My new song, Rocket to the Moon, is coming along. It’s a short (under 3 minutes) and fast, sort of fake-punk song and it\u2019s the first song I wrote on guitar. At one point I had hoped to submit it to NASA’s space shuttle song contest, but It\u2019s been a long time coming, between being busy with other projects and getting up to speed with my new studio setup.<\/p>\n
The song has a really cool bass part, much too active and melodic to be real punk. At first I was playing just straight 16th notes on the root, but that got kinda boring, So I asked myself, what would John Paul Jones do? I ended up using a combination of thumb, fingers and two-hand tap just to get the lines out. Sounds killer but hard to play a such a fast tempo.<\/p>\n
I laid down the lead vocal and an electric guitar part on my last session. Need to figure out what kind of effects to put on the vocals, and if I want any backing tracks.<\/p>\n
For the electric guitar I had been using a little stomp box amp simulator that my brother gave me, but the thing bit the ghost and now I have no FX. I tracked the gtr using a combo of direct inject and miking the amp, which provided a bit of reverb and overdrive and fullness, and layers nicely with the acoustic gtr and is not too bad as-is. Martin has offered to lend me some more of his unused FX to experiment with, which is both kind and cool, but I don\u2019t want to go back and retrack this gtr part if I don\u2019t have to, so meanwhile I think I’ll explore the gtr fx in proTools.<\/p>\n
So the song is on it’s way, but I still need to figure out how to fill out the arrangement. There’s some question as to the structure. There\u2019s a middle eight that\u2019s not doing much that needs some kind of solo or something. Maybe a bass solo? And then there\u2019s a jam out on the ending, that also needs something. Martin suggested a kind of Tom Jones-esque horn section, while Neumann proposed a Morphine style sax riff. Both seem to agree it\u2019s something over in saxophoneland, so I think I\u2019ll give that a go. John also mentioned a half-time section. This is intriguing, but I like the short, fast, high-energy thing the song has going, and wonder if this might take it into a whole nuther direction. This is the kind of thing that\u2019s almost easy if you have real band. You can just try out a few ideas in rehearsal. But in the studio it can be rather painstaking to lay down the tracks, listen back, decide and iterate. I had originally hoped this would be a quick song to record, but there’s alot of experimentation.<\/p>\n
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Rocket To The Moon<\/strong> Some days – I feel so far away Rocket to the moon Tonight – I’ll make it home alright Yeah we’ll rocket to the moon Some days – I feel so far away And we’ll rocket to the moon My new song, Rocket to the Moon, is coming along. It’s a short (under 3 minutes) and fast, sort of fake-punk song and it\u2019s the first song I wrote on guitar. At one point I had hoped to submit it to NASA’s space shuttle song contest, but It\u2019s been a long time coming, between being … Continue reading “New Song: Rocket To The Moon”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1344","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-music"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.zingman.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1344","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.zingman.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.zingman.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zingman.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zingman.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1344"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.zingman.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1344\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.zingman.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1344"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zingman.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1344"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zingman.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1344"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
\nBy John Szinger<\/p>\n
\nI move – so fast
\nTo be with you at last<\/p>\n
\nI’m coming for you soon
\nRocket to the moon
\nI’m coming for you soon<\/p>\n
\nTo be – with you
\nYou know what we can do<\/p>\n
\nI’m coming for you soon
\nRocket to the moon
\nI’m coming for you soon
\nRocket to the moon
\nI’m coming for you, for you soon<\/p>\n
\nTonight – I’ll make it home alright<\/p>\n
\nI’m coming for you soon
\nRocket to the moon
\nI’m coming for you soon
\nRocket to the moon
\nI’m coming for you soon
\nRocket to the moon
\nI’m coming for you, for you, for you soon<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"