Recording Challenge #1 (Two Chord Wonder)

[liv_rong]

OK I slept on it. And I'm not gonna sweat it over all of the things that are still wrong with it

It's another short entry, recorded (almost) entirely on a Behringer UMC404HD that I'm trying out. So the skeleton of this song will show up in a video in the near future. Actual real drums on this one, which is why it kinda sounds like my rhythm section is a little drunk and not in sync with each other. I started to edit the drums a bit to get rid of the worst of the timing errors but I got bored with that real quick.

My two chords are A and G.

https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/s/r9z ... wn-003.mp3

A long, straight road
A story you’ve been told

Sun-warmed skin and hair blowing in the wind
You’re driving out west because you listened to your friend
Lay your jean jacket down across your knees
Because the sun will go down eventually

Vanishing point in the road
Go now, just go!

Man, that was great! Great vibe and fun sounding.

[vomitHatSteve]

Yeah, that's a surprising amount of depth out of 2 chords, Tadpui!

[Tadpui]

Great to hear Tad.
Fun pop with Kazoo guitar fuzz.

Thanks Ray Yeah, that fuzz is pretty powerful. It got even a little more drastic when I doubled and panned it. It's a fun pedal to play through! Maybe less fun to listen to though

Good work man. I like the main riff. Very catchy.

And yes mine was 2 chords E minor and C major or a i - VI progression. Not typical I guess, but it's what came out.

Thanks MT!

I liked the two chords on yours, and the time signature added to the mystique. I start drooling if I try to play outside of 4/4. I wrote a 5/4 riff a couple of years ago just to see if I could. I damn near had an aneurysm while trying to record it.

Ha that was great! Good work. Didn't even seem like a two chord song. Love the fuzz too.

Thanks Greg! The fuzz was one of the circuits on the Muffuletta and an old Boss octave pedal (OC-2 maybe? I can't remember. It's the brown one). Together they're a lot of fun to play through. The octave give is a little somethin' that I like a lot.

Man, that was great! Great vibe and fun sounding.

Thanks a bunch Liv! It was a lot of fun to make. And the confines of the 2-chord challenge was a great motivator.

Yeah, that's a surprising amount of depth out of 2 chords, Tadpui!

Thanks Steve, much appreciated!

We should do this stuff more often.

[Greg_L]

Is this done now? Should we move on to something else? New challenge?

[JD01]

Is this done now? Should we move on to something else? New challenge?

I've still got my incomplete song which I need to finish the vocals on.

[musicturtle]

Is this done now? Should we move on to something else? New challenge?

I've still got my incomplete song which I need to finish the vocals on.

New challenge would be cool. But people can still add to this...the two chord idea is great creative practice I think.

[WhiskeyJack]

Is this done now? Should we move on to something else? New challenge?

Actually..... I was rifling around and while it isn't new by any stretch of the imagination i did find a recording me and my buddy did way back in 2001. did it on a four track after a night out.

Would it break any rules to upload it to the challenge? it is literally just A my bastard d chord followed by my left handed cheater lazy ass g chord.

It is also not good.

[JD01]

A new challenge could be a modern cover of a song written before 1950.

[Greg_L]

Actually..... I was rifling around and while it isn't new by any stretch of the imagination i did find a recording me and my buddy did way back in 2001. did it on a four track after a night out.

Would it break any rules to upload it to the challenge? it is literally just A my bastard d chord followed by my left handed cheater lazy ass g chord.

It is also not good.

Do it. Or maybe......redo it!

[WhiskeyJack]

Actually..... I was rifling around and while it isn't new by any stretch of the imagination i did find a recording me and my buddy did way back in 2001. did it on a four track after a night out.

Would it break any rules to upload it to the challenge? it is literally just my bastard d chord followed by my left handed cheater lazy ass g chord.

It is also not good.

Do it. Or maybe......redo it!

You know we probably could. He just recently, bought a new outboard mixer thing that attaches to his ipad. I think running Auria? Aria? I can ask him to join in here too. i think we'd all be useless helping him because he is a tablet daw guy. but we shall see. Do any of us use a tablet for a daw?

I'll post up my old track for shits anyways as long as it doesn't offend anyone.

i am guitars and back up vox. 2 chords. Pretty pissed and doing our best Simon & Garfunkle impression. two radio shack microphones into a fostex or roland multiracker thing. someone added a shit load of verb when it got transferred to digital.

Polaroid-Camera.mp3

[Greg_L]

You know we probably could. He just recently, bought a new outboard mixer thing that attaches to his ipad. I think running Auria? Aria? I can ask him to join in here too. i think we'd all be useless helping him because he is a tablet daw guy. but we shall see. Do any of us use a tablet for a daw?

I'll post up my old track for shits anyways as long as it doesn't offend anyone.

i am guitars and back up vox. 2 chords. Pretty pissed and doing our best Simon & Garfunkle impression. two radio shack microphones into a fostex or roland multiracker thing. someone added a shit load of verb when it got transferred to digital.

