Fawm (http://fawm.org) is an annual event to write an album in a month. The idea is to write 14 songs in 28 days and release an album.
Mixed week this week. I was happy to have done three songs in the first week (after only managing six during Fawm 2014).
So week 2 should have started with an instrumental on Sunday morning as part of an exquisite corpse game (each participant writes a one minute tune. The first person writes there and sends the last 10 seconds to the next person, who carries on the tune. etc. When the last person finishes, it is all stitched back together into one long song).
However, the person in the list before me, didn't manage to do theres.
So on sunday, I finished the demo for "A Winter's Memory".
Starting to really like this. There is more guitar parts recorded than ended up here. I will re-work this after February.
On the sunday there was another skirmish. This time the title was "The Devil's Highway".
So I wrote a quick song about my love affair with the M6 motorway. So glad I don't have to drive down that each day (like I did for 5 years).
Originally, I wasn't going to put this to music, buy some people on the forum said they wanted to hear it. So here it is. The demo was made using EZKeys to come up with something really quick.
I'm quite happy with how it turned out. Not sure if I will re-record this for use later. Maybe it will be a b-side or bonus track.
During the rest of the week, I struggled with starting a song from the drums upwards. Spent far too many hours trying to import some .rex files into Cubase. Cubase seems intent on importing files that are in 5/4 or 7/4 in 4/4 time, regardless as to what the song's time signature is.
After several nights of trying, I gave up and went back to using Ezdrummer.
On Friday, I was told to start the Exquisite corpse song. So in
three hours, I wrote a one minute instrumental called "Lorana". I have
sent the last ten seconds off to a chap called Tim in Australia to
carry it on.
Obviously, I can't yet spoil it for everyone, by posting the song. I will post the song once the Exquisite corpse is finished.
So Saturday I was home alone. I re-recorded the devil's highway vocals, since the original second verse didn't work for the melody I wrote for verse one. Added the music to the bridge (which I thinks needs an instrumental adding before the final chorus.
I then had a go at the failed song. So far I have some chorus music in 5/4 time, with a guitar riff. I then proceeded to write a verse chord progression in 4/4 time, that seems far too happy.
So this needs re-working further and lyrics writing.
So the scores at the end of the week are five songs demoed. One song on the go.
So this is the start of week 3, I wrote some cliched lyrics for a skirmish entitled "I found my happy place".
Really insistant that I won't write music for this and will use the rest of the time to finish the other song in progress.
"I found my happy place".
In a world of fears and regrets
Wars and famine
Children distressed
All of the illness
and all the duress
I've found my happy place
In a world where we ain't equal
race and creed
hatred begats evil
All of the pain
And all of the suffering
I've found my happy place
Because
In you, I see a shining sun
In you, I see love for everyone
In you I see hope and a reason to be
In you I see courage and the will to be free
I've found my happy place
In a world of rich verses poor
Terror, disorder
Banks rotton core
In all of the sadness
And all this disease
I've found my happy place.
Because
In you, I see a shining sun
In you, I see love for everyone
In you I see hope and a reason to be
In you I see courage and the will to be free
I've found my happy place
So at the end of Sunday at the start of the third week. I have five songs, one set of lyrics (not) needing music and a partial song musically.
So with two weeks left, I think I will improve on last years total of six songs written.
So happy with how February is progressing so far.
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