singing of it isn't perfect), and I love the big chords. The words are good as well I think, but I am tempted to think of different words and expanding on it at some point. Not sure about the word changing though, hmm.
Between 4.20 and 4.38 in the morning I went online and joined a Google Plus hangout with some other people from FAWM. That was fun speaking with those people from all over the states and hearing their stories. I'll be taking part in more of them next time as well, that is for sure.
At 1.48 in the afternoon I looked on the forums for challenges. I saw one which was to "write a song using the sounds around you." Now, from that I got that it meant basing rhythm and feel on the sound of the things around you (washing machine, etc), but I thought "what about talking about the sounds that you hear around you while waiting for something and include those sounds in the actual song eventually (when I've written the music and recorded these sounds of course). I'd written the lyrics by 14 minutes past 2. I was looking at somebody waiting at home for their partner to come home with nothing to do while they waited, and mentioning the sounds that could be heard while they were waiting, because strangely enough when you're bored and have nothing to do, you notice all of those sounds. It's called 'A Waitin' On My Girl To Come Home'.
I have a few pieces on FAWM that are lyrics only, which is bugging me to be honest.
At nineteen minutes past five I looked on the obligatory Titular again, followed by me typing stuff out onto the FAWM website. I had been silly and deleted songs (lyrics only) from the FAWM website in a ridiculous attempt to take off things that I thought were "filler". I realized, through what other people said, that I had sort of missed a point to FAWM. Through putting up those songs, it is possible for others and yourself to see how you got from A to B, and there are also the times where people like the things that you don't so much (which has sort of happened with a couple of those sets of lyrics). That was one of many things that I have come out of FAWM learning.
Between 8.20 and 8.50 I did some more typing up and wrote tentative music for Tears of Their Peoples, which was a set of lyrics from very early on in the FAWM month. The music I put down was reggae based, but I think needs looking at in the future. I did more typing up of stuff (including what I had for the gospel music) between 9.40 and 10 at night, and finally at three minutes past eleven, yep another Titular visit.
Thank you reading, please take care.
28 February 2013 (42 years, 3 months, and 2 days old)
Wednesday, 27 February 2013
More FAWM catch-up
Best get a move on with the month's activities then;
Thursday 21st February
Between half past midnight and 2.15 in the morning I looked at some lyrics I'd started a while before and changed them. At 3.30 I looked at the Titular tool again on the FAWM site (for those who haven't been following, it gives song title suggestions to inspire you). From 3.40 in the morning until 4.06 I wrote some lyrics based on a random wikipedia search, which brought up the word Pellicle, which apparently has a fair few meanings. Who would have thought that hey? Certainly not me because I had never heard of the word until that moment.
From 2.30 in the afternoon until five past five, I finished writing and recording the music for some songs. Take A Breath was a set of lyrics from a while ago, but now I added music (rather rocking, but I only had the acoustic to hand which sort of meant losing that bit of potential edge, and I think I need to look at the choruses again because I originally envisioned it sounding different rhythm wise. Oh well, they're demos aren't they. I also recorded Leap With A Solution and a new interpretation of Paradise Found. The latter I decided that I would change from the key of C major (which the earlier a capella apparently was) to E major.
From 6.15 until 6.40 I played around with my guitar tuned to CGCGCE. At 7.26 me and Louise discussed (for songwriting purposes) the fact that there are words which are similar to each other (beau and bow, but then there is bow as in bow tie and bow as in lowering yourself to honour somebody - that sort of thing). From 7.10 until 7.25 I played guitar a bit more. From 8.30 to 8.45 I put some tambura and de-tuned guitar down for an instrumental piece entitled Calcutta Cowboy.
Friday 22nd February
At thirty three minutes past midnight I looked at Titular again, followed by just after twenty to one looking at a Plot Spline (it gives you a suggestion for a songs story line . At twenty past one I wrote some ideas for things to look at doing.
Between midday and two in the afternoon I finished recording guitars for Calcutta Cowboy. The idea of that piece was me thinking what would it sound like if I mixed Indian music with Country & Western, Blues, Folk, and whatever I ended up playing.
From 8.35 to 9.20 I wrote lyrics for a self-deprecating song entitled I'm Gonna Sing A Happy Song. From 11.30 to 11.48 I worked on a song based on a skirmish, with the title No Wonder. I obviously came to it half an hour into the one hour limit. I wrote a set of lyrics with music still being required.
Saturday 23rd February
At one in the morning I looked at the weekly challenge, which was to write either a happy song in a minor key or a sad song in a major key (something I still haven't done). At 2.10 in the morning I wrote a list of things I was left needing to do - ideas started but not finished, that sort of thing. Between 2.20 and 3.30 in the morning I finished recording the demo of Bayonets. Not a great demo, but it will do I suppose.
At 12.30 I looked on Titular again.At 12.38 I tried to get something on Lyricloud (it suggests words to make lyrics from), but didn't get further than a couple of lines. From 2.15 to 4.15 I recorded music for The Living Dead and some music I had written but had no words for. I wrote a quick four lines of something that came to mind at twenty past five, followed at 27 minutes past by Titular once again.
I was at work that night and, once the other chap had left, I looked at FAWM on my phone and suddenly remembered that there was a skirmish on from six until seven in the evening (GMT), I booted up my laptop and brought up the words for @kahlo2013's 30 Days. This was at 6.56pm, and I was downloading my performance of it with music I wrote at 3 minutes past seven. Technically between us me and @kahlo2013 had written words and music separately to the same song in an hour from two different parts of the world.
From 8.05 until 8.55 I wrote the words and music to and recorded another skirmish song entitled Full House. Sometime after 10 I recorded the lead and harmony vocals for The Living Dead. At 11.43 I once again looked at Titular.
I'll leave it there, but expect another blog in about eleven hours time to take us from, erm, I'm guessing Sunday the 24th to either Tuesday 26th or Wednesday 27th.
Thank you for reading, please take care.
27 February 2013 (42 years, three months, and one day old)
Thursday 21st February
Between half past midnight and 2.15 in the morning I looked at some lyrics I'd started a while before and changed them. At 3.30 I looked at the Titular tool again on the FAWM site (for those who haven't been following, it gives song title suggestions to inspire you). From 3.40 in the morning until 4.06 I wrote some lyrics based on a random wikipedia search, which brought up the word Pellicle, which apparently has a fair few meanings. Who would have thought that hey? Certainly not me because I had never heard of the word until that moment.
From 2.30 in the afternoon until five past five, I finished writing and recording the music for some songs. Take A Breath was a set of lyrics from a while ago, but now I added music (rather rocking, but I only had the acoustic to hand which sort of meant losing that bit of potential edge, and I think I need to look at the choruses again because I originally envisioned it sounding different rhythm wise. Oh well, they're demos aren't they. I also recorded Leap With A Solution and a new interpretation of Paradise Found. The latter I decided that I would change from the key of C major (which the earlier a capella apparently was) to E major.
From 6.15 until 6.40 I played around with my guitar tuned to CGCGCE. At 7.26 me and Louise discussed (for songwriting purposes) the fact that there are words which are similar to each other (beau and bow, but then there is bow as in bow tie and bow as in lowering yourself to honour somebody - that sort of thing). From 7.10 until 7.25 I played guitar a bit more. From 8.30 to 8.45 I put some tambura and de-tuned guitar down for an instrumental piece entitled Calcutta Cowboy.
Friday 22nd February
At thirty three minutes past midnight I looked at Titular again, followed by just after twenty to one looking at a Plot Spline (it gives you a suggestion for a songs story line . At twenty past one I wrote some ideas for things to look at doing.
Between midday and two in the afternoon I finished recording guitars for Calcutta Cowboy. The idea of that piece was me thinking what would it sound like if I mixed Indian music with Country & Western, Blues, Folk, and whatever I ended up playing.
From 8.35 to 9.20 I wrote lyrics for a self-deprecating song entitled I'm Gonna Sing A Happy Song. From 11.30 to 11.48 I worked on a song based on a skirmish, with the title No Wonder. I obviously came to it half an hour into the one hour limit. I wrote a set of lyrics with music still being required.
