Do I See Her?

You ask if I can see, the woman next to me
Oooooo you bet I can!

I feel her gravity, pull'in so hard on me
She makes me feel like a man!

I'd love to sway her, and finally lay her
Out on the beach in the sand

But I can't do it, I just say, "Screw it!"
I know you don't understand

{chorus}

I really I love her
I don't wanna hurt her
I don't understand what to do

Wouldn't it be better
if I never met her
and we never shared the love we knew

Lyrics and music by Abracadabra 7/2/2009
Inspired by Kalunda's "Why?"

Music mp3 file here (2.4 MB):
http://users.csonline.net/designer/ideas/see_her.mp3

I listened, and hey, not bad at all...

Great job, Abra.

Not bad, not my genre though. What kind of recording setup do you have?

Recording set up?

I have a $10 computer mic plug into a 10 year old HP Pavilion. The sound card is whatever came with the computer 10 years ago.

The guitar is a classical nylon-string. I'm using a program called Audacity as the sound recorder. I'm recording in mono of course. And only at 128kbp because I'm on dial-up and wanted to keep the file size small. It's only a 2.4 MB mp3 file.

I just wrote this song tonight inspired by Kalunda's poem and only practiced it a few times before recording it. The performance is a bit choppy I imagine. But then, I don't seem to get much better with practice anyway.

It's just a goof-off song.

I'm more of a lyricist than a music write. I have very limited knowledge of music and find it hard to create new sounds. I just do whatever comes to me. I try to be orignal, but I guess that's pretty hard to do.

Western music doesn't seem all that flexible to me. But then this is probably due to my own limited knowledge. But I do know about the wheel of fifths and all that. But it still seems to be limited to me. This whole thing was done in just E, D and A. That's about as basic as you can get I guess.

I really wish I could learn to be more creative with the music end of things. I should break down and find a music teacher around here somewhere. I like to write songs, but my lack of knowledge in music holds me back.

If you are interested pick up a book on musical theory (really doesn't matter which). And brush up on basic chord structure, which is another book...all in all a pretty cheap and easy way to learn. I taught myself how to play the guitar (six and seven string), bass guitar (four and five string), and had help learning the keyboard.

As soon as I move I'm going to get some gear together and start recording, which is why I was wondering about your setup as it actually sounds pretty good. Audacity is good for simple mastering and leveling, I used that before I ended up getting a complete studio-esque software collection. I have three different programs I run a track through to get it mastered completly...tedius more often than not.

The guitar sounds crisp, I figured the mic part out as you can hear the distance seperation between it and the guitar but it is faint. Sounds really good for the setup.

wonderful...

Yepppperssssssssssssssssssss indeed,, I am a Fannnnnnnnnnnnnnnnn

wow i'm sorry i didn't make it there before Nice sounding guitar my friend i think you have a hit there

your voice is as I imagined..