Saturday, August 25, 2007
My Burning Kiss part 1
There are plenty of songs from the past couple of years waiting on the back burner to be completed. However, I realized I haven't written any new tunes this year. I just sorta finished Ménage à Trois with robots, so I figured on getting something new in between that whatever I'll spend the next month or two polishing up.
Always looking for new toys to play with, outta nowhere came ChordStudio.com, now known as JamStudio.com (both URLs work, currently).
A boon to songwriters, musicians, or those of us who pretend to be, this web interface allows you to not only arrange chord progression with a click o' the mouse, but also the musical arrangement as well. Nice sounding samples of drums, bass, guitars, pianos, etc.
Creating songs this way, offers one a way to think outside the instrument and maybe write songs that might not normally result from noodling on the guitar or keyboard. Of course, if you were really good, you'd think outside the box with or without your main instrument. I'm not, so here I am.
I threw some random chords together on the 3rd and 4th of this month, till I got a couple of sequences with melodic potential. Then I started to build on the first one, which I decided was a verse. A chorus and intro was eventually added and I started on lyrics, which I worked on little by little from the 11th to today.
There might be a wee bit of a WTF factor to them, which I'm not gonna get into, except to say there is some element of truth to the words and just leave it at that.
After nearly finishing the lyrics, I then constructed a bridge section, which will probably host a guitar solo or some kind of instrumental break. Too lazy to write more words.
The two big limits with JamStudio are the inability (so far) to record vocals (don't know if that can be done with something like this) and the inability to record your song to mp3 or other audio format. The latter would sorta take care of the former as one could then overly vocals over the mp3 in another program (not the optimal way to record a song, but fine for a demo). Otherwise the share song feature is almost redundant as you're just sharing a chord progression arranged into a verse-chorus sequence, and not really an actual song (words and music).
Otherwise, the website as it is will keep me somewhat honest as a musician, as I'm forced to actually play and record the music to complete a demo. Still, if I could do it all here, and then put it on the shelf til I was ready to record proper, that would be an extra two flavors of awesome.
My JamStudio song can be heard here (and then make your own) until I get around to recording it.
And the lyrics below (I don't think anybody's gonna be able to sing along, just yet)...
Burning Kiss (c) 2007 George-Williams Isaacs
The secret evil
beneath the surface-volitile
but all the while-I stay
politecuzIcouldneverhurtyouorburnyouyoumeanthewholeworldtomebutIstillwantto
because it feels so good
this is where I've stood-the line
between
two worlds
of pain and pleasure
I need you to release the pressure
There is no hate there is no anger
in my burning kiss
I lust to taste your fear
of my burning kiss
Submission
to the power
while my aura
overwhelms-I sense
thetensionincreasingthestrikesneverceasingeuphoriareachingnewheightsneverdreamedof
No safe words spoken yet
smell the latex and the sweat
Awake
the dragon
from hell up to heaven
all our sins are now forgiven
There is no hate there is no anger
in my burning kiss
I lust to taste your fear
of my burning kiss
Gonna crosspost this to Edshugeo The GodMoor
Thanks to Create Digital Music for highlighting this app.
Always looking for new toys to play with, outta nowhere came ChordStudio.com, now known as JamStudio.com (both URLs work, currently).
A boon to songwriters, musicians, or those of us who pretend to be, this web interface allows you to not only arrange chord progression with a click o' the mouse, but also the musical arrangement as well. Nice sounding samples of drums, bass, guitars, pianos, etc.
Creating songs this way, offers one a way to think outside the instrument and maybe write songs that might not normally result from noodling on the guitar or keyboard. Of course, if you were really good, you'd think outside the box with or without your main instrument. I'm not, so here I am.
I threw some random chords together on the 3rd and 4th of this month, till I got a couple of sequences with melodic potential. Then I started to build on the first one, which I decided was a verse. A chorus and intro was eventually added and I started on lyrics, which I worked on little by little from the 11th to today.
There might be a wee bit of a WTF factor to them, which I'm not gonna get into, except to say there is some element of truth to the words and just leave it at that.
After nearly finishing the lyrics, I then constructed a bridge section, which will probably host a guitar solo or some kind of instrumental break. Too lazy to write more words.
