hi coffeefairy

it's a pandemic more spurious and infectious than the most virulent form of aids or swine flu.

my home town was a nice place to grow up in, but maggie thatcher came along and the place has gone down hill ever since.

as industry moves out, drugs move in. there's always been an underlying drug culture here as everywhere, it's just that in the last 10 years everything has spiraled out of proportion. streets where decent people lived are being taken over by druggies and hoodies. boy racers and their small cars with big exhausts and stereo's. i'd like to just up and go, but who's going to buy my house? you need money behind you to get away! and you know, sooner or later the dross of society will follow...

so endeth today's sermon

nice work by the way, and as you can see, topical, thought provoking and makes you wish for a time gone by.

phill

bears, lions, wolves, they'll all rip out your throat! but then they will eat the meat. animals will kill to protect their young and to feed themselves, man will kill and has always killed for the power and enjoyment of deciding on another's life or death!

i've never understood why governments will invade, destroy and kill thousands, millions of people and for what purpose? to have an extra bit of land, a few more people to tax?

maybe it is time the world was rid of this vermin called the human race. all we have done since we stood up straight is steal from the ones that are prepared to work for what they have. kill out of jealousy, then rape the land and the women left after the holocaust.

yes i'm depressed, but moved by your words ken

for the sake of auld lang syne

phill

thanks all, i'd forgotten about this.

welcome back lena, i for one have missed you.

phill

hi there,

i suppose you could embellish this song with all sorts of fill-in chords, but i could imagine it with a bass/keyboard/drum backing and it just sort of builds up nicely, add a couple of harmonies on the second repeats of the verses and on the choruses, oohs and ahhs to build it up and you've got it. so why over complicate it?

nice work, liked the vid.

phill

Hi Peeps,

I've been quiet a while I know, I've gone through one of those dry spells. And rather than just write and post any old garbage, I'd rather chill and let the songs [and poems] come in their own time!

This one [as quite a few lately] was inspired by one of my sons. He's "in love" with a psycho troll, who treats him like a whipping boy, if he so much as looks at another girl she bites and punches him, screams abuse she's even stabbed him! last weekend she slashed  his leather settee and smashed a window...so you can see where the inspiration for this comes.

A recording is in the pipe-line.

Phill

hello russel me auld muckka!

glad to see your still plucking away, i'm also happy to hear your gonna do some gigs, will we see them on your myspace?

nice song and well played and sung, i've never heard it before either, but it does tend to stick in the mind.

talk soon my friend

phill

hello again elizabet,

i'm reading your work top down, which means your last posting first! another profound piece of work, myself; i've never understood women who are enamoured by men who use violence to put their point across...different strokes...

this is a fuller story than "just read this" but it could well be a continuation of it.

you have a very strong style and tackle the love problem straight on. one thing though, a little bit of background would be nice. this is just a personal thing as i like to know what your mind set was at the time of writing, and if it's a work of fiction or did happen.

hope it all works out for you with this guy

phill

hi guys,

i'm not a uke player, but i followed toney's link and played along with some of the songs on there with guitar, which worked just as well, what a great site, thanks toney, i'm gonna bookmark the site and go back when i feel like jamming!

phill

hi anastasiak,

there's a lot of good advice above, but at the end of the day it's all down to what you want to do!
if you want good quality recordings that you wont feel embarrassed about when you play them to others [on chordie...hopefully] your best bet is to get a multi-track digital recorder, new one's can be expensive, but there are most likely used one's out there.

multi-tracking means putting different sounds onto separate tracks, without affecting the sound on each, therefore you can mix the tracks when you've finished recording to get a balanced sound, with possibly one guitar in the left channel, another guitar [or keyboard] in the right channel and your vocal track in the middle.
you can also add harmonies, bass, drums etc, all at different times and independently.

overdubbing simply means recording eg a voice over a pre-existing guitar track. with this method you cant remix at a later time, so you have to make sure the mix is correct before starting.

as already mentioned above, you can get a recorder that will interface with your pc, so you may be able to transfer your tracks onto audacity to mix down and add effects, check russels tutorial in the sticky section above.

if you really want to get into recording it can get very expensive and complicated, so beginners kit would be;

a recording device.

a good mic, [i use a beyerdynamic stage mic through an alesis mixer].

i prefer using a guitar pick-up as i always end up knocking the mic or over or under recording, or picking up the sound of people walking out side or cars passing.
some recorders have a built in metrognome, but if yours doesnt, you may want to get a drum machine to keep the beat.

that's it, your basic starter kit, or if you prefer you could down-load audacity [it's free] then get a decent mic [ensure you have a mic interface on your pc before lashing out your hard earned]
and follow russel's instructions.

happy recording, and let's hear them when their done

phill

hi ken,

i'd love to be there just for the craic [i think that's irish...still] unfortunately i'll be doing my usual thing of boring some poor unsuspecting drunkards into getting drunker as i sing 2 or 3 hours of rock pop and c/w music [mainly from the 60's] do you think they'd like that up there? if so i'm on my way...have a good un my friend

phill

i found chordie by accident! i googled "songwriters" not expecting any replies, chordie was top of the list...i never got to the second!

i've been on other sites..."yahoo answers" and got totally narked by the apparent 10 year olds, swearing and acting like, well 10 year olds, make that 5 year olds, even the youngsters here act like adults!

after browsing the songwriting section for a couple of days, i thought i might contribute a song, then kept getting bombarded [or bullied] by roger [thanks rog, i need a push at times to get me going] to record the subsequent songs i posted...after a lot of false starts and help from said roger, i managed to set up a myspace page and up-loaded some tracks.

now i've been writing and recording for 30 to 40 years, but i believe my writing and recording have improved exponential since joining, as the standard was so high, i was afraid to shame my-self, so [as you do] i got better, not yet to a standard i aspire to but getting there.

so a big thanks to chordie and especially to per for his foresight and patience with me and a lot of others.

i would also like to thank, ken from sconny botland, kenny from canada, and not least for his help and greatly appreciated friendship russel harding

thanks again

phill