Good grief, how did I get into this position? I've only managed to crank out 5 songs for FAWM, so now I have to push out nine more in nine days. It seemed like an easy thing to do, writing a song every other day, but it's proven to be more difficult.
My fourth and fifth songs are I Couldn't Wait and I'm a Loser. The songs are getting worse and worse because it's hard to come up with decent melodies one after the other. They lyrics, well, I've never cared that much about lyrics so I can always churn those out.
I Couldn't Wait makes allusions to suicide. I don't know why, but I'm fascinated with really depressing lyrics. I guess I wonder why people get so depressed since I'm the kind of guy who gets a kick just out of eating at Kentucky Fried Chicken.
I'm a Loser is about, well, a loser. You know, one of those kind of guys of complain that women these days don't know how to be a real woman anymore, and that they don't know how to treat a man, blah blah blah. Have you ever seen those guys? Usually, they are fat, bald, and ugly.
I kind of feel like quitting, but I hate to think that I couldn't write 14 songs in 28 days. Oh well, I'll see where I'm at come February 28. I do have one more weekend left to make up some lost ground.
Monday, February 19, 2007
Sunday, February 11, 2007
Already Behind on FAWM
Well, the goal is to write 14 songs in 28 days for FAWM, and since today is February 11, I am already way behind with only three songs.
The first song, titled My Green Hat, was a result of the week 1 challenge, which was to use color in the song. The song is based on a Chinese saying about "wearing a green hat," which means your wife is cheating on you.
My second song was based on the week 2 challenge, which was to write a song using only two chords. I called it Chunyun, which is about the Spring Festival travel period. I actually like the lyrics I came up with, and I will probably rework using more chords. It just doesn't sound finished with only two chords.
My third song is called Crap Your Pants Say Oh No! It's a goof on Clap Your Hands Say Yeah. I don't know, a lot of the new bands--when I hear them, I think, yeah, they sound really cool, but after a while their sound irritates me. It just goes to show you that I'm getting old. For land sake's grandma, what are these young whippersnappers listening to?!
Here's something I learned--I should write down the particular settings I used when recording. I keep meaning to do this, but I am so lazy. Studios use grease pencils and mark the settings on tape laid out on the mixing console. Or is everyone digital these days?
Anyway, from time to time, I find that I really like the guitar tone I got, but I can't remember what the stupid settings on my trusty POD 2.0 I had used. For example, I really liked the sound of the guitar I got on My Green Hat. I used the PRS Santana SE on that, and I thought I had used the Line 6 Clean setting (2a), but when I tried it again with Chunyun, it was not the same sound. What the hell did I do? Let's hope I learned a lesson with that.
The first song, titled My Green Hat, was a result of the week 1 challenge, which was to use color in the song. The song is based on a Chinese saying about "wearing a green hat," which means your wife is cheating on you.
My second song was based on the week 2 challenge, which was to write a song using only two chords. I called it Chunyun, which is about the Spring Festival travel period. I actually like the lyrics I came up with, and I will probably rework using more chords. It just doesn't sound finished with only two chords.
My third song is called Crap Your Pants Say Oh No! It's a goof on Clap Your Hands Say Yeah. I don't know, a lot of the new bands--when I hear them, I think, yeah, they sound really cool, but after a while their sound irritates me. It just goes to show you that I'm getting old. For land sake's grandma, what are these young whippersnappers listening to?!
Here's something I learned--I should write down the particular settings I used when recording. I keep meaning to do this, but I am so lazy. Studios use grease pencils and mark the settings on tape laid out on the mixing console. Or is everyone digital these days?
Anyway, from time to time, I find that I really like the guitar tone I got, but I can't remember what the stupid settings on my trusty POD 2.0 I had used. For example, I really liked the sound of the guitar I got on My Green Hat. I used the PRS Santana SE on that, and I thought I had used the Line 6 Clean setting (2a), but when I tried it again with Chunyun, it was not the same sound. What the hell did I do? Let's hope I learned a lesson with that.
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