Little More...

Still on the subject of guitar and music (Or mucus as my Dad calls it) - I thought I'd do a post about my songs so far. For those of you who don't know my songs have been titled Work In Progress (I usually call them WIP on msn 'cause I can't be bothered to type Work In Progress all the time... It's a lot of letters). I have currently reached WIP part 15 (I did have an idea for part 16 but I can't remember it now, but no matter, I'll come up with something eventually).

So far they've been quite a mixture of genres I'd say. Here's a list of the songs with a very full description.

Part 1 - Metal (Drop-C tuning). Rather bad since it's the first song I wrote, could do with going through it making things better, but I can't be bothered, I'd rather write new stuff.

Part 2 - Metal again (Drop-C tuning again). Wasn't much better than the first one (Except for the fact it had a solo and drums, and I think the solo's rather good), until I started to go over it a couple of days ago and, with a bit of help from Calum, edited and added bits in to make it sound and flow better and make the solo easier to play.

Part 3 - Melodic Acoustic (Standard tuning). The first song I wrote using one of the seven musical modes, D Mixolydian. Isn't that long of a song (I think I got bored of it), rather nice, relaxing, soothing sounding song (Unless you're listening to it on Guitar Pro then it's not so soothing or relaxing sounding).

Part 4 - *Deep voice* Heavy Metal! *Ahem, resume normal voice* (Drop-B tuning). I like this song, but I doubt many people that're reading this would like it but that doesn't matter. I'd love to play this in person as I have harmonies and octaves in the main riff and in other parts of the song. But I need to add drums to it... I think I've given Gareth a copy of the Guitar Pro for him to have a go at adding drums for me.

Part 5 - Heavy Metal once more! (Drop-C tuning). The intro's one of 2 riffs I've made up to try and catch out Beanz while he was trying to drum along with me. Sounds a bit like Funeral For A Friend in the Chorus-like part of the song. Only have 2 guitars and I haven't completed it yet.

Part 6 - Melodic Acoustic again (Standard Tuning). I was sat at the computer one night with my Ovation practising some songs when I realised the dishwasher was making a consistent thump sound and I ended up making up a few bars to the sound of the dishwasher... Need I say more?

Part 7 - Heavy Metal once more again! (Drop-C). First song where I've put some proper drums in and it has the other riff I made up to catch out Beanz on the drums and I turned it into a battle between the guitar, bass and drums with Metal riffage. Yet again, another song I haven't completed.

Part 8 - My attempt at an Emo sounding song with Orchestral Instruments (Standard tuning). I haven't completed it yet and the song's based around the Em9 chord which is quite a sad sounding chord and also it looks like the word Emo (Some of you just looked back). In case you're wondering it's no-where near as good as many classical musicians, namely Bach.

Part 9 - Rock/Metal (Drop-D). I used the song Just A Glimpse by Inme as inspiration for the song but just by chance when I was making it up I could tell that it wasn't in the standard time signature of 4:4 and it turned out to be in the time signature 14:8. It remains unfinished as I'm typing, I hope to finish it and put a solo in it somewhere at some time.

Part 10 (Beginning To End) - Rock/Metal again (Drop-D). I made up the main clean riff one day and kept playing it over and over and over and over on my guitar, so I thought I should write it down so I could get it out of my head. It's probably the longest song I've written so far, even though I haven't properly finished it yet. Also, I'm gona be using it for one of my Music Technology coursework's.

Part 11 - Rock/Metal once again (Standard). I was gona use this for my Music Technology coursework, but I'm now using part 10. Haven't written much at all. I've written it in E Phrygian, as if anyone cares about that... Anyway...

Part 12 (Dedicated To Charlie) - Acoustic (At the moment) (Standard). I made this up randomly, don't really know what key it's in or if I used a mode. It's a rather mellow sounding song. And don't ask about the name... 'Cause I don't know.

Part 13 - Rock/Metal (Standard). I last worked on it with Gareth on Thursday, can't remember exactly what I played, which is why it's blank at the moment.

Part 14 - Metal or Heavy Metal, depends which tuning I choose (Either Drop-D or Drop-A). It's called Industry and it's gona be very Metal... Haven't got much else to say since I haven't started writing it yet.

Part 15 - Heavy Metal (B-Standard). It's called 102 Damnations, inspiration for the name came from 102 Dalmatians and Slayer, never before have those two things come together like this (And I don't think that the Dalmatians have been used as inspiration for a Heavy Metal song before). I haven't got much to say about this one either as I haven't written anything for it yet, but It's gona be my first 7-string song (Part 14 will be the second, if I actually decide to write it in Drop-A, as I've sorted this is gona be 7-string before it).

Part 16 - I did have something for part 16, but I can't remember it...

Anyway, that's the best description I'm gona be giving of my songs so far. Oh and btw, there's no lyrics in any of them, at the moment they're purely instrumental. Unless I suddenly gain the ability to come up with lyrics, then I'll put lyrics in them.

Hope you enjoyed reading this. There'll definitely be more songs and I'll put more posts about them in case people enjoy reading this.

Catch ya later.

Bye for now.