Category Archives: #GarageBand,

#Frail Autumn,, #GarageBand,, #Lyrics, #meanderings, #music, #Retirement Projects, #songwriting, #Team 23

Move into the Rhythm of Love.

14 Comments
Taken from the WordPress photograph library.

Here below on the audio bar is a little excursion into trying out a song I wrote back in 1981. I needed to change it to suit my current voice.

This morning’s quick vocal trial of Moving to the Rhythm….or Move into the Rhythm.

THE ORIGINAL SONG IS ON YOUTUBE. UPLOADED BY OUR TEAM 23 DRUMMER JOHN HEWITT. YOU CAN LISTEN BELOW.

The original Team 23 version of the song. Nice to three of the band members, John, Jim and Lynn, as they are now. The other photographs are us as youngsters. There is a black and white photograph of the band in the video.
Left to Right: John, Lynn, Ade, Roy, Jerome, Jim and Me, Gray.

This morning it was pootling about time again. After the last 18 months of learning how to record my songs and all the difficulties of getting them over the finished line ….. it has been a steep learning curve to find some success. Nowhere near the level I would really love. But, I realise the aim for my music captures now is simply steeped in one word. Therapy.

The ‘Move into the Rhythm’ lyric I wrote way back in the 1982 song was revisited in a different song I wrote last year. I suppose it could well have been a subliminal calling to past times that felt good. When it was a good time to feel alive I suppose. Don’t worry….I still love life. 😊

Therapy? It is all I want nowadays. To pick up the guitar, plink plonk note melodies on the AKAI MIDI keyboard and treat music as I would an interesting hobby.

Gone are the promises that held your hand…..leading you into the fight.
‘What once was’ is ‘now has been’. So drag yourself into the light.
A lyric from a song I wrote a year or so ago called ‘18 Years was 50 Years ago’.

What is nice is that starting up a few new ideas with improved knowledge of the technical aspects of the Mac M2 little home studio equipment is that it is just switched on now and immediately the ability to record has become a very simple capture exercise.

What used to be a singing into the iPad microphone to capture songs, is now a case of switch on the Mac M2, open up a microphone audio track for acoustic guitar and capture ideas. I have deliberately chosen the very echo laden Echo Strum acoustic guitar choice because it can capture vocals at the same time as playing. I can easily begin to both sing and strum guitar into my old vintage Shure SM58 dynamic microphone without contorting my posture to get close proximity with both head height voice singing and waist height guitar playing. Echo volume is in order to keep it simple. Also with the beauty of the echo? It is like singing in the shower. Provides a very happy state to start the day with.

The 45 rpm. Love vinyl.

I spoke in the very first audio above about creating a more Latin or Coffee Shop vibe on the song Move into the Rhythm and mentioned ‘Eddie just loves to dance’ as a song with a Latin vibe. Here below is the Eddie song for an idea.

Eddie just loves to dance.

On all recordings it is basically myself, Gray Summers, playing all the guitar and keyboard instruments and singing the vocals. I do use drumming tracks from the GarageBand library of drumming choices. However, from now on the future choices will be not to use GarageBand drum tracks at all.