Well, my Latin translations haven’t been confirmed by any kind souls, but I’ve pressed on with Time Flies anyway.  Of the songs I’ve posted this month, this is the one I’m most unsure of.  Parts of it great, but there are bits I’d like to do some considerable work on too.  For that reason, this may not actually be the last version of the song I’ll post.  It is, however, finished enough to count towards my target and be the fourth song I’ve written and recorded this month.

Time Flies

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I’ve now got a third song completed (or completed enough, at least!).  Dreamscape started life as sketch7 a couple of weeks ago before I added lyrics and a title a couple of days ago.  I recorded the vocals fairly quickly today and also added some little embellishments here and there.  I have to say that I think this one has come out pretty well and even though there are a couple of things I’m not entirely sure about, they don’t sound bad.  It’s just that they might be better if I could work out what it is that’s not right.

Dreamscape

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It looks like this weekend is when I either succeed or fail.  Bearing that in mind, I decided to take a line and a half of lyrics that I scribbled down the other day and run with them.  I finally realised today that they were exactly the sort of thing I’d been looking for to go with a couple of riffs I posted way back on the first of the month:  sketch2 and sketch4.

I’ve had a completed backing track built around these riffs lying around for two or three weeks now and I was starting to think I’d never have the words to make it into a song (I’ve got a track that’s been in the same same state since November 06, so it isn’t that far-fetched).  But here we are – three hours after starting to write the lyrics, I’ve bounced down a complete demo track and I’m writing a blog post about the whole thing.

Wolf

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And the first song is complete.  ”Horizon” – formerly known as “sketch5″ – is complete in the form of a fairly decent sounding demo.  It ended up with a pop-rock sound and some folky elements – particularly the acoustic opening.

Horizon

I finished writing the lyrics today.  I still think they are a bit cheesy (although they could have come out much worse if I hadn’t rejected so many ultra-cheesy lines!) but they do somehow seem to fit the song so I’ve let them stand.  I’m quite pleased with what Mike Portnoy would describe as the “little Queen things” in the middle 8, and the electric guitar part in the second bridge is quite cool.

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