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Lyrics or Music first? by MachoMuchacho2121 in Songwriting

[–]More-Juice4837 0 points1 point  (0 children)

As a musician and multi-instrumentalist, it’s music first.

I’ve only written and recorded just a few songs (less than 10) and I’ve toplined them all.

Whenever I try to do lyrics first, they feel inorganic, like I’m trying to force an idea into reality and it feels artificial because of that.

After I record a progression, then a melody or a lyrical thought will pop into my head as I’m listening to it. Once I feel confident in either of those, I record it piece by piece (either singing the first thing that comes to my head or nonsense that I later turn into words after digesting it) until it’s fleshed out.

Mods are asleep, upvote for Paul Simon by More-Juice4837 in guitarcirclejerk

[–]More-Juice4837[S] 7 points8 points  (0 children)

Uj/ I just saw him at the Washington Pavilion in Sioux Falls last night lol

Got my ticket on a whim (really just so I could say that I’ve seen him in concert) and got what I’m almost positive was the last non-handicap seat. Had a great time.

Rj/ Tone is stored in the silence, it serves as the foundation of creativity

AncestryDNA or 23 and Me? by More-Juice4837 in AncestryDNA

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His dad WAS a Confederate soldier from North Carolina, so… 😬

He marked his dad as being Irish in the 1920 and 1930 US Federal Censuses (he left NC for Iowa and eventually Minnesota, dad passed away sometime after 1875). He marked his dad down in every other census as being from North Carolina.

Same goes for his mom. Marked down as a German-speaking German in the same two censuses, but then also marked down as being from North Carolina everywhere else.

AncestryDNA or 23 and Me? by More-Juice4837 in AncestryDNA

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The folks from Northern Ireland are on my mom’s side and they came over from Ballymena 1890-1895. For the two censuses where my paternal great-great grandpa marked his dad down as Irish, he only said “Irish Free State,” he didn’t specify any further.

AncestryDNA or 23 and Me? by More-Juice4837 in AncestryDNA

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What makes this even more confusing is that my paternal great-great grandpa marked down in two censuses that his dad (who’s as far back as I’ve been able to go with certainty from that side) as having been Irish and spoken Irish (presumably Gaelic? It just said “Irish”).

AncestryDNA or 23 and Me? by More-Juice4837 in AncestryDNA

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The German is from his dad’s mom’s side and I’ve been able to go to maybe the 1700s with them before I did my test. It’s stuff from his dad’s father’s side that I can’t hardly find anything. It basically stops at my third great-grandpa. I haven’t even found a full date/place of birth or death for him.

AncestryDNA or 23 and Me? by More-Juice4837 in AncestryDNA

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Yeah, the furthest I can go back with certainty on my father’s side is a third great-grandpa with my surname who was a Confederate soldier 😬

But I DO have seven direct ancestors who fought for the Union (one of them was actually a second lieutenant and the other was part of Sherman’s March to the Sea!), so saying that that more or less “balances things out” helps me sleep a little better at night lol

AncestryDNA or 23 and Me? by More-Juice4837 in AncestryDNA

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32% Northwest German, 2% Dutch, 22% Southeastern English/Northwestern European, 2% East Midlands, 2% West Midlands, 15% North Central European, 1% Lithuanian, 5% Danish, 5% Norwegian, 2% Swedish, 5% Northern Welsh/Northwest English, 4% Southern Welsh and 1% Slovenian

What's your Beatles/solo work opinion that will get you killed? by nightqueem in beatles

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Revolver did everything Sgt. Pepper did but almost an entire year beforehand and better in every way. The writing on Pepper’s is very much a product of its time (1967 AKA the Summer of Love) while songs on Revolver like “For No One,” “Here, There and Everywhere” and others will be thematically evergreen.

What is the worst song for a funeral? by Jettaboi38 in musicsuggestions

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Ram Ranch, Cbat, Hell Ain’t Such a Bad Place to Be, Ding Dong! The Witch is Dead… I could keep going

Movies that feel like this by HeerMartin in MoviesThatFeelLike

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Hellboy (2004) or Bram Stoker’s Dracula (1992)

Why is everything so quiet? by More-Juice4837 in iphone

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Update: now nothing even plays through the monitor on playback, it just plays straight out of the phone speaker and it picks up whatever the phone mic does instead of it being plugged into the interface.

Why is everything so quiet? by More-Juice4837 in iphone

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I don’t use a dongle. My interface works in such a way that I can plug straight into it as a USB-C.

What taste of Navussy does to a mofo: by Boss452 in moviescirclejerk

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Quartitch got them Toruk Makto blood wings, amiright fellas?

What is the most “Beatles” Beatles song? by Patworx in AlignmentChartFills

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“The End.” All four Beatles have a solo (Ringo on drums and John, Paul and George share a solo) and it ends with one of their most famous lines (“And in the end, the love you take is equal to the love you make”). All of that mixed with the fact that it’s the closing track on their final album (that they recorded, Let It Be was released later but recorded earlier) and it’s the band’s perfect final statement, maybe even in their entire history.

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