tracyshaun

These last two weekends have been fairly productive for me and my music.  I finished up writing a song (the first in a month!) and put it and two other songs down on “tape”…  I had been getting a little frustrated with myself for putting off recording weekend after weekend.  I was writing & performing a lot but didn’t have much to say when folks would ask if I had music online they could listen to.

I simplified my approach by limiting myself to creating a sparse instrumentation for each of the songs.  I captured the basic guitar I play when I perform the song solo as well as a quick 2nd guitar part.  Then layering in the main vocal part with a single harmony part.  I also put down a sampled bass to give it some depth and a very simple drum part on one of them.

These are by no means “releasable” songs, but I’m building up a decent set of demo songs to start seriously shopping my music around places for gigs and at some point some wonderful benefactor who will help me fund better recordings for a serious first album.  I’m already at the point where I will have to cut out songs for the album, or maybe I’ll just go straight to a double album to begin with

The Songs

You Will Know It\’s True (demo) — written last summer during a rush of first songs.  It came out nearly complete both melodically and lyrically.  Just a few tweaks here and there and it was good to go. (download)

Julie Lynn (demo) — a sweet little song for my wife, Julie.  In my attempt of the 50/90 project earlier this summer, I did write about 7 songs (all within the first 2 weeks)… this was one of them.  It also was nearly complete on its first appearance. (download)

The Whole World Through (demo) — I went nearly a month and a half without completing a song and I was getting pretty cranky.  I wrote a poem in an odd notebook a few weeks ago that I rediscovered when organizing my music and writing.  I sat down and improvised some music that I tried the lyrics on top of.  It worked great!  I reworked the lyrics a bit and came up with this brand new one! (download)