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Just bought the book Tunesmith: Inside The Art of Songwriting. I love his writing, in fact one of my favorite albums of all time is Watermark by Art Garfunkel....every gorgeous song written by Jimmy Webb. Tunesmith is 432 pages on every facet of what we all do. I can't wait to get into this...

In another thread I posted some lyrics I wrote about Michael Jackson's life. I eventually wrote some music for it, recorded it, and now it's posted on Soundclick. I used a bass line and guitar riff inspired by "Billie Jean", but a totally different melody. Hope you like it! KING OF POP...

Still a bit of a rough draft, will likely tweak it somewhat. Michael Jackson's music was part of the soundtrack of many of our lives...this is my tip of the hat to him. KING OF POP Copyright 2009 by Mike Pilling V1 Gary Indiana Almost 50 years ago Steel was king , the only thing A fella...

Also posted in the Songwriters forum. I won't give much of a preamble on this one, since some say that ruins the song for them This is quite a departure from my last song "The Blue Horizon" (which was covered beautifully by Gecko Zzed). I raunched it up a little, making it into a bit of a...

Well, I won't give much of a preamble on this one, since some say that ruins the song for them :) This is quite a departure from my last song "The Blue Horizon" (which was covered beautifully by Gecko Zzed). I raunched it up a little, making it into a bit of a blues rocker, along the lines of...

I have recorded the backing tracks for this song, but before I lay down the vocals, I want to bounce the lyrics off of you folks. It was inspired by a newspaper article I read recently about helping the homeless. A lot of them choose this life and don't want to be helped. It's a blues...

I also posted this over in the Songwriting forum. How does the mix sound? At this point, it's still a demo, and there are some obvious boo-boos in it. But I am looking for feedback on the overall sound. My wife says it's already her favourite song of mine. It's meant to evoke a very lazy...

I know I just posted a tune 2 weeks ago, and I don't want to overstay my welcome - but I was inspired to write another song very quickly after the last, and I got it on tape before I lost the motivation behind writing it! This is proof that you can be inspired to write a song by just about...

Hi guys, I usually post over in the Songwriting forum, but I thought I would give this place a try as well. This is a song I recently wrote and just got around to recording this past weekend. I was going for a smooth, flowing, almost an "80s" sound. Give it a listen and let me know what you...

A few months back, the wife of one of my oldest friends died unexpectedly and suddenly, at the age of 40 - leaving him with 8 kids. I had lost touch with him over the years; same with the rest of my 'posse' from way back then. We had not seen each other for 10 years, which none of us could...

Last autumn, my wife and I were often found walking in the woods and on the beach on the last weekends of summer, and one of us said "well, looks like summer's over and it's time for rain". An "AHA!!" moment. Back at home, I wrote a song about it, and this is the result...all about spending...

Today, April 12, is our 29th wedding anniversary. To honour my wife, I wrote this song for her a couple months back. Today would be an appropriate day to post it :) She calls me her rock/pillow, so I made sure I incorporated it into the song. I usually double my voice because I'm not very...

Today is the first warm day of the year here in Vancouver BC...so I thought I would post my tip o' the hat to summer. The song is "Summer Sun", and yes, it's full of cliches, but so were the Beach Boys :D Written and recorded in one 3 hour time frame! SUMMER SUN by Mike Pilling When the sun...

I wrote this back in October (duh) and it was my first songwriting effort. I used the imagery of the ever-changing October skies as a metaphor for how relationships change over time. The slide guitar solo near the end was meant to convey both emotional pain and hope for the future...I tried a...

This section in so seldom used, and we ZOOM owners have nowhere to go on here! Mike Zoom HD8CD