I want to write a song for other musicians so I pretended to write a song for a great local group, Rigometrics. They’re a keyboard playing poppy Greta Van Fleet band with a powerful guitar and vocals. They’ve been growing in popularity in New England over the past few year and aren’t far from expanding…
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The One Man Stan Band A Maine Native, Stan Farrell has been tossing out songs since 2018 through his band, Wizbe, but this is his first time releasing songs under his own name. His new album, The One Man Stan Band, will be available October 12, 2024. When you listen to the 12 acoustic songs…
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I’m making a new album. This requires a lot of different tools: But I didn’t use artificial intelligence for my music. I could. But that seems wrong. I didn’t use AI for the lyrics either. Wrong. But why? Isn’t it just another tool? Like a spell checker? Something to give me ideas of where I…
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Reality is much more awesome than you could ever dream possible. And reality doesn’t give a flying leap about you. Or me. There was/is an author, Richard Bach who made a career writing fictional books that said you could do anything. Everyone should read these books, especially Jonathan Livingston Seagull (the book, not the person…
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Ted Gioia is a wonderful writer. I really enjoy many of his articles through substack. He’s a musician and I’d also say great cultural writer that talks through many musical ideas. I highly recommend you read his material, but this weeks letter is just bizarre. Mr. Gioia’s premise is that bad music will go by…
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Mark Joyce (Lead Guitar), Tom Giordano (Bass Guitar), Ben Godsoe (Drums), Adam Black (Sound) And Stan Farrell singing his original song “Old Boat” by Wizbe along with Rhythm Guitar Playing live at the Hallowell Band Stand at the Harlow Art Gallery in Hallowell Maine May 2022.
So this was a message I heard today about the difference between a pro songwriter and an amateur songwriter. If you’re amateur you write the song first, pro has a reason for writing the song. As Paul McCartney said in a radio interview in 2006 “we were trying to write hit songs” at the beginning.…
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John Prine, Summer’s End Here’s my breakdown so far of Summer’s End: Key of D (video has him playing capo 2 (key of C) So in C: notes would be: C Dm Em F G Am _ FORM: Intro-4 bars Verse-8 (drums start here) V-8 (start to hear some violin underneath-slowly builds to violin solo(ish))…
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