Make Me Proud - Revision history

Gabemcelwain at 01:00, 3 September 2009

2009-09-03T01:00:26Z

Gabemcelwain: /* Chords */

2007-08-22T00:35:52Z

‎Chords

Gabemcelwain at 19:09, 3 March 2007

2007-03-03T19:09:09Z

Sara at 21:36, 24 February 2007

2007-02-24T21:36:31Z

Gabemcelwain: /* Author's Notes */

2007-02-24T17:24:53Z

‎Author's Notes

Gabemcelwain at 15:56, 23 February 2007

2007-02-23T15:56:15Z

Gabemcelwain at 21:29, 22 February 2007

2007-02-22T21:29:15Z

Gabemcelwain: /* Author's Notes */

2007-02-22T19:39:01Z

‎Author's Notes

Gabemcelwain at 16:00, 22 February 2007

2007-02-22T16:00:38Z

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[[Category: Songs]]
Demo coming soon! I made one, but the mixdown file got messed up somehow!
==Lyrics==
<pre>
don't dress by the window
please pull the shade
don't spill out the sugar
from which you were made

remember that i loved you
and knew you in a crowd
go if you must
i know you'll make me proud
</pre>
==Music==
===Structure===
A B 
It's linear right now. I am toying with the idea of having a quiet time through and then a crazy guitar solo-playing-the-melody-sort-of time through.
===Chords===
A e7 
DM7 b%7 E7/G# 
E7/G# A 
b/F# b7/F# Esus4 E7 
 
c% F#7 
b b7 b%7 E 
A 
d E7 D 
A 

== Author's Notes ==
Add seven days of Weezer's Pinkerton to seven nights of the original Broadway cast recording of Guys & Dolls. Mix in a bowl made of Bicycle Day, and simmer for Emily minutes. Serves several.

As mentioned above, I'm still playing with the structure for this. I think it could have a nice keyboardy time through with the singing, and then a Weezer-esque fade up the guitar noise into a crazy guitar-driven time through.

I'm afraid to write any more of this song, because I think it pretty much gets the job done here. Maybe I'll do a California-style instrumental second verse and then a second refrain. I'll try that.

== Comments==

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 b/F# b7/F# Esus4 E7<br>
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-c%         F#7<br>
+c#%         F#7<br>
 b    b7	   b%7   E<br>
 A<br>

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	== Comments==		== Comments==
		+	i love this song! the lyrics flow so quickly from a to b, and the b section is just devastating.<br>
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		+	the version as it is now feels like the climax of the song. i would love to hear a version like what you are considering, with a quiet time through that builds up to this. it wouldn't necessarily need more lyrics at all.<br>
		+	[[User:Sara\|Sara]] 13:36, 24 February 2007 (PST)<br>

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	I think it's too short, but I'm afraid to write any more of this song, because I think it pretty much gets the job done here. Maybe I'll do a California-style instrumental second verse and then a second refrain. I'll try that.		I think it's too short, but I'm afraid to write any more of this song, because I think it pretty much gets the job done here. Maybe I'll do a California-style instrumental second verse and then a second refrain. I'll try that.
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		+	====update====
		+	I really think this needs a different title. The title is too forceful for the song, and I think the last line works best if you don't know it's coming. So I'd like to come up with a different title.
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		+	[[User:Gabemcelwain\|Gabemcelwain]] 09:24, 24 February 2007 (PST)

	== Comments==		== Comments==

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-Demo coming soon!  I made one, but the mixdown file got messed up somehow!
+[[Media:makemeproud_1.mp3|Make Me Proud - MP3]]
 ==Lyrics==
 <pre>
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 *Serves several.
-I have been wanting to use a minor five chord for a while, and i sort of decided that this would be the song.  So the first change is I-v.  It took about an hour to come up with a melody I really liked that worked over that change, but once I got it, it set the tone, and the rest of the song pretty much wrote itself.
+I have been wanting to use a minor five chord for a while, and I sort of decided that this would be the song.  So the first change is I-v7.  It took about an hour to come up with a melody I really liked that worked over that change, but once I got it, it set the tone, and the rest of the song pretty much wrote itself.
-As mentioned above, I'm still playing with the structure for this.  I think it could have a nice keyboardy time through with the singing, and then a Weezer-esque fade up the guitar noise into a crazy guitar-driven time through.
+As mentioned above, I'm still playing with the structure for this.  I think it could have a nice keyboardy time through with the singing, and then a Weezer-esque fade up the guitar noise into a crazy guitar-driven time through.  This current demo kind of makes light of the song.  It's one of the more starkly emotional lyrics I've written, and I think I'm afraid of trying to play it straight and somber on this one for that reason.  But I think the melody and changes would lend themselves well to a less generic rock arrangement.
-I'm afraid to write any more of this song, because I think it pretty much gets the job done here.  Maybe I'll do a California-style instrumental second verse and then a second refrain.  I'll try that.
+I think it's too short, but I'm afraid to write any more of this song, because I think it pretty much gets the job done here.  Maybe I'll do a California-style instrumental second verse and then a second refrain.  I'll try that.
 == Comments==

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 == Author's Notes ==
-Add seven days of Weezer's <i>Pinkerton</i> to seven nights of the original Broadway cast recording of <i>Guys & Dolls</i>.  Mix in a bowl made of Bicycle Day, and simmer for Emily minutes.  Serves several.
+*Add seven days of Weezer's <i>Pinkerton</i> to seven nights of the original Broadway cast recording of <i>Guys & Dolls</i>.
 As mentioned above, I'm still playing with the structure for this.  I think it could have a nice keyboardy time through with the singing, and then a Weezer-esque fade up the guitar noise into a crazy guitar-driven time through.