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Some will remember this one as one of my lyrics Leif did a take on. In spite of it making #4 in the blues charts at Soundclick, it never rang my bell. Bill put this backing up on SongRamp today and the lyric sang itself almost exactlyas i wanted it. I now have it on SongRamp site Folks. Link below. This in spite of Bill's noise being 16 bars and my lyric being 12. Bill's real nice noise I hasten to add. Asked Bill for the go ahead and that recived, I tacked some words on and recorded. Come sing time I decided the instumental out was too long as Iwe had it so adlibbed what is the last bit as I sang. Real rough. harp is only ther to let Bill know exactly whre i am heading. Is way too loud and not very good anyway. All the years I have known Bill and I didn't know he could do this stuff. Regards. Graham What’s A Man To Do © Copyright Graham Henderson/Bill Draper 2002 I woke up my baby. With a kiss. Ain’t sayin’ where. Yeah. I woke up my baby. With a kiss. Ain’t sayin’where. She rolled her eyes, All hope died when she let out a cry She said. No way Honey. We ain’t goin’ there. Chorus What’s a man to do when his message don’t get through. Tell me What’s a man to do when his message don’t get through. I’m askin’ you. Guess it’s time to Start kissin’ somethin’ new. And that’s what I am gunna do. Harpamental Well, I tried again. And kissed. Ain’t sayin’ what. Yeah, I tried again. And kissed . Ain’t sayin’what. She slapped my hand she slapped my face. I weren’t getting’ anyplace She said tough titty Tiger. That don’t get me hot. Chorus What’s a man to do. When his message don’t get through. Tell me What’s a man to do. When his message don’t get through. I’m askin’ you. Guess it’s time to Start kissin’ somethin’ new. ‘N that’s what I’ll do. Harpamental I gave it one more try. And kissed our special place. Yeah I tried one more time. And kissed our special place. She jumped outa bead. Left me for dead Yeah all hope died when she cried. Go shave baby. You’re scratchin’ up my face. Chorus What’s a man to do. When his message don’t get through. Tell me What’s a man to do. When his message don’t get through. I’m askin’ you. Guess it’s time to Start kissin’ somethin’ new. And that’s what I’ll do. Vox out bit So goodbye baby. You been replaced. I got something better. Sharin’ on my face. It’s no good to cry so don’t you even try. Look out woman. I’m blowin’ you goodbye Harpamental outro ------------------ http://www.songramp.com/homepage.ez?Who=grahamhenderson
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Hi, Graham! Well, I read the lyrics, liked the words, so I went to give it a listen, and I don't know if it's cause I'm computer-stupid, or because of this stupid computer, but what I got was 2 seconds of music followed by 4 or 5 seconds of silence all the way through the song. But, by putting the peices together in my head, I liked it! I've been hesitatin' on putting up one of my "R" rated songs, but now.....why not? Oh, and by the way, you blow a mean harp! (Thats meant in a good way!) See Ya! Roy
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Thanks Roy. I can rarely got streaming music to work and download nearly enerything. Glad you like what yopu did hear and I sincerely hope a later version will have a whole lot better harp and vox wise. This one was justr a quickie to let Bill know where I was at with it. Way streams buffer for me, I wouldn't dare ctitique a song on the strength of a stream. This one isn't R rated Roy. Can't imagine what you were thinking there Cobber. It is about playing harp. I always putn an R on anything that is leaning that way. Regards. Graham ------------------ http://www.songramp.com/homepage.ez?Who=grahamhenderson
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Hi Graham, Question: Can you mix a bunch of tracks on the set up you have? If you can, I'll send you some individual tracks, and then you can do a proper mix of things. For example. I can send you the chording guitar tracks and the percussion tracks. You then can add your vocals and your harmonica on seperate tracks and do all the necessary mixing. I could also redo the lead guitar as an `answer calling' to your vocal(or where I perceive your vocal to be...easily done). Can we do this? Thanks for the attention,cobberman. Bill
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Sorry if I misinterpreted it Graham, but I read it again, still sounds like an R rated song to me. Maybe its just my dirty mind, huh? Besides, I LIKE it the way I read it! Women are hard to understand sometimes, unpredictable, and always a mystery to us mere men. I think they prefer it that way! See ya! Roy
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Yes we can Bill. And if you do it the slow way and put it on a CD as wav files and mail it to me we will get a better quality. How I see it eventually being is no harp until the first kiss something new at the end of the chorus going into the harpamental and no harp fills going along as it is hard to do god harp and sing so all the fills and outs want to be guitar orientated. In the instrumentals you could do guitar answers to the harp as well. Do a few few varied take even on that aspect. One of the studios here ows me big time and I should be able to get them to do a mix for me free I would imagine. Probably be allowee to use their real mike as well to do then vox and harp. Played this to my favourite thrush last night and she is so stoked at it Bill. Not that I want you to do it to this one but I would suggest any you do like this in future it would be amn idea to put them up on SongRamp in the Music looking for words genre on Open Mike. That was one of my initiatives in there and i am still the only one with a piece in there. Still think the concept will work. Know I have a couple of collabs o the go from the lyrics looking for music lot I suggested to Songramp amd they implimented at the same time. That one is getting more reads than I do in here as a matter of fact. Today I am going to put the wav of this into Cakewalk and figure out those bar measures so I can get the ins and outs done better. Do need to know exactly how many beats per minute you are running at to do that Bill so let me know asap please. If you have any midi or cakewalk tracks on this you could e-mail them to me and that will serve just as well as me using a wav file . beter in fact as it doesn't makem my puter clunk when I am in word doing the lyric at the same time. This gets up to a good standard I will use it as my opening piece whenever I run the Karaoke down here. Really loving this one Bill. Is one of my favourite lyrics and i have never been able to play it how i wantit to go. Regards. Graham ------------------ http://www.songramp.com/homepage.ez?Who=grahamhenderson
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Hi Graham, This is really cool...you sure it's about a harp? I'll have to try the listen later but the lyric is really good, Tony
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It is all in the listening Tony. Once we do a new taks and only have harp coming in after the Kiss something new, and then the blowing you away to the outro, I am sure it will be clear for most this is most decidedly a harp song. Fact it is cross harp and so i am sucking more than blowing is a minor detail I hop will go over most punters, who don't know that's heads. This take is real rough Tony so don't rush to listen othre than to get a better idea of it as a whole. Ain't prett6y istening just yet. I had way too muuch mike onthe harp and flummed some words because i only got the music about an hour before I recorded it. Just wantied to let Bill know whre I was at with it. I'm too bloody old to hang around doing this stuff. Regards. Graham ------------------ http://www.songramp.com/homepage.ez?Who=grahamhenderson
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Hi Graham,
AAAAhhhh I don't know what beats per minute it is or how to even find out!