Saturday 23rd February
At one in the morning I looked at the weekly challenge, which was to write either a happy song in a minor key or a sad song in a major key (something I still haven't done). At 2.10 in the morning I wrote a list of things I was left needing to do - ideas started but not finished, that sort of thing. Between 2.20 and 3.30 in the morning I finished recording the demo of Bayonets. Not a great demo, but it will do I suppose.
At 12.30 I looked on Titular again.At 12.38 I tried to get something on Lyricloud (it suggests words to make lyrics from), but didn't get further than a couple of lines. From 2.15 to 4.15 I recorded music for The Living Dead and some music I had written but had no words for. I wrote a quick four lines of something that came to mind at twenty past five, followed at 27 minutes past by Titular once again.
I was at work that night and, once the other chap had left, I looked at FAWM on my phone and suddenly remembered that there was a skirmish on from six until seven in the evening (GMT), I booted up my laptop and brought up the words for @kahlo2013's 30 Days. This was at 6.56pm, and I was downloading my performance of it with music I wrote at 3 minutes past seven. Technically between us me and @kahlo2013 had written words and music separately to the same song in an hour from two different parts of the world.
From 8.05 until 8.55 I wrote the words and music to and recorded another skirmish song entitled Full House. Sometime after 10 I recorded the lead and harmony vocals for The Living Dead. At 11.43 I once again looked at Titular.
I'll leave it there, but expect another blog in about eleven hours time to take us from, erm, I'm guessing Sunday the 24th to either Tuesday 26th or Wednesday 27th.
Thank you for reading, please take care.
27 February 2013 (42 years, three months, and one day old)
Sunday, 24 February 2013
Catch up on the FAWM
Hi
Flipping heck, has it really been that long? Well, I have been busy...
Monday 18th February
Between 5.10 and 5.25 in the morning I finished writing the lyrics to 'Adieu Atlantis'. There were two laptop recording sessions, one from 12.30 to 2.30 in the afternoon, and then another eight until nine while I was at work. 'Leap With A Solution' was finished then. At eleven minutes past eleven I looked at Titular again, and then finally from 11.25pm until twenty five past midnight I wrote a set of lyrics called 'Love' with the suggestions given to me by LyriCloud. I know, a pretty quiet day for me really there considering what the rest of Fawmbruary has been like.
Tuesday 19th February
At twenty eight minutes past midnight until nearly a quarter to one I tried another set of lyrics using LyriCloud, but that was going nowhere. Then at 2.43 in the morning I looked at the forums for ideas and took note of some challenges. From one in the afternoon until half past I did some recording bits on the laptop again, followed by working out the music to my a capella singing for @kahlo2013's song Paradise Found, which I worked out was in C major, although it flattened out towards the end. More on that maybe later in the next post.
At 6.47 in the evening I looked at the great Titular again, followed by a LyriCloud from 6.53 until five past nine, which brought about the strange Puff The Dragon Now Oh So Tough...... Hmm, different. I'll get some music to that soon. Between 8.30 and 10.30 I did some more laptop stuff plus recorded the vocal and kazoo for 'Blot On The Landscape'.
Wednesday 20th February
At 3.59 in the morning I once again looked at Titular, followed by starting to tentatively work on something with the working title of About A Carousel, which was one of the titular suggestions. Hillbilly Pimp was also a suggestion, which I worked on from 5.35 in the morning until 5.45, and then again from 6.25 in the morning until 6.29. Then I went to bed after the night shift by the way.
From ten past four in the afternoon until twenty to ten to five I wrote and recorded music for 'I'm Just A Working Class Man' and 'The Nightman's Day', looked at 'Take A Breath' but didn't finish putting the music together for it, so not recorded at that time.
From 7.40 in the evening to 27 minutes past 8 I added the vocals and a make do percussive shaker (my coffee tub I take to work) to the already recorded ukulele on 'Adieu Atlantis', which made that a finished demo. Yay. At ten in the evening a skirmish suddenly showed on FAWM, which is where a title is given for people to write a song to within an hour and have it recorded and uploaded for people to listen to. As I had no instrument with me, I wrote 'One More Thing' and uploaded it a capella - another one of those.
I think I will leave it there for now, as I have staff turning up here and shouldn't really be on the old laptop I don't think. Until next time, take care.
February 25 2013 (42 years, 2 months, and 30 days old).
Tuesday, 19 February 2013
Forming the FAWM
Here we go again then, more of me chatting about my music and that because of me going through FAWM (February Album Writing Month).
15th February 2013
Between a quarter to one in the morning and 2.37 I wrote and recorded the song 'Music Box', which I think is a beautiful piece. I was at work but wanted to work on something and didn't have an instrument with me. I went onto the great website Freesound, where I got hold of a single note on a kalimba (I think it was a G, but I'm not sure). From there I wrote the background music. I'm not sure why I thought of that particular tune, but for some reason FAWM seems to be getting me to experiment a little. I'm happy with that though.
So after I had put that kalimba part together, I thought that with the click track still in place it sounded a little like a music box, much like one that Louise has packed away somewhere. With that in mind I wrote a lyric where I was trying to be a music box, including the very straight consonant related melody.
At four minutes past seven in the evening I looked at Titular again. Between 7pm and 7.20 I wrote a couple of verses and a chorus for a new song that isn't finished but has the title of 'You Could'. Between 7.20 and 7.40 I wrote a chorus and two verses for a song suggested by Titular called 'Leap With A Solution', which I then finished between two minutes past eight and nine minutes past eight..
Between nine o'clock and ten past eleven I did some recording on my laptop of the vocal to 'You Could' and 'Leap With A Solution'.
16th February 2013
During that same shift at work (but basically the 16th because it was at twenty five past midnight), I looked at the weekly challenge which was to write a song with an oxymoron in the title such as 'Earth Angel', 'Hurts So Good', 'The Sound of Silence', and 'Killing Me Softly'. This was followed then between twenty five past one and ten to two by writing the lyrics for 'The Living Dead'.
Between two and three in the afternoon I purposely set out to do my first song skirmish on FAWM, which is basically where there is an hour to write and record a song using a title that you are given at the beginning of that hour.
The title I was given was 'Try To Relax'. I purposely looked at writing something that would be relaxed, and the song just seemed to take on a life of it's own. It is as though it wrote itself in a way. I actually didn't look at the skirmish until eleven minutes past one. As a slight difference, I put a capo on the third fret to purposely give it a different feeling.
That was basically all that I did until a quarter to midnight when I saw that a few songs on FAWM had the word "valentine" in them, and I suddenly found myself writing 'My Sweet Valentine'. I've not actually written the music as such for it just yet, but I have got a vocal only recording of the sort of melody that I am thinking of for it.
17th February 2013
Between twenty five past midnight and one in the morning I wrote a chorus and verse for 'Adieu Atlantis', which was a title suggested by Titular on the 11th of February (I am frequently looking back at things from over the month). This was then followed at 2.30 in the morning by me just writing in my FAWM note book to look at doing almost parodies of other lyrics such as Neil Peart writing in the Rush song Spirit of Radio "the words of the profits were written on the studio walls, concert halls" as opposed to the Simon & Garfunkel song The Sound of Silence with "the words of the prophets were written on the subway walls and tenement halls".
Between 12.30 and 3pm I transferred some things over from my twelve-track recorder to my laptop (a gospel piece, Friend, some funky guitar bits, and some drum patterns).
Between ten past seven and twenty past seven I wrote an instrumental piece called 'Celtic Stomp', because I carried my uke to work on the handlebars of my bicycle.
Between 7.30pm and 8.15 I started writing music and lyrics for 'Blot on the Landscape', followed by looking at another skirmish from a quarter past eight and ten to nine, which I just couldn't get unfortunately. Then at ten to nine I got back to 'Blot on the Landscape', which I finished writing at twenty past nine.
Between ten at night and four in the morning I spent time recording stuff on my laptop and doing a little bit of mixing.
