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wilmot

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wilmot last won the day on January 6 2014

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  1. To be perfectly honest, I'm not really much of a bass player. I'm a hobbyist musician and I bought a couple of basses (one with frets, one without) about a year ago for adding bass lines to my own tracks. Sadly, I've had neither time nor patience enough to practice enough to start getting any good. What little I know, I've just taught myself since getting the instruments. I've only used my own bass on one of my own tracks yet. I've posted that below. My playing is not very good - In part since I'd only had the bass a couple of months when I recorded that. I've since been able to hook up with a great bass player, so that I don't have to play myself. Hopefully I'll get to do some more projects with him. I love a good bass line in a song, but I can't see myself reaching a standard that I'm happy with, so working with others is probably my best option. That said, I recently got to play bass on a friend's track - A very simple, new wave style, line but it was great fun! I'd like too have the time to play more though. I'm a huge Mick Karn fan and it would be great to get to learn to at least a fraction of what he could do - Just for the joy of playing! /Niclas
  2. Finally got the lyrics finished. Thanks for all the help! In the end, I had to let the lesson theme go, but the main thing was that I got unstuck. This is how they turned out: This Hollow Man Verse I spent my life long before I earned it Barely crossed a bridge before I burned it If there was love, I never could discern it I rarely read the page before I turned it Chorus This is how my world ends This is how my world ends This is how my world ends Verse I bared my soul, but nothing much concerned it Some claim I strayed, though no one's yet confirmed it I spent my life long before I earned it Lived on borrowed time, but won't return it Chorus This is how my world ends This is how my world ends This is how my world ends © Niclas Behre 2014 Here's a link to the complete track - Sort of a synth pop thing.
  3. wilmot

    Haiku-Ish

    Don't know about the real world application of first line - I sort of put that down to poetic license... I like "sequoia". A good, round and woody word, as the Pythons would say. However, it's a plant that's even more exotic over here than bamboo, so it doesn't really solve my problem. Perhaps "tall grass"? (Although, if you're going to insist on ornithological correctness, birds that nest there tend to be have a more subdued colouring...) I sort of intended the whole point of my poem to be that there were colours, but you were missing out on them. Thanks for your nice little poem though! /Niclas
  4. Some really good answers on this - Thanks! The answers also had a lot of wisdom to absorb and tips to think about, which is great stuff. For my own part, I still find the lyrics input thing problematic. It's a very emotional thing - The whole driving force for my writing lyrics at all is to somehow express myself. It's therefore pointless if my text is not honest and true (not factually but emotionally). That it's someone else's words can trip me up because of this. Strangely enough, I have no problems at all with quotes - On the contrary, I really like to use them because I find that they're such a great tool for expanding bringing a completely different context into my text through the reference. Fortunately, the replies I've had to my couple of lyrics posts on songstuff have not only been good, but those of have replied have been really generous about explaining their reasoning. Hopefully, this means that I can absorb their views/input into my lyrics but with my own words. Of course, that means rethinking the lyric, but I should be willing to do that - Otherwise there was no real point to the exercise. /Niclas
  5. wilmot

