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Sorry this took me so long--my week blew up! Here's the piano track: http://www.filefreak.com/files/832654_gt0dx/Rosyposie%20collab%20piano.mp3

If you have time to do something with it, awesome. If not, don't sweat it--I'm super busy and behind on my collabs too.

Hey Rosie. The lyrics are up now! :)

So I know we were talking about a collab. I have a piano track that needs lyrics/vocals. Shall I send it your way?

thanks for all your lovely comments on my stuff!

Thanks for your comments on my/our songs. I really appreciate the constructive criticism (as opposed to just "this is great!"). I struggled mightily with the phrasing on both of the Dee songs--for some reason they were both really difficult to sing over the slow changes, but the changes felt right. I took them as far as I could, and I'm happy but not entirely satisfied with how they turned out. I think I need to work on them with a band. The Lennon comparison makes me feel better, because he often had that kind of languid phrasing--I can live with that. :)

There's a middle bit? In a one-minute song? :)

(Thanks!)

And so... the title is changed!

This was GREAT FUN :D Thank you so much!

Hey Rosie, I enjoyed in your songs, have been listening to them some time ago and now got back on them... Love especially "Where has my money gone?" - world class! I do not know if you are too busy at the moment or if there are any lyrics of mine you could eventually use for anything... however, if you like and if you can afford the time, I`d love to invite you to drop by and to have a look at some of them... In the case you find anything "interesting", I`d look very, very forward to a possible collab...
kind regards

Hey--thanks for liking my little tiny song!

Hallooooooo!

I'd be happy to collaborate with you. :) Sorry it took me so long to get back to you about it. My life is crazy busy at the moment, but once it's settled down some, I'll hit you up.

Hey Rosie - I'm working through "songwriting secrets..." i'm about 100 pages in, it's a hard slog but definitely rewarding. The NSFW tag is just a consideration for people who might be listening somewhere where and 'bad language' might be a problem, it's not a value judgement and I thought the song was perfectly fine as is - the FAWM site tends to pick them up automatically - occasionally it's hilarious what it accidentally tags. Wait till you've been on garageband a while - you'll recognise loops popping up everywhere TV, professional songs...

Hey, can you mail me so we can discuss stuff away from this site? I have some ideas I'd like to kick around with you, but we can't let everyone else in on it ;)

You can reach me at abomnium at gmail dot com

I like the idea of a children's choir for my "Strange Creatures". It would have to be tested. But I don't know if I could find an English speaking children's choir. There is an internations school nearby, though.

Thank you for the very kind comments on "i remain" much appreciated.

Of course, feel free... I appreciate you working with me on it. Sounds like the story I had in my head or something similar... good luck with it...David

Yeah, just for the guitar parts. That's my standard technique....not necessarily recommended for everyone, though! Maybe it's because I'm too lazy to find the perfect spot to point the microphone at the guitar...maybe it's because I have a big, boomy jumbo-body guitar... but I find that if I record just through a microphone, the recording is missing quite a lot of the high mid frequencies, so I use the line-in recording to replace a few of them. Too much makes it sound scratchy and harsh, but mixing just a little bit in seems to work for me.

Hi Rosie :) You asked about who composed Enchanted Lake. Nadia composed it and plays it. I've put words to it am adding vocals. The plinky notes will be a bit of a stray rainshower hitting the lake. Thanks for listening and your comments :)

Thanks for the comments on my songs. The Dylan thing... I don't know. That whole song is weird--it just appeared in my head. No idea what it means. But it was fun and challenging trying to fit music to it.

The reason I called that line apocryphal is that it doesn't actually appear in any song and I don't actually know if it's really Dylan, I just heard somewhere about it, so it seems kind of... like twilight Dylan, or the sort of thing you might hear in a dream about Dylan.

Donna is great, isn't she? I've been blessed to be able to collab with her and Dee.

I'm in a terrible rut lyric wise. What if I send you a guitar track, and you see what you can do with it?

