I am doing FAWM this year and they had a one-hour "song-skirmish" on Sunday afternoon. The rules: You were given a song title at 1:00 and you have to write, record and post a new tune by 2:00. Here's was my thing. I could have done it just on acoustic guitar, but "how boring!"

The song title handed out at 1:00 was "YES"

Wow! was I nervous! I didn't sing the first chorus correctly -- no time to fix!!!
15 minutes for the lyrics
15 minutes to pick a reggae/jazz demo song in Band-In-A-Box and change the chords (make them easier) and turn it into 16 bar verse /16 bar chorus. Save all the tracks as WAV files and imported them into Sonar. I used the "New Day - =KingdG.Sty demo"
20 minutes to record vocals, then guitar (guitar's not mixed right).
9 minutes to create MP3, load to site and fill in FAWM song info.

The vocals were done in one shot as was the guitar. The vox mixed OK, but the guitar was too low. I didn't get to practice enough to hear anything in my mind on this one, so I think I just plunked around in some kind of pentatonic scale. I think it was the G maj pent. Hmmm, the songs in F with a Gm7 chord -- no wonder it sounded funny (ha, ha). Got everything down with a minute to spare!!

MP3: http://www.jkt9000.com/html/yes.mp3

Kevin
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Yes!

(v1) In a world full of rules and No!
never anything fun, just whoa!
well it looks like you're making a mess
Do you think you're right
or just flexing your might
well it's time we heard yes

(chorus) Just say yes
it's not that hard to do
just say yes
don't try and think it through
just say yes
and you'll start to feel much better

(chorus) Just say yes
it's not like it's work
just say yes
it won't even hurt
just say yes
it's these moments we'll treasure

(v2) I seem to remember a time
when everything was just fine
but then the rules starting piling up
It hurts the brain
makes us all insane
Time to stop and just say What?

(repeat chorus)

Kevin: Vocal, acoustic guitar
BIAB: drums, bass, piano, muted guitar

Last edited by Kemmrich; 02/22/10 07:28 AM.
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