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Tom Slatter progress: 4 joined: January 2008 location: Somewhere, UK website: www.songwright.co.uk influences: Bowie, Radiohead, various metal bands, various indie rock, various prog rock

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2010 Songs

1		Rattle your Jewellery	14 comments // 1 month ago
2		Shaking Hands with Death	11 comments // 1 month ago
3		Candles and Flowers (with  ellen liss)	8 comments // 1 month ago
4		This Improves Your Soul	1 comment // 2 weeks ago

Soundboard

•  Bruce H. McCosar 3 weeks ago

  BTW, later I'm doing an overhaul of the "Blogroll" section on my WordPress pages ... I'd like to add yours. I'm finding there are a lot of us out there that talk music. Although most of the time, I have no trouble coming up with song ideas ... problem is usually getting the time to record! I was helped out in a big way by the bad weather

•  Bruce H. McCosar 3 weeks ago

  Thanks for your comments on my blog -- you should have given me a link to your FAWM page! I had a look at your songwriting blog, and it looked interesting. I've bookmarked it for a return trip.

•  ellen liss 4 weeks ago

  haha, Tom, no need to hide that! Some stuff like Metallica is great (your voice is very strong like the lead singer, the name I would need to look up). I am a big (90s) Guns-N-Roses fan.

•  ellen liss 1 month ago

  thanks for the update, Tom! Can't wait to hear it!

•  ellen liss 1 month ago

  Yes, Yes, Yes -- please do take "Candles and Flowers" and see what you come up with -- I will be thrilled to have you work on it. Thank You!

•  ellen liss 1 month ago

  Mr. Slatter -I saw in the collab forum that you might be interested in using other people's lyrics...mine up up for the grabbing, if anything there inspires you. I have many more to write before months end, so hopefully SOMETHING will be worthy of a tune
  Thanks! -- Ellen

• Otterman Empire 1 month ago

  I have to say, I loved Spinning the Compass. Brilliant album. Your FAWM songs are sounding great.

•  Bruce H. McCosar 1 month ago

  Ah, I see -- I did an entire series of articles on odd time signatures back in the day. Here's the one on the 5-groove:
  
  http://bmccosar.wordpress.com/2009/01/10/rhythms-in-five/
  
  That's probably where I went could have added some complexity. I should have used another drum to get a counterrhythm going, one of my 5-claves, superimposed over the 3:2 straight 8 5-groove.

•  Bruce H. McCosar 1 month ago

  Thanks for your comment on "My Secret Word for Dragonfly" -- odd, I don't think it sounds like Take Five at all. Maybe that's because T5 is swing, and this one is straight 8ths? At any rate, it's something that's come up in two comments now, so I probably ought to compare the two.

•  Benjamin Nolan 1 month ago

  Try now. My Wi-Fi's been playing up, and it took me an hour and a half to upload that track.

• Nick Sypniewski 1 month ago

  Sorry - newbie. Posted my song comment here...

• Kim o the Concrete Jungle 1 month ago

  "@Kim o' the Conrete Jungle - Good song. Reminds me a little of Nick Cave. In a good way."
  
  Thanks for the comment. I get the Nick Cave comparison a lot. But I can live with that.

•  third time lucy 1 month ago

  nice blog, i'll definitely be checking back there. bonus points for writing about songwriting and actually having some well written songs up on your bandcamp to back up your words

•  Chasing Andromeda 1 month ago

  Tom, enjoyed Spinning the Compass and looking forward to more great stuff from you! Have a great event!