I have sent you an e-mail with 1 track only to see if you can get it. The .wav file didn't go so I reduced it to .wma (windows media audio). Can cakewalk import it?
Let me know.
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Now you won't do that again will ya Bill? WMA I can't convert. Well I can by playing it and recording it on the soundcard recorder. It was still 4 and something megs as was and clogged the e-mail up bad Cobber. I can convert the mp3s to wav and use that. Cakewalk will not handlw wma. Music match w9ill play it but not convert it like it can amp3. I will work the bpm out. Just would have been easier if you could tell me. What was the percussion done in? Wav or midi? If midi send jsut the midi and when i open it in Cakewalk it will tel the syrytem what BPM it is and open accoringly. leave it with me for a while Bill and i will get back t you. What would help is if you put the chords in the lyric sheet wher they go, including the intro, break and out. The instrumental bits I realise will just be a line but it will help anyway. Either e-mail them or do it in here, doesn't matter which. See the darn thing has 16 plays on it already. Your instrumental has 19. If I need them tracks it wouls be simpler to make each an mp3 and drop them on one of your sites so I could grab them then you can delete them when i tell you I got them. Wait til I see what I can do here though. Regards. Graham ------------------ http://www.songramp.com/homepage.ez?Who=grahamhenderson
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Graham, I absolutely love the chorus, can't get sound, but the lyric sure sucked me into R rated land... Just goes to show how fertile our creative minds are, eh! (thought I'd Canadianize this message) Jeannette
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Hi Graham, Sorry about email...I keep forgetting we all have different systems and it hinders communication. The percussion is wav file...me thumping on a plastic bucket. Tryed to fit chords to lyrics...not much luck with that.Sorry. I will put 5 mp3 tracks on soundcick when I hear from you. THe 19 plays on mine are from a discussion group connected to the home recording software I use. They listen but don't comment...hard bunch to impress. Catch you later, Roo Bill
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Thanks JPFers. Thanks jeanette. Is funny. I was the one who first started putting the R rating on stuff way back in TWS days because, although I write some pretty grotty stuff and see absolutly nothing wrong with any of it, i do believe the masses desereve the courtisy of warning they may be offended. Same as i really don't se why wew have to w4ear clothes all the time but do accept others who are offended by nudity have the right to go feely in public and not be offended.Majority rules sort of thing. This one while i admit the sugestsion is there and intended, I se it as nothing more than the suggestivness and double meaning charictoristic of blues since way back. And a whole lot of novelty songs to boot. basicaly the whole idea of this is for him to get a knockback and go play his harp as a pacifier so to speak. Then in the last bit with the scratching up my face bit it is supposed to say he wasn't doing any deep sea diving at all, mearly working on some erogonos (sp) zones like the ears or a special spot in the neck he thought would get him lucky. The ain't saying where etc implying a bloke wouildn't be telling everyone what spots rang his chicks bell. Well mos6 blokes anyway. Stan's probably already got a lyric about it. Don't sweat it Bill. can put them tracks up as I have been playing in Cakewalk Home Studio which i hardly ever use and found I can put more than the two audio tracks in I thought it was limited to. So far. I think it is going at 150 bpm eight to the bar. It alsi seems my firs suspision was correct in that you didn'r stick to a set number of bars. Whic is fine Bill as i can work around that me thinks. So far I go the bitsa as in bar4s lengths proggressivly 4,16,12,10,24,12,10,28. I will ask someone on the theory forum to do me a favou and check out both time and bar count. If you have the plastic bucket progression as a seperate wave file make sure to put that into mp3 and up on the site Bill. That is the one i should be able to get right on the cou7nt with. What home recording software are you using Bill? I know that I may be able to figure an esasy way to do this. Is a lot of fun I tell ya. And I am being made lear some of the cakewalk stuff. I am lazy and just record in my soundcard. Loving this little caper. By the way. Sounds like you are about as rough as I when it comes to geting a sound out ther with your plastic bucket trick. I am thinking of taping a mike to my Balalaka and seeing if i can get a not quite mandolin sound out of that. Regards. Graham ------------------ http://www.songramp.com/homepage.ez?Who=grahamhenderson
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