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January 11, 2010

New demo: “Note To Self”

Here’s a quick demo of “Note To Self” (I posted a video of this song a few weeks back):

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One guitar, one shaker, a few overdubs, some flurbled chords and the roughest of rough vocals. And a hippie guitar solo I spent all of five minutes composing. Also, my first recording done with REAPER.

Read on for lyrics…

Note To Self

To whom it may concern:
it’s time to call your bluff
the hardest thing to learn
is you don’t want it bad enough

so lay the pen to rest
and commit to saner things
leave those strings to rust
another busted set of wings

and you fall behind
waiting for some planets to align
so what are you gonna do with your time?
tell me what are you gonna do with your time?

daylight slips away
and you feel it creeping in
in the faces and the names
of every place you’ve never been

and conscience is a curse
that you’ve never understood
but it won’t add up to much
and always nothing good

but there’s no crime
deciding where you want to draw that line
so what are you gonna do with your time?
tell me what are you gonna do with your time?

cutting corners
to find a shortcut to some truth
part the curtain
put this daylight
put this daylight to some use

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and I think it’s fine
deciding you don’t want to change your mind
so what are you gonna do with your time?
yeah what are you gonna do with your time?
tell me what are you gonna do with your time?

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And Jim Hodgson did speak thusly:

Dude this is a great song. You should be really proud.
And Howlin' Hobbit did speak thusly:

Good song. I missed the flubbed chords and, while I guess I’m not familiar with hippie guitar solos, I liked the one you did. Fit the tune very nicely.

I looked at Reaper a while back but hadn’t heard anything recorded using it. Once I get my *cough*DAW*cough* up and flying again I’ll probably stick with Ardour though. Took me long enough to learn how to do anything on it.
And Dave Peckens did speak thusly:

As expected from you, Scott. — Enjoyable.
And scottandrew did speak thusly:

Thanks Jim and Dave!

HH: I looked hard at Ardour but wasn’t brave enough to make the jump to a new operating system (although I loved the idea of moving to an all-free DAW). I chose REAPER because it was cheaper than re-purchasing Cakewalk Sonar when I bought a new WinXP machine last summer for recording. It’s a pretty intuitive program, actually. After install in only took me a few minutes to get something tracked…

The chords are only a little flurbled. Probably gonna re-track everything for a final version.
And America's Third Party did speak thusly:

Another great song! I’ll play it during our pre-show 6pm PST.