If you know, you know.
Was feeling super uninspired again this week but I gave it my best shot. Now that I'm done, I'm going to go watch Twin Peaks with the wife. Maybe make some Huevos Rancheros.
‹ Lyrics
Fire walk with me
Angel in a red curtained dream
Fire walk with me
Cherished fawn drifting down the stream
Secrets past, behind portrait glass
Fading fast red dream
Searching for reason
Drifting through prisms
Fire, Fire, Fire, Fire
‹ Song Notes
Been working on this song since like 10am my time (submission is 5pm). I was able to find chord voicings and melodies I liked on the piano and guitar but had a hell of a time trying to combine them together in a way that sounded pleasing to my ear. I'm going through one of those "Everything sounds like shit to me right now" phases.
Anyways, I also didn't want to continue going more weeks without attempting to sing something so I'm just putting myself out there. Maybe it'll be humbling, I don't know. I recorded these vocals in the last couple of hours so they could definitely have used more work. This is the kind of song where I kind of wish I had come up with a majority of it earlier in the week so I had more time to workshop it. Personally, I don't like that I sang over the piano melody for the verse section because I feel like that has created the problem where both the vocals and the piano are competing for your attention as a listener. When I realized this, I tried recording a second version of the song where those same singing parts are over the "instrumental" section, but I felt like it was maybe too late in the process to be making such a drastic change to the arrangement. Also, I cut out a few repeats of the instrumental section because I didn't add any additional melodies or layers so it sounded redundant. I think I also run into the problem of redundancy during the "Fire" section that closes out the song. I would have probably tried adding something else over the top (backing harmony vocals maybe?)
Also, because I've been working on the song for most of the day, I haven't had nearly enough time to just take an extended break and come back and listen to the mix. I'm aware that it's way too bassy and that there's barely any separation in the instruments but I'm out of juice.
So yeah, all in all, it's not *bad*, but I think it's probably the weakest song I've done so far. Which is probably a good problem to have. I feel like I've had this fear of failure after the first 4 songs this year so having these small failures kind of relieves some of that pressure.