This is the last new video I'm posting today. This is a completely remixed version of If There Is A Day. The original version is here if you want to compare the two versions. The biggest change is that the new version adds an electric guitar, the first chorus loops a second time and the middle section is completely different.
Showing posts with label beat music. Show all posts
Showing posts with label beat music. Show all posts
Thursday, November 25, 2010
The Four Suns - If There Is A Day (lyrics video)
The Four Suns: Scarecrow (video)
This is the updated video for Scarecrow. The changes for this might not be as noticeable on computer speakers as the remastered audio from Revelation Dream, but if you get the free download from Bandcamp you'll definitely notice a difference when you play it on a real stereo. The bass is deeper and the kick drums are improved. The vocals are a little louder too, which gives them more clarity and makes them sound 100x better.
The Four Suns: Revelation Dream (Lyrics video)
Here is the updated lyric video for Revelation Dream. I finally got my head around the mixing process and you can tell when you listen to th new audio.
Monday, October 25, 2010
'Revelation Dream' Is Available FREE
'Revelation Dream' is available as a free download on Bandcamp
Tuesday, September 14, 2010
How To Become A Better Songwriter
Before I begin I have to get this out of the way: Most music sucks. There's no sense in making it worse, so stop.
I've been listening to my recently created Last.fm radio station and as an unsigned indie artist, most (read all) of the similar artists that get played on my station are the same. *NOTE* I don't choose who the "similar" artists are on Last.fm - they do all of that. So when I listen to the radio station, I'm hearing all of these bands for the first time. And most of them suck.
The first thing I've noticed is that most of the songs are well over five minutes long. I don't have a single song that I've recorded that's five minutes long. Because that's too long. There is a reason why radio stations don't play a lot of long songs, and it's the same reason most big labels don't usually let their artists put out long tracks as their lead singles. That reason is simple: People have a very short attention span.
If you're writing a song that's five or six minutes long you better change things up a lot. I mean Stairway To Heaven a lot, or Paranoid Android a lot. When people sit and listen to the same riff playing over and over it becomes more annoying than anything else - especially if it's not a very good riff (and most indie songs don't feature a lot of great riffs)
The radio stations don't want their listeners to change the station because the same song has been playing for ten minutes. They also don't want to play a single song and then have to go to commercial break because the song took forever.
It doesn't really matter weather you're talking about an FM radio station or an internet radio... people's short patience for songs that drag out doesn't change, so keep it short and simple please.
I could go on forever about this (which would be ironic) but there's a football game on! And besides, if you don't get it by now I can't help you.
Sunday, September 5, 2010
My 'Bad To Me' Cover
'Bad To Me' was a song that John Lennon wrote for Billy J Kramer and the Dakotas. Their version is ok, Lennon's is better.
This version is me. I'm playing the composition a little differently. I don't have a camera so I had to make a video of the lyrics instead.
Sunday, June 27, 2010
My 'Revelation' In Music
I wrote this song when I was about 15 years old. It didn't sound like this back then though. I used to just play the rhythm on an acoustic guitar and just sit and play 10 minute versions of it.
I found a bunch of old tapes I recorded back then and realize now, while listening to them, that I must have been really really high when I recorded them. If the me that's writing this met the 15 year old me that made those recordings... I'd probably have to beat the shit out of myself.
16 years later and I've added a bass, drums and some string instruments. I re-wrote all new lyrics (with a few lines from the original) and re-recorded it and I honestly believe it's an amazing song now.
The musical composition is nowhere near as complex as the rest of the stuff I've written over the last few months - especially songs like If There Is A Day or Mr. Frost - but I think it's simplicity is part of it's appeal.
Lyrically, I used the violent imagery of mother nature and a falling civilization to describe the musical flow and vice versa. When I say "everything stops and time stands still" the song goes into a break, and when I say "stars fall out of the sky in madness" the strings come in behind the main rhythm.
Interesting side-note (maybe) - The King Is Dead started out as a remix of this song before I decided to make it a follow-up/sequal and (hopefully) put it on the same album.
Tuesday, March 30, 2010
Mary Goes Round On Youtube
I made this simple animation to go with a clip of Mary Goes Round on youtube. If you don't make taking a few seconds to go to youtube and give it a thumbs up please.
And you can listen to the whole song on my myspace band page
Thursday, March 18, 2010
Blazing Son
This is an early backing track (incomplete) for a song I wrote. There are two guitar tracks and a few vocal tracks that I can't add until I get the equipment. It's meant to be spelled "Son" instead of "Sun"
Scarecrow
This is the backing track for a song I wrote. There are two guitar tracks, lead and backing vocals that I haven't added yet because I don't have the equipment. (unless you want to make a donation)
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