Tomorrow, I am doing a song-an-hour. (Done! Link in thread.)

Märk · Post by **Märk** » Tue Feb 12, 2008 5:00 pm

Jesus Goatfucking Christ. Get a room, you two.
(My new favorite catch-phrase)

jimtyrrell · Post by **jimtyrrell** » Tue Feb 12, 2008 5:04 pm

I don't know why, but it's only now after days of seeing it that your avatar strikes me as hilarious.

Oh wait, I do know. It's the beer.

fluffy · Post by **fluffy** » Tue Feb 12, 2008 6:24 pm

Märk wrote:Jesus Goatfucking Christ. Get a room, you two.
(My new favorite catch-phrase)

DO A BARREL ROLL!!!

Billy's Little Trip · Post by **Billy's Little Trip** » Tue Feb 12, 2008 7:54 pm

Märk wrote:Jesus Goatfucking Christ. Get a room, you two.
(My new favorite catch-phrase)

That's what she said.

LSK · Post by **LSK** » Tue Feb 12, 2008 8:13 pm

Quick question. Which 2 or 3 of these are most worth fully developing?

Lord of Oats · Post by **Lord of Oats** » Tue Feb 12, 2008 11:30 pm

LSK wrote:Quick question. Which 2 or 3 of these are most worth fully developing?

Pfff...that would require me to actually listen to these! Look, I don't give a crap either way. I just want to encourage the production of shitty music.

Okay, not really. I've heard a few and they're not so bad. I'll try to let you know what I like when I've heard them all.

In the mean time, congratulations! You've nearly conquered FAWM in one fell swoop. I think I'm going to go try and write a song in the 30 minutes I have before work.

Kill Me Sarah · Post by **Kill Me Sarah** » Mon Feb 18, 2008 11:25 am

Hoblit wrote:
Reïst wrote:Wow. I'm actually really impressed ... I should try this.
IMO, this type of behavior should not be encouraged. At the very least, not published.

<font size="1" color="gray">Before anybody insists I explain, I will explain. IMO, these are 1 song IDEA an hour and hey, I don't discourage THAT. However, this is a quality over quantity issue. Even if Paul Simon, Bruce Springsteen, *Your favorite artist here* could pull this off, would it still be all that listenable? Take another 10 hours (or the same 10 hours) putting effort into ONE good idea. The results will be vastly different / better.</font>

I have to disagree with you too, and this is why: I may take one song that seems like a good idea, spend 10 hours on it, and when I'm done, completely hate it. I may take three minutes to record a song that just popped into my mind, and love it. In fact, the one song I've written that has been generally liked by everyone I've ever shown it to was written in just this fashion. I think the point to an exercise like this is to get a lot of ideas, and from those many ideas, you may find one or two that you really like, which you can then expound upon.

Hoblit · Post by **Hoblit** » Mon Feb 18, 2008 11:33 am

Kill Me Sarah wrote:
Hoblit wrote:
Reïst wrote:Wow. I'm actually really impressed ... I should try this.
IMO, this type of behavior should not be encouraged. At the very least, not published.

<font size="1" color="gray">Before anybody insists I explain, I will explain. IMO, these are 1 song IDEA an hour and hey, I don't discourage THAT. However, this is a quality over quantity issue. Even if Paul Simon, Bruce Springsteen, *Your favorite artist here* could pull this off, would it still be all that listenable? Take another 10 hours (or the same 10 hours) putting effort into ONE good idea. The results will be vastly different / better.</font>
1. I have to disagree with you too, and this is why: I may take one song that seems like a good idea, spend 10 hours on it, and when I'm done, completely hate it. I may take three minutes to record a song that just popped into my mind, and love it. In fact, the one song I've written that has been generally liked by everyone I've ever shown it to was written in just this fashion.

2. I think the point to an exercise like this is to get a lot of ideas, and from those many ideas, you may find one or two that you really like, which you can then expound upon.

1. Yeah, I'm in the minority I guess. I guess what I was really trying to say is that a lot of the time, writing and recording a song in under an hour for several hours MAY result in music that I would probably not want to hear. And thats what I would discourage, the promotion of such material. And obviously there would be exceptions.

2. I do not discourage the idea as a way of brainstorming. You even quoted me on that!

Kill Me Sarah · Post by **Kill Me Sarah** » Mon Feb 18, 2008 11:45 am

Hoblit wrote: 2. I do not discourage the idea as a way of brainstorming. You even quoted me on that!

Yeah but you wrote it so small and you wrote the rest of it so big

king_arthur · Post by **king_arthur** » Mon Feb 18, 2008 12:07 pm

Well, okay, from what's here, I suppose I'd say that "Goodbye" and "How Now" are probably the most worthy of re-recording. As compared to, say, the other nine tracks.

However, based on your three songs in the music archive, I might suggest that some serious recording practice and equipment upgradery are in order before you're going to be ready to "fully develop" any of these.

So, I dunno, pick one of those two, work on it until you are actually happy with it (however many hours / days / weeks that takes) and post it back for us. If lack of time is no excuse, whaddya got???

Charles

LSK · Post by **LSK** » Mon Feb 18, 2008 7:59 pm

king_arthur wrote:Well, okay, from what's here, I suppose I'd say that "Goodbye" and "How Now" are probably the most worthy of re-recording. As compared to, say, the other nine tracks.

However, based on your three songs in the music archive, I might suggest that some serious recording practice and equipment upgradery are in order before you're going to be ready to "fully develop" any of these.

So, I dunno, pick one of those two, work on it until you are actually happy with it (however many hours / days / weeks that takes) and post it back for us. If lack of time is no excuse, whaddya got???

Charles

Duly noted. I certainly do have horrid equipment, but my "real" band's practice space has some better equipment, so I'll see what I can do. I'll report back in around two months time.