February Album Writing Month - FAWM.ORG

Hannah Busse (@hbusse)

progress: 7

joined: January 25 2010
location: Wisconsin, USA
influences: regina spektor, Sufjan Stevens, Sara Groves, Feist, The Swell Season, Nickel Creek, Fernando Ortega, Ben Folds, Sara Bareilles

Bio

I'm

a singer/songwriter. The piano is my home base; I adore a good melody. I love waking up with a hook or a lyric stuck in my head.

a worship leader. One of the fundamental rhythms of my life is leading music and worship every Sunday with my church community.

a new mama. Because of my sweet baby girl, most of the songs I've written in the past 6 months have been about poop or tiny toes or baby cheeks... but as fun as that is, I'm looking forward to writing some different material this February.

Looking forward to interacting with all of you.

2012 Songs

1	New Grooves	27 comments // 3 months ago
2	Wish You Were Here	17 comments // 3 months ago
3	Olive Oil and Worcestershire	22 comments // 3 months ago
4	Save Me From the Storm - feat. Hannah Busse (with chrisdkopp)	21 comments // 3 months ago
5	Selfish (with sarahk)	2 comments // 2 months ago
6	Walking Wounded	zong // 2 months ago
7	Out of the Fog	zong // 2 months ago

Soundboard

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aaronaschweitzer 1 month ago

Your voice is amazing and it really shines in New Grooves. I love the build up before you hit those big notes. Very soothing! Excellent work. And Congradulations on the newly added inspiration to your family!!!
sarahk 2 months ago

I'm totally fine with posting it when we can. Life is what it is so the deadline can be flexible. And I wasn't sure about the listing you as a collaborator without asking first, so sorry for making you kind of hang out there without work to credit.. I think in previous years I've asked first, but realized this year that for you to have access, I could just list you right off the bat. I suppose there is some etiquette posted somewhere about that, but I didn't check since I'm trying to be very focused with my time. Anyway, yes, I'll email you my rough thing and you can nice it up if you like. Thanks!
rogerette 3 months ago

No problems, it is a seriously awesome song! I'm still listening to it!
sarahk 3 months ago

Thanks for popping over and listening to my first FAWMling. I'll see if I can cook up a melody 'cause I'd love to collab!
bitshred 3 months ago

thanks for the comment on "a secret". I forgot to write on the post that @olivia wrote the words, I just jammed on them and made up music....
shannonbeck 3 months ago

Thanks for you kind words - living into being a parent and musician can be tricky - baby love is art. Enjoy-
brownium 3 months ago

Looking forward to all your offerings this year. "The Purpose" from last year is on my list of all-time favorite songs. Noting your comments on worship music above - you might like to stop in on this thread: http://fawm.org/forums/thread/2550/
thegreatbrandoni 3 months ago

I'm stoked you think the song sounds like it's being played in a giant cathedral. My dream was to record my album in a church.

The iphone app is a free app called studio.M. I downloaded MusicStudio as well and that's not useful. I also bought GarageBand and that is kinda cool to play fake instruments on, but you record 8 bars at a time so it's kind of a hassle recording live instruments.

I also bought for $60 a Tascam iXZ which is an interface which allows you to plug a quarter inch instrument cable or a mic cable into your iPhone. It has a headphone plug in it so you can listen and play or sing along to what you've already recorded.

I might buy the upgrade for studio.M because it supports more tracks and supports importing and exporting tracks. I got Alchemy and it is an interesting synth app and supports exporting and so I think it would be cool to add synth from that app into my recorded songs.

I should probably open a thread about this stuff.
ernie 3 months ago

Hi thanks for commenting on my tune Searching For A Melody For You. Maybe you would be interested in adding a harmony. After I fix the melody.
debs 3 months ago

Hannah! I didn't know you were a new mama - congratulations! Fell in love with your stuff last year, and looking forward to more.
musicbykatie 3 months ago

aww, i was hoping it sounded like snowflakes!! That is what my hubby said about it too <3 loved your comment.

When was your little one born, btw? Just had mine in May.. time flies so quickly with them.
candle 3 months ago

Thanks for your great comment on The Empty Sleepers Of Image!

See You In The Shadows…
musicbykatie 3 months ago

ummmm i love your influences. i think we have similar taste & style.
cloudboy 3 months ago

Hanna, there's an ease and beauty to this. Nice (old) soul.
briansmith 3 months ago

Hi Hannah, as Sarah said we're going to try our best to write some things. Either way it would be great to collaborate with you again!
wynia 3 months ago

Yep...we moved from Berkeley to San Diego a few weeks ago. Lots of changes!
leslie 3 months ago

Hi, Hannah! @dasbinky said we might have some sounds in common. The piano is my other half. Looking forward to hearing your music!
wynia 4 months ago

Hannah-hopefully we'll get something written, though it will be kind of crazy. This year we've got the baby of course...and I start my new job on Feb 1st. We also will have my mom then Brian's mom here the 1st 2 weeks of Feb. So yeah. But I can't imagine not doing at least something. At least even with all of that going on I won't be battling the constant nausea/morning sickness I had at this time last year!
johncrossman 4 months ago

Hi Hannah, I'm not so sure about the poop songs but I bet you could work up some jazzy lullabies. Happy fawming!
bitshred 4 months ago

I'll be listening for sure.......
nancyrost 4 months ago

Happy fawming to you too -- and see you next week!
dasbinky 4 months ago

Yup, I am totally FAWMing, once I take a big nap...

Welcome back to the fray, really looking forward to hearing your stuff!