RodChandler
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Here's the latest song I have done. It's an acoustic traditional country number called Remember The Alamo.
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Here's one I did a few weeks ago and forgot to post here. It's called Shine Your Light.
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Happy Birthday John!
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Haha. Yeah, I think that that's what it is. I started managing a trio of squirrels hoping to get a piece of the musical rodent action. Not going so well.
That's because you're managing those punk ass East Coast squirrels. Everyone knows East coast squirrels are whack. Westsiiiiide is where it's at.
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Awesome. I'll look forward to hearing it.
It's funny the way lyric writing comes and goes sometimes. I know from my own personal experience this past year has not been productive for me at all for writing new material lyrically, but I have grown a ton in arrangement, mixing, and part playing with a guitar so it was still educational and most of it was learned between here and kompoz.
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I think you'll like it here. It's a good place with some great people and resources for writing growth.
It's my other internet hangout although I haven't posted much around here of late.
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Hi Larry. Welcome to songstuff.
If you look in the showcase board you'll find some of your work from your country phase!
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Awesome. I use the sims a lot too, but I agree with Rudi. I bet that's nothing compared to having the real thing.
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A couple weeks ago. Wade Bowen, .38 Special, and Hank Williams Jr. It was probably slightly over 5,000. The next one was ZZ Top in 2012 at the Houston Livestock Show and Rodeo with probably 30,000-40,000 people in attendance.
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I think for me, judging by what I use when using software sims, I would probably look for chorus,delay,distortion,reverb, and a wah-wah pedal. That would probably be all I would need. I rarely use anything else on the sims.
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The local pawn shop has/had a bunch of Boss pedals last time I was there. As soon as I get another decent tube amp I'm going to maybe go back and see if he still has some of them. I have never used them personally, but have heard plenty of good things about them.
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Thanks Tom. Now you have mapped out my next few Saturdays!
Congrats on the nice find, and I'm betting a 59 bassman or a Fender Champ would get you the sound they used back when it was new.
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Actually Scotsman is pretty close to right, as is Kel in his observation. It did originate mainly in Appalachia, however there were very few settlers there that weren't from Ireland, Scotland, Wales and to a lesser extent England. Where I'm from also was settled by Germans and Poles, and Czechs, so you find that country music from Texas in the earlier days contained more brass instruments and waltzes as well as the influence from those from the British Isles.
But country music as we know it, the music from Nashville derived mainly from the bluegrass styles of the Virginias, Kentucky, and Tennessee which were primarily Scot and Irish and Welsh. As time as gone by, and other regions of the country where settlers from other parts of the world hailed from moved into the country music business, you got more of an amalgamation of influence.
That was a long way to simply say that I agree with both Scotsman and Kel!
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Very nice Mahesh! Congratulations
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I use all of the above. It just depends on where I am and what I am doing and what is at hand. Most times when I'm driving, which is most of the time, I use the voice recorder on iPhone to hum fragments of melody to flesh out later or lyric ideas. If I'm in my guitar room, I have a notebook that I jot down lyrics and I will use the voice recorder to grab riffs or melodies or progressions I like or want to write around, and lastly at times on my laptop. I will take music I have and listen to it and write lyrics in Wordpad or sometimes even just lyrics that intrigue me with no music at all lined out for them. I also will cull from my notebooks and phone recorder and write them all up in Word to keep all the different songs collated into one area.
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Thanks for the read and response Psyve. This particular style is Pantoum or Pantun poetry and you nailed it as far as how one goes as far as what lines go where. As for the ending, I suppose one could use any order they chose, but from what I have found you flip the lines from the first stanza on the last one. Thanks to JHanover posting about this style that brought this particular form back from the dregs of long forgotten memory. It is a fun style that lends well to writing from the sub-conscious.
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I'm not sure if it was your intention, but it took me to the turn of the 19th into the 20th century New York with it's imagery and feelings it conjured up. Nice work.
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You captured the feeling of love well. Love stays youthful and in it's prime... very nice line. It truly does I think. Good job.
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Conflicted
Sometimes I believe I am wrong
Little makes me feel right
I lose myself inside of a song
Pass away the small hours of night
Little makes me feel right
Too often I never even try
Pass away the small hours of night
Encapsulated in a weary sigh
Too often I never even try
I let the world move at will
Encapsulated in a weary sigh
Why is honesty such a bitter pill
I let the world move at will
Content with its ebb and flow
Why is honesty such a bitter pill
I can no longer watch it go
Content with its ebb and flow
Urgent is the need for change
I can no longer watch it go
Disconnection no longer strange
Urgent is the need for change
Life once again my own
Disconnection no longer strange
Inner resilliance has grown
Life once again my own
I lose myself inside of a song
Inner resilliance has grown
Sometimes I believe I am wrong
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I like it. The one thing I like about much of your writing, be it lyrics or here as a poem is the film-noir quality to your work. It is very real and gritty and true to life.
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Very powerful, and I liked the use of fire at the end as a contrast to the water of the previous verses. I took away that it could be the fire of anger, the fire of ambition, or even the fire of an all consuming passion that maybe the speaker had not yet found with someone else. But since the water element was there it needed the yang to its yin in the element of fire to bring it forth.
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The longer I looked the less I could see...
Very nice, I can completely relate to reaching that Zen-like state where everything on your mind blends into nothingness. Losing yourself totally in the moment to where not even the passing of time is noticed. This one definitely took me to that pond, it was a very nice read.
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I have to agree with psyve, I like that it leaves it up to me the reader to take my own interpretation away from your poem. To me that is the essence of a good poem.
For me the barrel resting against his consciousness was the line that conjured up the most stark vision of his desperation.
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I promise I'm not being a smarta** here, but whenever I have tried out a different
These are a couple just from typing in Cool Edit Pro tutorial. Good luck.
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