Anybody Else Write Music?

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Yep. Here is one wrote quite a while ago after a dog I had to put sleep. Shelby’s Golden Ray Sunshine. R.I.P. Shelby Girl, I still miss you.

 
I've written almost a thousand country songs.....few blues......and some acoustic slide instrumentals.
 
Nope, not in a few decades

Back when I was younger I played in a few bands (none of which were very good) and I wrote stuff back then

Mostly grunge and power ballads
 
It's more common around our house to change the words to songs to fit the situation. Sometimes they make it to the dry erase board in the kitchen. Billy prefers Elvis and is really good at it. I'm not :BangHead: ...

Background: Our new shelter adoptee wasn't overly excited about food when he first got here. Billy woke up to see this on the board and, unlike the usual "oh that's lame" response, this time he laughed -- hard. To the tune of Ringo Starr's The No No Song:

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CudaChick1968 said:
It's more common around our house to change the words to songs to fit the situation. Sometimes they make it to the dry erase board in the kitchen. Billy prefers Elvis and is really good at it. I'm not :BangHead: ...

Background: Our new shelter adoptee wasn't overly excited about food when he first got here. Billy woke up to see this on the board and, unlike the usual "oh that's lame" response, this time he laughed -- hard. To the tune of Ringo Starr's The No No Song:

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I've come up with little bits of finger style acoustic guitar stuff, but never a full song. I lack the concentration needed for that. My buddies and I used to jam all weekend, never caring to recall what we played the day before.
 
CudaChick1968 said:
It's more common around our house to change the words to songs to fit the situation. Sometimes they make it to the dry erase board in the kitchen. Billy prefers Elvis and is really good at it. I'm not :BangHead: ...

Background: Our new shelter adoptee wasn't overly excited about food when he first got here. Billy woke up to see this on the board and, unlike the usual "oh that's lame" response, this time he laughed -- hard. To the tune of Ringo Starr's The No No Song:

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my wife tends to get mad at me for doing that
specially when i use proper lyrics of one hymn, but sing it to the tune of another

little know fact, did you know you can sing the lyrics of Amazing grace to just about any song ever written ?

my favorite mix is the lyrics of amazing grace to the tune of "house of the rising sun"




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diymirage said:
my wife tends to get mad at me for doing that
specially when i use proper lyrics of one hymn, but sing it to the tune of another

little know fact, did you know you can sing the lyrics of Amazing grace to just about any song ever written ?

my favorite mix is the lyrics of amazing grace to the tune of "house of the rising sun"




(let me know how you liked it, you know your signing it right now)
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Twinkle twinkle little star, HIJKLMNOP
 
I will see if I can find pictures, but my grandparents used to own "stead's music center" in la habra area.
I have all of my grandpas music stamps. (literally a clef and the lines on a stamp so you can easily write five even lines) and blank music sheets.
A lot of cool stuff
 
I've done more in the past with other collaborators, but here's a recent one wth just me playing all instruments and a drum program. I'm not much for lyrics, so I played the music then I'm standing there achy from the gym and all I could think of was "pain"...:) My best effort at VH esque guitar I use a few of his tricks...

https://www.amazon.com/dp/B08KZD4VH9/?tag=fabo03-20
 
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I've been writing and playing music for over 30 years. I've even had my own songs played on the largest rock station in Tampa Bay. Metal, Southern Rock, A lil Country, some Blues
 
Ironracer said:
I've been writing and playing music for over 30 years. I've even had my own songs played on the largest rock station in Tampa Bay. Metal, Southern Rock, A lil Country, some Blues
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That's really neat! Which of your songs were played on radio? I wonder if there's a way to look them up??
 
Yep, wasted about a decade, came up with about 50 tunes, about 18% with lyrics.
Decided to do a more productive adventure, another decade of restoring my Wayfarer.
My calluses are gone and too painful to play more than one song. Oh well it`s all on CD to live on forever to anyone who gives AF...
 