"A little dinner music" questions: it's a midi recording of a live performance, with the original piano (My industrial medeli digital) replaced by Garritan Personal orchestra piano sample. This one was recorded against a metronome so that I can get the sheet music. The cliche relates to the style of playing, the chord progressions and especially the use wherever possible of minor and major 7ths. To be really cliched, though, there should be lots of rising arpeggios filling pregnant pauses while the player desperately tries to remember how the tune goes next! Thanx for comments!

"Do you ever write lyrics/ do vocals too?"

Nope, I'm a terrible lyricist and a lousy singer.

"So what is the secret to bossa nova?"

Authentic bossa nova means taking a nylon string classical guitar and playing chords with a technique which João Gilberto developed in Brazil in the late 1950s. And singing very softly with romantic lyrics. In authentic bossa nova, everything is beautiful. It's South, sun, the sea, and flowers...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0Hx21knmj7w

...or a beautiful woman. (0:31-)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1hppP5erH-4

That's pure bossa nova; it's like refined folk music and many of the Portuguese lyrics are beautiful poetry.

Bossa nova suited Frank Sinatra
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K1bVpbu8bXQ

Antonio Carlos Jobim is quite generally considered the other main co-creator of the genre; he was much more into jazz than Gilberto and he played the piano. So from the beginning, it was an option to use the piano instead of the guitar. But purists say it's the guitar that's the heart of bossa nova. The guitar that functions as the bass, the harmony, and the percussion.

Outside of Brazil bossa nova would often transform into something a bit different; many times I've come across a slow beat that resembles bossa nova but is rhythmically more straightforward, i.e. having less syncopes. Many arrangers made lush sounding recordings with big orchestras. In Italy it resulted in a lot of lounge music still in the early 1970s.

Bacharach and Dusty Springfield; this might still be classified as bossa nova, although it's a rather straight beat
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a28kY1-s-Vc

O Barquinho (Little Boat) offers one of the most characteristic chord progressions for bossa nova, full of downwards modulation; I think in music theory it's called a chromatic sequence, repeating the same pattern stepwise in different keys.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qKE1KfqqRnE

The bossa nova / samba fly bit me in the early 1990s. It was a couple of tracks of Chico Buarque's songs that Célia Vaz had arranged and performed at the guitar and Quarteto em Cy was singing, you know, polyphonically! And their faster sambas really groove.

In Rio de Janeiro the bossa nova era ended quite early. Strictly speaking the music by Buarque that I first heard was post-bossa nova stuff: MPB (música popular brasileira).

In some cases the MPB has become harmonically even more complicated than it had been with Jobim, who was really a genius. Here's some really wicked chord progressions by Toninho Horta (who, as a friend of the renowned jazz guitarist Pat Metheny, has been exchanging influences between MPB and fusion jazz). Many jazz musicians tend to appreciate bossa nova and some of MPB; but the attitude is different; jazz is more about improvising while most of the bossa nova solo passages are composed. And there are some dissonant chords and blue notes and harsh sounding brass instruments that tend to be avoided in bossa nova.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y6d4StzuLKw

Oops, sorry I got carried away! Just skip it and never mind. :)

Rosie

Basically it means - Veggies from heaven. Deliously tasty vegetable. Please feel free to play around with the words and as long as it isn't too much of a cull, I happy for them to be altered to fit your music.

Thanks

Dee

HI Roiseposy

Thanks for leaving a comment on the Allotment blues. No I haven't got any music for it but you are welcome to compose some if you're up for it! As i said, it doesn't flow well at the mo but is fixable. Drop me a line if you want to collab.

Cheers Dee

Thanks(: I uploaded a louder demo. Hopefully that helps.

And as for a conclusion, I guess there sort of isn't one.
I tend to not think those sorts of things through. =/
I guess she just never tells him aaaand so, she'll never know what he might say.

if you fancy making sweet music with my insane husband im very broad minded haha! have a go i cant wait to hear what you come up with!
no i dont write stories but yes these lyrics always start as a little story in my head which i make into a rhyme

haha, just for you I went and fiddled around with the settings and all and made it louder :D