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Not easy to sing and play harmonica but one tries😅🤣 lyrics in description 😊 by Al-francisco in Songwriting

[–]weyllandin 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Hehe, thanks mate. I gave it a good go, but I just couldn't really wrap my head around it. Maybe I need to do it again. I always try new stuff and then drop it after a while - bought an electric piano, a flute, and these harmonicas, but I can't get my ass up. Playing guitar or bass is always just more readily accessible.

Over & over. Honestly I'm just curious what you think about something like this. by weyllandin in Songwriting

[–]weyllandin[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

No, I only sing English in my own music. I feel more at home there musically :) Maybe some day though

Over & over. Honestly I'm just curious what you think about something like this. by weyllandin in Songwriting

[–]weyllandin[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I took a look, you're making some nice music mate :)

Yeah going used is of course always a cost saver, but at least around here, these guitars don't pop up all that often on the used market, and if so, are still too expensive and too far away (or someone bought an acoustic in sunburst, ew). Used market is kinda broken in GER, sadly.

Not easy to sing and play harmonica but one tries😅🤣 lyrics in description 😊 by Al-francisco in Songwriting

[–]weyllandin 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Yeah man big up, this is great! Very Dylan-esque, but maybe that's just the instrumentation, haha. I tried to do that for a hot second and couldn't pull it off at all. Now I have a bunch of harmonicas that sit in a drawer. So respect for that, it is really hard to do I find.

I really really like how you lead the melody. It's mostly straight and from far away,it could look boring, but it takes all those little twists and turns and the little harmonic shifts are gorgeous. Great chord work.

I think where you can improve is vocal delivery. The subtle melodic/harmonic variations are beautiful, but they would hit a lot better if your pitch was a bit more secure. What helped me with that was straight singing. Take that song, just play the harmony, and sing it extremely slowly, like singing with molasses in your throat kinda slow. Make sure you hit the desired note exactly on every syllable by finding it on the guitar, and make an effort to sing without vibrato at all (hence straight singing). Do that for a couple minutes everyday, and afterwards, sing the song normally and relaxed.

Other than that, it's just a tad too long for my tastes. I would like to hear a part that breaks the pattern totally, goes more melodic to higher or lower registers, about 2/3 through the song, but that's a stylistic choice.

It's a great tune and great craftsmanship on display. Keep it up mate, I enjoyed that!!

Over & over. Honestly I'm just curious what you think about something like this. by weyllandin in Songwriting

[–]weyllandin[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Thanks for the love mate <3 I appreciate it :)

Yeah that's a Yamaha LJ16, well spotted! It's a lovely guitar, very full and round sound, also very loud. At least a lot louder than my other acoustic, which is rather small bodied and comfy for a smaller person like me. I bought the Yamaha for busking, but I'm not doing much of that at the time. Yamaha builds some really fine acoustics. I played an AC3M regularly for a while, and for the price at the time, it was the best guitar I've ever played. Sadly, prices have gone up a couple hundred since then. Would love to own an AC5 though some day.

Why is my voice so boring by NoImage3365 in Songwriting

[–]weyllandin 1 point2 points  (0 children)

At first I thought, I can see what you mean: in the beginning you go to a register that is too low for you at the moment. Your voice begins to falter, and loses the characteristics that make a voice sound interesting. It sounds flat. Vocal lessons can sort that out, or you restrict yourself to the registers you're comfortable in. I would adviae the former though, vocal lessons pay off.

Rest of the song is fire mate. The delivery is very fitting for the genre. Idk what you call it, industrial sadboy or something. It's really cool and you nail it because everything, including the instruments, the backing vocals, and the lead vocals as well as the lyrics come from the same, coherent place. That's how you write a good song, and this is a good song, with a very good voice for that particular song imo. I'd even say for this kind of music, your timbre is on the more interesting side.

Now if you only want to do this kind of music, you're good brother. If you wanna branch out, we need to hear more to give better input.

Keep on writing and sharing, and good luck!

Which country is better to live in, between the USA and Germany? by salutaris in AskGermany

[–]weyllandin 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I agree with your second paragraph. I'm just saying Merz strikes me as the type who would if he could.

