#141 - Making "note" of my musical accomplishments. Hur hur.

"Queen of Denial" is mostly performable by now. Finally. I've had that thing sitting around for at least a year. I'm still trying to clean up the accompaniment for the stanza melody parts, but if forced to play this song at gunpoint, I could wing it with simple block chords.

For "Between the Lines," I managed to:

1) fill in missing lyrics
2) choose a key (E major) and a palette of chords
3) create a musical motif, and
4) drafted out the melodic structure of the song!

\o/

Which is pretty impressive considering that I didn't have anything for it a few days ago except for the incomplete lyrics. It sucks, though, 'cause the chorus melody is an upward movement based on the E chord, so I eventually end up singing at the E two octaves above middle C. And the D# right below it. Oh, well, at least I have an excuse to practice getting at those high notes.

Also, in-between waffling around on "Queen of Denial" and "Between the Lines," I ended up figuring out the chords to "Lucky" by Britney Spears. Unexpected/10. Although that was actually a favorite song of mine back when it was still being played on the radio.

-Reileen
there's the wind, and the rain, and the mercy of the fallen

#142 - SRS BSNS? In my fandom? More likely than you'd think!

All right, y'all. I don't care what end of the political spectrum you're from* - you should not spend 80%+ of your fanfiction profile writing about your political views. In great frothy detail. With big black bold font. And a political meme to end it (i.e., "Here's a really obnoxious and badly written chain letter poem thingy, and if you believe in it post it on your profile OR ELSE THE TERRORISTS WILL WIN OR ELSE YOU'LL HAVE BAD LUCK FOR THE REST OF YOUR LIFE!").

Yeah, I know. Freedom of speech and all that. Which means I have the freedom to rant about what I perceive as outright obnoxiousness. There's a line between "stating your beliefs" and "shouting your beliefs to every godsforsaken corner of the world with an Acme-caliber megaphone," and the line was veeerrry fine with this one. Myself, I try to keep the politicizing on my profiles to a minimum - "I'm pagan and liberal" - and have other people decide for themselves whether they want to engage me on that. As an artist**, though, it would be nice if my work could work as a common ground for people from all walks of life to have a productive dialogue about how to fix this broken world we live in.

Barring that, I just want to see well-written slash fanfic for my stuff.

-Reileen
I'm not your wrong direction, I'm not your free at last

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*In the interest of full bias disclosure, I lean liberal on many issues, and this particular author was a conservative Christian. Her words, not mine.
**I'm including "writer" and "musician" in this, although I've been looking for a better umbrella term to describe what I do. "Artistiwrimusician" really doesn't roll off the tongue.