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Post by Alex94TAGT on Sept 30, 2005 3:30:33 GMT -5
I posted a song back when the board was first starting up, and I think only about 2 people were able to download it. If you have Internet Explorer, then it should be ok. Otherwise, you probably wont get it to work. If you don't have good speakers/headphones, then please, don't even bother downloading. ;D Right-click, Save-Target-As>>>hometown.aol.com/alex94tagt/shadows.mp3 (~2.6mb) Anyway, for a little bit of background, I'm not some big fancy composer, so expect the song to suck bigtime. This is essentially the 'core' of a new song I started writing the other night. It is NOWHERE NEAR finished yet (as you can tell), so it's going to sound mediocre at best. There's still a lot I need to go back and add/edit. If you get this to download, I'm not sure what to explain about it. This isn't the best I've written, but we'll see where it goes. I liked that it was kind of a twist between genres -- not exactly rock, not classical, just something in between. Every individual note you hear came out of my head, so this isn't quite like 'playing in a band', where you only have one job to do. The piano, the guitar, synthesizers, and the drums -- all has to be written and integrated separately by myself. Each two-minute song takes probably 5-10 hours of work. Maybe I'll upload more if I don't get laughed off the board.  |
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Post by lt1sierra on Sept 30, 2005 3:41:18 GMT -5
Nice song Alex, ;D Itll sound awesome when you get the lyrics in. I, for one, find it amazing that one person can do all that to make a song. I wouldnt mind hearing more. You have got alot of talent. Keep up the good work. I really like the absence of music with just the beat, and then the drum doing an intro to the next "rythm". Sorry if you dont understand that, but Im not up to par with the music lingo. I have a hard time figuring out what Im trying to say.
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Post by Alex94TAGT on Sept 30, 2005 4:42:07 GMT -5
You mean, it actually downloaded and worked? There's a first. Thanks, that makes me feel better. I'm always critical of myself, so I take other people's opinion very seriously. And yes, I know exactly what you're saying regarding the lead-ins and whatnot. I'm glad you picked up on it. Unfortunately, nobody will ever hear any of these songs with lyrics. I never joined choir, so I never learned to sing. I spent all my time in band. So, I've never bothered writing lyrics, but I can't imagine it would be that difficult. As it stands, this is just a hobby anyway -- I'm the only one that listens to it. Here's the last thing I'll post for now. It's a guitar solo that fits into a different song -- maybe I'll post the full song later. I just like the sound of it: hometown.aol.com/alex94tagt/gsolo.mp3 (504kb) |
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Post by AAron on Sept 30, 2005 13:09:37 GMT -5
man i gotta start burning music and other stuff off my hard drive, cause it is full  |
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Post by metalbeast on Sept 30, 2005 13:20:25 GMT -5
Alex that sounds AWESOME! You are a talented guy. It is a very relaxing song to me!
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Post by DocSpeed on Sept 30, 2005 16:08:44 GMT -5
Cool song! I bet I could come up with some lyrics for it. I am really good at coming up with funny lyrics not serious or meaning full ones, I will just have to see were the mood takes me with it.
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Post by DocSpeed on Sept 30, 2005 16:10:53 GMT -5
I just downloaded the song and Geez....I have never downloaded something that fast! I was over 5MB a second!
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Post by 1bad2k2ta on Sept 30, 2005 16:17:29 GMT -5
Cool song! I bet I could come up with some lyrics for it. I am really good at coming up with funny lyrics not serious or meaning full ones, I will just have to see were the mood takes me with it. I'm sure after another 12-pack you will come up with a real corker. ;D  |
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Post by DocSpeed on Sept 30, 2005 21:21:10 GMT -5
Cool song! I bet I could come up with some lyrics for it. I am really good at coming up with funny lyrics not serious or meaning full ones, I will just have to see were the mood takes me with it. I'm sure after another 12-pack you will come up with a real corker. ;D Hopefully a six pack if I am lucky! |
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Post by turtle on Sept 30, 2005 22:05:06 GMT -5
Your waaaayyy too hard on yourself Alex. If that isn't the best you've written then I definatly want to hear more. I think you got some real talant  |
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Post by DocSpeed on Sept 30, 2005 22:07:47 GMT -5
I have got half of your song written, give me about another hour and I should be through with it.
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Post by DocSpeed on Sept 30, 2005 22:15:40 GMT -5
Hopefully.....It got alot of curve balls it throws at you when your trying to written lyrics to it.. Kinda reminds me fo something tool would write when they are really being mellow.....
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Post by Alex94TAGT on Oct 1, 2005 2:04:50 GMT -5
Tommy -- you're actually writing lyrics to that song???
Yeah, there are spots where it doesn't stick to a 4/4 time signature (-especially since I cut out a measure towards the end). That'd make it pretty difficult to write lyrics around...
Music itself is almost like writing in English -- instruments will question/answer eachother, every 4th & 8th measure complete a musical 'sentence'. There are a lot of patterns, just like in poetry. When you change something, such as cutting out a measure, it will throw the listener off of the beat -- forcing them to have to find the pattern again. It makes it more interesting.
I like playing in 7/8 time on the drumset for that reason -- has a really off-beat/funky feel to it. Hard to follow sometimes...
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Post by Alex94TAGT on Oct 1, 2005 3:01:17 GMT -5
Ok, if you guys are really bored, here's a few more short clips from other songs. These aren't my favorite, but I guess are 'ok'. [1.52mb] hometown.aol.com/alex94tagt/sobriety.mp3 (-starts abruptly mid-song, but contains a section of a song which has the guitar solo I posted earlier.) [1.42mb] hometown.aol.com/alex94tagt/thru.mp3 (-inspired by some song I heard on internet radio that I liked.) I should note that none of these instruments are real. Every last bit of it is computer generated. If this keeps going, maybe I'll record a "real" solo clip of me on the e-drums -- which isn't quite as boring or 'stiff' as what you hear in these songs. |
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Post by lt1sierra on Oct 1, 2005 3:33:08 GMT -5
Those are really good. I really like the first one. (1.52 mb) I think thats really good. We need to get some actual instruments in your hands, Alex. If we do that those songs are gonna kick some major @$$.
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Post by 93yellowfbody on Oct 1, 2005 7:45:31 GMT -5
great songs,they sound like they would be good for some f-body burnout vids and such.
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