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G. Edward McBride - In Brighter Days

from Round 21, Week 1 by Monday Morning 3AM Music Club

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This round sure knows how to make a guy feel completely uneducated. A great learning opportunity! I know these things are applied in my work but I don't truly think of any of them or even acknowledge that I'm conceptually aware of the concepts while I am writing. I just go for "what sounds good or feels right". I have never been formally trained on any kind of music related anything so all of this is somewhat new to me.

Here goes...
I'm still in the depth of my lo-fi fascination with hiss and vinyl pops, crackles, samples and loops. However, I'm only sampling my own material, no stealing. My goal is to make it sound like I pulled it off an old album when in fact I record a clip, sample it and loop it. I've been listening to a lot of jazz and early 90's trip hop so that's where I'm kind of rolling with this one.

VERSE STRUCTURE:
This follows a basic verse/solo/verse format. When I write, I start with a riff or a melody and add the words afterward. I had this slow jazzy riff brewing this week so this is how I fit in the lyrical format. My current collection of work I have been writing has been loopable riffs that I could possibly play live by myself with a laptop and loop pedal. SO, there are not a lot of chord changes. Just droning one key songs that I can solo over top. They fit my weirdo psychedelic style anyway.

RHYTHM:
My lyrical rhythm is a little weird here because of the jazzy improv format. I kind of speed up my verbal cadence on some lines, come in delayed at the beginning of the verse, and don't stick with a consistent key at the same place as the previous verse. Again, this is kind of in the same manner as the improv jazz format. It is free flowing.

RHYME:
It's fairly consistent rhyming the 2nd and 4th lines. Due to the free flowing vocal rhythm, I didn't want perfect rhyming patterns because I'm not stressing the same parts in the same places.

POINT OF VIEW:
Obvious 1st person

LITERARY CONSONANCE/SIBILANCE/ASSONANCE/ALLITERATION:
Not much of any these in this one, maybe the simple line "day by day by day"...

lyrics

Oh Allison let down your hair
Show the world all that you are
You cast a shadow that they don't see
Shining bright light from afar

I know your secret, the weight you carry
Day by day, by day by day
The pain is heavy at times crippling
Not deserving of your grace

If I had healing hands they'd be yours to keep
Please take the ace from my sleeve
When you stumble I'll always break the fall
In brighter days I believe
I believe

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from Round 21, Week 1, released December 2, 2018

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