Mountain Stone
By myfirstpunksong on December 22, 2024 5:27 pm
ALL FEEDBACK ON MIX, SONGWRITING, PERFORMANCE, MIX ETC APPRECIATED.
A bit of a sloppy rushed one.
Came up with an approximation of this riff recently and put it down to get started.
I got kinda stuck (as I often do) with vocals. I find it quite difficult with writing vocal lines of melodies. Then this one I wanted even to be a bit less tuneful or melodic because of the nature of the lyrics, about being like unmovable like a mountain. Anyway I then started recording another idea, also struggled with a vocal idea, then came back to this.
What Went Well
- I enjoyed jamming a on the keys again, doing musical typing on my QWERTY keyboard haha. Been kinda fun to incorporate and play with different sound recently.
- In the end , the last lead guitar line, actually came on vocals (which come in behind after, if roughly). It was fun to write a part on one instrument then play it on another.
- I really enjoyed coming up with the lyrics for this one. Got the idea for vocals initially from a line in the Oh Sees song Animated violence 'I am warrior...'. It sounds so cool so kinda used that as starting point and then thought it would be cool to do different lines like on a theme of being like archetypical symbols of strength and cool shit. I was tired on Sunday when it came time to work on the track, but getting the lines got me kinda pumped to work on the track.
- Glad to show up and get the idea down.
- I love that WB gets me playing the guitar more often, and writing songs is like never far from my mind.
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Even Better If
- A second verse, with cool lines.
- Tided up key line a bit. Maybe experimented with the sound more.
- Better performed and recorded almost all parts.
- Mix was quick and dirty and sloppy.
- Not a sore throat from smoking too much when it comes time to record. Wanted to do more vocal takes and better screams but didn't really have it in me.
Ideas For Future
- Maybe take some of my favourite WB ideas from this year and work on them next year into fully realised version. An EP release, perhaps!
Happy holidays everyone, have a good one. One week left!
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P.S. ANyone know how to view my favourite tracks? I'd like to revisit some of them and do my year end WB list
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Lyrics (I'm not sure how to do the drop down thing):
I am wild beast, prowling through the forest
I am mountain stone, weathered but unbowed
I am iron will, forged in blazing fire
I am rising sun, chasing down the shadows
Audio works licensed by author under:
CC Attribution Noncommercial No Derivative Works (BY-NC-ND)
