Another terrible recording with a sore throat and jimmyrigged recording setup. It’s rough as hell, but it will give you a basic idea of what I’ve been working on, at least.
Monsters
We all have to face the shadows
that we dream up in the dark
when no one is looking we strike the match
and wait for it to spark
(we wait for fires to start)
One day it will all burn down
maybe we should start running now
we’re almost out of daylight
soon we’ll have to face the night
turn the covers down
if you can’t sleep, do not make a sound
is the monster just a trick of the light
don’t speak unless you’re ready for a fight
there’s a candle waiting for a match
if your hands are shaking better light it fast
when no one’s looking spark turns into flame
if it falls over swear you’re not to blame
it’s only a trick of the light
find a way to win this losing fight
One day it will all burn down
maybe we should start running now
we’re almost out of daylight
soon we’ll have to face the night
No one else can tell you what to fear
with the lights turned down our demons feel so near
we can’t help but strike the match
and try to make it spark
we never know what fires we might start.
(we long for fires to start)
This darkness just doesn’t feel right
so we keep throwing matches at the night
But it’s only a trick of the light
It’s only a trick of the light.
October 14, 2016 at 3:18 pm
Out of curiosity, what’s the chord progression for this? I think I hear something in Am, but I’m not so great at picking it all out yet. I’ve been practicing again and one of the things I’m doing is trying to come up with bass parts for stuff I hear. Yours is one of the songs I tried this with, this AM.
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October 14, 2016 at 3:38 pm
There’s Am pretty dominantly, yeah. For some reason I use Am in almost everything. I think I like at least one minor chord in the mix or things feel too peppy, and Am works with almost everything.
For the most part it’s Am C Am Fmaj7 Em Am, if I’m remembering right without my cheat sheet on hand.
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October 14, 2016 at 3:43 pm
I think that all works because of C. If my understanding is right, its because if you look at C as home, then Am is its relative minor (the relative minor is always the 6th note, so C-D-E-F-G-A makes A the 6th, so Am is the relative minor for C) and F is the 4 of C. Of course, that’s just me trying to see how theory works with what you’re doing. I’m not necessarily getting it right.
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October 14, 2016 at 4:07 pm
Hey, I only barely follow the theory, you know, so it all sounds good to me. All I can say for sure is that, given the chords I know, Am tends to mesh well with pretty much all of them, sometimes to mellow things out, others as a stepping stone to pull them together. That’s just me happening to know a handful of chords that just happen to work with Am, though, there’s not much theory involved in my brain, just a lot of trial and error. I only even know Fmaj7 as a chord because I happened across it when I frigged up C once, so it’s all whim and dumb luck from my end. Lol.
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October 14, 2016 at 4:00 pm
I wrote out the notes, and it looks like there’s another way to look at it. If we’re in they key of Am, then A=1, C=3, E=5 and F=6. With Am-C-Am-Fmaj7-Em-Am, that’s 1-3-1-6-5-1. I’ve seen how major chords are supposed to work, but I don’t know how minor ones are mapped out yet. I need to look that up.
(Sorry for throwing numbers around, I kind of like trying to fit this into stuff I’m reading to see if I’ve learned anything. This also makes me wonder if there’s a “relative major” in the same sense that there’s a relative minor for major keys.)
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October 14, 2016 at 4:10 pm
No worries, I actually appreciate the exposure to theory since I think it will, over time, help me osmose the most pertinent points. It’s definitely in the key of Am. Beyond that I fail at theory.
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