Well, I haven’t done a Talkin’ Headline like this in a long time.
Made me giggle.
This is how a Talkin’ Blues SHOULD SOUND. That’s something you’ll hear someone say who’s really serious about Folk Music. Someone who knows ALL THE RULES. Someone who’s a lot better at musical instrumentation than I am.
At various points in time I have been that someone.
At this point in time, I’m not. I’m just enjoying myself. I’ll take note of that. Things go up and things go down. That’s how it is.
These are the headlines for this week, though. No more news, okay CNN.com? Please?! I can’t take in any more except for this! I mean it! Please don’t make me! My brain is not that big….
Here’s a tune I wrote…last week? On the 24th of…July? Whenever that was. Was 2 weeks ago. I just checked.
So the weeks fly by.
And, this isn’t a one line or one verse song like I said I was gonna stick to. (I also said I was gonna do one a day. Oh well.)
Anyway, I wrote this one in a minute. And then, after playing it through to some guitar music, I realized it’s actually probably part of this song from last year (which, actually doesn’t sound much like this old version, but there’s no recording of the newer version to my knowledge). Weird that the song from last year was from late July too. Maybe I was unconsciously trying to rewrite that one.
Either way, this is a second part to it, which I’m always looking to add into my songs since a lot of the time they only have one or two different parts in them. Mainly because I write them and then don’t work on them at all. Then I get bored with them and just throw them away.
And because I’m lazy.
Anyway, this new song has some good elements. I’m particularly drawn to the very end. The whispering-singing-type part. That’s interesting to me.
Now, I’m going to probably not post any new songs for a while. I need to go back and do some relearning. I haven’t done it in so long and I think it’s part of the reason I’ve gotten so lost. I stopped trying to teach myself anything. (Remember, I’m lazy by nature, so it’s easy to just sit back on my haunches and relax and say, “Ahh, I’ve done it….”)
But I’m done with that. My hands have been on fire for 2 or 3 years and I never knew why. Maybe this’ll help.
That being said (and making no sense), I’ll probably still post a bunch of new songs and new ideas and new diagrams of things that will help to become something again.
I’ll keep doing the Talkin’ Headline songs too. Those are funny to me. Plus, if I don’t, then I just don’t read any news at all and can’t fool as many people into thinking that I have any brains.
Here you have the CNN.com headlines from last week. How many of them do you remember? How many of them are we all still talking about? White youth running wild? Yes. The Catholic Pope saying it ain’t so bad to be gay? No.
Well, okay. Baseball suspensions are VERY IMPORTANT.
Well, I tried a new melody for this version. It’s different. It’s borderline talkin’ blues, I’d say. Not sure on which side. But I think it adds to the hilarious headlines that people working for CNN.com actually wrote.
Or maybe robots write those?
But then who tells the robots what to write? And if no one tells them, how do they know what our events are? How is it that they’re so aware of our needs and desires that they know exactly what will evoke an emotion in us? Hmm….
I, for one, am getting on the side of these robots.
I wrote this one-liner on Saturday. Or Sunday. Whichever day I thought was the 20th on that day since I thought today was the 21st.
So I wrote it, then I added the “Hey hey!” and “Hey ho!” parts tonight. Feel free to join in on those sections. It’s fun! Shout it! Strain your throat. I did.
By the way: It surely is a hard thing to try and write and record one song every day, even if that song is only one line with a few words. It’s doubly hard when your throat seizes up due to allergies. Apologies to everyone this had any effect on.
Now, I tried and tried and tried to add several different harmony parts. But I have so little clue on how to add harmony parts.
Then I attempted some drums and a tambourine and even a small children’s xylophone. I thought that was a little much, though. It didn’t work anyhow.
So, I just duplicated the main guitar and vocal track a bunch of times, applied several canned effects, adjusted the volume settings, and wham-oh!
I realize it’s a little bit behind-the-times. A little bit, say, somewhere around 2007 or 1998 or 1987 or 1971 or 1952 or 1536. But, this is folk music that I’m doing. This is a folk song that I’m building one line at a time.
If you call what you do a folk song then you can do whatever you want. I’ve learned that over the years. It’s in the folk music manual.
Look it up.
When it comes right down to it, though, I just really like this line or this verse or how these words go together. The music is way less important.
It is in three-quarter time, though. And everything is better at that speed. Try it. Then you’ll understand.
Note: If you have more than the 2 minutes it takes to listen through the whole song once, I suggest listening at least twice. Once through speakers (computer, or otherwise) and then a second time through headphones. It’s different.
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