The two big limits with JamStudio are the inability (so far) to record vocals (don't know if that can be done with something like this) and the inability to record your song to mp3 or other audio format. The latter would sorta take care of the former as one could then overly vocals over the mp3 in another program (not the optimal way to record a song, but fine for a demo). Otherwise the share song feature is almost redundant as you're just sharing a chord progression arranged into a verse-chorus sequence, and not really an actual song (words and music).
Otherwise, the website as it is will keep me somewhat honest as a musician, as I'm forced to actually play and record the music to complete a demo. Still, if I could do it all here, and then put it on the shelf til I was ready to record proper, that would be an extra two flavors of awesome.
My JamStudio song can be heard here (and then make your own) until I get around to recording it.
And the lyrics below (I don't think anybody's gonna be able to sing along, just yet)...
Burning Kiss (c) 2007 George-Williams Isaacs
The secret evil
beneath the surface-volitile
but all the while-I stay
politecuzIcouldneverhurtyouorburnyouyoumeanthewholeworldtomebutIstillwantto
because it feels so good
this is where I've stood-the line
between
two worlds
of pain and pleasure
I need you to release the pressure
There is no hate there is no anger
in my burning kiss
I lust to taste your fear
of my burning kiss
Submission
to the power
while my aura
overwhelms-I sense
thetensionincreasingthestrikesneverceasingeuphoriareachingnewheightsneverdreamedof
No safe words spoken yet
smell the latex and the sweat
Awake
the dragon
from hell up to heaven
all our sins are now forgiven
There is no hate there is no anger
in my burning kiss
I lust to taste your fear
of my burning kiss
Gonna crosspost this to Edshugeo The GodMoor
Thanks to Create Digital Music for highlighting this app.
Labels: lyrics, My Burning Kiss, web apps
Thursday, March 17, 2005
Ménage à trois with robots part 6
Lyrics
I turned down the keys as I thought they were somehow getting in the way of my finding the melody in the song. I let the beat and the bassline play and came up with the following;
My woman
doesn't like
grapes or raisins
cranberries or craisins
My woman
doesn't like
when
I shut my mouth
secrets all in my house
She'd rather hear
me coming near
with sweet nothings for her ear
and the sound
of my hand
on her
derriere
she doesn't like
menage a trois with robots
she doesn't like
menage a trois with robots
she doesn't like
menage a trois with robots
she doesn't like
menage a trois with robots
My woman
doesn't like
when I
give up
the ghost
and stop
My woman
doesn't like
mechanical devices
to get her out a crisis
She only wants
to be with me
so we
can be
as one
and free
she only wants
for me to be
with her
in her
for eternity
she doesn't like
menage a trois with robots
she can't stand
menage a trois with robots
she don't wan't
menage a trois with robots
she doesn't want
to have to fuck with robots
----------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Mind you, it's a first draft. Then again, there may be no second draft. Basically, I'm just saying, it is what it is. That line about the craisins should probably go. Ah. I'll think about it and maybe record it over the weekend...
I turned down the keys as I thought they were somehow getting in the way of my finding the melody in the song. I let the beat and the bassline play and came up with the following;
My woman
doesn't like
grapes or raisins
cranberries or craisins
My woman
doesn't like
when
I shut my mouth
secrets all in my house
She'd rather hear
me coming near
with sweet nothings for her ear
and the sound
of my hand
on her
derriere
she doesn't like
menage a trois with robots
she doesn't like
menage a trois with robots
she doesn't like
menage a trois with robots
she doesn't like
menage a trois with robots
My woman
doesn't like
when I
give up
the ghost
and stop
My woman
doesn't like
mechanical devices
to get her out a crisis
She only wants
to be with me
so we
can be
as one
and free
she only wants
for me to be
with her
in her
for eternity
she doesn't like
menage a trois with robots
she can't stand
menage a trois with robots
she don't wan't
menage a trois with robots
she doesn't want
to have to fuck with robots
----------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Mind you, it's a first draft. Then again, there may be no second draft. Basically, I'm just saying, it is what it is. That line about the craisins should probably go. Ah. I'll think about it and maybe record it over the weekend...
Labels: lyrics, Ménage à trois with robots
