FAWM: "Gift"

Gift

3 weeks ago by @oatsg · @oatst

Skirmish: What would you do with a ... (@robinleaf)

Liner Notes

Seeing as a couple of people have asked, the chords for this are super simple. Standard tuning, and alternating between A minor (x02210) and kind of a C shape played a couple of frets up (054000) - which my chord app tells me is an E m9. This is a typical strategy for me: play a chord a bit wrong and somewhere else on the neck and see what happens. 9 times out of 10 it sounds horrible. @oatst is also playing at times, so there might be some interesting interplay between what we’re each doing…

There are moments of “extremely loose timing” which we decided were intentional, given the subject matter.

#folk #volca #modular

Lyrics

Even if with Bill and Ted
There is nowhere I would go
I don't want to chase dreams
Now is all I know

There is time I should regret
That's why I'm here
Raise a glass
Times that pass

You can keep your time machine
I'll stay right here
Right now

Breathe in
Breathe out
Right now

Comments

@gobbag 1w

Raw and felt. Lovely. The grandfather clock effect. The odd chords. Great. Btw I too have been known to take advantage of misplaced chord shapes

@oatst 3w

❤️

@oatsg 3w

Thanks everyone for your kind comments! @longbat - I’ve added the two chords we used… as a “tab” 😀

@ccsfrogpond 3w

I liked the metronome like sound you had going on in the middle. Felt like a heartbeat, or the time passing or both, which given the tone of this song felt like a great addition. Very reflective, well done!

@barbara 3w

This drew me in right away with the reined back guitar and steady thump. The character so resolute, weary perhaps, and honest. Very compelling.

@longbat 3w

OooooOOOooOOh, I like some of those nasty,dark chords!!!! Could you maybe post a tab? The song has a very heavy, weary, trudging feel to it, nice work emoting that!

@robinleaf 3w

Oooh, nice dark chords...I love what you've done with this prompt, too. You wouldn't do anything with a time machine! I dig the ending, too. Brilliant!

@kahlo2013 3w

A very powerful introspective feel that I love. The simple percussion and strong strum with that chord progression and those well paced strong vocals deliver the sentiment of the lyric so well.