Thank you Phill for your Kind words. I appreciate your feedback and the way you have mentored me in music. I will attach me having a go at my song above just recorded on my cell phone.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PStNfq1Ea2I
826 2021-10-18 21:10:14
Re: Place In The Pack (6 replies, posted in Songwriting)
827 2021-10-18 06:30:06
Topic: Place In The Pack (6 replies, posted in Songwriting)
This is a sort of blues I'm working on. As usual I break all the lyric rules. I'm not very good with chords I was thinking of playing this with three chords. Opening lyric with a D7 and finishing lyric line with a D7. Maybe play the rest in a 4 /4 timing with a C7 and a G7.
Place In The Pack
I don’t need to be one of the sheep.
No I don’t.
I just need to be who God made me to be.
It is quiet simple I just keep things simple.
I don’t want to be any famous leader of the pack.
I’m quiet happy to be one of the cards in the stack.
My place is just as important as a Ace or king or a Queen.
I’m quiet happy to be a card in the pack.
I am happy to be just little old me.
I don’t want to be someone else’s image of me.
I don’t listen to their stupid voices trying to change me.
I’m just what you see.
Not too flash but hopefully humble as can be.
I’m a little bit rough round the edges that makes me comfortable.
I just want to be another card in the pack.
I don’t need to be the Ace or the King or the Queen.
Ill follow my dreams.
Ill keep things simple on the scene.
I don’t need to be someone else’s version of me.
Ill just stay the way I was made to be.
it is a simple fact I got with the good man above.
828 2021-10-17 19:54:04
Re: PENANCE (9 replies, posted in Songwriting)
Those are brilliant lyrics Beamer that could work with music played in all sorts of genres. I like the way those lyrics are open to all sorts of back stories.
829 2021-10-09 08:07:07
Re: I can feel the love (3 replies, posted in My local band and me)
That has a good dance pop feel to it.
830 2021-10-09 08:04:30
Re: This is goodbye (3 replies, posted in My local band and me)
That is a good break up song.
831 2021-10-05 21:03:45
Re: Something to break the skid- NGD :) (10 replies, posted in Chordie's Chat Corner)
Good one Jim, I was starting to think chordie had died and everyone had left, Nice looking guitar you got there.
832 2021-09-26 00:08:56
Re: ISC song writing contest (5 replies, posted in Chordie's Chat Corner)
Easybeat if my memory is correct there wasn't any need to pay dollars to enter that contest you entered.?
833 2021-09-23 08:13:51
Topic: Can't Take It From You (0 replies, posted in My local band and me)
Here is me doing a you can do it sort of song. I perceive a bit of a lack of confidence or negativity going around at the moment so I wrote this as a positive song as result of that. .
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9NdsrcN-V3E&t=82s
834 2021-09-13 04:57:59
Re: Don't Want No Noise (4 replies, posted in Poems)
Phill Williams wrote:
I try to keep my head on my shoulders these days lol.
Without the natural world and all the beautiful flora and fauna what will be left? We are destroying what makes this world! Your words resonate my friend.
I love the sound of the birds and bees and breeze through the leaves of the summer trees.
The scent of flowers, gardeners hours, spent lovingly caring for spring and summer display.
Birds chirping or flying to and fro.
Lazing in a summer meadow, stay, never go.
Good one Phill
Laying in the paddock listening to the mooing of the cows.
I wont go into the next paddock that’s where the sheep have eaten all the flowers.
835 2021-09-13 04:47:36
Re: Thunderstorms (Beneath her sky of Blue) on Soundcloud (4 replies, posted in Songwriting)
Jim it is good to hear a song tackling this global epidemic of depression, anxiety and the tragic things happening around mental illness. Well written sung and played.
836 2021-09-12 08:59:09
Re: Don't Want No Noise (4 replies, posted in Poems)
Thank you Jim for taking the time to have a listen and leave a comment. I tried to give it a bit of a Neil Young Vibe. I like spending time just taking in nature it helps keep my head in a good space.
837 2021-09-11 11:32:22
Topic: Don't Want No Noise (4 replies, posted in Poems)
Though I wrote this about one of my happy places to be in life enjoying nature. I have also done it as a folk song attached.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VTn_kVjbeIo
Don’t want No Noise
Don’t want no noise around here.
Just want the sound of the birds and bees.
The rustling of the trees.
Don’t want no noise around here.
Don’t want no noise around here.
A little sound from rustling trees.
A Tui or a bird or two
The humming of the bumble bee.
Don’t want no noise around here.
Don’t want no noise.
