I keep talking about the left over song from May that I was adding to the pile of June songs. Here it is. Just a dopy little 12-bar blues that was really just an excuse to write something on my new Strat. In the end, it’s kind of a fun little groove.
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Here is the iOS mix.
This song makes 10 for the month of June. I still have my one left over thing from May, and there are two more from June that still need vocals.
I kinda want to stop now though. Something about this tune is working for me. I sort of almost… like it. Part of me wants to leave this on top of my alonetone tracks list for a while.
No… I’ll mix the May song next and finish the last two June songs before 50/90 starts next week. I’ll carry on.
I’m not sure what it is about this one that I like though… something…
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I think I have posted this already, but here is the iOS mix as well.
Here’s another June song. Let’s just say that the day I recorded the lead guitar was not a particularly good day. As for the lyrics… well… it was raining that day. I don’t really know what any of the rest of it is about.
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And here is the iOS version.
Yesterday I posted a song that was recorded entirely on my iPhone and had ugly distorted vocals that I was embarrassed to share with the interwebs. I said that there was one other song from this month that was also recorded entirely on the iPhone. This is that other song.
Vindication, or what?
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Short and sweet with atheist leaning lyrics. 1000 years ago I would have burned at the stake for this tune. I love living in the future!
The drums on the iPhone mix followed the guitar and bass much more closely, especially in the verses. I used the GarageBand Drummer again and while it lost a bit in the verses I think the groove is groovy enough to justify it. I wasn’t gonna, but I did.
Yes, yes I know. The guitar melody sounds a lot like the jazz standard “Goodbye Pork Pie Hat.” I understand and I’m sorry, but it’s so rare that I come up with an instrumental melody that I just have to run with it when I get one.
The vocals… what happened. This was the first time I recorded vocals into a GarageBand file using an iPad in over two years. I think I have now figured out why it’s so thin and awful, but it’s too late to fix it now. It shouldn’t happen on any of the vocals I record from now on, but there might be one or two already in the can that have the same issue.
The lyrics are about feeling old and useless. Nothing major.
I used the GarageBand Drummer on the Mac Mix, but I don’t think it deviated that much from the iPad version.
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And here is the iPad version.
Duck and cover kids, here come the Mac Mixes.
This that song that I couldn’t play the riff for, yet again. While working on the Mac I reserve the right to change the drum sounds and the bass sounds, and to change all the signal processing on the guitars and vocals. Also, I reserve the right to replace the drum parts with the GarageBand Drummer function, although I didn’t do that on this song.
I did change the drum sound and the bass sound, although I just ended up using the Mac version of the same bass sound I used on the iPad. They are close to the same, but the Mac version just sounded a little fatter. The only change I made to the guitar was to swap the panning. The rhythm guitar is doubled with each one panned most of the way to either left or right. One of the tracks used the neck pick up on the Strat, the other used the middle pick up. On the iPad version the neck pick up was to the left. On the Mac version it is to the right. For the vocals I changed the preset and the EQ. I also added compression to the drums, the bass, and both vocal tracks, and to the full mix. Just a little on the mix.
Here is the new mix…
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For comparison, here is the iPad mix (again)…
I finished another song today. This was the third song I started this month. At the time it was sort of a throw away. The first two ideas I had had me kind of optimistic. I had a Straty 12-bar with a riff that was too reminiscent of Goodbye Porkpie Hat, but it was cool. The second song had a decent Straty sounding riff. I liked it. The third song… blah.
Now that it’s finished though… I kinda like it.
The whammy bar got some use today. I should probably never use it again. The 80’s and I… We just don’t see eye to eye, ya know?
The plan for June was 10 songs with all of the guitar parts played on the Strat.
That will still happen, but…
There will be two additional songs. One is a three part suite type thing. It uses my lovely Takamine 12-string and my magical Gibson ES 335. The other song is all 12-string right now, but it’ll probably get some Strat later.
Here’s to musically biting off more than you can chew! 50/90 is two weeks away!
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