There we are then, three days in the life of a fawmer then.
Thank you for reading. Please take care.
Wednesday February 20th 2013 (42 years, 2 months, and 25 days old).
15th February 2013
Between a quarter to one in the morning and 2.37 I wrote and recorded the song 'Music Box', which I think is a beautiful piece. I was at work but wanted to work on something and didn't have an instrument with me. I went onto the great website Freesound, where I got hold of a single note on a kalimba (I think it was a G, but I'm not sure). From there I wrote the background music. I'm not sure why I thought of that particular tune, but for some reason FAWM seems to be getting me to experiment a little. I'm happy with that though.
So after I had put that kalimba part together, I thought that with the click track still in place it sounded a little like a music box, much like one that Louise has packed away somewhere. With that in mind I wrote a lyric where I was trying to be a music box, including the very straight consonant related melody.
At four minutes past seven in the evening I looked at Titular again. Between 7pm and 7.20 I wrote a couple of verses and a chorus for a new song that isn't finished but has the title of 'You Could'. Between 7.20 and 7.40 I wrote a chorus and two verses for a song suggested by Titular called 'Leap With A Solution', which I then finished between two minutes past eight and nine minutes past eight..
Between nine o'clock and ten past eleven I did some recording on my laptop of the vocal to 'You Could' and 'Leap With A Solution'.
16th February 2013
During that same shift at work (but basically the 16th because it was at twenty five past midnight), I looked at the weekly challenge which was to write a song with an oxymoron in the title such as 'Earth Angel', 'Hurts So Good', 'The Sound of Silence', and 'Killing Me Softly'. This was followed then between twenty five past one and ten to two by writing the lyrics for 'The Living Dead'.
Between two and three in the afternoon I purposely set out to do my first song skirmish on FAWM, which is basically where there is an hour to write and record a song using a title that you are given at the beginning of that hour.
The title I was given was 'Try To Relax'. I purposely looked at writing something that would be relaxed, and the song just seemed to take on a life of it's own. It is as though it wrote itself in a way. I actually didn't look at the skirmish until eleven minutes past one. As a slight difference, I put a capo on the third fret to purposely give it a different feeling.
That was basically all that I did until a quarter to midnight when I saw that a few songs on FAWM had the word "valentine" in them, and I suddenly found myself writing 'My Sweet Valentine'. I've not actually written the music as such for it just yet, but I have got a vocal only recording of the sort of melody that I am thinking of for it.
17th February 2013
Between twenty five past midnight and one in the morning I wrote a chorus and verse for 'Adieu Atlantis', which was a title suggested by Titular on the 11th of February (I am frequently looking back at things from over the month). This was then followed at 2.30 in the morning by me just writing in my FAWM note book to look at doing almost parodies of other lyrics such as Neil Peart writing in the Rush song Spirit of Radio "the words of the profits were written on the studio walls, concert halls" as opposed to the Simon & Garfunkel song The Sound of Silence with "the words of the prophets were written on the subway walls and tenement halls".
Between 12.30 and 3pm I transferred some things over from my twelve-track recorder to my laptop (a gospel piece, Friend, some funky guitar bits, and some drum patterns).
Between ten past seven and twenty past seven I wrote an instrumental piece called 'Celtic Stomp', because I carried my uke to work on the handlebars of my bicycle.
Between 7.30pm and 8.15 I started writing music and lyrics for 'Blot on the Landscape', followed by looking at another skirmish from a quarter past eight and ten to nine, which I just couldn't get unfortunately. Then at ten to nine I got back to 'Blot on the Landscape', which I finished writing at twenty past nine.
Between ten at night and four in the morning I spent time recording stuff on my laptop and doing a little bit of mixing.
There we are then, three days in the life of a fawmer then.
Thank you for reading. Please take care.
Wednesday February 20th 2013 (42 years, 2 months, and 25 days old).
Thursday, 14 February 2013
Fawming on and on again
Another day, another update on the songwriting front...
Where did we get to? I do know that the last post was incredibly long! I will try to make this one less so...
Tuesday February 12th 2013
At 1.56 in the morning I looked at the Titular thing on the FAWM website again. Then at 1.58 in the morning I looked into a Struxxure. Then at 1.59 in the morning I looked at Lyricloud, from which a little something was written (with a little help from my sweetheart as well).
At 10.30 in the morning I wrote the song 'Something Is Needed', which is a political thing. Between 10.50 and midday I wrote and recorded the music to @wyatt's lyrics 'In Heaven's Bright City', which I gave a joyful folk feel to. Well, I tried to. I would have liked to have been able to do a better recording job, but time constraints cause me some problems with this FAWM business. Being a flat, we haven't got much room. Because of this I had to record quickly as it meant me taking over the lounge to record in and Louise waiting in the bedroom waiting for me to do things.
Later that day I thought about zebras, so I researched online and wrote the children's song 'Zulu The Zebra', which is supposed to fun, simple, and educational. From the beginning of research to finishing the recording, it took from 4.21 in the afternoon to 5.40pm. From 6.50 to 7 I came up with a music idea. From 7.30 to 7.50 I wrote another idea for a potential instrumental piece that I am tentatively calling 'Dawn Breaks'. At 8 I started looking at a piece I ended up calling 'Sevens & Sixes'. Between 11.30 and ten to midnight I recorded 'Something Is Needed' and started working on the recording 'Sevens & Sixes' by arranging the click track (in three time signatures).
Wednesday February 13th 2013
At 2.20 in the morning I looked at Titular again. At 2.45 in the morning I looked at a challenge idea, which I need to do something about! Finally at 3 in the morning I put down three lines of a lyric idea.
Between 2 and 4.30 in the afternoon I finished writing and recording 'Sevens & Sixes'. From half eleven at night and ten to one in the morning I wrote and recorded 'On The Run', which is a big mistake in my mind. I had a guitar riff idea in my head, but I was at work and only had a tin whistle with me. I therefore put the riff, etc down using the tin whistle. Then I put on a vocal for a "rough lyric idea". In a way, I wish I had left this recorded on my laptop but not placed onto FAWM. I should have looked at it again at a later date. I do think that the incredible quantity of material on my FAWM page is something that might be putting people off checking my stuff out.
I wasn't going to write any further, but there isn't much to put down for things done on Valentine's Day, so;
Thursday February 14th 2013
From 1.45 in the morning until 2.45 in the morning I looked at @Kahlo's lyrics Paradise Found and without an instrument decided to put down the vocal melody and four harmonies, from which I hope to work out the music later on piano or guitar, and then record with instrumentation. At 4.15 in the morning I looked on Titular.
At 12.45pm, I came up with an idea that I should look into writing a song about. From 1.30 in the afternoon until 3.45 I recorded some stuff on my 12-track digital recorder, but hadn't the chance to transfer what I had to the laptop. No words for the three songs (I think) worth of music that I had put down.
That is it for the 14th of February. I know, not much for me hey. I think I have possibly spent more time on FAWM than I should have, and it is causing some, erm, problems.
Thank you for reading. Please take care.
February 15th 2013 (42 years, 2 months, and 20 days old).
Where did we get to? I do know that the last post was incredibly long! I will try to make this one less so...
Tuesday February 12th 2013
At 1.56 in the morning I looked at the Titular thing on the FAWM website again. Then at 1.58 in the morning I looked into a Struxxure. Then at 1.59 in the morning I looked at Lyricloud, from which a little something was written (with a little help from my sweetheart as well).
At 10.30 in the morning I wrote the song 'Something Is Needed', which is a political thing. Between 10.50 and midday I wrote and recorded the music to @wyatt's lyrics 'In Heaven's Bright City', which I gave a joyful folk feel to. Well, I tried to. I would have liked to have been able to do a better recording job, but time constraints cause me some problems with this FAWM business. Being a flat, we haven't got much room. Because of this I had to record quickly as it meant me taking over the lounge to record in and Louise waiting in the bedroom waiting for me to do things.