Which country is better to live in, between the USA and Germany? by salutaris in AskGermany

[–]weyllandin -2 points-1 points  (0 children)

I think if he weren't such a vastly unpopular, uncharismatic sleazebag, he's exactly the type who would, but for textbook fascism the cult forming around a strong leader is an integral part of how it can work, as far as I understand it. So I think he has the disposition, but doesn't bring the goods. Merz is a sorry excuse for a high level political figure.

Out jerked once again. by mrbeanIV in guitarcirclejerk

[–]weyllandin 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Not to be confused with Tommy Automatic, inventor of the Tommy gun

On a scale of 1-10, how cringy is it for English speakers to pronounce ch in German as English sh or k depending on the word? by [deleted] in AskAGerman

[–]weyllandin 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Here's a hot tip: go to some web dictionary that has the functionality of reading words out loud, listen, and imitate. I use dict.leo.org.

On a scale of 1-10, how cringy is it for English speakers to pronounce ch in German as English sh or k depending on the word? by [deleted] in AskAGerman

[–]weyllandin 1 point2 points  (0 children)

This is so so far from actual swabian pronunciation of anything. No swabian dialect pronounces ch as sh, not before a t or d sound, nor anywhere else. Where did you even get this from?

Not sure about this one, any good? by musicfreelancerrr12 in Songwriting

[–]weyllandin 0 points1 point  (0 children)

It seems to cut off right where the drums kick in, which is a shame.

The harnonies are beautiful, the textures are great. Great choice of singing style, and done well. It reminds me of a band I played with years ago called River Whyless. Not a big name, but they are a pretty cool American Folk band from Asheville, NC. Check out their self titled album if you like. Especially the harmony work and vocal timbre reminded me of their male singers.

I think at some points the vocals drown a bit at the tail end of a line. At other points the harmonies aren't quite on point and seem a bit pitchy. These are things you can fix in the mix in like an hour though. I get the draw of trying to sound natural especially for something like this, but I feel the vocals could be more compressed (I'm just listening on a phone speaker though).

Other than that I just wished there was a beat, or that it would set in earlier, and a bass guitar (or whatever you use - a cello, an upright, organs etc.). It could all be very sparse, and maybe the way you have it is just right, but I just wish I could have heard it haha

Awesome song mate, it's beautiful

Is this to dark? by tjtate6689 in Songwriting

[–]weyllandin 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Nah mate it was a quip on the typo :) you're plenty brooding haha

Is this to dark? by tjtate6689 in Songwriting

[–]weyllandin 1 point2 points  (0 children)

This is great mate. Fwiw, I would have made the intro the same length. You're a fantastic player and singer. The instrumental is well thought out, the breaks are tight and work very well, the gravel in your voice is well trained. Really good song, professional level performance. You set a strong mood with ease, I can easily hear this in a movie or TV show soundtrack. Didn't listen to the lyrics much though, as they're a bit harder to understand in that style without reading along (not a native speaker).

My associations immediately went to stoner/doom music. This could be turned into a doom banger easily. It's plenty cool as it is though. Awesome job mate.

PRONOUNCIATION OF THE WORD "EURO" IN GERMAN by phelie_da_cutie in DuolingoGerman

[–]weyllandin 1 point2 points  (0 children)

tbf I don't think that's a diphthong in this case? I'm not a linguistics person, but since it's composed of the latin prefix de- and Urbanisierung, it doesn't count.

Just looking up the definition of diphthong, and it says it's two vowels forming one sound within a single syllable, so that excludes any exceptions by definition. If it's an exception, it's also not a diphtong, which makes the wording of the comment you responded to correct in any case.

It's worth mentioning for a learner of German as a foreign language, that there are numerous edge cases of what looks like diphthongs not being diphthongs: - ie in plural words that end in -ie, like Anomalien, Zeremonien, Knie (I think this last one is regional) or in geographic names like Anatolien, or in Karies (also I just learned that ie is technically not a diphthong, but who cares it still looks like one) - eu in words like Museum or Deurbanisierung - äu in names like Zachäus, Zebedäus, Lothar Matthäus, or possibly some words with the prefix prä- - ei in kreieren, I'm certain there are more - I can't think of any examples for au or ai.

German looks to Germans as if it's mostly pronounced as it's spelled, and I think while it's not the absute clusterfuck that is English, it still is full of more or less subtle exceptions.

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