i've uploaded the song onto Myspace, you will hear it if you click the web link to your left.
i've also put it on sound cloud but have no idea how to set up the link, any help would be appreciated.
phill
2,927 2014-03-18 23:07:31
Re: REFLECTIONS(DREAM ON) (40 replies, posted in Songwriting)
i've had your email russ, i'll get onto it ASAP
2,928 2014-03-18 22:31:09
Re: REFLECTIONS(DREAM ON) (40 replies, posted in Songwriting)
hey grah, hope you're going to record the performance and post it for us all to hear in "battlefield conditions" so to speak?
2,929 2014-03-18 22:27:51
Re: You've Captured My Heart (8 replies, posted in Songwriting)
sweet little ditty there ken, you led me in totally the wrong direction. nice one.
phill
2,930 2014-03-18 22:23:10
Re: Eagles Parody (8 replies, posted in Songwriting)
artie, this is brilliant! 5 *. i had one heck of a job singing it as i was laughing so much. i actually do "take it easy" in my stage act, i may well use your version instead, gotta run before they taze me!
2,931 2014-03-18 22:17:52
Re: Monday Morning. (16 replies, posted in Songwriting)
thanks dino, i'm trying, or as the wife says; very trying!
2,932 2014-03-18 22:17:00
Re: Monday Morning. (16 replies, posted in Songwriting)
kap54 where are you? howdee ken great to hear from you after all this time. sometimes the songs just come out like that, hope the recording is up to the great comments.
phill
2,933 2014-03-18 22:14:52
Re: Monday Morning. (16 replies, posted in Songwriting)
hi russ. no it was an absolute nightmare! everything was wrong. i've done it again tonight from scratch, the beat was too fast, the drums wee awful, there were a multitude of guitar errors and the harmonies and vocal were sickening. i originally wrote it in Eb, then took it down to C, so my voice wasn't at all at home. so i've put it back up to Eb. i have finished the recording and i shall be putting it up on my space later. hope i get a few listens and comments.
phill
2,934 2014-03-18 22:09:48
Re: Monday Morning. (16 replies, posted in Songwriting)
hi tyson7, thanks, it took a bit of searching and knowing what i was looking for. i think the end result is good though.
2,935 2014-03-18 00:27:09
Re: Monday Morning. (16 replies, posted in Songwriting)
this is true artie, i haven't any personal experience in being dumped, i've just watched a lot of films 
OK thanks russ, i've done a scratch tonight, i'll have to listen to it again tomorrow to see if it's as bad as i think it is....!
2,936 2014-03-17 21:14:47
Topic: Monday Morning. (16 replies, posted in Songwriting)
I was in the shower this morning and unless I have to concentrate on something I'll always have music or a song going round my head. I guess most of us are like that? Anyway, as sometimes happens the first line of this song popped in my thoughts, so then I had to think up the second line etc. When I'd got the first verse I had to find a chorus, it just happens that I had 4 lines of a song that had been hanging round for a few weeks (it's always worth writing bits down) which became the chorus. The bridge is from a song that I'd scrapped a few years ago, worth keeping that too, to me anyway! I've just this minute finished it and will be recording it tonight.
Monday Morning.Undefined
[Am] When I woke-up Monday morning –
[C] I thought today will be a great day, [Am] yes I know. [C]
[Am] The sun was in the sky and shining.
[C] Every cloud had a silver lining – [Am] high and low. [C]
[Dm] My sweet baby called me, and I [G7] knew.
Life life could get no [C] better.
[Dm] Then she said those words and broke my [G7] heart.
“I never want to [C] hurt you baby.
[Dm] I never want to hurt you baby, [G7] but there's someone pulling us [C] apart.
[Dm] I never want to hurt you baby, [G7] but there's someone pulling us [C] apart.”
(CHORUS)
[G] How you [C] want it. [G] That's how you [C] got it.
[G] Be who you [C] want to be. But [Am] be who you [D] are.
[G] I know you're a [C] dreamer. [G] Your dreams mean the [C] world to you.
[G] Playing by the [C] rules. Never [Em] gets you very [D] far.
[Am] When I woke-up Tuesday morning.
With those [C] tears still in my eyes – hurting [Am] deep inside. [C]
[Am] Clouds from hell to daybreak, and the [C] rain was falling.
Wind was blowing – [Am] wished I'd died. [C]
[Dm] My front door and my phone were silent.
[G7] Not a sound but my heart defiant.
[C] Those words were playing [Em] over [Am] in my mind.
[Dm] When she said those words and broke my [G7] heart.
“I never want to hurt you [C] babe. [Em-Am]
[Dm] I never want to hurt you baby, [G7] but there's someone pulling us [C] apart.
[Dm] I never want to hurt you baby, [G7] but there's someone pulling us [C] apart.”
(CHORUS)
[Am] When I woke-up on Friday morning.
Storm clouds [C] disappearing, didn't [Am] feel so low. [C]
[Am] When I thought about my baby leaving.
As [C] if she'd died and left me grieving, [Am] on my own. [C]
And I [Dm] wondered who had stole my baby?
[G7] Never take her back, well maybe.
