The Same Dust For All - Songwriting Week 2

Just For Tonight

Reference recording. No solo track yet.

got a bad grade
drown in despair
might fail the class
thanks to my peers
what can I do?
sing the Peer Review Blues

sing the Peer Review Blues
sing the Peer Review Blues
sing the Peer Review Blues
what can I do? 
sing the Peer Review Blues

got a good grade
drown in despair
might pass the class
thanks to my peers
what can I do?
sing the Peer Review Blues

sing the Peer Review Blues
sing the Peer Review Blues
sing the Peer Review Blues
sing the Peer Review Blues
sing the Peer Review Blues


Peer Review Blues

Lyrics with stresses and properly aligned: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1Ff3B8g_8CqtOiZG193LA6Uqm5ikq8oih7EklPO6E9rw/edit

- unstressed       / primary stress         // secondary stress

Verse:

-    /             -   -    -        /      -
I walked about the mountain

 -           /          -  -      -   /
and caught myself a girl

 -            /            -      -      /   -      -          /   
she charmed me with bi-colored eyes (Note: heterochromia iridis)  

  -         /        -      //     -      /
and drove my heart a-whirl

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she runs me round in circles

 -   /        -    //          -      /
I  love  to  chase her tail

 -            //        -      /           -         //        -       /
she throws me bones and chews my shoes

 -         /     -      -     -    /
and dances on the trail
 

Chorus:

  -       -       /         -    /     -      //       -       /   (before is emphasized)
You will leave before my days are done

/   -        -           /        //          /     -  (I and more are emphasized, time secondary)
I will spend more time mourning

 -         /    -
than loving

 /         /     -     -     /         (just is emphasized)
so - just for tonight

-         //       /        -     -      /       (may is somewhat emphasized)
you may sleep on my bed



Just for Tonight - Drum Loop

Two Story Home - Week 5 - Songwriting

Final version of Two Story Home for Pat Pattison's Songwriting course. This is the GP5 synth sound off the score/sheet music with the final version of the chords, melody, and phrasing. You can find a PDF with the score here:https://docs.google.com/file/d/0B4WtSVGcOGo1V3Z5cVpaM2VlcVU/edit?usp=sharing

Two Story Home - GP5 Synth - Week6 - Songwriting

This was the song I did the first time I took Pat Pattison's course, but did not have time to complete all the assignments. Here is the musci video for the song: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3PoUT3IZV2Q
Lead singer: Gabi Haecky

Rhythm Of Breath

My arrangement for "Romance" with my colleage Ytai playing the second guitar. I recorded this during practice, so it's not polished.

Disturbed Romance

upstairs above
the sun burns bright
you sing in the lovely light
please, touch my fears
but you flee the haunting night

we breathe in the same two-story home
but our longing, wanting love
is not enough
to cross 
the twilight line

downstairs, below
I wail in the night
forsaken dragons fight
rousing haunting fears
I am trapped in endless fright

we breathe...

midsummer night
my wall cracked
I gather the ray in a bucket
swing my arms to fly
but remain my daemons' puppet

we breathe...


Lyrics and score: 
https://docs.google.com/file/d/0B4WtSVGcOGo1V3Z5cVpaM2VlcVU/edit?usp=sharing

Two Story Home (Final)- Week 6 - Songwriting

Since I turned in "correct" (and stilted) homework, I decided to just play around with the tracks. And then something just went "snip" and I got "it". These two tracks aren't as nice as what I did when I was totally relaxed and not recording, but, well, they are a lot better musically than anything I've done these five weeks. 

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