Later that day I thought about zebras, so I researched online and wrote the children's song 'Zulu The Zebra', which is supposed to fun, simple, and educational. From the beginning of research to finishing the recording, it took from 4.21 in the afternoon to 5.40pm. From 6.50 to 7 I came up with a music idea. From 7.30 to 7.50 I wrote another idea for a potential instrumental piece that I am tentatively calling 'Dawn Breaks'. At 8 I started looking at a piece I ended up calling 'Sevens & Sixes'. Between 11.30 and ten to midnight I recorded 'Something Is Needed' and started working on the recording 'Sevens & Sixes' by arranging the click track (in three time signatures).
Wednesday February 13th 2013
At 2.20 in the morning I looked at Titular again. At 2.45 in the morning I looked at a challenge idea, which I need to do something about! Finally at 3 in the morning I put down three lines of a lyric idea.
Between 2 and 4.30 in the afternoon I finished writing and recording 'Sevens & Sixes'. From half eleven at night and ten to one in the morning I wrote and recorded 'On The Run', which is a big mistake in my mind. I had a guitar riff idea in my head, but I was at work and only had a tin whistle with me. I therefore put the riff, etc down using the tin whistle. Then I put on a vocal for a "rough lyric idea". In a way, I wish I had left this recorded on my laptop but not placed onto FAWM. I should have looked at it again at a later date. I do think that the incredible quantity of material on my FAWM page is something that might be putting people off checking my stuff out.
I wasn't going to write any further, but there isn't much to put down for things done on Valentine's Day, so;
Thursday February 14th 2013
From 1.45 in the morning until 2.45 in the morning I looked at @Kahlo's lyrics Paradise Found and without an instrument decided to put down the vocal melody and four harmonies, from which I hope to work out the music later on piano or guitar, and then record with instrumentation. At 4.15 in the morning I looked on Titular.
At 12.45pm, I came up with an idea that I should look into writing a song about. From 1.30 in the afternoon until 3.45 I recorded some stuff on my 12-track digital recorder, but hadn't the chance to transfer what I had to the laptop. No words for the three songs (I think) worth of music that I had put down.
That is it for the 14th of February. I know, not much for me hey. I think I have possibly spent more time on FAWM than I should have, and it is causing some, erm, problems.
Thank you for reading. Please take care.
February 15th 2013 (42 years, 2 months, and 20 days old).
Tuesday, 12 February 2013
More FAWM stuff
Hi, I'm sorry if people are getting fed up the music chatter this month, but it's something that I am going to be doing for the whole month, even if I have already gone very much passed the 14 songs suggested. I am presently in the way of having 26 songs up on my list at this minute, which does include two that have lyrics by other people that I am in line to write the music for. They are something that is a frequent thing on FAWM apparently, and in a way I am now looking forward to it, especially after doing a collaboration with Matt Blick, who is not only the man behind Beatles Songwriting Academy and a great guitarist, but is also a friend. I am crossing my fingers that I can get to his on Tuesday for the monthly songwriting group.
Anyway, since last time then;
Friday February 8th -
At just before ten to 1 in the morning I looked at Titular for song title ideas, followed with writing some lyrics for a piece that came from one of those titles - 'Declaration'. At 4.46 in the morning I came up with an idea based on another title suggested from an earlier title - 'Tear'. At 5 in the morning I put an idea into my notebook. Between 5.57 and 6.03 in the morning I started coming up with ideas for another song. At between 6 in the evening and 11.40 at night I was trying on and off while I was at work to put the lead vocal down for 'Bayonets', but without any success. At twenty to midnight I looked at the second week's challenge. Finally at nearly ten to midnight I started at another lyric idea.
Saturday February 9th -
At quarter past midnight, I tried to write another song but just got a verse and chorus. Then between one minute to one in the morning and ten past two, I wrote the song Forever Friends as a response to the aforementioned weekly challenge, which was to write a song using only the notes from the pentatonic scale for the melody. I then recorded the song without any instrumentation because I was at work (without an instrument) - a gospel song. At 3.16 in the morning I wrote some ideas down.
At 4.14 in the afternoon I looked at Titular again, and then at 4.21 I looked at Struxxure. At 8.35 in the evening I started trying to write another lyric but just down a verse. Between ten to midnight and four minutes past midnight I wrote down a structure I though of myself, so to speak - an arrangement based around a time signature changing piece that I could hear in my head (and still can).
Sunday February 10th -
Between 11.10 and 11.30 in the morning I wrote down a change to an earlier lyric I'd started on ('Tear'). Between 12.25 and 12.40 I looked at a few collaboration ideas available on the FAWM website and decided on three of those titles for the time being.
From twenty five past one to 1.48 I wrote the lyrics for 'Ballad for the Songwriter', followed by writing a music idea between 2.25 and 2.43. Between 3.50 and 4.40 I came up with music to a set of lyrics written by Matt Blick entitled 'I Am Nesia'. Looking at the lyrics it seemed daunting at first, but after a while I looked at it from a different angle. I thought that because it is about an amnesiac, that mentally they would be all over the place, so in a way each section needed to be slightly different in feel, so I purposely created something that had three distinct sections to it, hence the change in tempo, feel, key, and well, everything. That was to give it that jaggedness that there must be with people who suffer from this, I suppose. Initially I was a little bothered by it, because I was collaborating with someone, writing the music for their words. After listening back to it a couple of times, I think it really works well, despite some fluffed bits in that live recording.
Between 8.25 and 8.43 I wrote the lyrics for 'I Am a Thief'. Then later on (I'm not completely sure when) I was listening back to the music idea I came up with earlier (2.25-2.43) and realized that an earlier set of lyrics from the previous week fitted, but needed to be built upon because there was only a four line piece initially (a verse). To that I added lyrically a second verse and chorus, then recorded double-tracked vocals onto the same recording as the guitar track I had recorded at home earlier on. That became the song 'I Don't Mind ('Cause I'm In Love With You)'.
Monday February 11th -
At 1.14 in the morning I looked at the Titular thing on the FAWM website again, where I gleaned seven potential title ideas. Between 5.10 and 5.25 in the morning I wrote out a verse and chorus idea for a new song lyrically. Between 6.35 and 6.37 in the morning I wrote another couple of lyrical bits for a different potential song.
At 4.41 in the afternoon I remembered a suggestion by FAWM's twitter account whereby you could get an idea by looking at a random article on Wikipedia. I went onto Wikipedia and clicked the option for it to take me to a random article, and it took me an article called 'People from Etobicoke' (a territory of Ontario in Toronto, Canada). I wrote down all the list of people, and was fascinated that the actress Catherine O'Hara was from there (Kevin's mum in Home Alone and Home Alone 2, as well as other films), and a fair number of ice hockey players. There are also a fair number of politicians, musicians, and actors.
From there I looked at the wikipedia page about Etobicoke, wrote more information out. Once again not all of this was used for the eventual song, but still I felt as though it was vital for me to garner as much information as I possibly could. I also had a page up about the actress Catherine O'Hara.
I also brought up a page on an official Canadian tourist web address, where there was a list of places where you could visit if you went to Etobicoke.
Then I started to write the lyrics, which was a great experience. Louise offered a couple of suggestions which, although not copied exactly as suggested, they did inspire me. Louise came up with a line about the mini-Indy, which I couldn't use exactly because I didn't fit perfectly with the meter of the piece, but instead I used the Mini-Indy idea in with the fact that I wanted to mentioned Centennial Park anyway. That is just one of a couple of suggestions my sweetheart made.
She thought the process was fascinating and that the end product was a great set of lyrics. When I found that Jeff Healey was from there as well, I just knew that I had to say something about that, because he is a great loss to the music world. As with everything else that I have written for FAWM, you can find it on my FAWM page.
I then put down the rhythm guitar for the song using my laptop's microphone. Then I had a break for a while until much later when it was gone half past ten at night, when I recorded a lead vocal and a lead guitar. Because of the time I was much quieter than I could have otherwise been, because I didn't want to disturb the neighbours. If I had waited until the next day, I would have added tambourine as well. As it is though, I am really pleased with how the song 'Etobicoke' has turned out.
