Twigman Posted November 3, 2017 Share Posted November 3, 2017 We've not done much band stuff lately, maybe a rehearsal every 5 or six weeks or so just to keep in touch. We have done the odd bit of work on the never ending album recording process but we've not been together in the same room for a while... Anyway - emails start flying about this week and it's decided we'll meet up next week and do a 4hour session.... thing is the singer has decided he wants us to rehearse an instrumental I wrote about 5 years ago with a view to putting it on the album and playing it live..... I can hardly remember it. I am expected to come to rehearsal and teach everyone their parts. I don't even know my own! I haven't got a scooby how to play the keys or the guitars..... It was one of those bits of music where you play a riff into your DAW then improvise over the top of it on other instruments and comp what you've got together into something that seems to have form and structure.... Why can't the band decide they want to use my stuff when it's fresh and I can vaguely remember what key it's in? Ever find yourself in this kind of pickle? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
itsmedunc Posted November 3, 2017 Share Posted November 3, 2017 Sometimes it takes a long time to appreciate genius! I'd take that as a major compliment. Do what it takes to get it nailed. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ZilchWoolham Posted November 3, 2017 Share Posted November 3, 2017 I have a similar habit of recording a whole lot of sketchy ideas, but never writing anything down. Do you still have the individual tracks? It can be a bit frustrating if you can barely remember making it in the first place, but if you could play it then, you can play it now! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bazzbass Posted November 3, 2017 Share Posted November 3, 2017 I only ever wrote one song. About 30 years ago. About waking up and saying hello to my bong. I have no idea how it goes apart from the main bassline. Guitarist remembers the whole thing. probably coz he stopped doin the bong thing Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lowregisterhead Posted November 3, 2017 Share Posted November 3, 2017 I know what you mean - when I listen back to several my songs from years gone by, it feels like they were written (and recorded) by someone else! Perhaps the best way to view it is to just count yourself lucky someone wants to use one of yours... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dad3353 Posted November 3, 2017 Share Posted November 3, 2017 A while back I caught myself humming a melody, and thought to myself 'That's nice; I like that..." It was a fair while later, in listening through a few Soundcloud efforts that I came across a piece with that melody; I'd written it..! Not much idea as to why it popped back into my head, but pleased as Punch that I'd found the source. I put it down to getting old, though. What's [i]your [/i]excuse..? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BigRedX Posted November 3, 2017 Share Posted November 3, 2017 If you've done it on your DAW then you'll be able to go back on listen to each part solo'd to work out what is playing what. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Twigman Posted November 3, 2017 Author Share Posted November 3, 2017 [quote name='BigRedX' timestamp='1509708287' post='3401042'] If you've done it on your DAW then you'll be able to go back on listen to each part solo'd to work out what is playing what. [/quote] I'm not sure I've still got the project. If the band reject them then there's no point in keeping them IMO. It was 5 years ago DAW has had a hardware refresh since then.... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dad3353 Posted November 3, 2017 Share Posted November 3, 2017 But you still have your back-ups from 'back then', right..? I mean, no-one overwrites back-ups, do they..? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BigRedX Posted November 3, 2017 Share Posted November 3, 2017 (edited) [quote name='Twigman' timestamp='1509710475' post='3401072'] I'm not sure I've still got the project. If the band reject them then there's no point in keeping them IMO. It was 5 years ago DAW has had a hardware refresh since then.... [/quote] I keep everything that has developed far enough for it to be worth committing to tape of disk. You never know when it will be useful. Edited November 3, 2017 by BigRedX Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mikel Posted November 3, 2017 Share Posted November 3, 2017 If the singer is keen to do it then he must remember it well. Get him to hum it to you and see if it brings anything back. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PaulWarning Posted November 3, 2017 Share Posted November 3, 2017 hang on, the singer wants to do an instrumental??????????????? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BigRedX Posted November 3, 2017 Share Posted November 3, 2017 Every "song" is an instrumental until it has some lyrics written for it. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ZilchWoolham Posted November 3, 2017 Share Posted November 3, 2017 [quote name='PaulWarning' timestamp='1509716944' post='3401148'] hang on, the singer wants to do an instrumental??????????????? [/quote] Could always use a pee break. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Twigman Posted November 3, 2017 Author Share Posted November 3, 2017 [quote name='PaulWarning' timestamp='1509716944' post='3401148'] hang on, the singer wants to do an instrumental??????????????? [/quote] He's getting on a bit Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bassbiscuits Posted November 3, 2017 Share Posted November 3, 2017 Yup - I've got a few old songs in the bag which I'm revisiting and looking to rejig a bit for possible use with a current band. There's quite a few bits in each which I've totally forgotten how to play tho. Had to sit and listen to work out what on earth is going on. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mikel Posted November 3, 2017 Share Posted November 3, 2017 [quote name='BigRedX' timestamp='1509717024' post='3401149'] Every "song" is an instrumental until it has some lyrics written for it. [/quote] If thats the way you write. I often come up with a lyric or a melody first, on an acoustic guitar, then its a song that needs instrumentation. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Roger2611 Posted November 3, 2017 Share Posted November 3, 2017 I have an entire albums worth of stuff I wrote some years back, complete songs of drums, keys, bass and guitars, recorded back on Cuebase 1 and an 8 track reel to reel, neither of which I still have, I have them on the media player, we still listen to them sometimes but I have absolutely no idea what I played, the sounds I used or basically anything for them, I have played them to a view people who have said I ought to do something with them....err I think not, life is too short to start trying to work out everything I played! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
12stringbassist Posted November 5, 2017 Share Posted November 5, 2017 I have a bag of songs that I wrote years ago and have been re-recording some of them recently. I have some sequenced parts that I have re-used from the original recordings. Playing along with a few of them has been a utter trial, as - as someone else said earlier - they now feel like they were written by someone else. Old cover versions I have tarted up in the same fashion were much easier. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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