More Songs

Well, it’s been a couple of weeks since my first singing lesson, and I’ve had to rest the throat a bit, swallow more than a bottle of Manuka Honey (a spoonful at a time, in intervals) and generally wait until the voice has returned and the coughing and soreness has stopped. Meanwhile I’ve been editing some of the tracks down and have successfully got most of them down to around 4 minutes, except Daytime, which even with severe chopping is still 4:35. I’m not sure I even like it as short as this, but it may grow on me…. We’ll see.

Matthew contacted me just over a week ago (28th April) to ask me to send over my first song. We’d agreed on Watching the Rain last time we met.  I have exported my audio tracks from Logic Pro (they use Cubase over at 360AD) and supplied the MIDI tracks as well if they want to use them. Matthew also asked me for a lyric and chord sheet (although I had to admit the chords were in my head, so I had to go away and write them down….!).

Dropbox came in very handy here for file transportation… It is definitely the best way to send large files like this, and has proven invaluable already. Anyway, all is now quiet. I have no idea what they are doing with the track now… Guess I will have to prompt for feedback soon…

The creativity never stops though… I’ve just written and recorded two new songs at home: ‘Lost and Found’, a bit of a war story, and a catchy tune called ‘Only the Good Ones Go First’, which is a quirky but slightly upbeat song (!) inspired by all the recent celebrity deaths, as well as the passing of a friend, rather in the vein of Loudon Wainwright III or Billy Joel’s ‘Only the Good Die Young’. The latter song I may submit up to Matthew as an alternative to Daytime, but we’ll see what he does with Watching the Rain in the meantime…