That then has brought you up to date with where I am up to Monday night.
Thank you for reading, please take care.
February 12 2013 (42 years, two months, and 17 days old).
PS - That is twenty songs completely written, plus two more collaborations I have started working on, and four sets of my own lyrics written that need music. 26 songs are up on my FAWM page in different stages then in the first eleven days alone. Write just one album in February? Let's go for two maybe. ;-)
Anyway, since last time then;
Friday February 8th -
At just before ten to 1 in the morning I looked at Titular for song title ideas, followed with writing some lyrics for a piece that came from one of those titles - 'Declaration'. At 4.46 in the morning I came up with an idea based on another title suggested from an earlier title - 'Tear'. At 5 in the morning I put an idea into my notebook. Between 5.57 and 6.03 in the morning I started coming up with ideas for another song. At between 6 in the evening and 11.40 at night I was trying on and off while I was at work to put the lead vocal down for 'Bayonets', but without any success. At twenty to midnight I looked at the second week's challenge. Finally at nearly ten to midnight I started at another lyric idea.
Saturday February 9th -
At quarter past midnight, I tried to write another song but just got a verse and chorus. Then between one minute to one in the morning and ten past two, I wrote the song Forever Friends as a response to the aforementioned weekly challenge, which was to write a song using only the notes from the pentatonic scale for the melody. I then recorded the song without any instrumentation because I was at work (without an instrument) - a gospel song. At 3.16 in the morning I wrote some ideas down.
At 4.14 in the afternoon I looked at Titular again, and then at 4.21 I looked at Struxxure. At 8.35 in the evening I started trying to write another lyric but just down a verse. Between ten to midnight and four minutes past midnight I wrote down a structure I though of myself, so to speak - an arrangement based around a time signature changing piece that I could hear in my head (and still can).
Sunday February 10th -
Between 11.10 and 11.30 in the morning I wrote down a change to an earlier lyric I'd started on ('Tear'). Between 12.25 and 12.40 I looked at a few collaboration ideas available on the FAWM website and decided on three of those titles for the time being.
From twenty five past one to 1.48 I wrote the lyrics for 'Ballad for the Songwriter', followed by writing a music idea between 2.25 and 2.43. Between 3.50 and 4.40 I came up with music to a set of lyrics written by Matt Blick entitled 'I Am Nesia'. Looking at the lyrics it seemed daunting at first, but after a while I looked at it from a different angle. I thought that because it is about an amnesiac, that mentally they would be all over the place, so in a way each section needed to be slightly different in feel, so I purposely created something that had three distinct sections to it, hence the change in tempo, feel, key, and well, everything. That was to give it that jaggedness that there must be with people who suffer from this, I suppose. Initially I was a little bothered by it, because I was collaborating with someone, writing the music for their words. After listening back to it a couple of times, I think it really works well, despite some fluffed bits in that live recording.
Between 8.25 and 8.43 I wrote the lyrics for 'I Am a Thief'. Then later on (I'm not completely sure when) I was listening back to the music idea I came up with earlier (2.25-2.43) and realized that an earlier set of lyrics from the previous week fitted, but needed to be built upon because there was only a four line piece initially (a verse). To that I added lyrically a second verse and chorus, then recorded double-tracked vocals onto the same recording as the guitar track I had recorded at home earlier on. That became the song 'I Don't Mind ('Cause I'm In Love With You)'.
Monday February 11th -
At 1.14 in the morning I looked at the Titular thing on the FAWM website again, where I gleaned seven potential title ideas. Between 5.10 and 5.25 in the morning I wrote out a verse and chorus idea for a new song lyrically. Between 6.35 and 6.37 in the morning I wrote another couple of lyrical bits for a different potential song.
At 4.41 in the afternoon I remembered a suggestion by FAWM's twitter account whereby you could get an idea by looking at a random article on Wikipedia. I went onto Wikipedia and clicked the option for it to take me to a random article, and it took me an article called 'People from Etobicoke' (a territory of Ontario in Toronto, Canada). I wrote down all the list of people, and was fascinated that the actress Catherine O'Hara was from there (Kevin's mum in Home Alone and Home Alone 2, as well as other films), and a fair number of ice hockey players. There are also a fair number of politicians, musicians, and actors.
From there I looked at the wikipedia page about Etobicoke, wrote more information out. Once again not all of this was used for the eventual song, but still I felt as though it was vital for me to garner as much information as I possibly could. I also had a page up about the actress Catherine O'Hara.
I also brought up a page on an official Canadian tourist web address, where there was a list of places where you could visit if you went to Etobicoke.
Then I started to write the lyrics, which was a great experience. Louise offered a couple of suggestions which, although not copied exactly as suggested, they did inspire me. Louise came up with a line about the mini-Indy, which I couldn't use exactly because I didn't fit perfectly with the meter of the piece, but instead I used the Mini-Indy idea in with the fact that I wanted to mentioned Centennial Park anyway. That is just one of a couple of suggestions my sweetheart made.
She thought the process was fascinating and that the end product was a great set of lyrics. When I found that Jeff Healey was from there as well, I just knew that I had to say something about that, because he is a great loss to the music world. As with everything else that I have written for FAWM, you can find it on my FAWM page.
I then put down the rhythm guitar for the song using my laptop's microphone. Then I had a break for a while until much later when it was gone half past ten at night, when I recorded a lead vocal and a lead guitar. Because of the time I was much quieter than I could have otherwise been, because I didn't want to disturb the neighbours. If I had waited until the next day, I would have added tambourine as well. As it is though, I am really pleased with how the song 'Etobicoke' has turned out.
That then has brought you up to date with where I am up to Monday night.
Thank you for reading, please take care.
February 12 2013 (42 years, two months, and 17 days old).
PS - That is twenty songs completely written, plus two more collaborations I have started working on, and four sets of my own lyrics written that need music. 26 songs are up on my FAWM page in different stages then in the first eleven days alone. Write just one album in February? Let's go for two maybe. ;-)
Thursday, 7 February 2013
More FAWMbruary stuff
As I often do, I don't write any blog posts while I am on my days off, hence why there have been no epistles from me over the last few days. There is also the fact that I have been very busy with the Fawm business.
Not only have I already written the 14 songs that are supposed to be aimed for, but I have now done even more than that! During February the 6th, I reached the fourteenth song written this month. I am very pleased about that.
So, to carry on from the last post, I will try very quickly to get through what happened since the last post.
February 4th
At 1.54 in the morning on Monday the 4th of February I wrote a short piece entitled 'My Old And Dear Friend', which I recorded a capella (vocal without accompaniment) and placed onto the FAWM page. Then between 2.21 in the morning and 2.34 I wrote the first verse and chorus for a song called 'Bayonets' (which was a title suggested by the Titular tool on the FAWM website). Then between 3.44 and 3.54 in the morning I wrote the second verse and second chorus for 'Bayonets'. I finished the lyrics for Bayonets in a little writing session between 5.25 and 5.30 in the morning.
At 5.38 in the evening I looked at a FAWM tool called Struxxure, which suggests structure ideas for songs - VERSE/CHORUS/VERSE/CHORUS/BRIDGE/CHORUS. It seems like something that I would possibly use sometime. At 5.43 I used something called Plot Spline, which suggests plot ideas for songwriting. Then at 5.48 I used the Titular thing again. It did suggest the title 'Tear' to me, which I am thinking of using but in the way of it being a homonym, which is where two or more words are spelt the same, but are completely different words that are also spoken differently. What I mean by this is "tearing things up" and "I was crying so many tears". I think it is an interesting thing, but may not be interesting to everybody.
At 5.56 I tried a Lyricloud thing that suggested lyrics, but didn't get far. At 11.40 I tried to write something for the title 'No Seventh', but I couldn't get anywhere. At 11.50 I came up with a chord progression. Finally, the last thing I did on the fourth was write the song 'You Fill Me With Such Joy' between 11.57 at night and twelve minutes past midnight.
