FAWM: "To Fall with Grace (#CommentsFirst)"

To Fall with Grace (#CommentsFirst)

1 week ago by @trashmilk

To Fall with Grace (#CommentsFirst)

trashmilk

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Liner Notes

***Planning to close the comments after work or 3 comments, whichever comes second!

Saw @rbachman post on her page this #commentsfirst challenge and thought “what the heck?”

I am pretty open to whatever y’all throw. I am not so picky and if you already checked out anything I got, you know what I like to make already. Challenge me! Torture me! Give me something to chew on!

I am using ableton so I have access to a lot of sounds. Acoustic guitar. Vox. Let’s get weird!

Edit 2/23/26 -- After being away for the weekend, I have posted my #commentsfirst demo. Thanks for your patience!

@robynmackenzie I never thought I’d hear the word “boop” sung so reverently // The words are only boop. Any voice you hear will be singing boop. And reverently, at that!

@coolparadiso I never thought you would be able to sing such high and low notes in one song // I tried to sing both high and low notes. Hope they are both high and low enough!

@savvyaz Am I hearing old fashioned sounding spoons? And birds?! This is epic! // So the "spoons" you hear is actually a can-opener I am making sound almost like spoons. The hotel I am in for work is unequipped with spoons and I forgot to grab some. Birds, however, are present!

@nadine I barely listened to song in 7/8 this year. And brilliant that you grouped them differently over the song! // last but not least -- took me a lot of effort but I think I made enough novelty in the 7/8 use throughout the song!

Lyrics

Boop

Comments

@sheslin 1d

First of all kudos to you - I have never been brave enough to participate in the writing side of this challenge - but love giving suggestions on the commenting side. Secondly your write the best liner notes! This song is really such a vibe, and you built it so cleverly around the comments. The 7/8 timing gives it such a cool feel. You vocal range is incredibly impressive - wow - and I love how you use the vocals in the song. It was so smart to kind of use a looping/repetition - it handles the single word requirement plus the timing requirement well and gives you the chance to use the birds and spoons sounds throughout, as well as the vocal boops adding such atmosphere. Amazing guitar work as always - I enjoyed all the different styles - the beautiful finger style playing at the beginning and starting at 2:51, the dark rhythmic strum is so cool at 1:18, the change up at 1:48 with that circular kind of pattern feels like the sun coming out . The organ synth is a nice touch and I like how it doubles with the guitar. The sparkly synth is nice layer too. Totally unleashed creativity - I am so impressed and really enjoyed the journey this song takes us on. You totally nailed this challenge!!

@trashmilk 1d

I don't know why you wouldn’t try, you’re awesome and you’d make something great! Get in the pool, the water is fine!

Thank you again for your nuanced feedback as always! I try to maintain my semi-serious nature even in my writing, glad you liked the notes before the notes! Writing in 7/8 was such a challenge but really opened my eyes to subdivision opportunities in my standard 4/4 writing now. I think a lot of the piece poured out from there and I wanted to write an instrumental this month anyway! I think looping parts of the piece not only made it easy to construct the demo (definitely didn’t play the whole way through compared to some of my other work) but I think playing in 7/8 makes you feel like you’re on a carousel anyway, so looping something naturally elliptical-feeling felt … well, natural. Haha I am very content with what showed up here, thanks again for coming by!

@savvyaz 2d

Insanely creative! I laughed so hard at your liner notes, especially realizing we were about to hear a lyric of only Boop. Man, this was fun and wild and oh so beautiful.

@trashmilk 1d

Boop and boop alone made this. I was only worried a little that someone would misinterpret the lyrics as poop and not boop so I made sure to include the lyrics.

@jeremykazoo 2d

Oh man, this is so cool. I keep forgetting spoons as a percussion option. And I'm a Soundgarden fan! I tried for some 7/8 this month, but I got about 20 minutes into it and was like, "not worth the trouble".

This is the perfect 90's song. It has some dark, minor instrumentation, an acoustic part (unplugged), the aforementioned spoons and somehow also Gregorian chanting. Remember when that was a thing?

You took some really kooky and disparate ideas and combined them into a genuinely intriguing and enjoyable tune. Creativity at its best!

@trashmilk 2d

That’s a good soundgarden reference, I’m happy I picked it up, very clever. Lol I was crying the first day and the second day I felt better, now I am rife with ideas about how to slide odd time sigs into my standard stuff or at least I feel that way.

This piece really feels like an incomplete demo besides the obvious mixing— it’s very open to play with more ideas and I am happy that I can make bigger canvases than at the.beginning of the month even. I didn’t intend to include chanting, but yeah the 90’s really poured out on this one. The Gregorian chants was the unplanned surprise here — super happy with this one

@nadine 2d

Thank you so much for pinging me. Just seeing he comments after me, I'm impressed that you were able to incorporate all. Great idea with the spoons. Dark mood, that 7/8 is awesome. Sounds like something Tool would do when staying in a hotel room not being able to use loud amps

@trashmilk 2d

I think the challenge for me is making enough noise without making too much noise, so a lot of my stuff here sounds underpowered and honestly a little underwhelming so I have to get more creative. Thanks for your challenge comment and feedback!

@coolparadisoMod 2d

Sensational spoons good high n low and 7/8 to me and what a use of boop well played indeed and coherent as well!

@trashmilk 2d

Appreciate the comments! Thanks for stopping in!

@trashmilk 2d

@robynmackenzie @coolparadiso @savvyaz @nadine It's all finished and the demo is up. The mix is not so great but the idea isn't too muddied up from it. Hope you like it!