February Album Writing Month - FAWM.ORG

John Q

progress: 14

winner!
joined: February 2009
location: California, USA
website: www.johnqsound.com
influences: Daniel Lanois, T-Bone Burnett, Peter Himmelman, Joe Henry, Steven Wesley Guiles, classical guitar composers--------------------------------------- It is a scientific fact that there are absolutely NO bad songs on Peter Case's _Blue Guitar_.

Bio

John Q is here for his 14 minutes of FAWM (or maybe one more).

Added 2/28

I'm so glad to have finished the 14 songs. I was able to get out some songs that were of much higher quality than what I put out last year...they all have multiple parts/tracks with some interesting little instrumental bits...which was not so much the case last time.

This year I only used loops on two songs...the first one and the last one...the rest were all played by hand using percussive noises or a synthesizer, or Reason (both played by hand).

John

Added 2/13:

The coolest thing I have ever seen on FAWM:
http://fawm.org/songs/3837/

2010 Songs

1	Falchion	7 comments // 1 month ago
2	Encounter With SG119	6 comments // 1 month ago
3	Can I Get There From Here	5 comments // 1 month ago
4	Distraction Destruction	4 comments // 4 weeks ago
5	Nodar	6 comments // 3 weeks ago
6	Canto XIV	2 comments // 3 weeks ago
7	I Am Peacefully Using Adhesives and Suddenly the Bees Are Upon Me	4 comments // 2 weeks ago
8	Get Up On This	6 comments // 2 weeks ago
9	General MacArthur	3 comments // 2 weeks ago
10	Revelation	4 comments // 2 weeks ago
11	Everybody Knows	3 comments // 2 weeks ago
12	Forsaken Faithful	2 comments // 1 week ago
13	One Or The Other	5 comments // 1 week ago
14	Drive	2 comments // 1 week ago

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Deep Sea Cavalry 1 week ago

Nice album... Great work getting done too. And thanks for spending some time listen to our stuff. Hopefully see you next year on here.
Steven Wesley Guiles (formerly Apple_Head) 1 week ago

Looking forward to seeing you there?
Sing up now!

http://fawm.org/forums/thread/974/
compromiseline 1 week ago

Yeah you're right, finding some distorted speakers would be neat.

I'm a huge fan of using old equipment and getting that vintage, lo-fi sound.
Robyn Mackenzie 2 weeks ago

Thank you for the great comment on "Counterpoint'd!"

I'm actually in the process of doing that right now. A day or so after I recorded it, I decided to break out Finale and actually make it into a proper piece.
Scott Lake 2 weeks ago

Hey John Q - thanks for comment on 'Could Have Been'. When I'm at a PC where I can listen, I promise I'll give your tracks a spin. Oh, and you're a Himmelman fan as well? One of the best songs ever: Ant Named Jane.
Tally (live2tivo) 3 weeks ago

I think it's so cool that you did songs from The Twilight Zone last year. I love The Twilight Zone.

I have been trying to think of ideas to kind of break free of just the plot lines, but with all of my school work, it's hard to spend extra time coming up with something original. (However, I'm mostly done with it next week, so I'm saving some of the shows for more original ideas.)
compromiseline 3 weeks ago

Haha glad you liked it.

Very much liked the witty comment as well.
Billy Sea 3 weeks ago

LOL @ 14 Minutes of FAWM...funny stuff

Good to see you John
Dillon Nickerson 4 weeks ago

Thanks man i tryed to make the tapping on the guitar sound like a heart beat almost in the same rhythm as a native drum and the buzzing in there sounds like rain kinda
jadesongbird 1 month ago

Thank you for the great comment. Once I've reached the 14-song finish line, I'm going to go back and revamp the lyrics as you suggested. So good to have an outside eye.
Candle 1 month ago

Thanks for the comment!