Post your original songs/compositions!

Bright Shadows is from the Bolsheviks of Madrid album, Sixty Second Chances. (Cover art by Todd Alcott) Bret made two versions of music videos for Bright Shadows, the fifty-fourth of 60 videos.

Bright Shadows

Bright Shadows (Shadow Take)

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New song…enjoy your summer…surf, swim, and fall in love.

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False Idle is from the Bolsheviks of Madrid album, Sixty Second Chances. (Cover art by Todd Alcott) Bret made a music video for False Idle, the fifty-fifth of 60 videos.

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Scatterplot is from the Bolsheviks of Madrid album, Sixty Second Chances. (Cover art by Todd Alcott) Bret made a music video for Scatterplot, the fifty-sixth of 60 videos.

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Hi there :slight_smile:
Just thought I’d quickly share an old draft to say hello.

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Howdy @Alex_Yak . It looks like you answered your own question re embedding the “player thingy”. I enjoyed your old draft. :+1: Bayerisch? Schwäbisch?

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genetical half-Swabian “von dr Alb ra”. Thanks, glad you liked it! :slight_smile:

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Song for You is from the Bolsheviks of Madrid album, Sixty Second Chances. (Cover art by Todd Alcott) Bret made a music video for Song for You, the fifty-seventh of 60 videos.*

*Caution! Bagpipes on the beach warning.

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Angry Cologne is from the Bolsheviks of Madrid album, Sixty Second Chances. (Cover art by Todd Alcott) Bret made a music video for Angry Cologne, the fifty-eighth of 60 videos.

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Versatile Stingray is from the Bolsheviks of Madrid album, Sixty Second Chances. (Cover art by Todd Alcott) Bret made two versions of music videos for Versatile Stingray, the fifty-ninth of 60 videos. (Bret liked it when I described my new Sterling by Music Man StingRay 4HH as being a versatile bass, so he decided that this should be used by us as a song title.)

Versatile Stingray

Versatile Stingray (Alternate take)

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Vanishing Point is from the Bolsheviks of Madrid album, Sixty Second Chances. (Cover art by Todd Alcott) Bret made three versions of music videos for Vanishing Point, the sixtieth of 60 videos!

Vanishing Point

Vanishing.2 (Alternate reality)

Vanishing Point Three

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I put together a new Spotify playlist. It is titled Bliss Playlist. It contains tracks by Bolsheviks of Madrid along with some of my solo work.

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Congrats on all those many songs - quite the creative effort!!

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Haha, brings back memories… Oinr isch emmr dr Arsch :rofl:

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@joergkutter
Thank you!

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My first attempt at recording a demo. Just vocal, bass, and a very crude drum track (mostly serving acting as a fancy click). This is just the rough demo I put together to share with my band so they could come up with guitar and drum parts.

As I originally envisioned it in 6/8 time: Stream Cinnamon Wind demo slow 6_8 by Cameron Lloyd | Listen online for free on SoundCloud

A faster 4/4 version, because they might like it better: Stream Cinnamon Wind demo (4/4 140bpm) by Cameron Lloyd | Listen online for free on SoundCloud

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Cinnamon Wind , Dynamite Brother @BeerBaron

Screaming At Silence , Dig It ,

Cheers

Always great to see when someone is into writing own songs (and recording them).

The way I “parse” the song, it has a verse/pre-chorus/chorus kind of structure and this is repeated a few times (with new verses). From a compositional point of view, you could consider introducing a bridge (e.g., after two verses), which is often used to bring in a fresh element and then return to the final verse etc.

Sting has often talked about the importance of a bridge in songs, and he has really cool bridges in his songs :grinning_face_with_smiling_eyes:

It has a bridge. I just put it after the 3rd verse instead of between 2 and 3. Structure is:

V1
PC / Hook
V2
Chorus
V3
Chorus
Bridge
Chorus

And it’s very autobiographical about my Anxiety and how caring/supportive my wife is. V1&2 set up the problem. V3 resolves it seeing her again. Bridge introduces the twist of how we support each other, and this is just me needing help now.

I also switch up the pre-chorus/hook as the story progresses. “I think I need you again” twice, then “I’ve got you with me again.”; “We’ll be there again and again.”; “You’re gonna need me again.”

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Just made my first money ever with my own music :joy: :money_mouth_face:

Finally got my act together and started to put finished stuff on Bandcamp and someone actually bought the track - hooray!! Stardom, here I come…

Next up: DistroKid?! CDBaby!? …

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