someone started singing this in our head and we managed to play (and sing more importantly because it is a high-pitched song, we were trying to like remember how to float above the note like in chorus) it pretty close to what we were hearing. anyway, we liked it *a lot* so we recorded it and here it is. there is a pause (a brief intermission really) for us to clear our throat and drink water and cough. feel free to do the same.
highest highs
the music (not the content) reminds me of this song from godspell that we love(d) so much. we would sing it to ourselves in front of the mirror. it has beautiful harmonies. it’s like violins. we used to get so lost in songs from musicals. for hours on end. we stopped cuz no one we lived with liked them really at all but some of us still listen to them sometime. it’s perfect cuz it’s a story like a play and also it’s like a song and so it has all the music and voice and stuff to evoke stuff.
the performances i think are decent enough to give a good idea of the songs. we wanted to do better, but we tried to be realistic because we also wanted mp3s of our songs. we’ll record them extra special at m*riad’s sometime.
so we heard someone singing this line in our head so we tried to make it happen on the guitar. we’ve been talking with m*riad about how we write music and i think often we here a few lines sung in our head and then play and improvise a while. usually more than once. but it made me wonder, doesn’t everyone here new music composed in their head all the time? rock, acoustic, punk, musical-type, sung by one or many, with an orchestra sometimes? i don’t know, i thought that happened with everyone. some of us suspest that music may be like tied in with our programming (if we have any) or abuse or whatever and wonder if the songs we “make up” are somehow just from that or products of that. which wouldn’t make them bad, it would make them MORE cool. right? totally cool.
good day (the 1m20s “finished product”)
the making of good day (~12 minutes of improvising)
the finished product is actually edited out of the bigger file, i just took the stuff i liked best and put it together. i do this a lot because one part writes a song and we don’t really know it and so if we record them andf all they’re playing then even if we don’t remember we can edit together a song or the begining of one. we actually use soundtrack much more than finalcut, but they came together {that’s what he said} so it’s all good. who used the curlies there?
it’s actually pretty reppettetive, but we kind of have to keep singing the same thing til we can get to the right place and another line. this song is actually just one line, tho, so it’s an especially odd example of this. previous stuff we’ve posted is probably more accurate. it’s scary stuff, tho, cuz i think it’s how stuff gets around our censors.
edgewise: get a word in 