Ok,
So as some of you know, I spent the past 2-1/2 years playing in a cover band called 'Bad Dog.' The band broke up due to internal conflict between members, arguments over which PA system to buy and a general breakdown in inter-personal relationships. This was a bitter pill for me to swallow because not only was I the driving force behind keeping the band running (doing musical CPR almost everyday) and refereeing the internal issues, I lost 2-1/2 years of hard work and over $1,000/week in income.
Back in 2020, (December 15, 2020 to be exact) I arrived for rehearsal early one afternoon and was thinking of creating a song using the band name in the title. I came up with this little riff at rehearsal and took the concept home with me. I fired up my DAW and just played the guitar and came up with the chorus hook.
I struggle to play and sing (lead) at the same time (although backing vocals give me zero issues) but I just opened up a channel and played the riff and sang along to it at the same time. The result was really just a very rough draft and the mechanism through which the vocals were created. The vocals are really kind of mindless I suppose, but the song was really created just to be a 'calling card' for the band and to be used as a backing track in a promo video, so while there is a general theme, it's not an example of stellar songwriting, so please keep that in mind as you listen.
For some reason, when I was creating this song, I imagined Bon Scott singing it, so I drew on my voice acting skills and sang it with a kind of Bon Scott flair.
Then, I went back and decided to re-do the guitar parts and make some changes that would allow the guitar work to compliment the vocal lines. Rather than use a click track (which I find annoying) I just recorded this to a foot stomp. It's hovering around 123 bpm with the metronome in my head.
I also composed a very basic and short solo. My concept with solos is that I always want the solo to leave the listener wishing it was longer, not wishing it was shorter.
So as some of you know, I spent the past 2-1/2 years playing in a cover band called 'Bad Dog.' The band broke up due to internal conflict between members, arguments over which PA system to buy and a general breakdown in inter-personal relationships. This was a bitter pill for me to swallow because not only was I the driving force behind keeping the band running (doing musical CPR almost everyday) and refereeing the internal issues, I lost 2-1/2 years of hard work and over $1,000/week in income.
Back in 2020, (December 15, 2020 to be exact) I arrived for rehearsal early one afternoon and was thinking of creating a song using the band name in the title. I came up with this little riff at rehearsal and took the concept home with me. I fired up my DAW and just played the guitar and came up with the chorus hook.
I struggle to play and sing (lead) at the same time (although backing vocals give me zero issues) but I just opened up a channel and played the riff and sang along to it at the same time. The result was really just a very rough draft and the mechanism through which the vocals were created. The vocals are really kind of mindless I suppose, but the song was really created just to be a 'calling card' for the band and to be used as a backing track in a promo video, so while there is a general theme, it's not an example of stellar songwriting, so please keep that in mind as you listen.
For some reason, when I was creating this song, I imagined Bon Scott singing it, so I drew on my voice acting skills and sang it with a kind of Bon Scott flair.
Then, I went back and decided to re-do the guitar parts and make some changes that would allow the guitar work to compliment the vocal lines. Rather than use a click track (which I find annoying) I just recorded this to a foot stomp. It's hovering around 123 bpm with the metronome in my head.
I also composed a very basic and short solo. My concept with solos is that I always want the solo to leave the listener wishing it was longer, not wishing it was shorter.
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