Music Development Project!

[Colt]

PC Name: Shahar Dawnwhisper
Want to write lyrics? Meh, I'm not very good with lyrics
Can you sing? Yes.
Can you read sheet music? No, but I have a very good auditory memory; if I hear a tune, I can memorize it very quickly.
Can you play instruments? Yes, guitar
Can you compose? Heh... no.
Do you want to do administrative stuff? Depends on what stuff in particular.
What's your desired commitment level? Medium to light. I'd do best working with someone else, perhaps singing songs that they write since I can't write them myself.

[Vanari]

Welcome Shahar

Ohh, what song? May we hear it as well? Perhaps if we created something like a sample library of people's voices/instruments we would know what we have to work with. Or at least get to hear a bit of everyone's abilities. How does that sound?

[Ainyi]

Alrighty! Well, I'll go ahead and put some songs in here that you all can chew over. If need be, I can record myself singing them, just to give a general sense of what I meant for the melody. Often times, I won't write a song until I have a melody in mind. So, this is what I got!

A Svefran Sea Shanty that Stefan and I cowrote!

Sonny, its time to go to bed
The sun is low, but the clouds rage on
The water is angry, and the fire is red
But we've many a mile to sail ahead

Son, many a mile to sail ahead!

Sonny, rest ‘till the storm is over
Sonny, sleep till we're safe again
Soon we’ll reach quieter waters
Lakivu save us from slaughter

Rest, oh Sonny, sleep, my son!

We did what we did, oh we had fun
We danced and we sang in the sun
But Sonny, now it's time to sleep
If we see a tomorrow, we'll play again

Son, see a tomorrow, we'll play again

Sonny, rest, ‘till the storm is over
Sonny, sleep, ‘till we are safe again
Soon we’ll reach some sweeter clouds
Lakivu, may we make you proud

Rest, oh Sonny, sleep, my son!

Aye, twelfth bell was peaceful too,
No breeze laid on our good mast,
But passion did rise on these small waves
With wind that'll take us to our graves.

Son, sleep not upon the waves

Sonny, rest till the storm is over,
Sonny, sleep till we're safe again,
May thunder's voice quiet down
Oh Lakivu, please, don't let us drown!

Rest, oh Sonny, sleep, my son!

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And, below, is a song I wrote on my own. It's a prayer song for worshipers of Yshul, the goddess of thieves.


She lies in every dark alley,
She lies in every rich man’s purse
She lies in every misfit babe,
That steals milk as their mothers nurse.

Everything is hers, as everything is ours.
May she bless this place of hers,
And keep us free from bars.

Bless us fair Yshul,
Our Princess of Thieves,
For we depend on you,
As we nightly reave.
Their pockets do feed us,
Their locks beg for theft.
Bestow us the luck we need,
May our hands be deft.

She lies in every gold miza
That our fingers want to take
She lies in our dreams of wealth
When our hunger wills us awake

She says not what is right, nor says what is wrong
But may she grant us favour
Our success may she prolong

Bless us fair Yshul,
Our Princess of Thieves,
For we depend on you,
As we nightly reave.
Their pockets do feed us,
Their locks beg for theft.
Bestow us the luck we need,
May our hands be deft.

She lies in the iron dagger
That rests on our target’s neck.
She lies in our twisted faces
As our deviant hands do beck.

She knows not of greed, yet takes all she sees
She taught us to open doors
But never gave us a key.

Bless us fair Yshul,
Our Princess of Thieves,
For we depend on you,
As we nightly reave.
Their pockets do feed us,
Their locks beg for theft.
Bestow us the luck we need,
May our hands be deft.

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Thoughts? Ideas? Etc?

[Vanari]

Ohh I like these. Do you have any recordings available?

[Wrenmae]

PC Name: Wrenmae
Want to write lyrics?: Suuuuure
Can you sing?: Maybe? Yes? Ask Fallon.
Can you read sheet music?: No
Can you play instruments?: No
Can you compose?: No
Do you want to do administrative stuff?: Yes...ish
What's your desired commitment level?: Mediumish...I can do singing and lyricy stuff but the rest of my composition skill is pretty much beatboxing.

[Ainyi]

Welcome, Wren! Glad to see you interested!

As for recordings of those two, I suppose I can, though my voice isn't great so it won't be necessarily pleasant. I was hoping to Skype someone with a good voice, and/or recording equipment so I could work with them on the tune, and then have someone good at singing handle the recording. Make sense?

[Crypt]

Question: Are we just doing IC songs (with IC-available instruments, IC styles and so on) or songs that use non-IC stuff, but about IC stuff?

[Ainyi]

I mean, I think both are acceptable. I'm writing my songs in a way that they can be used ICly, but if you want to arrange music and have a song about something in Mizahar, but not in a "mizaharan" style, I think that'd still be pretty cool!

[Wrenmae]

Catch me on skype sometime in the evening and I'll showcase a small handful of lyrics I put together for a song in Miz awhile back.

[Gale Austin McCenry]

Um, I'm not sure how much help I can be on this but I'd certainly like to try anyway. So, here it goes!

PC Name: Gale McCenry
Want to write lyrics?: I could if I'm given a topic to write about.
Can you sing?: Yes...ish. I'm average I would say.
Can you read sheet music?: Yes
Can you play instruments?: Yes. Piano, guitar, clarinet, a little violin, and I'm starting to pick up harmonica.
Can you compose?: Yesish.
Do you want to do administrative stuff?: Um, I'm not sure what you mean. Um, no?
What's your desired commitment level?: Probably more in the medium area. At times I'm probably going to be light and other times I'm probably going to be heavy, but as long as I keep up to date and I'm kept in the circle I should stay pretty consistent.


So, yeah! I think this is going to be fun. ^_^ Oh, also, I do have skype but I won't be able to use and I... sorta have half professional music equipment. Like, I have mics and speakers and such though it's probably not anything you'd find in a recording studio or anything.