Country Song Blog
https://sites.google.com/u/0/s/1WqEJL8CK8JbLT2MMHYPLqMQzQYbhYUas/edit?authuser=0 Music website (song on there)
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Didn't even do a super short podcast this week, instead did a song about 4 mins I think. This week I made my second song, a country song. I spent about an hour writing just the lyrics themselves. Then almost two hours just going through and editing it. Singing it, and singing it to the different Guitars in the song. In the song I went through the main themes of country music. Everything from dirt roads to country girls, and the world's greatest romance. When I was practicing singing the song and even though it is silly in its nature, I still got really into it and even had some tears in my eyes at the end of the singing the song. I am glad I can get so invested into it. Part of the reason why I am doing a country type song is because in January I will be moving out to the country. Where I feel like all my life my heart has always been. Hopefully I can move the inner country boy or country girl in all of you guys.
You may notice in the song that I don't stick with the same guitar tune throughout with each different stanza of lyrics I'm singing. The story behind that is I was trying to make some cool sounding Guitar chords on Fl Studio. After like an hour and a half I didn't have anything really good at all, and the guitars on the software sound like electric pianos. I knew their was a smarter way to have a great guitar melody so I went to my friend google and looked up free song loops. I found this one website where people can upload their sound loops and after signing up its free to use. They have all these different types of instruments and I went to acoustic guitar and it has over 3,000 different sound loops just for that one instrument. That was pretty awesome, and some of the dudes spent like hours just trying to make the perfect guitar chord progression. They used reverb on it, mixed and mastered that sound till it sounded like an angel. I couldn't decide which one to choose so I have five different ones in the song. Each stanza of lyrics has a different guitar melody than anything in the song, and a different singing style to go along with it. I had trouble figuring out how I was going to transition from one stanza to the next with the music itself having its melody change.
In the end I learned some valuable takeaways. One keep your lyrics short and simple due to me having to cut some for this song. Two start sooner in the week so you doing some of it the night before. Three, learn the steps to save the rap game, and all music that needs any kind of saving. Country music for me falls into that Category. On a side-not I included Thomas's freestyle rap he made on an early beat I made. I didn't know he had done it but stumbled across it and thought it was fire. I asked his permission to include it on my music website. Good luck to all you other bloggers in your dangerous trip through High School.
Here are some links to some lyrics-
Steven, this is very interesting and cool, but it also seems very difficult. The editing and writing lyrics just seems mind boggling to me on how you have to find the right tune and guitar sounds to be able to match with the lyrics you have wrote. I hope you’re having fun during this process and I do like you song as you sent it to me as you were finishing it. Good luck with continuing your music career.
ReplyDeleteThank you Kaden, Anyone can do it what im doing. It just takes time.
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