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Title: [Project] Ska Album
Post by: Speler on November 06, 2007, 04:01:00 pm
Well, this weekend I wrote 5 songs (I kept getting sudden inspirations) and today I wrote tons of lyrics.  I realized that I love ska, and I've always wanted to record a major ska project.  So I am currently fine tuning what I wrote, I will then get a band together teach them the material and eventually (once they have learned all of it) record.  This has been something I've always wanted to do and I'm very excited...

Updates to come as they occur :)smile.gif.  I hope to have a great piece of ska done by the end of the year.
Title: [Project] Ska Album
Post by: Liazon on November 06, 2007, 05:34:00 pm
cool! upload them here and we'll listen :bounce:bounce.gif
Title: [Project] Ska Album
Post by: DJ Omnimaga on November 06, 2007, 05:53:00 pm
^.^

Nice to hear, please use savefile.com tho, cuz here we don't have much space :(sad.gif
Title: [Project] Ska Album
Post by: Speler on November 07, 2007, 11:23:00 am
Ok, I wrote the first verse to the song 'Cold Steel Heart, Clenched Iron Fist' today.  My goal is to have the other three done by the end of the week (I did the chorus over the weekend).  Horn-lines for this song are complete.

The song Gamblin' With The Devil is completely written (i.e. sheet music and lyrics have been sent out).

More updates to come!
Title: [Project] Ska Album
Post by: DJ Omnimaga on November 07, 2007, 11:34:00 am
basically you have lyrics and just music sheet, rigth? Or are you recording each sounds separately then putting them on top of each others using a sound editor afterward? I remember dysfunction did this once for one of his song
Title: [Project] Ska Album
Post by: Speler on November 07, 2007, 11:46:00 am
Yeah, basically I have 50% of the music (and 5% of the lyrics) written.  As I complete songs I send copies of the sheet music and recordings of bass playing the part (in case they have trouble understanding it) to the musicians.  Once it's all written, and we've all practiced the music together I'm gonna take it to a studio and record the music.
Title: [Project] Ska Album
Post by: Speler on November 07, 2007, 02:28:00 pm
Cold Steel Heart, Clenched Iron Fist is done and has been sent out to the members :Dbiggrin.gif.

On to the next song (yay, this one is an instrumental and doesn't have lyrics :)smile.gif).
Title: [Project] Ska Album
Post by: DJ Omnimaga on November 07, 2007, 03:36:00 pm
Nice ^^ I cant wait to hear it!
Title: [Project] Ska Album
Post by: Speler on November 08, 2007, 01:16:00 pm
Well, I worked today on getting an overall story for the album.  Yay rock opera!
Title: [Project] Ska Album
Post by: Speler on November 09, 2007, 01:21:00 pm
Well, we're getting together next Tuesday to practice the first three songs (which are now complete :Dbiggrin.gif) as a group.
Title: [Project] Ska Album
Post by: DJ Omnimaga on November 09, 2007, 01:23:00 pm
Nice! Will you record some for us?
Title: [Project] Ska Album
Post by: Speler on November 09, 2007, 01:24:00 pm
No recordings till the songs are complete :(sad.gif.  However, I will upload the lyrics when they are all complete as well as some sheet music at some point.
Title: [Project] Ska Album
Post by: DJ Omnimaga on November 09, 2007, 01:32:00 pm
cool :)smile.gif

I hope recording will not be cancelled, you should really get a new guy for this <_<dry.gif
Title: [Project] Ska Album
Post by: Speler on November 09, 2007, 02:34:00 pm
Oh, you meant that recording project XDsmiley.gif.  Yeah, we're looking for a new guy to record us... this is something completely unrelated :)smile.gif.  You'll get those in a week or two...
Title: [Project] Ska Album
Post by: DJ Omnimaga on November 09, 2007, 04:14:00 pm
\o/
Title: [Project] Ska Album
Post by: Speler on November 10, 2007, 12:36:00 pm
I decided to attempt to find a mandolin player.  It would really help the mafia theme :)smile.gif.  This is gonna be hard though, as I don't know any.
Title: [Project] Ska Album
Post by: DJ Omnimaga on November 10, 2007, 01:29:00 pm
hehe sound cool ^^
Title: [Project] Ska Album
Post by: kalan_vod on November 11, 2007, 04:12:00 pm
\m/ Real nice ;)wink.gif, I look forward to hearing just a little snippet!  
Title: [Project] Ska Album
Post by: Speler on November 12, 2007, 12:23:00 pm
Here's a snippet of a bass line I'm working on for one song.  I improved it a lot since I last recorded it but I'll upload it anyway (I doubled up the notes and made it less repetitive, but I'm too lazy to re-record ;)wink.gif).

