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My Band

by Robert III
(U.S.A., CA, san diego)

Me and my friends are trying to form a band called "Aftermath," and i have been appointed pianist/songwriter. I have a few questions:

1.I want to write a "title song" for our band with the same name as the title, but i can't really get any inspiration. Help?

2.We need a drummer, but thats the only instrument that none of us play. how could i find one?

3. What insruments might we need to add? (we have two guitarists, a bassists, a composer (me), and a pianist (me).

4. None of us can really sing that well. Does that matter? I'd do it but i think ill be kinda busy w/piana and songwriting.

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Answers to questions
by: Tom St. Louis

1. Aftermath...

here are three ideas for a song.

One is a dumb but fun jokey song about being in high school...talks about the various subjects and
every day AFTERMATH we would meet and you talk about your wonderful teenybop romance

Two is another way to talk about "After the Loving". Englebert Humperdinck had a tune called after the loving...and it was about the oxytocin haze we find ourselves if we are lucky.

In the oxytocin haze..or post orgasmic haze, women say stunningly poetic things like, "Oh baby, I wish this moment would last forever." and guys reply from their own place within the haze with, "Anything you want baby, you got it".

So a song called aftermath could talk about the dumb things people say after they have sex. You could build a repertoire around that if you want.

For this song, the word aftermath need not appear in the lyric.

We met..we did it we fell down..we went to town

she went down and we went all around the world

then...and here's the chorus where you talk about what you did after.

Okay, did I say three ideas?

Hmmm...are you guys geeks? You could do a Rush-like song about death and what comes after. Get some fibonacci spirals in there and you're all set.

As to finding a drummer...try Craigslist or talk to people or place an ad in the local entertainment rag.

If you can't sing, get a singer or put the most charismatic one of you in front and see how far they can take it.

Good luck!

Tom St. Louis
http://www.gmsiamovie.wordpress.com

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