No one was home tonight so I decided to try recording this song on a Zoom H2 Handy Recorder. If you don't have one of these, they are quite handy, as they claim. The H2 is bigger than a cell phone and looks like a little microphone. In fact you can mount it on a mike stand with the attachment it comes with. I use it quite often when I'm playing around with a new piece of music and want to record it so I don't forget what I had going.
Oh, the song. It's called 'Barely Hangin' On'. This is the song I mentioned in the previous post. My big challenge is that I need to find someone to do the vocals on it. For me, the song is in the wrong key and I really have to tighten my shorts to get my voice to go that high. I should transpose to another key - maybe D, but I like the feel of the music in G. I just need a singer. Here's the clip with my lame vocals. Hope you like it
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Tuesday, March 29, 2011
Sunday, March 27, 2011
Finally - Another Song Finished
I've got a whole number of song that I've been fooling around with that I wasn't getting anywhere with any of them. Decided today that I'd focus on one and get it done. The song about the noon train - see entry "songs from dreams" got partly done and I'm stuck on where to take it to make it interesting. I've save that one for a rainy day.
Last night I started playing around on my banjo with a little thing. that sounded OK, but it didn't lead to anything - yet. I then started fooling around with a jazzy bluesy thing on guitar that I really like, and I may come back to that when something inspires me that fits the music.
So, this morning I was still going nowhere and I picked up my guitar and started noodling around. This little piece of music started to evolve that finally got me going. I had fooled around yesterday with some lyrics in an email to Don and Brian and without any thought about where it might go. Well guess what - those few lyrics and the noodling on the guitar this morning led to a song that I've called "Barely Hangin On"
1st verse
When I woke up today, in this little dirty town
I looked outside, the sun was going down
As darkness settled down, in this quiet town
And silence, and the street light just came on
and I feel like I'm barely hangin' on.
Well, the song is now complete. So for the record, that's number 5 for the year. 15 more to go to reach my goal.
Last night I started playing around on my banjo with a little thing. that sounded OK, but it didn't lead to anything - yet. I then started fooling around with a jazzy bluesy thing on guitar that I really like, and I may come back to that when something inspires me that fits the music.
So, this morning I was still going nowhere and I picked up my guitar and started noodling around. This little piece of music started to evolve that finally got me going. I had fooled around yesterday with some lyrics in an email to Don and Brian and without any thought about where it might go. Well guess what - those few lyrics and the noodling on the guitar this morning led to a song that I've called "Barely Hangin On"
1st verse
When I woke up today, in this little dirty town
I looked outside, the sun was going down
As darkness settled down, in this quiet town
And silence, and the street light just came on
and I feel like I'm barely hangin' on.
Well, the song is now complete. So for the record, that's number 5 for the year. 15 more to go to reach my goal.
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