I want to start recording my own music, but I am having trouble piecing together ideas. So in an attempt to build experience and confidence I am going to try a little project which I would like to call the "Slug Series". My favorite songwriter is Stephin Merritt (The Gothic Archies, The Magnetic Fields, Future Bible Heroes) and he has alot of very simple songs. Every week I'm going to try and record myself doing a different Stephin Merritt song. My talents with instruments is fairly/painfully limited (though I am pretty alright at the saxophone), but I'll try my best.
"Smile! No One Cares How You Feel" by The Gothic Archies
This first song is from a collection of the music Mr. Merritt recorded for the Lemony Snicket audio books. Snicket was at one point the accordion player in Merritt's band. I had trouble playing the guitar arpeggio so I kinda made something up and looped it. It goes in and out of time, but the whole thing is boring enough where it doesn't matter/makes it better.
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