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My newest songs (demos) - please check them out, let me know what you think (honest opinions)
Thoughts_Arrive
Melbourne, Australia Posts: 15,165
OLDER DEMO'S":
Adelaide 17/11/2009, Melbourne 20/11/2009, Sydney 22/11/2009, Melbourne (Big Day Out Festival) 24/01/2014
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I am trying to move away from the Nirvana style, I keep getting told that my songs are like Nirvana, even when I play my acoustic songs at open mic nights. I listen to REM, Beatles, Bob Dylan a lot, so I don't know why those influences don't show.
Yeah I have been told I am improving, even at my live performances.
I am glad you liked it. Nice to know Things Unattended is more like me, I'll take note of that.
A little advice I received years ago that really helped me to break the "obvious influence syndrome " was to play around with alternate tunings, effects and other instruments. Really, anything that helps you to write a song from a different perspective or a new approach. For example, a bass player will have different ideas for changes as opposed to a guitar player. It's really fun to write like that too.
Hope this helps.
A song I have been working on since Tuesday last week, finally got around to recording a demo today. It's a song inspired by my good friend, a song about enduring friendship, individual goals in life and being there for the ride together as friends through thick and thin and against people telling you how you should live your lives. I aimed at making an uplifting song. I hope you like this.
Well if Eddie is here and reading, cover my song! lol
I have never heard of M.Ward, I will have to listen, which of his song(s) does mine have a vibe of so I can listen to it.
BTW, here is a version 2 of my song, I tightened the double tracked vocals, added EQ to my vocals and brought up the dB's on the guitar.
"and yours must be beautiful"
edit: we are listening to it multiple times over here at our house on thanksgiving eve
Acoustic singer-songwrite type
Punk grunge type
I have been playing my songs at open mics but have not done so for the past month or so.
I've become scared to perform as I do not believe my songs are as good as other musicians songs on the open mic scene.
I don't know what's happened, I performed over 10 times at open mics without being too scared and all of a sudden became very embarrassed to be up on stage, I became very self conscious. I also hated my old songs and didn't want to perform them anymore. I have 2-3 that I might want to play, but I need another to make up the 20 minute time made available to perform.
I also feel embarrassed singing about personal feelings.
And with the other musicians, everyone I've seen play can sing and play guitar WAY better than me, I feel like I am embarrassing myself like some fool amongst musicians that can actually play.
I didn't warm up my vocals and have not been singing much this year so I am not that happy with how my singing turned out in this demo but was desperate to get something out. This was recorded live, not using any program. Honest thoughts?