Hi guys, I'm new here so I apologise if it takes me a while to find my feet and
sort out replies and reviews.
I'm also new to macs and this was my first GB effort. It was originally intended
as a country type number with Tom Franz from the musesmuse songwriting
forum doing vocals. I sent Tom the lyrics and he came back with an
outrageous chorus that had me thinking of a completely different treatment.
It's Tom singing btw.
It's deliberately over the top. I wanted the excess of the music to counterpoint
the stark lyrics and neither piano or drums fitted into what I wanted. Similarly
I didn't think there was space for a guitar.
The lushness of the arrangement was also supposed to mirror the kind of
luxury hotels my wife stayed in on the trip with the reality outside the hotel
gates still ever present in the lyrics.
Most of my songs normally have some kind of moral theme underpinning
them but they are mostly within a contemporary guitar setting. This is the
first time I've tried to orchestrate a whole song and on the whole I'm quite
pleased and learnt a lot - like how good GB is but how limiting it can be for
tempo changes for instance.
My next song will be very different :-)
Your comments are much appreciated. I'll get some reviews of my own sorted
later.
Cheers
Dick
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the observational perspective of the lyrics. I kept thinking that it would be
nice if some piano and drums came in at some point, but the
orchestration is really nice.
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