moonchildhippy
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Posted: April 11 2008, 18:50 |
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Thanks guys, I'd thought that I might try composing my own piece(s) for fun, just to prove that I could do it. I've always had a desire to play music, be it me learning other people's or trying to compose my own. I wouldn't say that I'm by any means a musician , well I'd like to be. MY ability on a guitar is a bit basic, but I'd just like to write a song to prove that I can do it, and once I've written one this might spur me on to compose more. I know a couple of peeps with recording software, so I could ask them to lay down my music.
It's quite interesting, Did Steve Tyler come up with "Walk This Way" after hearing someone speakk that phrase in a public place. I understand "Crazy Little Thing Called Love" came to Freddie Mercury at 3am one morning, when he was staying in the Munich Hilton, and I gather Mike came up with much of Hergest Ridge whilst walking upon Hergest Ridge   .
I would say the music I'd try and create is rock , from ballads through to heavy, and with some folk or blues for good measure.
I agree with you Jim about guitarists falling into either the technical or expressive camp . I've tried listening to Steve Vai and Joe Satriani, apart from a few songs by JS I don't really enjoy that music. Van Halen can play and |I do like quite a few of their songs, but Eddie van Halen's guitar wizardry is good the speed at which he can play but it doesn't do as much for me as a guitarist who plays expressively. I first heard Queen Live Killers when I was about 13, I love Queen , and Brian May's "Brighton Rock" guitar solo still make's me think WOW!!!!, like so many Queen moments, and also much of Dave Gilmour's playing , as does Led Zeps Dazed and Confused, and also Mike's screaming guitar climax to Ommadawn Part 1, I think here it's building, he's going to explode, and then it getsd more intense, and when you think Mike can't build the anticipation, he builds it some more, until this explosive climatic ending.
Alan , I did try and write poetry, I know one of my poems was published in the school magazine one year, (I wonder if my Mum still has it). I've often thought about things that make me angry, such as injustice, or child abuse, domestic violence etc, also things that make me happy, sunshine, freedom, love etc. I did want to try and compose a love song for next time I see my boyfriend, but I've got until monday to get something down  . I've thought about frustrations in life , maybe my treaffic jam is a metaphor when things seem to go right there's an obstacle in the way, but yes it's something that can be overcome.
Sometimes I wish I could compose a musical masterpiece or have the wisdom to write a literary masterpiece such as Tolkien did with Lord Of The Rings . I've been to Sarehole Mill/Moseley Bog , (inspired The Mill/ Old Forest in LOTR) in Mosely area of Birmingham , once a l village in Warwickshire , before Birmingham began to expand outwards from the centre, c 1920's. I've also been to Hergest Ridge and had some of what I consider some of my greatest ideas (not musical) there. Again inspiration can also come from the most mudane everyday things.
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I'm going slightly mad,
It finally happened, I'm slightly mad , just very slightly mad
If you feel a little glum to Hergest Ridge you should come.
I'm challenging taboos surrounding mental health
"Part time hippy"
I'M SUPPORTING OUR SOLDIERS
BRING OUR TROOPS HOME NOW!!
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. I did think of doing a love song, but I thought that Am, E sounded a bit too angry, as this has eneded up as a protest song. 
) in my boyfriend's car I turned on the stereo , and he had an Eminem CD in the player (we both on the whole like rock music). I know Eminem is not exactly chilled out music post op, but we were both listening and enjoying it 
. As far as Rap/Hip Hop music goes it's not a genre I really enjoy on the whole, but we both think Eminem is the greatest Rap artist of all time, and he is a great lyricst. I know he has been accused of being homophobic or mysoginistic, or promoting violence, but to perform a song with Elton John is hardly the sign of a homophobe. I know his lyrics are often misrepresented as advocating violence, but I do believe upon listening his lyrics are anti violence. I do think he writes from personal experience, or speaks of (teenage) angst, Idon't know for sure but I get the impression that maybe his father was violent towards his mother, and that is a horrible thing to witness.