"Grace":
UPDATE: I gave up being such a lazy jackass for Lent* (the fact that I didn't update with this a week ago should tell you how well that's going), so here's an attempt to explain this song.
I've been playing the ukulele for a while now (exactly a week to the day after "Rise," so what should have been the first week of SoTW Year Two, and yes I have OCD). So far I'm not any good at it.
I can't really explain the title of this song except to say that like pretty much everything else I do it involves cartoons and insomnia and misplaced ambition, and that's it NOT a reference to a people's name. What I can tell is that like "Chord Storm" this evolved out of something I would do while I was practicing, and in fact I had originally (drink!) planned to post them together, but didn't have time. The idea was to do a lot of different styles-- so there's a funk section, a drummed section, a metal section, a blues section a folk section a sort of minor key flamencoesque section and and fast, surfy, tremolo picked section, not necessarily in that order and I may have forgotten one. Which is why it ended up being so long.
That said I'm kind of disappointed in this song. There are some good ideas in it but I don't think my playing is very good in it, and I had some problems figuring out how the pieces should all fit together, and just getting a good take of it in general. I think it's one of the songs I've did that definitely could be a good song (I'd list "Dread" as probably the best example of this tendency) but isn't quite there yet. Which is fine; part of the idea behind Song of the Week in the first place was to generate ideas like that. I can tell I'm getting there, though, since I was practicing this one a couple days ago and I think that what I played then worked better in terms of like musicianship and arrangement to how this one is being. That sentence contains either too few or too many words.
There was no song last week because my guitar string broke halfway through recording Sunday and it took till Saturday for me to get out to the store. Totally getting over this laziness thing.
*Lent is sort of like Catholic New Year's Resolutions, except that it lasts 40 days instead of two weeks, and instead of "giving up smoking," you're "giving up smoking for Lent."
I've been playing the ukulele for a while now (exactly a week to the day after "Rise," so what should have been the first week of SoTW Year Two, and yes I have OCD). So far I'm not any good at it.
I can't really explain the title of this song except to say that like pretty much everything else I do it involves cartoons and insomnia and misplaced ambition, and that's it NOT a reference to a people's name. What I can tell is that like "Chord Storm" this evolved out of something I would do while I was practicing, and in fact I had originally (drink!) planned to post them together, but didn't have time. The idea was to do a lot of different styles-- so there's a funk section, a drummed section, a metal section, a blues section a folk section a sort of minor key flamencoesque section and and fast, surfy, tremolo picked section, not necessarily in that order and I may have forgotten one. Which is why it ended up being so long.
That said I'm kind of disappointed in this song. There are some good ideas in it but I don't think my playing is very good in it, and I had some problems figuring out how the pieces should all fit together, and just getting a good take of it in general. I think it's one of the songs I've did that definitely could be a good song (I'd list "Dread" as probably the best example of this tendency) but isn't quite there yet. Which is fine; part of the idea behind Song of the Week in the first place was to generate ideas like that. I can tell I'm getting there, though, since I was practicing this one a couple days ago and I think that what I played then worked better in terms of like musicianship and arrangement to how this one is being. That sentence contains either too few or too many words.
There was no song last week because my guitar string broke halfway through recording Sunday and it took till Saturday for me to get out to the store. Totally getting over this laziness thing.
*Lent is sort of like Catholic New Year's Resolutions, except that it lasts 40 days instead of two weeks, and instead of "giving up smoking," you're "giving up smoking for Lent."
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