My mate wrote and recorded this

Yellow Peril
Yellow Peril Posts: 4,466
edited March 2014 in The cake stop
https://soundcloud.com/jeffjepson/didnt-see-it-coming

Music is his big passion but he's stuck behind a desk like a lot of us. anyway this is his latest and I thought it was worth a wider audience. If you like it please forward on the link.
regards

YP
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  • team47b
    team47b Posts: 6,425
    Nice one! :D
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  • cornerblock
    cornerblock Posts: 3,228
    *presses button and swivels round in chair*
  • southdownswolf
    southdownswolf Posts: 1,525
    Bit boring, not my cup of tea. But it would be even more boring if we all liked the same music...

    I hear Coldplay blokey has split with his Mrs, so that will be even more drivel in the charts soon.
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  • Pituophis
    Pituophis Posts: 1,025
    southdownswolf wrote:
    Bit boring, not my cup of tea. But it would be even more boring if we all liked the same music...

    I hear Coldplay blokey has split with his Mrs, so that will be even more drivel in the charts soon.

    :D My thought exactly!
  • Yellow Peril
    Yellow Peril Posts: 4,466
    madasahattersley wrote:
    What software did he use? Sounds like he hasn't used the same reverb on the drums as he has on the guitar, and the cymbals are noticeably overcompressed.

    I did like it though :D

    I'll ask him Luke. I know he said the drums were recorded in a barn :shock: He's a bit of a music geek so he'll love the question
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  • mfin
    mfin Posts: 6,729
    The songwriting is all a bit naive really, but if it’s a first effort then that's completely fair enough, (cos that’s what it sounds like). Also, it’s using ‘first thing that comes into your head lyrics’, it’s all bit sixth form at the same time as the whole thing sounding watered down. What it sssssoooounds like is that someone’s knocked up any old thing in 10 minutes just to try recording. (Also, repeating the song title all the time doesn’t automatically make a hook).

    I’d say the best thing to do if writing at this standard is to go listen to a lot of great music and set your own bar just as high with regards song-writing, then strive to write the very best songs you possibly can. Then, listen back yourself to what you’ve created and ask yourself if it compares to what’s selling in that sort of genre, it probably won’t (unless you are good) but at least you know you’ll only ever be writing stuff for yourself.
  • Paulie W
    Paulie W Posts: 1,492
    Quite like the voice not so sure about the song though I think Mfin is a bit harsh in his judgment.
  • mfin
    mfin Posts: 6,729
    Paulie W wrote:
    Quite like the voice not so sure about the song though I think Mfin is a bit harsh in his judgment.

    Alright then, voice aside (so it's easy to focus on the songwriting), can you imagine any recording artist that you like/love performing this song and having any success with it whatsoever? Maybe you can but I would say there's not a cat's chance in hell.

    The guy can sing in tune though, that's a good thing.
  • Paulie W
    Paulie W Posts: 1,492
    mfin wrote:
    Paulie W wrote:
    Quite like the voice not so sure about the song though I think Mfin is a bit harsh in his judgment.

    Alright then, voice aside (so it's easy to focus on the songwriting), can you imagine any recording artist that you like/love performing this song and having any success with it whatsoever? Maybe you can but I would say there's not a cat's chance in hell.

    The guy can sing in tune though, that's a good thing.

    But there's a difference between saying that a song doesn't have commercial potential and saying that a song sounds like it was thrown together in 10 minutes! I agree that it's not especially catchy or memorable, I just think it is better than you give it credit for - it has a series of key changes that you wouldnt expect in a song written by someone who'd just pciked up a guitar.
  • mfin
    mfin Posts: 6,729
    Paulie W wrote:
    But there's a difference between saying that a song doesn't have commercial potential and saying that a song sounds like it was thrown together in 10 minutes!

    I agree there is a difference, so I will say both in this case.
    Paulie W wrote:
    I just think it is better than you give it credit for - it has a series of key changes that you wouldnt expect in a song written by someone who'd just pciked up a guitar.

    I didn't say or mean 'just picked up a guitar', in fact there's plenty of people who become really accomplished guitarists and life their whole life without writing a song, it's extremely common, almost the norm I'd say from what I've observed.
    Paulie W wrote:
    I agree that it's not especially catchy or memorable

    I think we basically agree, just we're coming at it from different angles.

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