It's uploaded here (I'll upload lot's here actually... keep you guys from getting bored :)smile.gif): http://netham45.org/speler/Ska%20Album/

Skank away!

EDIT:  As you can probably tell from the style I'm playing this line, I really really really want a Chapman stick XDsmiley.gif.
Title: [Project] Ska Album
Post by: DJ Omnimaga on November 12, 2007, 05:13:00 pm
Nice, i hope to hear it with more stuff soon tho  
Title: [Project] Ska Album
Post by: Speler on November 15, 2007, 12:18:00 pm
We successfully played through 4 of the songs today (and one more that the guitarist pulled out of nowhere).  Unfortunately some of the songs had to really be slowed down.

EDIT:  Oh yeah, and we have a name, Crank the Skank
Title: [Project] Ska Album
Post by: DJ Omnimaga on November 15, 2007, 01:42:00 pm
cool, i cant wait to hear the final product :)smile.gif
Title: [Project] Ska Album
Post by: Speler on November 15, 2007, 03:38:00 pm
Just got off the phone...

I'm playing a show with Reel Big Fish, Streetlight Manifesto, Less Then Jake, Mustard Plug, etc (i.e. some of the biggest names in modern ska) on July 10.
Title: [Project] Ska Album
Post by: kalan_vod on November 15, 2007, 04:08:00 pm
WHAT, dude that is just awesome! I can't wait, and I hope they pass through tulsa OK ;)wink.gif...
Title: [Project] Ska Album
Post by: DJ Omnimaga on November 15, 2007, 04:22:00 pm
wow nice, congrats :Dbiggrin.gif
Title: [Project] Ska Album
Post by: Speler on November 28, 2007, 11:13:00 am
I wrote the lyrics to 'Innocence'

My best work so far
Title: [Project] Ska Album
Post by: DJ Omnimaga on November 28, 2007, 11:47:00 am
QuoteBegin-Super Speler+28 Nov, 2007, 17:13-->
QUOTE (Super Speler @ 28 Nov, 2007, 17:13)
I wrote the lyrics to 'Innocence'  

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Title: [Project] Ska Album
Post by: Speler on November 28, 2007, 11:56:00 am
I plan on posting all of the lyrics in a bundle, they won't make sense except when viewed together (which is part of the beauty of the project)
Title: [Project] Ska Album
Post by: kalan_vod on November 30, 2007, 04:06:00 pm
I would love to see some samples/lyrics/artwork for this, I really hope you go far in your musical endeavor!
Title: [Project] Ska Album
Post by: Speler on December 19, 2007, 03:45:00 pm
I found a singer.  Actually, he's probably the most talented trumpet player in the High School, but he's just gonna sing for us (and write some horn lines).
Title: [Project] Ska Album
Post by: kalan_vod on December 19, 2007, 04:42:00 pm
Sounding great I hope you can get those vocals going, making me sad actually...Wanting to hear some SKA!
Title: [Project] Ska Album
Post by: DJ Omnimaga on December 19, 2007, 04:59:00 pm
good, I cant wait to hear some of your stuff!
Title: [Project] Ska Album
Post by: TIfanx1999 on December 20, 2007, 11:08:00 am
Gamblin' With The Devil sounds like the title to a Charlies Daniels band song ^_^... This IS a ska album right?  
Title: [Project] Ska Album
Post by: Speler on December 28, 2007, 05:14:00 pm
We're performing the ska opera (or skapera if you will) in a month live.  It will be videotaped.
Title: [Project] Ska Album
Post by: DJ Omnimaga on December 28, 2007, 06:57:00 pm
Great! I wonder if there will be some previews on youtube?