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garranOkay! Emboldened some by the overwhelmingly supportive response last time, I won't lock this one.
Missed is a rather older song than the last; I wrote it over three days in early 2002*, and I actually even recorded it once before, sometime that year, for Rachel. I no longer even have that file (though I'll bet she does), but I trust that this one shows at least some small improvement. (I'm pretty happy with it; the only really prominent flaw is a hesitation in the last verse, and the few bars thereafter stained with the resulting nervousness. Oh, and I manage at the end to sing 'thit's' instead of 'that's', but that's a pretty minor thing.)
For those who aren't familiar with the song, my explanation of the (perhaps over-) simplicity of the lyric is that I was going for early Beatles. The deepish guitar solo will, of course, probably sound very little like what stands in for it here.
* March, I guess, because I began it in the shower in New York, and I remember that I left on that trip right as Miho fell. This is, of course, a coincidence; the song is not about Miho (sorry, J.).
Missed is a rather older song than the last; I wrote it over three days in early 2002*, and I actually even recorded it once before, sometime that year, for Rachel. I no longer even have that file (though I'll bet she does), but I trust that this one shows at least some small improvement. (I'm pretty happy with it; the only really prominent flaw is a hesitation in the last verse, and the few bars thereafter stained with the resulting nervousness. Oh, and I manage at the end to sing 'thit's' instead of 'that's', but that's a pretty minor thing.)
For those who aren't familiar with the song, my explanation of the (perhaps over-) simplicity of the lyric is that I was going for early Beatles. The deepish guitar solo will, of course, probably sound very little like what stands in for it here.
* March, I guess, because I began it in the shower in New York, and I remember that I left on that trip right as Miho fell. This is, of course, a coincidence; the song is not about Miho (sorry, J.).
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Date: 2005-02-05 11:19 pm (UTC)-Garran
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Date: 2005-02-06 11:14 am (UTC)Overall harmonious. I continue to be very fond of the chorus. I'll poke you some more to explore the deeper part of your range, though. Some of the high parts start to sound strained. The lines
>I think it better
>If we never see each other ever
may be well served by going lower; it's certainly what my ear expects. I suppose there is something to be said for the artistry of falsetto, of doing what's unexpected, but that's my opinion anyway. (Also, I knew that this song was not about Miho. You've showed it to me before ^> ).
Early 2002 was three years ago. o_o I've been reading Megatokyo for three and a half, coming up on four years now. Piro's been drawing Megatokyo for nigh four and a half years. Sheesh. I guess we really do get older, after all.
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Date: 2005-02-06 09:41 pm (UTC)It is better than the old recording, and you've gotten better at singining (*preserves typo*) high. In both cases, though, I sometimes have a bit of trouble understanding the tune; I wonder if perhaps perhaps you change keys from verse to verse? Maybe you just have a lot of intricate instrumentation playing in your head.
Anyway, w00t. I love this song.
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Date: 2005-02-06 09:52 pm (UTC)The verses here actually sit quite comfortably in the lower part of my tenor, though at various places the song crests higher, like waves. I'm afraid you won't find me singing much deeper than this in many of my songs written to date (though there are a few). My compositions just seem to naturally tend up; perhaps I feel like there's more room for movement there.
Sheesh. I guess we really do get older, after all.
I know exactly what you mean. I tend to think of anything related to Megatokyo as being my recent life...
-Garran
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Date: 2005-02-06 09:56 pm (UTC)I wonder if perhaps perhaps you change keys from verse to verse?
I wondered this too, so I skipped around the soundfile, listening to the first and third verse (and then the first and second 'faithless') in quick succession. To my ear, they're all the same key. It does sound like something moves, though, doesn't it?
I don't think the guitar is very intricate, though it's remarkably specific as my head-instruments go. Early Beatles, you know.
-Garran
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Date: 2005-02-06 10:35 pm (UTC)I still want a recording of that. ^_^
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Date: 2005-02-06 11:30 pm (UTC)I performed it for you once, I think, in my old house...
-Garran
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Date: 2005-02-07 05:54 am (UTC)Also: I don't remember that at all. I'm pretty sure I've been consistantly wanting to hear it since you wrote it.
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Date: 2005-02-07 06:56 am (UTC)I'm likin' it quite much.