Deborah PickettAug 31, 2024

Seeking amateur (or not) musicians to help me record an original #ChristmasSong as part of #RememberingGeordie

“I’m Staying Home This Christmas”, a pop-country song with Boy Band harmonies, about avoiding the rellies and spending the holidays with found family.

No talent needed, we’ll fix it in post!

You also don’t need to have known Geordie to participate.

This will be released for free under the #LPlatePlayers label this Novemberish

Edit: Thank you to all the wonderful folks who helped put this together. There'll be ten-ish people (and my cat) to credit. The task now falls to me to slice, mix, cook, serve on a bed of, no wait, wrong channel.

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Show threadDeborah PickettSep 7, 2024

This weekend I’ll be sticking up some stem files and a very rough-cut demo of “I’m Staying Home This Christmas” on a file-sharing service.

If you missed the earlier toot 👆🏻 this is a Christmas song that I am seeking collaborators on, to release as a free single in Novemberish under the “L Plate Players” label.

Interested parties should follow the @lplateplayers group now, and watch the #LPlatePlayers hashtag, so you don’t miss out. There are a couple of dozen of you, so DMs and group toots don’t scale, and getting you all onto Matrix or Discord or whatever isn’t achievable.

Show threadDeborah PickettSep 8, 2024

Everyone who replied to my call for participants should now have a DM with a link to a Dropbox page. If you didn't get it, please DM me.

Absolutely no pressure to produce something. There are enough of you that no one person is indispensable, not even me.

There's lots of info in there to read, as well as the stem files for the demo that I put together yesterday.

That should be enough for you to load it into your software and have a play around.

I still owe you some sheet music for the vocal parts, but not today.

@lplateplayers #LPlatePlayers

Show threadVirtualWolfSep 8, 2024

@futzle Right, next I need to dig up a chart of which notes are in which chords for the bass, because I am still extremely a noob at music theory, haha.

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Show threadVirtualWolf

@futzle Actually, I'm struggling a bit to understand something here... Instrumentation.txt for the bass says "Tonic notes, maybe a 3/3/2 tonic/fifth/tonic".

"Tonic" means the root note, "fifth" is the fifth note of the major scale, so for G that would be G for the tonic and the fifth is D, right? And then when the chords changes to (say) C, that'd be C and G, respectively, then for the D chord you'd go to D and G?

If so, excellent. But I'm not sure what to do for the Minor and 7th chords... I've got the Justin Guitar major scale sheet handy that I've been looking at that shows each note/scale degree for each given major scale, do I need to find one for the minor and 7th chords in that case?

Also, what does "3/3/2" mean? 😅

Sep 8, 2024 at 6:41amWeb
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@virtualwolf @futzle Not involved in the project so sorry if this is unwarranted but backing up a notch, the 5th of D is A not G. Other 5ths look correct. The 5th of a major or minor chord would be the same. Eg 5th of C minor is also a G. Unless you’re dealing with a diminished or augmented chord/scale then 5ths are going to be the same note relative to the tonic regardless of if it’s a major, minor, 7th, 6 chord, sus chord etc
Show threadVirtualWolfSep 8, 2024

@thewetmale @futzle Not unwarranted at all, many thanks! 🙏🏻

That was a typo on my part, the worksheet I have here has it listed correctly I just typed the wrong thing in the toot, oops. 😅

Show threadDeborah PickettSep 8, 2024

@thewetmale @virtualwolf Thank you for this correct information 😊

What I meant by 3/3/2 is this kind of rhythm, which happens a ton in country music (see pic). This is jargon I made up so it’s not surprising that it didn’t remind you of anything 😝

Show threadVirtualWolfSep 8, 2024

@futzle More questions, sorry! I'm still very much learning all of this. 😬

I'm not entirely sure I'm following how this should sound... so the dot extends the note length by half again, so this would be a strum on the "1" and that note would go for 1.5 beats, then you'd strum on... the "&" of beat 2? and then the last one on "4"?

Show threadDeborah PickettSep 8, 2024
@virtualwolf Yes! Full marks.
Show threadVirtualWolfSep 8, 2024
@futzle