February 5th
At 2.20 in the morning while Louise was reading (we had a late night), I looked at another plot spline, but I don't seem to be getting anywhere with those things. I'll have a look at them again and see where I can go.
At 1.44 in the afternoon I finally finished the words for the song 'An English Breakfast'. Between 1.52 and 2.22 I wrote the lyrics for the song 'Friend', followed by writing the short song 'You Need To Write A Song' between 2.29 and 2.34. At eleven minutes past seven I looked at something suggested by FAWM's twitter account, which was a random article on Wikipedia. I actually looked at two of them instead. I'll see where that takes me, but it could be really interesting. At 8.53 in the evening I looked at Titular again.At ten past ten at night I wrote the song 'Cathy Says' based on a post in a forum on the FAWM website talking about the great Sing Me A Story Foundation, and picked a story written by a ten year old girl from Kampala in Uganda named Cathy.
At 11.46 I looked at Struxxure (CHORUS/VERSE/VERSE/CHORUS/OUTRO - that's a bit different). At 11.55 I looked on Plot Spline again, and finally at 11.47 I tried another lyricloud, but I couldn't get past four lines.
February 6th
Between 1 and 1.32 in the morning (in bed again while Louise was reading), I wrote the words for the song 'Mansfield Town'. Between 10.50 in the morning and fifteen minutes after midday I wrote music for the songs 'An English Tea', 'A Night At The Circus', 'Bayonets', 'Cathy Says', and 'Mansfield Town'. I also recorded all of them except for 'Bayonets' using the laptop's microphone. At five in the evening I wrote a little bit for something based on the Lyricloud thing again (two verses and a chorus), followed at 7.29 in the evening by another Struxxure (verse/verse/chorus/verse/chorus/bridge/chorus). Finally I looked at Titular at 9.40 in the evening.
I forgot to mention that me and Louise were looking together in the evening to find things for the backing track to 'Bayonets', such as marching drums, church bells, and cannon fire.
February 7th
Between 1.53 and 2.04 in the morning I started trying to write a hard rocking lyric called 'Don't You', which I've just got a chorus and a verse for so far. Then at 2.23 I started looking at a title from an earlier Titular suggestion entitled 'Prisoner', which I did very little of (I just dropped off to be honest as I was at home).
Between 11.56 in the morning and 12.29 I wrote the song 'No Money Blues'. Between 12.30 and 12.39 I came up with an idea for a song musically. Between 1.30 and 4.40 in the afternoon I recorded some songs that I'd written. I used the 12-track to record the song 'Friend' and then did a very rough mix over to the computer using the audio interface. Other songs I did were 'No Money Blues' and 'You Need To Write A Song'. I did put guitar down on Bayonets, but that was using the laptop's microphone rather than the new set-up.
From 7.45 to 7.49 I wrote 'Happy Birthday Matt' in celebration of my friend Matt Blick's birthday on the 8th of February. Then between 7.51 and 8 o'clock I wrote the lyrics to 'I'm Just A Working Class Man'. From five past eight until 8.13 I wrote the lyrics to 'The Nightman's Day' spurred on by ten words from the lyricloud.
Surprisingly that is the last of the stuff that I did for FAWM on the seventh of February. Well, I am at work after all.
Thank you for reading. Please take care.
February 8th 2013 (42 years old, 2 months, and 13 days old)
Not only have I already written the 14 songs that are supposed to be aimed for, but I have now done even more than that! During February the 6th, I reached the fourteenth song written this month. I am very pleased about that.
So, to carry on from the last post, I will try very quickly to get through what happened since the last post.
February 4th
At 1.54 in the morning on Monday the 4th of February I wrote a short piece entitled 'My Old And Dear Friend', which I recorded a capella (vocal without accompaniment) and placed onto the FAWM page. Then between 2.21 in the morning and 2.34 I wrote the first verse and chorus for a song called 'Bayonets' (which was a title suggested by the Titular tool on the FAWM website). Then between 3.44 and 3.54 in the morning I wrote the second verse and second chorus for 'Bayonets'. I finished the lyrics for Bayonets in a little writing session between 5.25 and 5.30 in the morning.
At 5.38 in the evening I looked at a FAWM tool called Struxxure, which suggests structure ideas for songs - VERSE/CHORUS/VERSE/CHORUS/BRIDGE/CHORUS. It seems like something that I would possibly use sometime. At 5.43 I used something called Plot Spline, which suggests plot ideas for songwriting. Then at 5.48 I used the Titular thing again. It did suggest the title 'Tear' to me, which I am thinking of using but in the way of it being a homonym, which is where two or more words are spelt the same, but are completely different words that are also spoken differently. What I mean by this is "tearing things up" and "I was crying so many tears". I think it is an interesting thing, but may not be interesting to everybody.
At 5.56 I tried a Lyricloud thing that suggested lyrics, but didn't get far. At 11.40 I tried to write something for the title 'No Seventh', but I couldn't get anywhere. At 11.50 I came up with a chord progression. Finally, the last thing I did on the fourth was write the song 'You Fill Me With Such Joy' between 11.57 at night and twelve minutes past midnight.
February 5th
At 2.20 in the morning while Louise was reading (we had a late night), I looked at another plot spline, but I don't seem to be getting anywhere with those things. I'll have a look at them again and see where I can go.
At 1.44 in the afternoon I finally finished the words for the song 'An English Breakfast'. Between 1.52 and 2.22 I wrote the lyrics for the song 'Friend', followed by writing the short song 'You Need To Write A Song' between 2.29 and 2.34. At eleven minutes past seven I looked at something suggested by FAWM's twitter account, which was a random article on Wikipedia. I actually looked at two of them instead. I'll see where that takes me, but it could be really interesting. At 8.53 in the evening I looked at Titular again.At ten past ten at night I wrote the song 'Cathy Says' based on a post in a forum on the FAWM website talking about the great Sing Me A Story Foundation, and picked a story written by a ten year old girl from Kampala in Uganda named Cathy.
At 11.46 I looked at Struxxure (CHORUS/VERSE/VERSE/CHORUS/OUTRO - that's a bit different). At 11.55 I looked on Plot Spline again, and finally at 11.47 I tried another lyricloud, but I couldn't get past four lines.
February 6th
Between 1 and 1.32 in the morning (in bed again while Louise was reading), I wrote the words for the song 'Mansfield Town'. Between 10.50 in the morning and fifteen minutes after midday I wrote music for the songs 'An English Tea', 'A Night At The Circus', 'Bayonets', 'Cathy Says', and 'Mansfield Town'. I also recorded all of them except for 'Bayonets' using the laptop's microphone. At five in the evening I wrote a little bit for something based on the Lyricloud thing again (two verses and a chorus), followed at 7.29 in the evening by another Struxxure (verse/verse/chorus/verse/chorus/bridge/chorus). Finally I looked at Titular at 9.40 in the evening.
I forgot to mention that me and Louise were looking together in the evening to find things for the backing track to 'Bayonets', such as marching drums, church bells, and cannon fire.
February 7th
Between 1.53 and 2.04 in the morning I started trying to write a hard rocking lyric called 'Don't You', which I've just got a chorus and a verse for so far. Then at 2.23 I started looking at a title from an earlier Titular suggestion entitled 'Prisoner', which I did very little of (I just dropped off to be honest as I was at home).
Between 11.56 in the morning and 12.29 I wrote the song 'No Money Blues'. Between 12.30 and 12.39 I came up with an idea for a song musically. Between 1.30 and 4.40 in the afternoon I recorded some songs that I'd written. I used the 12-track to record the song 'Friend' and then did a very rough mix over to the computer using the audio interface. Other songs I did were 'No Money Blues' and 'You Need To Write A Song'. I did put guitar down on Bayonets, but that was using the laptop's microphone rather than the new set-up.
From 7.45 to 7.49 I wrote 'Happy Birthday Matt' in celebration of my friend Matt Blick's birthday on the 8th of February. Then between 7.51 and 8 o'clock I wrote the lyrics to 'I'm Just A Working Class Man'. From five past eight until 8.13 I wrote the lyrics to 'The Nightman's Day' spurred on by ten words from the lyricloud.
