I've been on the forum for years, but until now the only songs I've posted have been goofy ones for animations. But the past year's lockdown has got me streaming music again on Streetjelly and PalTalk, so I've been developing songs for streaming live. (I just don't have the knack of making good clean studio quality mixes, but I do like a good ol' nasty live recording!)

Having said all that, after years of recording cover songs, this is my first original blues.

The style used was _BTGSHUF.STY, but in the end I muted everything except drums and bass, then played my primary groove onto a 3rd track. I play mostly the same groove live, except in a few places where I have to simplify what my hands are doing in order to sing. I was shooting for a live 3 piece band sound.

Drum intro and outro were achieved by loading the entire real drum file for the style. I listened through the whole file for appropriate rolls, which were then cut and pasted to the necessary location, then unloaded the rest of the RD audio file.

An attempt at making the drums sound more 3 dimensional was done as follows:
I made 3 copies of the drum track, put the 10 band EQ on each track, then on each track I rolled back all the frequencies except the lows on one track, mids on the next, and highs on the other. Then I panned the low frequencies to center, the mids hard left and the highs hard right. It sounds better to make 5 copies, but hey.. resources, right?

Video is recorded with OBS STUDIO and a web cam.

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They lyrics are a bit contrived for the genre, but here's what I was shooting for:

the first verse is symmetrical.. the guys point of view. He wants them to be on the same page, so each line starts with constructs like "KNOW...KNEW", "THINK... THOUGHT", "HEAR... HEARD", "FEEL... FELT"... he mirrors her.

The second verse uses a similar construct, but with opposing words, since they are in fact NOT on the same page. "Die... Live", "see... blind", "joy... grief", "pray... curse"
Hence the title NO SOLUTION, which also appears in the chorus, where the disparity between what they want is finally realized by the protagonist/singer

In retrospect, I think trying to enforce these verbal constructs made the lyrics a bit stilted. What works as a song writing tool is sometimes at odds with the mood of the song. But it is what it is. Time to move on to the next song. ;-)

Lyrics:
I know you knew I was in love with you
I think you thought that made me your fool
I hear you heard I had bought a diamond ring
I feel you felt that wasn't cool

I want your love... you want my money
there's no solution, and that's not funny
To marry me would bring an end
to your stream of new boyfriends

I'd die to live my life with you
But I see you're blind to my grief and pain
What you call joy is the grief of others
I pray your curse won't make me insane

I want your love... you want my money
there's no solution, and that's not funny
To marry me would bring an end
to your stream of new boyfriends

https://www.dropbox.com/sh/ey71h8ep047758h/AAC12jNM0Hz9Q8zsh5iDeqNHa?dl=0