[Song of the Week is a "weekly" feature which is supposed to update every Thursday Friday, but almost never does. In it, Drew records a song, or attempts to record a song, or gives up and writes another movie review.]
So what I'm thinking is, I'm about 7 or eight weeks behind on SotW. And I need an impetus (if that means what I think it means) to do a post every day again, which various factors have been keeping me from doing. So hey, I thinks, I'll just do a Song a day for a week and kill two birds with one incredibly time-consuming stone. I have no idea if I'll actually follow through, but here's part six (of seven, obviously).
"Hawaii*":
I was tired. Tired because I actually worked today and got home really late, but also tired of using guitars. I like to do different things with each of these songs, and all of them this week have been pretty guitar-heavy**. I was trying to think of what I could do besides guitar, and wouldn't take very long to make, and I came up with: guitar.
But, it's not really a guitar. It's a Hawaiian lap steel (guitar), the first electric instrument ever***. Steel guitar has kind of a bad rap because its mainly associated with country music, which is fair, although obviously that's not the instrument's fault. So I wanted to do something different, to prove it, I guess. To defend my little bought-at-a-thrift-store-because-how-often-do-you-come-across-these-for-fifty-bucks-answer-I-don't-know guitar. My original idea was to do something that actually, sounded, you know, Hawaiian (the song's title is an artifact of that), but I didn't really know where to start. My other idea was to do something bluesy, but instead I came up with these kind of freeform experimental lullaby thing, which I like better. Also, at one point this song had words, but it lost them along the way. That's it, I think. I'd probably say more, but hey, tired, remember?
*You can say Hawai'i if you want, but it makes you sounds like a pretentious douche.
**Also lots of covers. I wanted to do another cover, but then I thought, four covers in seven day (especially four in row?). People are gonnaknow think you can't write your own songs.
***Mine is not actually the first. I imagine that's in a museum somewhere, or burned up in a fire.
Click here to see Part One
Click here to see Part Two
Click here to see Part Three
Click here to see Part Four
Click here to see Part Five
So what I'm thinking is, I'm about 7 or eight weeks behind on SotW. And I need an impetus (if that means what I think it means) to do a post every day again, which various factors have been keeping me from doing. So hey, I thinks, I'll just do a Song a day for a week and kill two birds with one incredibly time-consuming stone. I have no idea if I'll actually follow through, but here's part six (of seven, obviously).
"Hawaii*":
I was tired. Tired because I actually worked today and got home really late, but also tired of using guitars. I like to do different things with each of these songs, and all of them this week have been pretty guitar-heavy**. I was trying to think of what I could do besides guitar, and wouldn't take very long to make, and I came up with: guitar.
But, it's not really a guitar. It's a Hawaiian lap steel (guitar), the first electric instrument ever***. Steel guitar has kind of a bad rap because its mainly associated with country music, which is fair, although obviously that's not the instrument's fault. So I wanted to do something different, to prove it, I guess. To defend my little bought-at-a-thrift-store-because-how-often-do-you-come-across-these-for-fifty-bucks-answer-I-don't-know guitar. My original idea was to do something that actually, sounded, you know, Hawaiian (the song's title is an artifact of that), but I didn't really know where to start. My other idea was to do something bluesy, but instead I came up with these kind of freeform experimental lullaby thing, which I like better. Also, at one point this song had words, but it lost them along the way. That's it, I think. I'd probably say more, but hey, tired, remember?
*You can say Hawai'i if you want, but it makes you sounds like a pretentious douche.
**Also lots of covers. I wanted to do another cover, but then I thought, four covers in seven day (especially four in row?). People are gonna
***Mine is not actually the first. I imagine that's in a museum somewhere, or burned up in a fire.
Click here to see Part One
Click here to see Part Two
Click here to see Part Three
Click here to see Part Four
Click here to see Part Five
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