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Voodoo Spell
I heard “Voodoo Child” and it made me think of “Ill Put a Spell on You,” which I know as a CCR song, but have since learned it was made in 1956 by a Mr. Jayce Hawkins, and has been covered by artists as varied as Nina Simone and Van Morrison. and Marilyn Manson. I will attempt to merge the 2 songs, and learn how they are similar.
Get Lucky? Michael Jackson?
The Daf Punk song "Get Lucky" has a middle 8th that has reminded me of a Michael Jackson song, but I haven't known which.. today it came to me : "Say Say Say" the duet with Paul McCartney.
Compare the "Get Lucky" verse that begins:
We've come too far To give up who we are,
matches up with the Jacko verses of "Say Say Say."
Wrapped Up the Org
I have organized each of the songs of "Ocean Rescue" into Powerpoints. Lame.. maybe.. but it's standardized for me.. I know where to find the sonic elements, and the lyrics.. it's getting me on my way.
I did leave one unfinished, the famous "Really Wish I Had Her." There's too many decisions to make about it; lot of bits.. and I think it'd be better to hold off. hey, notice.. I chose color theme based on the key of song.
My Active Ear
Last week I stopped into an old haunt bc I was in the hood and I dig the bartender's DJing (and I'd learned recently he is in a band with a childhood friend of mine).
Sometimes when something comes through the speakers I ask him what it is, or I try to Shazam it.
Something came on that made me call out : "John, John!"
He stopped what he was doing to check on the emergency..
"What is this? It sounds just like ... (it reminded me of something, took a moment to place ) .. 'Lady Picture Show' by Stone Temple Pilots."
He told me it was by Fugazi, from an album 'The Argument.'
"You probably are hearing the bass line .. that sounds similar."
I don't know the track title. I'm listening to the record now to see what pops up.
Am I like Him?
Me (to friend) : I have to finish writing some songs.
Half-mad eavesdropper : do you know Daniel Johnston?
Me: yes
H-m e : Do you write songs like him?
Me: yes
H-m e: I knew it.
Allison Told : Complete
I finished the new version of Allison Told. This is now up to snuff with the songs I finished in past few months. The lyrics all make sense. It has a pop structure. I'm glad about it.
Ocean Rescue Meets the Beatles
well I was working on the song "Allison Told" and it has a plethora of bits.. and I got to thinking.. and came up with yet another bit.. and it's a new beat and phrasing on the verses. It's very early Beatles. And yet with the coda and the middle and outro.. I think we can mask the very similar melody on the verses to that particular Beatles tune.
But I need more lyrics, and am writing.
Missing Lyrics!
uh oh... there is no lyrics saved for "He's My Choice." searching.. can't find..
Making Powerpoints of Songs
geez.. it's happening.. I'm using Powerpoint to organize my songs.. it works.. I'm making slides of the verse, coda, change, rhythm and melodies.. and then of the lyrics.
just finished first two songs. twenty to go..
Come on and Move ON!
I have to finish Ocean Rescue. There's a stock pile of new songs to work on. I just listened to something from January .. it's promising. "Something's Not Right."
Life Marches On..
Things are fine. I visited a music store in Warsaw last week, and came up with a little melody. I remembered it the other night at my new piano (which I got at Guitar Center a few weeks ago). I will post photo of the piano. It's a good Yamaha keyboard.
I am downloading notes and assembling the pieces to the songs of "Ocean Rescue."
I made some changes to the division of the songs, among the 5 sections. It was top-heavy in "Love Found at the Beach." I have moved 2-3 songs out of there.
Re-working, compiling entire songset
I want to make run-throughs of each song of 'Ocean Rescue.' And then each folder will have a 'discard' folder of bits not used.
Problem: I realized I haven't yet downloaded all notes, recordings for every song.
The long-running problem - song "Black Pink Red" which was solved in August / September of 2012, has a dozen notes and two sets of lyrics in my local folder.. but nothing after May 2012... so I searched Evernote and found the mess of 'new' notes.
I am working through those now. We'll have to get through this one note, one song at a time... and by note I mean note!
Finished! Ocean Rescue is Complete
A good week. A good final night of composing.. We have the writing part done.
Good Work Tonight
I worked on "New Hobby." Finished lyrics. Then had a reckoning to switch the middle eighth and chorus. It works better. Good job. The other day (Tues) I was at Jones Beach, and got to swim and work on the revived "Bone to Pick" which was to be an instrumental but is now using the verse pattern of an earlier version of "New Hobby." and I tweaked chorus. It's going to be just DANDY, MY GOOD FRIEND!!!!
Almost Done
The past week saw more haziness and a few nights of high productivity. We had periods of intense focus and composition (of lyrics), and times of sudden enlightenment. Most rewarding was when the craft / work ethic met with the inspiration. Example, I was drafting "How Come?" and then realized it needed a middle eighth. Well, I open Evernote, and low and behold : there is a note from late night or early morning "How Come Middle Eighth."
There's also been more confusion, though, as happens when working on more than one song at a time. It turns out the middle section was wrongly assigned to "How Come"... on further scrutiny, I realized it is based on melody of "Find a New Hobby," which is the final song to complete.
I like the choices I made, and how I have set up "Find a New Hobby" for the final day here.. oh yes. I must finish. The bits are lined up.. Now I have to find the words and put this baby to bed.
Follow up on that ..
I had a couple breakthroughs last week, and it scared me a bit. So I have to get back on that horse. It kind of frightens me to have deal with this person who just came up with needed bits in minutes time... I have to get over it .. and get back to it.. No running away. That was what we did in THE OLD DAYS!!!
Further Non Productivity
I took the weekend off for the most part. I did complete a few verses.. for which songs I can't recall. Oh yeah, the formerly titled "Presents to You" which had become "Donald Wants to Get Married to You" which is now "Not Quite." I still haven't decided which bit to use as the chorus vs. middle eighth. But I wrote lyrics for each for both scenarios to give me options.
Total song count will be 21. I just re-ordered, created folders .. in my Skydrive "Revised Rescue." I also identified the 5 "sections" of the musical if this is what it was...