does anyone who's ever written a song have any funny or ironic things they encountered while writing it? ... just off the top of my head i can think of 2.
1.) a few months ago me and meedleyx10 were thinking of a chord to finish off this phrase in a calm section in a song, and i played something on my keyboard, that fit real well, and we tried it out and really liked it. i kept hearing it and thinking i'd heard it b4 somewhere, but i couldnt think of where, so i let it go. then i realized it was the first 4 notes to the guitar part of Dont Fear the Reaper by blue oyster cult. (thats the *need more cowbell* song for all you SNL watchers out there) so we quickly changed it and haven't talked about it since.
2.) just today, whole band minus our singer, working on a part i'd written today for our new song, and meedleyx10 kept messing up, and we could figure out why. we thought he couldnt keep a straight beat or something. (he can keep a straight beat, infact he's a really amazing guitarist), so what we were doing was putting a guitar riff kinda like what romeo does in the solo section of Of Sins and Shadows underneath the solos, (pretty much every prog metal band uses it) and it sounds amazingly awesome in our song , until this one part where it falls apart. turns out that that riff only works when the time signatures are in constant even times, like 2/4, 4/4, 6/4, 8/4, 10/4, etc. well our's is phrased as three bars of 4/4, and one bar of 3/4. so the guitar riff would always come out sum'm like an eigth note or a quarter note earlier than i did on drums, playing the usual drum beat for that riff for the three 4/4 measures, then straight 16ths on the bass drum and accenting certain 8th notes with the snare and crash cymbals for that 3/4 measure. so we all feel really dumb now and its all worked out. dont worry, its all under control. ...just feel REAL stupid.
... not so much funny as ironic and making me feel stupid, but i KNOW others have stories. c'mon. :Smug:
1.) a few months ago me and meedleyx10 were thinking of a chord to finish off this phrase in a calm section in a song, and i played something on my keyboard, that fit real well, and we tried it out and really liked it. i kept hearing it and thinking i'd heard it b4 somewhere, but i couldnt think of where, so i let it go. then i realized it was the first 4 notes to the guitar part of Dont Fear the Reaper by blue oyster cult. (thats the *need more cowbell* song for all you SNL watchers out there) so we quickly changed it and haven't talked about it since.
2.) just today, whole band minus our singer, working on a part i'd written today for our new song, and meedleyx10 kept messing up, and we could figure out why. we thought he couldnt keep a straight beat or something. (he can keep a straight beat, infact he's a really amazing guitarist), so what we were doing was putting a guitar riff kinda like what romeo does in the solo section of Of Sins and Shadows underneath the solos, (pretty much every prog metal band uses it) and it sounds amazingly awesome in our song , until this one part where it falls apart. turns out that that riff only works when the time signatures are in constant even times, like 2/4, 4/4, 6/4, 8/4, 10/4, etc. well our's is phrased as three bars of 4/4, and one bar of 3/4. so the guitar riff would always come out sum'm like an eigth note or a quarter note earlier than i did on drums, playing the usual drum beat for that riff for the three 4/4 measures, then straight 16ths on the bass drum and accenting certain 8th notes with the snare and crash cymbals for that 3/4 measure. so we all feel really dumb now and its all worked out. dont worry, its all under control. ...just feel REAL stupid.
... not so much funny as ironic and making me feel stupid, but i KNOW others have stories. c'mon. :Smug:
