Masters of Song Fu – Update #4
The second round of Song Fu has begun and the next challenge has been set. As expected, I didn’t make it through to the next round, but I’m planning on following through with each of the challenges anyway. It focuses…
Masters of Song Fu – Update #3 – 100th Post!
Song Fu The final day of voting for round one is here, and I think I can safely say that it’s the end of the road for this song fu disciple as far as the official competition goes. I enjoyed…
Masters of Song Fu – Update #2 – First Impressions
After quite a bit of fiddling about I finished the new song last night, and it is now available for download at the Quick Stop voting page. Don’t forget to vote! The song is called First Impressions and is a…
Masters of Song Fu – Update #1
Bad planning. Here we are, two days left to the Song Fu deadline, and I’m away all week with work. South of the border with half a song. Over the weekend I worked out the music and lyrics, ably assisted…
The Song Fu Challenge
Fresh from creating a whole album in a day, the latest challenge I’ve undertaken is the ‘Masters of Song Fu’. Click the logo above for more information about the whole event, but in short it takes the form of a…
Best Batch Yet
Something I’ve never come across before for some reason is Captain Beefheart’s “10 Commandments for Guitarists”. I found this at the ever-informative Music Thing, though it appears on a few sites around the web. The annotations in italics are mine.…
All Stand, Please
We had a good Lunacy Board session last weekend – first time using the new studio set-up, which worked out pretty well, though we didn’t exactly put it all through its paces. Sean brought a few ideas for lyrics and…
Embryonic Prog?
This weekend I had a good little jamming/writing session with a friend of similar musical sensibilities and abilities. He played bass and sang, whilst I was on the keyboard. We tried a few things, and got the start of a…
Fly Me To Dunoon
I came across a cache of old half-written songs over the weekend, which brought back lots of memories – it’s amazing how many of the tunes (most of which are still unrecorded) came back to me. I guess that’s a…