Shadows - My Own Song (written and recorded today 03/11/05)

[silvaone]

Woke up and wanted to write a song so I wrote this little song and named it Shadows....

quite simple...... complete in a few hours

it has different voices in the song i.e. strings, a back beat and piano.....

hope you like..... I enjoyed creating it

- Silva

[ted]

That's a very attractive song. If it only takes you a short time to make these up then possibly you should do it more often. I would opt for a fuller piano accompaniment, i.e. fatter chords, a bit of finger work, and no back-beat. However, that's just my personal view because the nature of the song seemed to suggest it to me.

[silvaone]

I appreciate your input I will have to learn some theory as Im not too good on chord structures and its harder for me to create more advanced pieces without this knowledge....

I hear what your saying about the backbeat.... it just sounds like a metronome haha however, in its defense it is sort of an accompaniment to the songs theme about the monotomy of life

thanks for taking the time to reply, I truly apreciate it

- Silva

[Derek]

Dude...thats a sweet song. It's like the darkest blues song I've heard yet. In terms of the backbeat, maybe use a "finger snapping" sound and add some slow, trudgy drum loops or something. That might be pretty awesome.

Lol...thats just some ideas I got cause this song really sent tingles down my spine. I love the blues. Thanks for sharing!

[zheer]

I must admit i did like that song, it has potential if you work on it  alittle more. It needs a climax somewhere. Anyway you can see a doctor they can help you with the depression, obviously you are not a happy man.

[silvaone]

haha Im not THAT depressed lol.........   

I guess it does have elements of the blues but I wouldn't say it was THE BLUES as such..... I guess my vocals reflect blues as I used the blues scale in D to write the voice (or at least to work it out)

Id really like to be able to write more music... it is very hard :-/

I'm not educated enough in the ways of theory, Ill have to get on that! :0

thanks for all your comments

- Silva

[ted]

If you can create things like this in a couple of hours then it isn't true to say that writing music is hard for you, and you certainly don't have to study a lot of theory. You have a nice intuitive approach to what you are doing and you don't want to bog that down with prerequisites.

Expand your chord vocabulary by all means, but in a personal, intuitive way - not according to a book or a theory or how somebody else tells you. All you do is take each new chord you think of and play it around the twelve positions (keys), breaking it into such interesting rhythms as you see fit. You bend the technical material to suit what you have to say, not the other way around. Intimacy with the keyboard after this fashion is not the same thing as theory, but it's much more important when it comes to creating your own music at the instrument.

Study theory if you must but don't let it stop your mind running free in your own style. Saying what you want to say is much more important than learning somebody else's bag of tricks.