Kali Ma Remix Experiment Sample

This quickie is my Day 3 song for Songwriting Month.

The Challenge/Prompt: Write a song featuring sounds from an electronic device (Gameboy, cell phone, etc.)

So, I didn't follow the prompt exactly as I should have, but somehow I stumbled across a site where you can make your own beats, and sample stuff etc. I Randomly found some sounds I liked and put them together, then threw a beat behind it. I know it's weird, and might make your ear strain to hear what's going on, but you should get it after a listen or two.

This one is DEFINITELY not done, and I even forgot to take out the clicks I was using to record the backing chords, D'oh! The site said the upload file was too large to use, so I had to revert to cutting the chords down into chunks...which kind of throws off the timing.

One thing I've realized by doing this SW challenge, is that I need a better audio editor. The volume of my sounds are always too low, and the quality isn't that great. Anybody have any good free, or cheap, editor suggestions?

I will say, I like the harmony with the chords I chose...IF you can hear them, I'm sure you will find them interesting too.

Anyway, the original song is, Kali Ma by Janina Gavankar

Nature's Revenge

This song is my Day 2 post for Songwriting Month.

The prompt was: Write a song that features some sort of nonverbal vocalization (like ooh, ah, or lalala...or anything else that moves you).

Chorus is a bit weak, and I don't think I like the development of each verse in 'the story' for sure...But, I love the last verse. I still cringe at my singing sometimes too. ;) Hope you like.

Nature's Revenge

Your calm and collected fins
Those perfectly poised scales
Gliding purposefully through fluid competition
You’re a practiced assassin
And with a quick flick of the tail
You don’t always lash out at the smaller ones

We gotta watchit watchit watchit watchit watchit watchit or nature will crack
And when it’s coming coming coming coming coming coming for you
You better run run run run run run and don’t look back

Ooh, nature’s wantin revenge
It’s given all it can
It’s time we make amends
Ooh, nature’s getting revenge
Ooh, nature’s getting revenge
Getting revenge
Getting revenge
Getting revenge

You’re contently perched
Stuck in river moss and mud
The details of your age warming in the sun
You shrug at all the visitors
Thudding on your back
Interrupting your ageless conversations

We gotta watchit watchit watchit watchit watchit watchit or nature will crack
And when it’s coming coming coming coming coming coming for you
You better run run run run run run and don’t look back
Ooh, nature’s wantin revenge
It’s given all it can
It’s time we make amends
Ooh, nature’s getting revenge
Ooh, nature’s getting revenge
Getting revenge
Getting revenge
Getting revenge

Antagonizing winds
In the howling darkness waiting
Feel an urge to run as knotted eyes glare
I hear the hissing harmonies
Get the bony limbs a flailing
These angry junipers really make me scared

We gotta watchit watchit watchit watchit watchit watchit or nature will crack
And when it’s coming coming coming coming coming coming for you
You better run run run run run run and don’t look back

Ooh, nature’s wantin revenge
It’s given all it can
It’s time we make amends
Ooh, nature’s getting revenge
Ooh, nature’s getting revenge
Getting revenge
Getting revenge
Getting revenge

Songwriting Challenge Day 1

At about 8:30pm on May 1st, I discovered that May is Songwriting Month...JUST IN TIME!!

The idea is that you attempt to write a song every day in May. On this site NSWM, they give you prompts. Today's prompt was: Write a Love Song to an inanimate object.

Why wouldn't I choose the Banjo? DUH!!!

Anyway, I'm pleased with this one.

Love Ya Ol' Banjo

Your carefully oiled grain, your tightly ringing hide
Man & nature humming through your wire-wood delight
Those tense & twangy strings, wave in unison
My delightful singing, eternal companion

Love ya ol’ Banjo sitting on my knee
From smoky mountains to the salty seas
Make us stomp our feet, and sway to the beat
Banjo, I love the songs you sing!

Wildfire fingers soothing countless ears
Endless adventures, crossing barriers
Through choruses of hurt, in triumph we’ll grow
Pleasing crowds with chords to banish sorrow

Love ya ol’ Banjo sitting on my knee
From smoky mountains to the salty seas
Make us stomp our feet, and sway to the beat
Banjo, I love the songs you sing!

Solo!

Love ya ol’ Banjo sitting on my knee
From smoky mountains to the salty seas
Make us stomp our feet, and sway to the beat
Banjo, I love the songs you sing!

Apocalypse Sue!

Hello!

Here's a collaboration I did on Reddit, with /u/notarobat.

Lyrics by: /u/notarobat, Music by: Me(Although I did take a few liberties with the lyrics)

Apocalypse Sue!

Lyrics:

Jump rope lying on the dusty pavement
Echoes in the air crying 'Save me, save me'
Got a dead dogs eyes looking up at me
I'm stepping over bodies like one, two, three…While I sing

La di da di doo it's apocalypse Sue
Popping up from behind a fallen spruce
She's crazy as the day is and her clothes are loose
She used to have a kid once
That the world led away with a noose

And "Who are you?" we say when we see new faces
Because its rare to see a living one around these places
If we're hungry we gouge out their eyes
That’s four, five, six days of food they provide…While we chew, it’s

Curling up in ashes now to fall asleep
Surrounded by old tin cans in case they try to creep
I may need to run before the morning breeze
But, I got seven, eight, nine ways to make them bleed …and they scream

And the bad ones die and the good ones too
Some rest like deadwood in rivers of goo
Some lie in the streets between the cracks and the ashes
Some ten met their end swinging from dying branches …to the rhythm of

Songwriting Post: Mike's Birthday Song

Hello,

I wrote a song in about 30 minutes collectively today and last night.

It's a short song in honor of Mike Toth. An awesome fellow whose trade is painting. Mike is an outdoorsy/nature loving manly man, so naturally the background video was a catch. Anyway, it's a cool, simple song I think.

Hope you like!



MIKE!
Lemme tell ya 'bout my good friend Mike!
A humble man, that everyone likes.
He’s a solid canvas framed easel.

So shoot whiskey, smoke spirits, ride your bike.
Tie one on, blow your harp, do what you like!
We’ll raise a glass for you, paint the town with you!
You're good people!


Happy Birthday, MIKE!
You're an experienced speckled Pollock masterpiece.