FAWM : Carley Baer (@carleybaer)

Carley Baer

@carleybaer

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Joined

2008

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www.carleybaer.com

Singer/ songwriter/ student studying to become a music teacher. (she/her)

This year I'm wrapping up my final year of undergrad, and I'm working on my thesis project which deals with songwriting (I've got a thread in the forum about it if you'd like to contribute to the body of research! https://write.fawm.org/forums/454).

I had some dubious math up for a while about my goals (my sister got all the math genes) but I’m still aiming for 42, only now I know that’s a triple FAWM and not a double-double, which would be 56. We’ll see how it goes…

Fifteenth year, sixteenth FAWM, let’s do this 😎

Instrumentation:
- Guitar
- Tenor/concert ukuleles
- Bari uke
- UBASS
- Accordion
- Mandolin
- Ocarina
- Recorder
- Clarinet
- Violin
- aux percussion
- harmonies up the wazoo
- MIDI everything

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@ericdistadMod 1w

Hi Carley- I saw you mentioned maybe coming to FAWMStock West . I wanted to reach out with an update in case you hadn't seen the thread.

We've narrowed down the weekend and venue for FAWMStock West -
August 18th through 20th in Ocean Park, WA!
Cost is planned to be about $84 (plus fees) per person, not including food. That costs covers lodging on site and activity space.

We need to put together a minimum count of attendees to be able to reserve the facility. We'd like to have that information within the next two weeks or less, if possible.

If you are planning or at least leaning strongly toward attending FAWMStock West, would you please add your info to this Google Form:

https://forms.gle/oFMRsWhvER5RfqzWA

Please note that this form is just to confirm if there is enough people to make this happen. If we get enough people signed up, we'll probably setup an EventBrite page or something similar later this year as more details get worked out.

Please let me know if you have any questions.

Thanks!

@beacon 2w

I did go through all your songs, and tried to come up with what I thought all the different genres were. Here's what I came up with:

Funk
Country/Fingerpicking
Driving Guitar focused
Jazzy Blues
12 Bar blues
Humor/bubbly
Horn band funk
Breezy, slinky percussion
Rap
Urban, fast lyrics
Cute, rhymey wordsplay ukulele song
Disco
Church clapping revival song
Synthpop
Lo Fi
Cabaret
Mellow, oohs in background with mellow percussion
Garage band
Punk
Country waltz
New Orleans jazz
Loops
German Oompa
Polka
Rock
Folk Guitar Story
Eurodance
Torch song
Rap over a rhythm
Bossanova
Blues with jazz trio
Island vibe (Jack Johnson)
Driving guitar rock (GoGo’s)
60's beach party
PIano bar ballad
Country bar crooning
“Don’t worry be happy” hand claps relaxed vibe
Western Story song (Day that FAWM went down)
Jazzy lo fi torch song
Finger picked contemplative
Lullaby
Billy Holliday bar torch song
Sweet harmony
Indie Rock
Piano Bar ballad
Django-jazz

@beacon 4w

Thanks for your response! I'd love to chat and pick your brain sometime (I assume after February) as I love your approach, and I think there are so many place you venture off to musically where I'm not sure where to find the start of the trail!

Definitely loved having you on the Harmony Challenge and I'll be pesky again the next time!

How you are so busy with school and work and have done over 40 songs here is beyond me.

@nancycunning 5w

Hey, Carley - I just listened to your whole FAWM ‘23 collection of songs while I was making dinner. I’ll mean to go comment on each one in turn, but wow. What a fun experience. It reminds me of what listening to the radio felt like to me as a little kid. Those little windows into some vast world opening and closing. These voices that were talking to me. I don’t think I knew then that people wrote songs, or else they would have made me know I wanted to write songs too someday. Thanks for being inspiring like that.

@splittybooms 5w

Thanks for the advice regarding 'The Block'.
When I first started making music, I would just do all kinds of absurd sounding things just...cause. And...just as you say, after I got that out of my system, I was able to make "real" music again.
Its pretty cool to see you saying to apply kinda the same thing here.
I'm worried that I won't let myself do that anymore, though. Like...I'd just slap my hand if I tried to purposely make something sound bad and stuff...
I was listening to some of my ollllllllddddd stuff the other day and it hit me hard - I'm not as creative and free with my music anymore. its like I've become afraid of "what will people think?!?"...and that has been the ONLY negative thing that I get from FAWM and 50/90...its like actual people are actually listening to these songs during these months - so I can't just do any old thing...cause then...well i dunno what. I mean, I still DO make silly nonsense songs sometimes, and it IS fun...but, I dunno; something has changed with me and music-making and not a good change.
ANYWAY! Sorry to babble - but yes, I need to go back to purposely making stuff sound crazy or bad...or at the very least try to work on letting go and "doing any ol' thing" like I used to be able to. Thanks again, I appreciate you lending your insight and help!

Carley Baer

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