Song Fu #6
Got an e-mail note tonight -- I'm in! Now, the terror begins. Caleb says he's in too... who else?
The first challenge drops Monday!
See http://www.asitecalledfred.com/category/masters-of-song-fu/
The first challenge drops Monday!
See http://www.asitecalledfred.com/category/masters-of-song-fu/
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If anyone is interested, I have a brand new blog post describing two methods by which I was able to subscribe to Song Fu updates via RSS. Might save you a couple worn-out F5 keys when the challenge comes (from constantly hitting refresh in your browser).
I thought i was gonna be away longer than I thought, didn't *apply*.
I may shadow one or two though!
(Edited to change 'cover' to 'shadow')
Last night at a party, the phrase 'walrus of love' was mentioned. I wonder if I can write a song about the rain featuring the walrus of love as a shadow entry?
Really, with an idea like that in my head how can I not try?
Day 1: I've got some rough scraps of instruments recorded that kind of define the tempo and feel I want. No melody per se to go with it yet. I'm not sure what key the parts are in. They fit together in a way that I think sounds cool but might be considered a little dissonant. For this challenge, I'm trying NOT just to fall back to acoustic guitar chords and voice. I guess that will be plan B if this goes nowhere.
Lyrics pretty rough. I have not tried singing them yet. I'm actually hoping my sore throat doesn't go away -- for the vocal effect I want, it should be rough. Maybe I need to smoke a few Camels?
Grace is gonna get me some quiet time without the kids, but the question will then be, can I do anything useful with it?
How many hours did JoCo spend on a typical thing a week? I'll be lucky if I can get 8 quiet hours total.
We tried kitty litter at first but the sound was dull and boring. Glass works much better.
It is interesting how we can arrive at such different things from the same selection of source material. There are some tracks submitted which simply do not work together, though.
but I'm not really liking it... gonna try abandoning this one for something completely different in the hopes that thing 2 inspires me a little more...
Oh yeah... that's how I got sidetracked into that whole vocal thing... I went into my little studio to record guitars!
Duh.
http://commonlisp.bandcamp.com/track/polly-loves-the-rain-ft-joe-covenant
Wow, the entries are mostly really strong this round!
Voting just opened at http://www.asitecalledfred.com/2010/02/08/song-fu-6/