http://lookbook.nu/look/...e-wore-a-raspberry-beret

And look two. Myself and Jonny have become rather obsessed with Lookbook now, hahah.

Trying to compose a piece of music is hard when you have no sense of rhythm.

So far, I know it's in Db Minor, and structurally, I know it's in three main sections, and I know that there's supposed to be vocals in there at some point, buried in the mix because of my laughably shoddy voice. Great lyrics such as "Walls are breathing a gas that makes me sleep".

EDIT:

Okay, now I've got all the chords of the key, just a matter of putting them in the right order. Kind of like the III to VI to V to VI to i. But it's hard to really settle on one thing over another. Kind of limited by my shoddy guitar skills as to what power chords fit into the chord sequence too, currently only open, and barre 5th, 7th, 8th, 10th, and 12th frets, which kind of ruins the doom feel. I might have to drop from the harmonic to the natural minor key for that middle section, because that would allow the barre 3rd with the B instead of the C.

Boy, this music theory is a headache.

Edited by user 29 September 2009 10:38:08(UTC)  | Reason: Not specified

Yeah I'd love to but there's a little thing called living on another continent.

Today I have Portuguese grammar classes.
Oh yeah...I love the "classes".

Problem is, it doesn't matter what order I put the chords in, it always sounds hamfisted when I do it. If it were someone else, it'd be okay, but if I do it I can't stand back and say "hey, that's good" because it just sounds like a rubbish amateurish mess. Like, I can't write a melody because it always comes out sounding cheesy or dull, and yet I listen to a simple melody in a real song and in simple terms, there's nothing so wrong about my melody, it's just that it sounds wrong to me.

I think I'm going to have to study a bit more of the Brian Eno school of composition, because he's likewise a non-musician, and yet capable of some incredible simple music. And it's not like other bands where it's all over the place, with Eno you can hear each and every simple part on its own.

Elliot is my second pair of ears when writing :3 He gets everything from lyrical jargon, to patterns, to themes, to chord progressions, to some sort of Minor 2nd emphasised harmony in the Middle 8 whereby I start an E on an Eb chord, and so on.

Me and Jonny went trudging through the far reaches of Leamington today, and ended up in a barren field in the bright sunshine to do a few lookbook shots. Suffer for fashion, eh?

Look #3, now online! #4 will be up tomorrow!

http://lookbook.nu/look/...out-by-the-cotton-fields

I also just realised, lolz you can see my boxers in the image on the left.

I walked into a wall trying to find my apartment with my eyes closed, yes I'm THAT stupid.

Hair is now purple.
Mission accomplished.