Composition Challenge!

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Just recording one of my old songs and my routine is to build from acoustics, looping drum beat, rhythm, bass, higher arpeggios, solos. I always get to a fairly full completed backing track before I even think of adding vocals. And it occurred to me, how much of the melody for this is in the chords and rhythm and how much is hidden in my head? Pretty sure that songwriters haven't exhausted all the potential melodies out there yet, but I'm sure we've used every chord structure there is, many times over.

So, as an interesting experiment, if you want, and if it inspires any lyrics or melodies, how about taking this backing track and adding your own lyrics and melodies, singing it, adding any other instruments, and uploading it here?

Not sure if this has been done here before, but it's something I would have leapt on if someone else put it forward.

Anyway, just an idea, no pressure, and I'll just leave it here...

 
It has everything going for it. I would say for listening reason, need to tame those highs a bit. Pretty sharp to my ears. But the song has a lot of potential. Kind of has that late 90's pop vibe.

If you could get some good catchy vocals to go with that. Nice, high energy. (y)
 
DM60 said:
It has everything going for it. I would say for listening reason, need to tame those highs a bit. Pretty sharp to my ears. But the song has a lot of potential. Kind of has that late 90's pop vibe.

If you could get some good catchy vocals to go with that. Nice, high energy. (y)
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Thank you. I already have my lyrics and melody, I just paused at this stage of the demo and had a lightbulb moment. My thinking here was I wonder how many different avenues other songwriters might go down with these simple chords and we could compare and contrast later on. Certainly not putting this forward as a paragon of mixing, just as a starting point. Mixing levels and frequencies is something I'm still working on.
 
Yea. I get that, while it wasn't mixing critique, the highs are harsh enough to point out for others that were going to listen. Not a finished mix, but people are going to listen.
 
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