Polaroid-Camera.mp3

Lol awesome. It sounds like it could be a [mention]vomitHatSteve[/mention] production.

[WhiskeyJack]

You know we probably could. He just recently, bought a new outboard mixer thing that attaches to his ipad. I think running Auria? Aria? I can ask him to join in here too. i think we'd all be useless helping him because he is a tablet daw guy. but we shall see. Do any of us use a tablet for a daw?

I'll post up my old track for shits anyways as long as it doesn't offend anyone.

i am guitars and back up vox. 2 chords. Pretty pissed and doing our best Simon & Garfunkle impression. two radio shack microphones into a fostex or roland multiracker thing. someone added a shit load of verb when it got transferred to digital.

Polaroid-Camera.mp3

Lol awesome. It sounds like it could be a @vomitHatSteve production.

[musicturtle]

You know we probably could. He just recently, bought a new outboard mixer thing that attaches to his ipad. I think running Auria? Aria? I can ask him to join in here too. i think we'd all be useless helping him because he is a tablet daw guy. but we shall see. Do any of us use a tablet for a daw?

I'll post up my old track for shits anyways as long as it doesn't offend anyone.

i am guitars and back up vox. 2 chords. Pretty pissed and doing our best Simon & Garfunkle impression. two radio shack microphones into a fostex or roland multiracker thing. someone added a shit load of verb when it got transferred to digital.


Polaroid-Camera.mp3

Nice man. It does have a late sixties stream of consciousness to it.

I have an iPad at school I use Garageband on to record with. I have a Focusrite dock/interface that works well. I was gonna put Cubasis on it so I could transfer tracks from home and school more easily but buying apps for a school owned machine is a pain.

[vomitHatSteve]

Lol awesome. It sounds like it could be a @vomitHatSteve production.

See, I was getting more of a Suicide Van vibe from it.

I didn't even use my Radio Shack mic for mine! I don't know what brand of cheap 1/4" mic I used, but it wasn't Radio Shack.

[JD01]

Here's my A&G song. I recorded a vocal on Wednesday night there's the occasional bit of guest backing on there.
Looking back over this I'd totally forgotten about the interlude and guitar solo - I was well surprised when I heard them again.

2 Chord Song.mp3

[WhiskeyJack]

Here's my A&G song. I recorded a vocal on Wednesday night there's the occasional bit of guest backing on there.
Looking back over this I'd totally forgotten about the interlude and guitar solo - I was well surprised when I heard them again.

2 Chord Song.mp3

Shit JD thats a tidy clean effort man! It just kind of grooves on. Everything sounds pretty dead on. Nice cleanish tones, crispy drums. Very good!

That little bridge back and forth with the lad is right good. i love it. I'd go so far as to maybe tighten that vocal bit up and bring it up a little!!!!

[JD01]

the "backing vocal" after the chorus was an accident - it just landed there and I thought it sounded funny.

I don't think I'll do much more work on this, if any, that's just two straight vocal takes. I could edit them for the best bits and redo the mistakes and stuff. There's a couple of autotuned bits on there 'cos I didn't have the time to go back and redo lines there. I was pretty busy when I recorded that!

Cheers though, Shan. Are you going to post one? Maybe a simple song about procrastinating and never getting around to recording?

[WhiskeyJack]

the "backing vocal" after the chorus was an accident - it just landed there and I thought it sounded funny.

I don't think I'll do much more work on this, if any, that's just two straight vocal takes. I could edit them for the best bits and redo the mistakes and stuff. There's a couple of autotuned bits on there 'cos I didn't have the time to go back and redo lines there. I was pretty busy when I recorded that!

Cheers though, Shan. Are you going to post one? Maybe a simple song about procrastinating and never getting around to recording?

I posted an older one a few posts back. I took some advice given here to redo it and that's a great idea. I wanted to do it with the guy who originally did it with me as he just got a bunch of new stuff for home diy stuff. Still yet to get back to me? He sent me a pic of his gear and that was the last i heard. Might possibly be struggling with it a bit? however, I have no idea cause homeboy checks his messages like once a month it feels like. I could do it alone but it would just feel wrong.

[Greg_L]

Here's my A&G song. I recorded a vocal on Wednesday night there's the occasional bit of guest backing on there.
Looking back over this I'd totally forgotten about the interlude and guitar solo - I was well surprised when I heard them again.

2 Chord Song.mp3

Yay you did it! Is that your baby in there? Pretty funny.

[JD01]

Here's my A&G song. I recorded a vocal on Wednesday night there's the occasional bit of guest backing on there.
Looking back over this I'd totally forgotten about the interlude and guitar solo - I was well surprised when I heard them again.

2 Chord Song.mp3

Yay you did it! Is that your baby in there? Pretty funny.

Yeah, I was holding him while I recorded the vocal. I was hoping he'd pitch in with some backings.

In case you hadn't noticed the song is about YouTube virtuosos who are amazing guitarists but have no audience cos it's so boring so they just get really angry.

Ironically given the subject, the best bit of the song is the guitar solo.