Home – Song #3 in 52 Song Project
Please start playing the song before you read my comments below. I don’t want to color your opinion of the song.
What did I learn from this third week?
- No matter how much I try, I can’t write lyrics for certain songs when I have a time limit. I had, what I thought was, a great hard-ish rock song… but I couldn’t come up with any lyrics that weren’t horrible, so being frustrated, I did one take on each instrument for this song and called it good.
- I need to bump pretty much every song by 5-10 bpm. Personally, I like this song, but at near on 5 minutes, it’s too long in my opinion. Thoughts?
- I felt like last week was pretty difficult, but after spending probably 6-8+ hours trying to write lyrics for another song with no success, I’m wondering at the moment if I’ll make it even 2 months on this project. Would it be bad of me to release a song with no lyrics if I couldn’t come up with them? If that’s ok, what do I do then? Do I come back the next week with lyrics? Do I put it out there for you to write and record lyrics so that we can post it together the following week?
- I really like to play rock songs, but maybe it’s best for me to stick to acoustic guitar. I feel like I can write faster. Plus, it’s the guitar I pick up first most times.
FYI – If my vocals sound week in one of the choruses, it’s because I was taking a sip of water and must have thought I could breathe at the same time. I tried to sing through it, and after the frustration of not being able to come up with lyrics for the other song, did not want to re-record that part unfortunately. Also, that sound during the bridge is me whistling with some stereo delay and stereo reverb applied.
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Again, please tell me what you think… the good and the bad
And, let me know if there’s a style you would like to hear, think I could do better, any of that.
Thus far, I’ve had suggestions for a sea shanty, a jingle, and a Twitter song. Thoughts?
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