Songwriter learning guitar looking for a folk-like band mentor
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Hey! I’m a poet, learning guitar, wanting to breach into the songwriting / music making industry, but my lack of musical talent holds me back. I’d love to learn from others more adept, and the recent instruments I had stuck in my mind that I think would work well with some of the lyrical ideas I had would be a folk based band, with fiddles, violins, guitars and the more string based instruments.
Most of my lyrics are nature based, the recent ones I have poorly recorded on my voice memos is a simple violin tune followed with “Oh! we’re running down the meadows; / running down with joy. // We’re running down the meadows / to where the flowers grow. // Oh! we’re running like the river, / running like the falls. // We’re running …..”
and the other one that I felt would work well, is along the topics of being drunk on life/nature, with lyrics like, “I lay near the bar called the beach shore, / waving ‘till the waves wave back. // I drink from the lake by the mountain, / sleeping like the current ‘gainst the rock. // I swim in the booze of the sunrise, / stumbling with the sun during sunset. // I dance with the lady moonlight, / bright at the bottom of the bottle. // Mother! // Oh Mother! // I’m drunk! / once more. // Drunk! / once more. // Father! // Oh father! // I’m sorry / for drinking. // Sorry / for drinking ….”
These are the main ideas I had been recently messing around with. The earliest song I’ve written that got me on this bandwagon is, “It was just / you and me / sitting under oak trees, / singing ‘till the sun went down. // The moon awakened / and it cursed your face / with a glow / that matched your smile. // Don’t you look at me / like you look at candle flames / right before you blow them out. // Look at me / like you did / underneath the shooting stars. / wishing it would never end // An airplanes engine and an oceans gap. / A car packed tightly, I can’t look back. // A rear view mirror and a wave goodbye. / A final kiss, you better not cry …”
Let me know if any of these peak your interest, and if you want to meet up sometime. I’m currently on the job hunt, so I have a bit too much free time, and would love to meet up with some folksy people, if they feel they can figure out a tune surrounding these lyrics.
I feel if you’ve gotten this far, you may be interested. A bit about me: I’m a curious guy, love nature, grew up travelling, moving every 2 or 3 years, so I have difficulty meeting people, and knowing exactly what a friendship even entails. So if you are intrigued, it’s likely I’ll be extremely awkward, which is beautiful because who isn’t?
I’m a photographer too. I’m learning to knit, having figured out the long-tail cast on, but not knowing how to continue next. Despite trying to stick to a more regular sleep schedule, I always wake up (duh!) and through my day find myself constantly yawning. I’d love to play catch, but haven’t in a while. I don’t have a car, nor my license, so I definitely feel trapped nature exploration wise. I want to explore abandoned locations. Yeah. I’m sure there’s more, but the crows are begging me to send this off, before I reveal that I’m just a lonely murderer looking for a new victim to play music with.
community | artists, musicians
2023-06-25