A Thousand Miles

Saturday, January 9, 2010

"My First Ever Official Song! xD" @ 1:53 AM

Oh My GaawwD~! Finally all my hardworks has paid off. I've always believe in myself, my gifted talents in music creativity, music composition, singing and song writting. I've been working so hard in composing a nice song. I'd even used up my school study sessions. Which means, I never pay any attention in class besides getting my whole brain filled with musical notes and melodies. I remember my first ever written song, it's called "I'm so Lonely". I was inspired while playing free-style with my brother's guitar. It was my first song, not really that nice or you could say probably not that interesting, after I've hear it again for some time.

When you had the song in your mind, the first thing I do was to get my phone! You wouldn't want your melody you just got inspired to be forgotten just like that, right?! So basically I'll 'hum' the melody to the phone. It was only the chorus, so then of course - we had to get more inspired and feel deeper to find it's intro and verses' rythms. Lastly, decide whether or not you want the bridge part and plan on how should the whole song flow. Then only I started writing out the lyrics. For me, lyrics are the worst part. Actually, I'm not that good as a lyricist. For that 1st English song I've wrote. The lyrics were sayy...craP? x_x
And oh..every song has to has it's theme. Well, you can't have a song with first part of lyrics bout love den the second half bout family right?? Sometimes, a song is just like a movie. You have to set it's plot and set the whole story (song) of how that it's to be like or what it is about. Every steps matters. And I definitely remember the first song I've ever written by myself, I posted in on youtube then. If you see the video before, it's me playing a guitar singing. I recorded it using my phone! lols~~ I just checked it, there's about 182views. Anyway, I wasn't that mature that time.
So, just forget bout it~ xD

Alright, let's talk bout the latest song I've wrote lately. Seriously, I think it was my best among all the previous ones. I've written 4songs previously and this is the 5th. This song is what I call a good song, good lyrics, good melodies and difinitely a qualified standard to be recorded an EP. xD

PS; I worked too hard and gave too much efforts. So maybe I will be too proud of myself..Haha!

If you are me and that you do the same working for something so hard with determination, the willing to sacrafice and taking risks, you'll probably be the same as well. No joke =x
Right - Back to main topic, if you read my previous posts, there's one bout a singing competition. It's audition is this coming Sunday. It's just the singing audition. There's another category which is the song composing competition.
In end, both seems equally attractive to me. So, I joined both then =p
The song that I was gonna sing has changed, I'll be singing 寂寞, 好了. Cuz I just found out that other songs were difficult to master and I wasn't good enough for it. Thus, I chose the easiest one among the others. So there's this another song composing competition which I decided to team up with Xiao Mei to work a nicer song out for the competition. Kind of regret that I've made that decision. Probably I was afraid that I couldn't handle the competition alone that time. Or probably I needed her just for the lyrics cos I'm not good in chinese, I may spoil the whole song -.- I also remember myself showing Xiao Mei the 4th composed song named "Ai Ni". It was quite nice a song but I could feel that the song wasn't of standard. I remember of asking my brother's opinion and keep making changes and minor ones and also especially the lyrics. We wasted plenty of time trying to fix up the lyrics which was XiaoMei's job, not that well either. And caused some troubles as well. Dang~ #$%^&@#~!

I knew the song couldn't be used for the competition, I knew I wouldn't win with it and that it's not really that special. Xiao Mei doesn't help me much at all. Really feel stressed and feverish. It was quite a controversional situation, my feelings were all mixed up and a little panicked. I was in a moment of deciding whether or not to drop the song and think of a new song. I had very less time, the competition is in less than a week!

Thanks for God's blessings. On 5th Jan, Tuesday and second day of school. I got a sudden flood of inspiration which started from a few beats of drum (in my mind of course). Then I added in more colours and it became a beautiful melody. I wasted no time and took out my book which is specially for musics and started writing the lyrics down. I took me the whole day in school get it perfect. And another half school sessions the next day. I tried using guitar to make it's accompaniments but I can't as this is really a standard song and not like ABC. Therefore, i've decided to invest on getting a song arranger to do it for me. I'm doing this not entirely because of the competition, I even almost forgotten bout it. I'm doing this because I know it is the right song. I was so sure that I didin't need anyone's comments or suggestions. I know what I want and how I want it to be. I started surfing the web then after I came back to school. Time passes quickly, sigh*
Finally, found 2studios which provides the best, all that I needed. So I contacted both. One via sms and another through email. Fortunately, the one I sent via email replied me within 1hour and we discussed it then through phone 2hours later. Then only I know -.- His studio is at Penang!! WtH~? But of course la, I so smart and the presence now is a modern world. There's lot of ways we could get things done. I recorded my just vocals singing the song then another 1, I 'hum' out the melody flow. I converted the video file to mp3 file and wanted to send to him. But none could, youtube-fb-rapidshare, all can't! Even later then he when he added my MSN, I tried send to him...the speed of receiving the file was like....zz

So we skipped one day then. The next day, which is...today or yesterday?! Coz I late write blog, now the time is 3.35am. Just know that it was 3-4hours ago. We know it can't be done online coz my internet speed is frickin slow. So we had to use the final resolution which is by using the phone. I'll be singing the song via the phone, it will be plucked connected to the recording systems and then they will have it recorded. See?? I'm in Cheras and he's in Penang and things could still be done. Nothing is impossible. An hour or more later, everything was done. The accompaniments, the chords of the whole songs matched with the lyrics was all done and ready to send to me. Finally of course, let's not forget the bill -.- How much? Don't wan let u noe ~ TT

The results is great, awesome! Btw, the song's name is 你说 by 佳诚 (me lol) ^^
I hereby thanks to you Sam Wee for making it more beautiful than ever.
He also said that my song was good and has potential~! =P
Chiaoz~ 3.41am!