Does anyone other than OJA even listen to the crap I post?

I've been listening to the Flaming Lips a lot lately.

I've been listening to the Flaming Lips a lot lately.

We interrupt this indie masturbation session to bring you MY FAVOURITE CRAP

MeechMunchie
> talks shit about indie music
> put indie music anyway
> badass

So, I've found an old band I like:

They all appear to be in various states of constipation.

Please don't greentext here.

You also don't greentext shit you don't put a > before.

This is important information.

It's fine...

Just a question, does anyone do any composing, or songwriting etc? As an avid band geek, I have made a couple of songs before, mostly for my internal exams. Just wondering about anyone else doing that sort of thing.

Actually, yes. I hardly ever have any inspiration, though, so my ideas peter out because I force them too much.

Lately there's been a thing with a girl and this happened. It's called Gently (A letter). It's not finished. There's a third section, but it's not very good yet. The second section will also end differently to that, but I tacked this on so that I could show you. Any feedback would be really nice because I'm struggling to go anywhere with it.

It's also stupidly big as I exported it straight out from Sibelius.

e: Oh, this is a piano solo by the way. Don't expect anything that sounds too modern. Although it falls under the scope of modern classical.

No! I have never written any music ever! Stop asking me!

You're blatantly just trying to get someone to find your blog for you.

I'm really not. And even if you did, I don't think those links work anymore.

Then we can all read DI dissing you and imagine just how bad you sounded.

Yup. We sure can.

I play guitar, both electric and acoustic, but I don't write anything.

Ontopic:

My favourite Portuguese band at the moment.

It sounds good, but I would have more rhythmic movement in the left hand. The big spaces work fine to begin with, but from there it doesn't seem to develop a great deal. I would use some syncopation (due to the nature of the piece, only mild syncopation, though I think that you can use some quite unusual rhythms if you go about it the right way) to create friction so that the piece doesn't risk stagnating as much.

Harmonically, I hear a lot of suspensions (and maybe extended harmony - I haven't analysed the piece, so I don't know straight off), some of which are successful, some of which feel slightly forced, but in most of the latter instances, if you try and rearrange the chord, this should be rectified (you have probably noticed that dissonances sound less jarring the greater the interval is).
Also, there was one instance where (I think in the left hand) I heard one chord in the same position twice. I can't find it now, but I heard it. If you don't alter the chord, at least alter the voicing.

It sounds like you're doing alright, man. Keep on with your stuff.

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Ah, I need to spread rep around before giving it to you again.

Thanks. I agree with pretty much everything you said there. Some of the cords are forced, especially towards the end. I'm looking at ways to make it more rhythmically interesting, too.

I really want to hear how it sounds when it's not being played by Sibelius, though. The playback resembles an elephant.

Amazing production and music videos thanks to Killer Mike and El-P!

I have to say, I think even Guitar Pro has a better piano sound than that. Is it supposed sound like an electric piano? If so, I think I can forgive it.
I use Finale, which has quite a nice piano sound, but it's drowned in reverb, and if you take it away, it sounds as synthesised as any other piano "sample".

Of course, if I want to hear something I'm capable of playing, I use an actual piano, but I am humbled by about every other pianist who ever lived, so harder classical and jazz pieces tend to be out of the question.

Apart from the extravagant publicity, it has some good riffs.



Also:

I thought the video was interesting, the music not so much. Thought the red hoodie guy was good though.

Despite the picture in the video, this is actually a very beautiful song.

Song: Another Song About the Weekend (acoustic)

Artist: A Day to Remember

Thanks, I couldn't read the title of the video.

The title gets cut off.

You can still click it to go the video on Youtube.

Fuck yeah, I can't stop listening to this album. El-P's amazing beats and Killer Mike's rhymes compliment eachother so well.

Probably my favourite song made up of instruments I can actually play.

This song's been in my head all day, repeating over and over.

From Cancer 4 Cure, El-P's...what I like to think as a sister album to R.A.P. Music. Once again, amazing beat and great rapping (and a weird ass music video)

Some people are lazy though.

Also, here's the metal version of the song I last posted on this thread.



IMO, I prefer the acoustic version.

If we don't care enough to click it if we like it, why would we care enough to have the artist and song name spelled out to us condenscendingly?

When I said some people are lazy, I meant they don't want to click on the YouTube button and have 2 tabs on their web browser. Some people would rather just click the play button.

You misunderstood my post. You are absolutely hopeless.

@Laser

I really need that album, apparently it's as good as or better than R.A.P. Loved the Full Retard, too.


Did you hear El-P on the newest Das Racist? He slays the beat on this one.




@Spooceahlolic STOP FUCKING POSTING A DAY TO REMEMBER IN HERE THEY'RE TERRIBLE

YOU COULD AT LEAST POST A DIFFERENT BAND

PREFERABLY ONE WITH LESS SUCK

It's weird, Strangeland has two polar opposite songs right next to each other.

First you've got On The Road, which I guarantee will be a crowd pleaser at Keane's next festival circuit...



Golden li~ight lies ahead
It's just around the bend

So when the sun is coming up and you go~o
And there's still so many things you don't kno~ow
Don't you look back
I've no doubt that
I will meet you on the road

So when the world's laying you lo~ow
Why don't you let me carry your lo~oad
When things get bad you know you'll have a friend
All along the road...

Then you've got The Starting Line (even the title makes these two seem the wrong way around), which is full of the downtrodden emotional wank that Keane haters hate but I like.



You can't find your bearings
You're slipping into the ground
The scene has no colour and no sound

The ground is uneven
You stumble from day to day
You tread where it's easy
And your feet are like lead
But you've got to get on the way

So drag your head up to the starting line
Forget the ghosts that make you old before your time
It's too easy to get left behind...

It's a good album. Interesting.