My dad just brought up a good point. Why should I have to wait for my piano teacher to see if everyone else is ready to record? I can be laying down the base to my own CD while I wait! And then when Angela brings Matt in again, BAM. He can toy with it and lay down guitar and bass and everything.
Yes.
Why didn't I think of that?
That's right. I got a subscriber.
Even though they aren't what I call a "real person". But I don't even care.
I'm finally back to my normal writing. The last two posts are little snippets of lyrics from a song "Cash in On Memory 7." It's good, it slips from major to minor.
Definitely Modest Mouse influenced. But then again, it's not like my music is being influenced by much else right now. I might need to break that habit soon...
Our school is underfunded
Our homes are all apartments
Our stores are all right next door
But they keep on building more.
I've been asleep for 12 hours
For 12 I've been awake
At this point I can't even tell
Which one is real or fake
That's why I haven't posting at all this past week. Been waiting for more ideas to come into my head. But they haven't.
I've been way too busy frantically trying to master an Oscar Peterson jazz exercise for SYMS, that I haven't had anytime for writing or anything. Still don't know what I'm doing for an actual song for auditions. :-/
I've been working on a song called Down/Under, similar to This Is What We've Become, only it's a lot more instrumental. I'm trying to create movements in it, but with no luck yet.
Been too distracted with school getting out and thinking about working with my dad. And SYMS.
So much for recording this month. I guess July.
I realized recently that I need to have more upbeat, faster-paced songs. I tried, but everything on my piano sounds downbeat. So then I came to Brigade. It's one of those old-sounding songs that sounds like it could be from the 50s. It's such a basic song, just standard F blues progression, and it works. It's not my style but it works.
It's pretty much about this guy that has the worst day of his life. He goes to a parade and accidentally falls into it. Ouch. Then he goes to a nearby cafe, spills his drink on the waitress and runs out embarrassed. Finally, he gets pulled over by a cop. He's speechless because of how bad his day has gone, but the cop doesn't know why he's not talking so he locks him up. Sounds like a great day to me...
In between the 2nd and 3rd verse, it's slowed down and I do a little blues solo.
Not much else going on around the house right now. Waiting for school to finally get over. Canobie Lake Park on Tuesday, pretty excited for that. (For all you non-New Hampshire people that may be reading this, it's an amusement park. I would never be thrilled about going to an actual park.)
SYMS next month. (Summer Youth Music School, week long music summer camp at UNH.) I'm pretty well screwed for that camp. They do not take to rock musicians very well as I found out last year. Last year, I played Bohemian Rhapsody. Every other performance was classical, except for some kid that did a really simple jazz song.
And honestly, I'm not that great at jazz, blues, or classical music and I'm pretty much dyslexic when it comes to sight reading. The way I see it, I have two options: I could learn something in a month, or I could just go in there as the "rebel" and rock out on the pianos. Something that gives me a little faith is that fact that last year, I saw a kid with a teacher playing Hey Jude by the Beatles, so there might be some type of thing for kids like me. I can only hope that there's a program in that camp.
I'll be adding to it from time to time:
http://www.projectplaylist.com/user/8471096
Good stuff.
Almost crashed into a wall in my hallway skanking to Lay My Soul Down.
Haha. It's not even a ska song.