A link to some demos I played on back in 2003-4 anything that says "Ward -guitars" is composed by me. The other stuff is the vocalist I worked with branching out on his own on guitar. Man them demos were fun, I remember drinking beer in a studio doing take after take... the producer spliced it all together...I was 35 then...keep in mind it wasn't all one day... the collection of songs took a year or more spread out over time and deployments in the service... I think it says somewhere on the website..." Ward is off to play with guns in a very warm climate..." or something like that...:)

https://www.soundclick.com/artist/default.cfm?bandid=101732&content=main
 
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mopar head said:
Yep, wasted about a decade, came up with about 50 tunes, about 18% with lyrics.
Decided to do a more productive adventure, another decade of restoring my Wayfarer.
My calluses are gone and too painful to play more than one song. Oh well it`s all on CD to live on forever to anyone who gives AF...
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I hear ya! We have 2" reel to reels from Morrisound studios and another place. Some live footage on u tube
 
I still play live . Usually covers these days though. Its seems its still the same as the late eighties, grown adults show up to rehearsal don't know the tunes etc.
Last project I bailed on last April, we had a nice tight working three piece, and the
drummer wanted his brother in law to be in. 2nd Guitar player which we didn't need. Ok, guy shows up can't play the songs. Then they start wanting to take songs he can't play out of the set...I was like "no I'm out". more time hemming and hawwing than playing. I mean I can be a nice guy to an extent. I felt like I was a teenager again trying to get something going.
 
Dartswinger70 said:
I still play live . Usually covers these days though. Its seems its still the same as the late eighties, grown adults show up to rehearsal don't know the tunes etc.
Last project I bailed on last April, we had a nice tight working three piece, and the
drummer wanted his brother in law to be in. 2nd Guitar player which we didn't need. Ok, guy shows up can't play the songs. Then they start wanting to take songs he can't play out of the set...I was like "no I'm out". more time hemming and hawwing than playing. I mean I can be a nice guy to an extent. I felt like I was a teenager again trying to get something going.
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I’ll raise my hand. Guilty. A few weeks ago I was the guy who showed up at rehearsal, the day of service, and was not prepared. The worship pastor called me out, not by name, but I knew what it was. I felt horrible. Wound up getting through worship fine, I would seriously doubt anyone would know. But I knew and the rest of the team knew... and if I were to post the video, you would know too, because I’m in concentration, worried about it and it was all over my face, and not in worship. I decided to remove myself until an opportunity opens where I can dedicate myself to studying the songs.
 
Dartthunder340 said:
I’ll raise my hand. Guilty. A few weeks ago I was the guy who showed up at rehearsal, the day of service, and was not prepared. The worship pastor called me out, not by name, but I knew what it was. I felt horrible. Wound up getting through worship fine, I would seriously doubt anyone would know. But I knew and the rest of the team knew... and if I were to post the video, you would know too, because I’m in concentration, worried about it and it was all over my face, and not in worship. I decided to remove myself until an opportunity opens where I can dedicate myself to studying the songs.
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Its tough, I haven't played really since April, other than "noodling".
it is difficult if it isn't what you want to play, take covers, yeah i can play country but i don't want to, if I am forced to I don't want to bother learning the song.
So its like I'm in a band but taken out of my element to play what say, the drummer wants to play. we had an unwritten rule, "you suggest it, you sing it" we didn't have a dedicated front person. Just 3 piece with all of us splitting vocals. It turned out I did lead or backup vocal on half the set though.

hang in there, once you learn "the set" you know it, than all you have to do is learn the "new" songs as they are added in.
 
Funny, I was in an 80’s tribute band 6 or 7 years ago and had a blast. Still enjoy playing covers. The worship team fills my void, but there doesn’t seem to be any “set”. Seems lots of new stuff every couple weeks. Very much enjoy it, just can’t commit as often as I’d like.
 
Dartthunder340 said:
Funny, I was in an 80’s tribute band 6 or 7 years ago and had a blast. Still enjoy playing covers. The worship team fills my void, but there doesn’t seem to be any “set”. Seems lots of new stuff every couple weeks. Very much enjoy it, just can’t commit as often as I’d like.
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If you work full time, you really don't have time to learn new stuff all the time. My plan with our 3 Piece was, we learn about 30 songs, then mix and match three 10 song sets so it isn't the same show every gig. maybe throw in a new tune or two as we go to switch it up. learning new song all the time is alot of work.I undestand a church gig though is probably a different set every week but the same thing could apply ,learn a bunch of songs to have most of them committed to memory ,then mix it up every week, adding one or two new ones. My thing is, I dont want to sound unprepared and unprofessional in front of an audience, I dont care if I'm playing a voluntary gig, i want it to be good. I played a cancer benefit and musicians are like "it don't matter we aren't getting paid" I said it does matter there are people watching and listening.

so basically it should get easier over time, the hard part is learning the bulk of the 30 or so songs.
 
Agree. In my situation, I knew I was going in unprepared and was already disappointed on the inside. I needed to be called out and also appreciated it. It’s sort of like guys saying 80% collects a check. Yeah? Well, I like to strive for 97. Could I say it was only one week? Yeah, but I’m also aware enough to know that I really don’t want to just be enough, that’s why I have declined any more until I can refocus on the music again.
 
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