Hello and welcome to the first song finished for the 2014 NaSoAlMo. Aren’t you excited?? It’s more than seven minutes long and it’s got lots of 12-string guitar. It fits both of my mini-goals for the month. Hooray!
Not sure about the mix. It’s very late and I am 90% asleep, so who knows if it sounds good or not. Surely not me!
It’s almost 2:00am. I went to a wedding tonight and when I got home I couldn’t sleep so I finished this mix. I don’t know if it’s any good. I’m too tired to be able to tell.
This isn’t the 50th song finished, it’s 45th, but it did start out as idea #50. I thought somehow that a goofy swing thing with sappy lyrics was fitting. Do you agree?
I went into 50/90 thinking I’d do some simple guitar/voice things just to pad my numbers. I haven’t done that at all, although this one might sound that way. It’s just two guitars, a bass, and one vocal. I wanted it that way though. The verse part is something I noodle on all the time, and have been doing it for decades. Emin7 – Dmaj7. Real simple. I just thought I’d use it in a song. I’ve probably already used it in a song somewhere, but I just can’t think of one off the top of my head. That’s what happens when you write song after song after song without ever having to rehearse them again… you end up repeating yourself when you are sure you’re not repeating yourself.
The lyrics are about a ghost story I found here. The whole song was written, recorded, and mixed today. Every last bit of it, all done today. I think the last time I did that might have been 2001 when I was in college.
Lyrics inspired by a Facebook conversation about my niece’s first two days of kindergarten. Sort of. I guess.
Musically, this one may have been written in the Trapp Family Lodge*. The Hills are Alive with the Sound of GarageBand for iPad.
*It may have been written the night after we stayed at the Trapp Family Lodge. I can’t remember. It was the first song idea I messed with during our Canadian vacation in July, I know that for sure.
Twangie little ditty inspired by how fast my step kids are growing up. Waaaay too fast.
Not sure about the mix for this one. My left ear hears much better than my right, and I do all of my work with headphones. Sometimes when I have two doubled tracks split left/right I end up having a hard time keeping them balanced. I over compensate one way or another and then I end up throwing all the other tracks out of whack as well. That might have happened here.
Overall I kinda like this one, but as with the last song I uploaded the cutting and pasting feels really choppy. Bad punches all around. The lyrics are about my 1997 decision to go back to college which, at least for a while, turned into a kind of career for me.
I have a total of 33 songs either finished or in progress for 50/90. This one marks 22 as finished. Miles still to go.
I’m not sure about this mix here. If I weren’t 75% asleep I might be able to make a better determination. It’s okay for now at least.
I mixed this one last night but was too tired to take the time to share it. Here it is, better late than yadda yadda…
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This second song was mixed this evening. I usually don’t stick the lovey lyrics with the big dumb rock songs, but it seems happy here.
Inside the Red Head's Head 