Surprisingly that is the last of the stuff that I did for FAWM on the seventh of February. Well, I am at work after all.
Thank you for reading. Please take care.
February 8th 2013 (42 years old, 2 months, and 13 days old)
Sunday, 3 February 2013
February, oops, FAWMbruary the third
Hello, I'm back already... Some of you are going to get sick of this aren't you? I know. I'm just being irritating and logging all that I can.
February the third work on FAWM started then at 3.12 in the morning looking at the Lyricloud again, and boy was it ever inspiring. I wrote the first two verses based on some of the words offered on there towards a sing that I have tentatively called A Night At The Circus. I'll put the lyrics up in a short while actually with brackets to donate what words were suggested. Remember though that the words didn't show on the screen exactly like that, but most of the time in different areas of the screen. For some reason my eyes and mind were drawn to this story. Perhaps it's the Bob Dylan fan in me? ;-)
At 3.26 in the morning I looked on Titular (a ritual now seemingly), from which I gleaned another five potential titles. At 9.48 in the morning I came up with four lines for something that I felt seemed okay as they were. Some may say that it needs to be more, but sometimes I like the odd very short (under a minute) piece.
At 12.16 (while waiting for the visitors mentioned in the previous blog to show) I went onto LyriCloud again and it helped me to write three more verses for A Night At The Circus. Now while at work I looked at something on the FAWM site called Struxxure, which gives different song structure ideas. I'm not certain if I'll take notice of that, but it is interesting. Who knows.
At one minute past seven in the evening, I looked on LyriCloud again and it helped to write the sixth and final verse of A Night At The Circus (I'm not sure if the title needs changing personally). Finally I looked at 23.49 hrs at Titular again and got five more titles to try and spur my creative inspirations. I'm not sure that is a correct phrase to use, but what the hey!
That was a bit quick wasn't it? Well, we did have visitors today and I am at work!
Thank you for reading, please take care.
February 4th 2013 (42 years, 2 months, and 9 days old).
A Night At The Circus
A [bad break built] a [million words] after a show
[Due] to [Harold] and [Jessie]'s [knives missing] their [marks]
[Midnight Morgan] he was at the [circus] that [night]
[Playing] a [straight] poker game against Johnny [Heart]
A [hundred knife] points at [Roosevelt Square]
Where the [thuggish youth operators delivered ethereal flows]
And the [life long lovers questioned] a [travelling voice]
Yet [dark eyes faster fear] the [ill-fated] shows
Two [brothers George] and Arthur [howled] as the furore did unfold
They'd need a [saviour] to [send something] to [temper] the [storm]
But a [temptation troubled] the brothers as a [billion bullets roared]
They tried to return things back to the norm
Questions were asked when the police officers did show
About the [variety] of events so they could [understand]
The [whispers] from the ground and [shots fired] in the night
And from what was [told] they knew that none of it was [planned]
Some [girls] told [Hoffman] and [Leadbelly], the cops on the scene
That is [started] by [accident] the knife throwers knives were blunt
They fell from the board into the gun hoards where blanks were installed
Into the guns so no could be hurt by any of the stunts
The circus now [vacated] the [valley activity] now [cooled]
The [developments] from earlier [addressed] so [perfectly]
The [judgement] of the officers [guaranteed] it to be
That the circus could open again tomorrow with it's full [integrity].
Written by Martin Quibell (2013)
PS - I have used the "random words" technique before now by the way, which is why I sort of know a way of using it.
Second Day of FAWM
Hi. First of all I will apologise for the late posting, but I rarely get the old laptop out when I am not at work, and this was no exception for I am at work. I tried to get the blog's "web cam photograph" thing to work, but it wouldn't - oh well.
It'll be the fourth of February in... Oh, hello February 4th 2013.
So, February second started out at four minutes past midnight with me looking at the old Titular thing on the FAWM website again, where I gleaned eight potential titles. I like the look of a few of those actually.
At twenty five to one in the morning I looked at one of those titles and wrote four lines out. I couldn't get much more of a grasp on that. Surprisingly, I then didn't do anything until half past four in the morning when I looked on the LyriCloud tool on the FAWM website for the first time and a four line idea there.
Then I went home from work and got some beddy byes :-)
The rest of the day was a mix of stuff, mainly because we were getting ready for visitors coming on Sunday the third. Hence why at five past one in the afternoon I wrote four lines about cleaning and that! At 13.55 hrs I wrote a couple of lines that came to my mind, and carried on with the cleaning regime.
At 14.28 hrs, I looked at Titular again, followed at 14.35 hrs by me writing down musical ideas for the songs that were written lyrically, but had yet to have music added. For some reason then, I started writing a song based on a title from the last Titular viewing at 14.43 hrs. The song was completed, along with music, at around five o'clock, allowing for interruptions and cleaning stuff. The song is called Awake Enough To. The idea I had in mind initially once I saw the title was, "how about there being something different after each time the singer sings Awake enough to". It went from there and somehow became a song about someone who had finished in a relationship, which is strange because I am obviously in a perfectly great relationship with my sweet Louise. There is the proof that we don't always write about ourselves!
On and off between five in the evening and ten at night, I wrote the music for Creeps Track Out (there are some bits I like, and some bits that I don't), Newark Where, and February Christmas Song, and recorded them as well, except I couldn't do what I wanted and use my 12-track recorder because it would "make a mess", so I did the old "record onto the laptop using it's built in microphone" business. I think my name was mud because I spent so long in the bedroom doing this stuff. Oh well, an artist must be allowed to do their thing!
Thus ended my dad of FAWMing, other than going onto the site and putting it all up on there.
Thank you for reading, and get ready very soon for my report on day number three.
(Only just) February 4 2013 (42 years, 2 months, and 9 days old).
It'll be the fourth of February in... Oh, hello February 4th 2013.
So, February second started out at four minutes past midnight with me looking at the old Titular thing on the FAWM website again, where I gleaned eight potential titles. I like the look of a few of those actually.
At twenty five to one in the morning I looked at one of those titles and wrote four lines out. I couldn't get much more of a grasp on that. Surprisingly, I then didn't do anything until half past four in the morning when I looked on the LyriCloud tool on the FAWM website for the first time and a four line idea there.
Then I went home from work and got some beddy byes :-)
The rest of the day was a mix of stuff, mainly because we were getting ready for visitors coming on Sunday the third. Hence why at five past one in the afternoon I wrote four lines about cleaning and that! At 13.55 hrs I wrote a couple of lines that came to my mind, and carried on with the cleaning regime.
At 14.28 hrs, I looked at Titular again, followed at 14.35 hrs by me writing down musical ideas for the songs that were written lyrically, but had yet to have music added. For some reason then, I started writing a song based on a title from the last Titular viewing at 14.43 hrs. The song was completed, along with music, at around five o'clock, allowing for interruptions and cleaning stuff. The song is called Awake Enough To. The idea I had in mind initially once I saw the title was, "how about there being something different after each time the singer sings Awake enough to". It went from there and somehow became a song about someone who had finished in a relationship, which is strange because I am obviously in a perfectly great relationship with my sweet Louise. There is the proof that we don't always write about ourselves!
On and off between five in the evening and ten at night, I wrote the music for Creeps Track Out (there are some bits I like, and some bits that I don't), Newark Where, and February Christmas Song, and recorded them as well, except I couldn't do what I wanted and use my 12-track recorder because it would "make a mess", so I did the old "record onto the laptop using it's built in microphone" business. I think my name was mud because I spent so long in the bedroom doing this stuff. Oh well, an artist must be allowed to do their thing!
Thus ended my dad of FAWMing, other than going onto the site and putting it all up on there.
Thank you for reading, and get ready very soon for my report on day number three.
(Only just) February 4 2013 (42 years, 2 months, and 9 days old).
Friday, 1 February 2013
Down on the FAWM
Hey how are you?