    Haiku-Ish

    Interesting that you chose that particular pair to suggest. I actually considered both bulrushes and willows, though I couldn't get bulrushes to work sonically - And willows have problematic connotations for me. You don't like colourful? - Hmm, I thought that line was the one line that really worked as is. /Niclas
  6. Here's a topic - How good are you at taking advice about and receiving input on your songwriting, if you're honest? I'm asking because up until I joined this site (which was very recently, I might add), I was quite convinced that this was a discipline that I absolutely aced - Turns out that this was something of a delusion. With music, I'm fairly good at it and have been challenging myself at it, on SoundCloud and elsewhere. Usually, I've been able to make changes that collaborators have suggested, or incorporate stuff they've done - Even if it has turned my original idea completely upside down. (Within reason, of course!) More often than not, this has turned out well - Precisely because the end result was unexpected! However, when it comes to lyrics… I've posted a couple of lyrics for critique here and have received some decidedly sage advice. But when I try to process this advice and rewrite, I run into trouble. It's not that I find the suggested corrections or additions wanting in any way, it's just that it's not my text - Not my thoughts or feelings. To a surprising extent, this bothers me and seems somehow dishonest. Is there anyone else out there that suffers from this rather absurd malady?
  7. Greetings from a follow Swede! /Niclas
  8. For the long term, I agree with most of what's earlier in this thread. Dehydration is a bitch. I'd like to underline that a humidifier can be the bee's knees. Also, you should take a look at your indoor environment, especially in the bedroom - Don't keep it too warm and, preferably don't use fan type heaters that don't rehumidify the air. In the short term (for recording or performing), some sort of hot beverage can do the trick - But make sure that it's not counter productive, so no coffee and no alcohol (sorry). Milk based is also bad, but for different reasons. Onion soup is a classic - Before I went veggie, I also used a somewhat spicy chinese soup that cleared head and throat even better. /Niclas
  9. I'd really like to learn more about playing the fretless bass. I've found it fairly easy to find tutorials where I can try to learn how this or that song is played. With this instrument, my main musical inspiration (Mick Karn) isn't someone that everyone else has forgotten, so there's some really good stuff to be found. I've also found or got from bass playing friends some good tips on basic techniques for playing and getting a good sound. However, what haven't really found somewhere where someone explains why or how different techniques work - so that I can get a bit more understanding of what I'm doing wrong. On the same theme, when I've tried to follow the advise I've and I still don't get the sound I wan't - How to best trouble shoot. That sort of thing would be very helpful! Skill level? - To call me a beginner would be an insult to beginners everywhere... /Niclas
  10. I think you sound good. If you're truly as inexperienced as you claim, I'd say that you've done really well on this song. It's a bit difficult to tell much from a cover though, especially when you stay so close to the original. Vocals are not just about the voice. To try to explain what I mean, there's a good (if somewhat corny) example in the movie Grease - Where John Travolta apparently had an ok voice, but couldn't really sing, so they had to hire (I think it was) Richard Marx to do the vocals first for Travolta to imitate. I look forward to hearing more of you when started recording some of your own stuff! /Niclas
  11. To me, inspiration is never a problem. As said by others in this thread, anything and everything can inspire. It's what happens in the process between the inspiration and the perspiration that usually trips me up. I can usually squeeze that initial idea (thought, feeling, etc) into an embryo of sorts: Music and/or lyrics - But then building that into something tangible enough to gain the momentum it needs for me to start just doing the work is more often than not a real problem. I can't do that before the thing has some life of its own, or the original spark risks getting lost and the result becomes unintersting (to me at least).
  12. Tack för välkomnandet!
  13. Hi Lee, Had a listen to a couple of your songs. Some really nice stuff there! /Niclas
  14. wilmot

    Haiku-Ish

    Birds nest in the bamboo thicket Colourful bird warbles Unseen at dawn © 2014 Niclas Behre The bamboo sort of annoys me. It tastes of affected orientalism. But at the same time I'm childishly fond of bamboo - I like the plant. I like the word, the sound. But perhaps"bramble patch" or "swaying reeds", something like that, would be better...
  15. Thank you, Mary! I think you'll like Sweden in the summertime. You'll probably get this from anyone who speaks of their native land, but - It can be fantastic! To me, it's at its best at night, or early in the morning - Especially where there's water. This can be in the very center of Stockholm. Walking home after a night on the town. Or in, or on the shores of, the archipelago outside it. Where, a thousand years ago, the Vikings gathered for their journeys into the east - Even to far of Byzantium. To Constantinople. The Great City, "Miklagård" - Oriental, with it's rumors of ancient Rome. Or in the very different archipelago on the west coast, on the threshold of the Atlantic. In the flat and cultivated lands of the south. In the vast and eerie solitude of the north. Or by a forest lake. Where, at dusk, the loon calls. There is true magic there. /Niclas
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