Don’t want no noise around here.
838 2021-09-09 03:51:02
Topic: Beatles Reality And Myth (3 replies, posted in Chordie's Chat Corner)
I have always thought there was a lot of acrimony between the Beatles when they broke up. After checking out a video interview with Paul McCartney about the upcoming film about the Beatles by Peter Jackson I think I may have brought into a myth when in fact there was a lot of joy around the Beatles last recording project. Maybe some of the reported tension with John and Paul was really clever marketing??? Short video attached.
839 2021-09-06 05:53:24
Re: The Instrument (9 replies, posted in Songwriting)
That has come together good Jeff
840 2021-09-01 05:47:24
Re: Any luck at all (11 replies, posted in Songwriting)
Clever Blues. I like a good storyline in a song and you have done that.. Maree and I, years back went down to Tijuana for a day from LA on a bus. We were given a map on the bus showing us the safe area to walk around and the area that weren't. Maree and I stuck to the suggested safe area another couple on the bus decided to ignore the advice got mugged they lost their money but got to keep their passports.
841 2021-08-24 23:25:21
Re: charley watts (2 replies, posted in Chordie's Chat Corner)
Sad to hear of Charley passing, He use to have a big band called The Charley Watt Big Band that played all sorts of popular big band music Glen Miller and so on. When we lived in London they use to play at the Richmond Theatre a few times a year which Maree and I went to one of their concerts it was different and good. Sometimes we saw Charley being driven around Richmond in summer in one of his vintage cars with his big Afghan Hound sitting in the car enjoying the breeze while having the car hood down. RIP Charley.
842 2021-08-23 23:10:48
Re: Just A Thought (2 replies, posted in Songwriting)
Cheers Phill. Over the last few days I have made a lot of phone calls. I'm not normally much of a phone person but I have found it to have been a rewarding interesting way of catching up.
843 2021-08-22 08:16:11
Topic: Just A Thought (2 replies, posted in Songwriting)
We are in lockdown down here in New Zealand and I wrote this after talking to a friend who lives alone.
Sorry about the sound quality and my voice.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tEwmVvYEyk4
Just A Thought
Pick up the phone.
Give it a dial.
See if their at home.
It can’t be nice if your all alone.
Pick up the phone.
Let them know that your still their friend.
It can’t be nice if your all alone.
Pick up the phone.
Let them know that your still their friend.
Pick up the phone.
Dial their number.
Pick up the phone.
To say hello.
Hello how are you.
That all it takes.
That all it takes.
A little hello.
Is like saying.
Like saying I love you.
844 2021-08-21 05:00:14
Re: New Zealand Police On The Beat (3 replies, posted in Chordie's Chat Corner)
Cheers Piri I was hoping for some others to enter the lift with other instruments to add to the sound. Our Police have a very laidback down to earth style of policing mostly.
845 2021-08-20 07:07:09
Topic: New Zealand Police On The Beat (3 replies, posted in Chordie's Chat Corner)
A good use of an elevator.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2ZPL3mPRn_o
846 2021-08-16 03:43:34
Re: Beginner's Acoustic "Wagon Wheel" (8 replies, posted in JamPlay.com)
Thank you Bill that was interesting and I love the way he teaches how to play the chords to Wagon Wheel.
847 2021-08-15 05:52:41
Re: Always Lovers (5 replies, posted in Songwriting)
I like the lyrics Beamer and your backing track sounds good. I got a friend who gets on well with his ex wife and her new husband and he often tells me, "once I fell out of lust with her I discovered she could be a good friend."
848 2021-08-14 03:54:26
Re: Inspired by Mojo and Phil - Song called " Cryptic Trance" (10 replies, posted in Songwriting)
Jim you have put together a song with lyrical brilliance. The title "Cryptic Trance" superb. a perfect name for a band.
849 2021-08-07 06:10:23
Re: Everything, Everything (11 replies, posted in Songwriting)
Jeff that is clever how you put this song together. Brilliant how you use food and cooking in your lyrics. Definitely a Gold medal song your entry here in Bill's songwriting goal. challenge.
850 2021-08-06 08:40:19
Re: Money Don't Count For Nothing. (8 replies, posted in Songwriting)
Thank you Bill , Brian and Jim for your comments If it was good enough for Pink Floyd and Abba to write about money it means there is plenty of room for Phill and I to add another song to the world on dosh. I actually only wrote a few of the lyrics and Phill did all the rest music vocals and so on. Phill is a genius when it comes to music and songwriting. I made the video and I hope it worked well with the song.