I know what you might be thinking! You think I've done a typo and meant to put FARM in the title don't you? You'd be wrong of course, because F.A.W.M. is the abbreviation for February Album Writing Month, which is exactly what it says. A month in which people purposely force themselves to write an entire album's worth of material during the month of February (the shortest month). Actually, I had better do some research before I continue, because here I am talking about it, and I have no idea of it's origins!
Okay, I apologise for my lack of knowledge, and have now added the originator of the idea to my watch list as it is called. His name is Burr Settles and he is from Pennsylvania (in the good old US of A). There is more about it on Wikipedia, so you might as well follow the link rather than just leave me to rehash what it says on there.
I have no idea why it specifically says to write 14 songs in the 28 days, but I'm giving it a bash this year for the first time. I am what they call a Fawmling (I think that is right), which is a first timer! I will say though that it isn't my first time writing in such a quick way, but that was a long time ago in a way that wasn't forced - I just seemed to be able to write a lot back then. Perhaps now it is a case of writing when I can basically, because the instruments are all packed away and usually come out when Louise is out - we live in a flat and there is very little room in there. I like to write and practice uninterrupted and alone most of the time. That is difficult with not much space and very thin walls (we can hear the neighbours spending pennies at the toilet for instance).
So, how am I doing after a day then. I know that it's a little longer now that I am writing this on the 2nd of February, but the note keeper in me has dated and placed a time next to each individual entry in my FAWM 2013 book (see picture), so I can tell you what I did on the first of February. Actually, I missed one entry to be honest, and that is a musical one.
(00.30 hrs) I came across a great thing on the FAWM website first which is called Titular. Basically it brings up title ideas that are created by using random words. I wrote down four that were mentioned, because for some reason they caught my eye. Just Around The Translation interested me because of the whole thing of communication, which was an interesting thing. Creeps Track Out really grabbed me because there was a certain thing to it that I can't really explain. It could mean so much I know, but to me it meant people who were creeps, after something, lasciviously, grimy, all of that and more. A Kindan Of Sand was next because, to be honest, I wanted to know what Kindan meant - I looked and found there to be no such word (if anyone knows differently, then please let me know because then I may be able to get somewhere with that). Finally there was To Do Again, which just seems like a classic song idea to me - to be able to do something again maybe, to love again, to go out and try again, the ability to just have another chance.
The next thing I did was to write a chorus idea for Creeps Track Out at around one o'clock in the morning. This was followed then at about two in the morning by a lyric idea for Just Around The Translation, which was basically eight lines of either a verse, chorus, or something. Between four and five in the morning I wrote two verses for something that I am calling An English Tea as a working title, in which I even used a French phrase, which is funny because I can't speak French! I was incredibly close with it though. I wrote "noir sans la sucre" when it should be "noir sans sucre" - the first would be "black without the sugar" and the second "black without sugar". Apparently there is also the fact that if I am using a French word for "the" then there is the whole masculine and feminine versions of the word (German is similar as well, although in German there is also the neutral version of "the"). Whatever, I will look at that again because I like that whole Noel Coward Music Hall style (for those who don't know, check songs such as Honey Pie by The Beatles from The White Album).
I then basically got myself ready to leave work and go home to bed. In the afternoon I went out to sort out some bills and things. Friday is my pay day (I tried to find a video for the song Payday by The Revolution Smile there, but couldn't), so that is why I am busy doing things on a Friday. There is also the fact that I can't go to banks on a Saturday morning because I always work on a Friday night, hence why I am in bed for most of the Saturday morning.
I mention that I went out because while I was out I bought myself one of those basic hard-backed exercise notebook things, which is now my official notebook for FAWM 2013. A lot of people know that I have a lot of notebooks with things written in them. I can just never flipping find them when I need to get the information from them!
When I got to work I transferred what I had done earlier into the book. Then at 5.30 in the evening I wrote lyrics for the verses and middle eight for Creeps Track Out. This was then followed at 6.14 pm by me writing in the book the week one suggestion on the FAWM site to write a song about a city or town, such as London Calling, etc.
Then at 6.18 pm I got another four title suggestions from Titular, which were (i) Voodoo Breakdown, (ii) 7th Memphis, (iii) Helpless Hour, and (iv) Jingle With You. I haven't used any of those titles just yet, but the latter did make me think of Christmas. Hence why at 6.20 pm I wrote the very short but quirky lyrics for February Christmas Song. From 7.35 pm to 7.56 pm I wrote the lyrics to Newark, Where based on the Weekly Challenge to write a song about a city or town. I wrote this one because I though of the whole thing of where I live in Newark, Nottinghamshire, and of Newark in New Jersey (USA). Silly I know, but it made me giggle, so that's good. It's rare that I write something that is supposed to be plainly amusing. I sometimes put little bits in that make me laugh, but that's hidden normally.
I hate to say this, but that is sort of where I left off for the day, because I have been online since then and I've been doing bits at work, for that is where I am right now.
I think though looking now in retrospect, I have not done some bad work for the first day.
Oh yes of course, I almost forgot didn't I? The idea that wasn't included in the book. It is slightly embarrassing because I've been suffering from a sore throat lately, but I had an idea for a potential classically styled piece (yes I know, I too am surprised), but had nothing to play the idea on. What did I do? Aah'ed my way through the left and right side to show two parts I had, and whistled another in the centre of the stereo field. Here it is!
Thank you for reading. Please take care.
February 2 2013 (42 years, 2 months, and 7 days old)
I know what you might be thinking! You think I've done a typo and meant to put FARM in the title don't you? You'd be wrong of course, because F.A.W.M. is the abbreviation for February Album Writing Month, which is exactly what it says. A month in which people purposely force themselves to write an entire album's worth of material during the month of February (the shortest month). Actually, I had better do some research before I continue, because here I am talking about it, and I have no idea of it's origins!
Okay, I apologise for my lack of knowledge, and have now added the originator of the idea to my watch list as it is called. His name is Burr Settles and he is from Pennsylvania (in the good old US of A). There is more about it on Wikipedia, so you might as well follow the link rather than just leave me to rehash what it says on there.
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| My own banner for FAWM |
So, how am I doing after a day then. I know that it's a little longer now that I am writing this on the 2nd of February, but the note keeper in me has dated and placed a time next to each individual entry in my FAWM 2013 book (see picture), so I can tell you what I did on the first of February. Actually, I missed one entry to be honest, and that is a musical one.
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| FAWM 2013 notebook |
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| A page from the book - check out my logging details! |
I then basically got myself ready to leave work and go home to bed. In the afternoon I went out to sort out some bills and things. Friday is my pay day (I tried to find a video for the song Payday by The Revolution Smile there, but couldn't), so that is why I am busy doing things on a Friday. There is also the fact that I can't go to banks on a Saturday morning because I always work on a Friday night, hence why I am in bed for most of the Saturday morning.
I mention that I went out because while I was out I bought myself one of those basic hard-backed exercise notebook things, which is now my official notebook for FAWM 2013. A lot of people know that I have a lot of notebooks with things written in them. I can just never flipping find them when I need to get the information from them!
When I got to work I transferred what I had done earlier into the book. Then at 5.30 in the evening I wrote lyrics for the verses and middle eight for Creeps Track Out. This was then followed at 6.14 pm by me writing in the book the week one suggestion on the FAWM site to write a song about a city or town, such as London Calling, etc.
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| Weekly challenge number one |
I hate to say this, but that is sort of where I left off for the day, because I have been online since then and I've been doing bits at work, for that is where I am right now.
I think though looking now in retrospect, I have not done some bad work for the first day.
Oh yes of course, I almost forgot didn't I? The idea that wasn't included in the book. It is slightly embarrassing because I've been suffering from a sore throat lately, but I had an idea for a potential classically styled piece (yes I know, I too am surprised), but had nothing to play the idea on. What did I do? Aah'ed my way through the left and right side to show two parts I had, and whistled another in the centre of the stereo field. Here it is!
Thank you for reading. Please take care.
February 2 2013 (42 years, 2 months, and 7 days old)
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