February Album Writing Month - FAWM.ORG

hartvan (@hartvan)

progress: 3

joined: January 25 2011
location: Michigan, USA
website: www.hearthenewmidwest.com
influences: The Beatles, Crowded House, Daniel Lanois, Brian Blade, The Blue Nile, Peter Gabriel, Neil Diamond, David Mead, The Beach Boys

Bio

2012 Songs

1	On Our Way to the Morning Light	9 comments // 3 months ago
2	Raise the Stone	8 comments // 3 months ago
3	Is My Heart In the Right Place?	5 comments // 3 months ago

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downburst 2 months ago

One of my best friends is a musician in GR, though he is working a pretty different strain than you. Supposedly I'm heading over to do some writing/recording some time--I'll try to check in. Thanks for the Facebook add too!
downburst 2 months ago

Another Michigan person! Awesome. I missed you somehow in my watchlisting. Are you in GR?

Edit, post listening: damn, man, you are so good. Your three songs make my 20 feel paltry. Like you've found a vein full of song.
joy212 2 months ago

We in the Detroit area. We should definitely talk about sharing a bill sometime. What kind of venues do you guys play? We've done coffee houses, bars and churches, so we're pretty much open.
joy212 2 months ago

Forgive me if I've said this before, but given your musical direction you would probably have a lot to talk about with my musical big brother/bandmate @nathanschleicher. and since we're all in the same state, we could possibly be real friends sometime instead of just FAWM/facebook friends.
joy212 3 months ago

Thanks so much! I'm glad you liked it.
scottlake 3 months ago

Here are two versions, both with the same organ part, and since I kept singing a harmony part along when I was doing the organ, I recorded a bgv harmony part as well.

http://rockstarnot.rekkerd.org/fawm2012/Michael%20Van%20Houten%20-%20On%20Our%20Way%20To%20The%20Morning%20Light%20with%20organ%20and%20bgv.mp3
http://rockstarnot.rekkerd.org/fawm2012/Michael%20Van%20Houten%20-%20On%20Our%20Way%20To%20The%20Morning%20Light%20with%20organ%20only.mp3
Do with them what you will. Thanks for the opportunity.
scottlake 3 months ago

You can e-mail me from my website: www.rockstarnot.rekkerd.org on the 'contact me' link. I wish we had private messaging here at FAWM. I tried finding your e-mail from your hearthenewmidwest.com site, but didn't find it there. I just messaged you on Facebook with it.
brallan 3 months ago

I really like this tune.
scottlake 3 months ago

OK, I was working in Ab! Can you help me out on the verses with the chord pattern? I have the first part sorted, but the little changeups near the ends of the verses are throwing me for a little loop.
G# C# G# Fmin I believe is the first pattern for the verse, but after that I'm not so sure.