[C] And those words were playing [Em] in my [Am] mind.
[Dm] When she said those words and broke my [G7] heart.
“I never want to hurt you [C] babe. [Em-Am]
[Dm] I never want to hurt you baby, [G7] but there's someone pulling us [C] apart. [Em-Am]
[Dm] I never want to hurt you baby, [G7] but there's someone pulling us [C] apart.”
[F] You were my inspiration, [Fm] you were the backbone of my [C] life.
[F] Without you there how could I could I carry [Fm] on?
You're my dedication, [Am] still you hurt me with [G7] goodbye.
[Am] Once again it's Monday, [C] I wake-up feeling like [Am] today's the day.-[C]
(CHORUS)
2,937 2014-03-16 21:43:27
Re: Tattoo (9 replies, posted in Chordie's Chat Corner)
rap, techno, modern jazz, body piercing and tattoo's, just some of the things i'd rather not see or hear.... hate to offend so, sorry my opinion
2,938 2014-03-13 19:41:13
Re: REFLECTIONS(DREAM ON) (40 replies, posted in Songwriting)
save me a few minutes and tell me the BPM?
2,939 2014-03-13 19:35:09
Re: Backing Track Johnny Cash Style (18 replies, posted in Songwriting)
sorry did i fall asleep and wake-up ten years from now?
last time i logged, on chordie was a site for musicians/instrumentalists of basic to advanced abilities, so why would someone who can play (say) guitar want a "one size fits all" backing track?
sorry if i sound a bit grumpy, but this is slightly beyond my understanding.
2,940 2014-03-11 22:28:50
Re: REFLECTIONS(DREAM ON) (40 replies, posted in Songwriting)
oops, i should have read that 2 hours ago. have a look at your in-box.
2,941 2014-03-11 19:49:07
Re: REFLECTIONS(DREAM ON) (40 replies, posted in Songwriting)
i think i should clarify, what i meant by orchestrated was with bass and drums and maybe an organ or electric piano? i didnt mean full concert orchestra, tympani and chorus. simple without killing the beauty of the piece, "like a clock that no-one winds"
phill
2,942 2014-03-10 23:50:44
Re: REFLECTIONS(DREAM ON) (40 replies, posted in Songwriting)
nice, blues-y laid back bit of soul russ. good story too, with a message. i like the key changes in the chorus. i'd like to hear it fully orchestrated?
phill
2,943 2014-03-09 17:28:46
Re: Get out your checkbook guitar lovers (7 replies, posted in Chordie's Chat Corner)
such a travesty....
as you all say it's disgusting that such beautiful instruments that someone (albeit famous) once owned should be mothballed in some hermetically sealed room for some investor to keep hidden until it's time to recoup their profits!
if they went to a museum for public display i would be happy, but not for some pillock whose only talent is making money out of inanimate instruments. end of rant
2,944 2014-03-09 17:16:49
Re: Love on the Line (7 replies, posted in Songwriting)
it's another cracker TIGLJK, i used a strumming/country type rhythm, some of the words were a little cramped with my rhythm, but it's a winner.
2,945 2014-03-09 16:56:55
Re: Little Secret (4 replies, posted in Songwriting)
i really like it. it's a very poetic song and i'd love to hear it performed. i find it difficult to picture how a song is meant to sound just by reading the words and chord symbols.
well done, great theme, rhythm and meter.
2,946 2014-03-07 21:46:09
Re: Bridge over troubled lyrics? (7 replies, posted in Songwriting)
if you have a lot to say in your song then a bridge will break up the monotony of verse chorus verse chorus etc, which is why we tend to use solo's.
there's a good story of how the cream song badge was in the process of being written; george harrison wrote "bridge" but his writing was so bad eric clapton thought he'd named the song "badge" !
what has to be the best bridge ever is in queen's "bohemian rhapsody" the " i see a silhuetto" part, priceless
2,947 2014-03-07 20:20:37
Re: Just a Young Cowboy (10 replies, posted in Songwriting)
thanks artie, that's such a relief.
fyi, bob dylan took his surname from the welsh poet/writer dylan thomas.
2,948 2014-03-07 20:12:36
Re: Don't Waste Time. (3 replies, posted in Songwriting)
the Daug shown in the window is so awkward you need rubber fingers to do it, i just play from the D string: F#-Bb-D-F#. when you play that from the D chord it's easier and gives a nice transition. i'm working on the recording, but i've also got another 2 new songs waiting to be finished, so i'll get around to it and let you know when it's on you-tube
2,949 2014-03-07 00:12:19
Re: Today's classic remark (7 replies, posted in Chordie's Chat Corner)
I must admit I had to read it twice to get the joke. But did you chicken out of putting him straight?
2,950 2014-03-06 20:13:00
Re: Babys gone shopin again (11 replies, posted in Songwriting)
nice one grah, and very true. i took the wife shopping on monday and she somehow managed to lose her credit card. what a relief as she'd arranged to go to swansea shopping on tuesday! saved me the drive and quite a few shillings i expect.
FYI the "malls" are open every day, even sunday here in the old country. it must be nice to have a day off in crete?