FAWM : Nadine (@nadine)

Nadine

@nadine

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2021

Düsseldorf DE
www.nadinedemacedo.com

Multi-genre composer, arranger and producer based in Germany. I write full band #pop #rock #metal #prog #blues arrangements for vocalists and instrumentalists to record. Later, I produce full quality versions and publish them on SoundCloud, YouTube and Bandcamp. My projects are exclusive: one band, one song, one lyric. Songs, that I want to turn into full productions are marked with ❤.
Pronouns: she/her

SKILLS
Semi-professional: composition, arrangement, mixing, production
Advanced: lyrics, programming
Beginner: acoustic guitar, piano, screaming

FAWM 2023
I'm done for this year. 15 awesome tracks, and a lot of them have a long way to go before they're final. Thank you so much for collaborating, commenting, chit-chatting. I cannot take ANY further requests on collaboration this year. Please consider joining the open projects to make the drafts happen: https://write.fawm.org/forums/1103
Current workload: ▮▮▮▮▮▮▮▮▮▮

Previous years (finished / planned / written)
50/90 2023 - won't participate
FAWM 2023 (3 / 13 / 15)
50/90 2022 (4 / 12 / 17)
FAWM 2022 (9 / 14 / 20)
FAWM 2021 (11 / 13 / 16)
https://nadinedemacedo.bandcamp.com/album/going-my-way

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@berni1954 1w

I got the message you sent. I had forgotten I sent it via Yahoo - that's an address that I don't use that often.

Glad you are happy with the lyrics. The variations in the scansion is deliberate and is a common resource in blues songs.

I will send you the isolated vocal ASAP.

I have a had a fever for the last three days and today the doctor confirmed that after three long years of avoiding it, I have COVID. So far it's only like a really heavy flu, but it is leaving me drained of energy and weak in the limbs.

Una abraçada

Berni

@danvaillancourt 1w

Hi Nadine! Thanks for all of the kind words, I always enjoying your comments. I have been away from FAWM for a little bit just trying to catch up on life but and coming back now for more listening and commenting. Looks like you have a guitar for the blues song but I’d be willing to take a look at the chart for ‘Stir Fry’ if you’d like. That was one of the most memorable and fun songs that I heard in my abbreviated time at 50/90. 😉🎶

@johnstaples 1w

Nadine, I'd like to work with you on a song sometime, maybe at 50/90, if you are interested? I think you are most familiar with my Americana/country songs but I have some that are more rock like Burn The Ground (https://open.spotify.com/track/6iQkwnmLYSfZSeCHYhTJn0?si=aa54234ab4344abe) and Taking Me Down (https://youtu.be/UmScGWHklyU). One of my goals this year is to formally release some new songs and re-release some of my back catalog with higher production values. In the past I've not put too much effort into production and I know there is a lot that can be done there!

@theenglishassassin 2w

Hi @nadine - I'm thankful that my song Genocide is spreading knowledge of Canada's horrific history. To be fair, the extent and details of what went on have only recently been coming out into the open. Indigenous peoples knew this history, of course, but the Canadian government and settlers pretended it never happened.
Here's a Wiki page about the residential school system where indigenous children where beaten and starved in a concerted way to destroy the indigenous culture and languages. The Canadian government has only recently admitted that this was an attempted genocide. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Canadian_Indian_residential_school_system

@berni1954 2w

Hi Nadine,

Based on the lyrics I have written, I suggest a change in the structure:
Intro - Instrumental Verse (First Solo - full band) - Verse 1 - Verse 2 - Second Solo (Piano?) - Verse 3 - Third Solo (Guitar) - Verse 4 - Repeat Vs 1.

I am still a bit stumped about the slow intro section, but I think a strong opening rocking instrumental verse would work better than starting with Verse One (your verse doctored). This is a Common Blues Opening that we use in our band a lot. It also allows the vocals to start a couple of beats before the verse.

There is not usually a "CHORUS" in a Blues Song but a return to Verse One to end it is a standard resource too.

I have four verses written. I will try and do a quick demo recording tomorrow and send it to you for your criticism or approval.

Una abraçada

Berni

@deadhead 2w

Oh gosh, nothing rude about it at all! It also gives me something to work on improving for next time. I find it hard to find motivation to learn new instruments these days without actually playing them for something. So being able to put this out there and see that others are hearing it the same way I am gives me something to focus on for next time I make the mistake of picking up the viola 😅

Sad part is, I don't think I can play the harmonica any better than this haha. I haven't tried in over a decade, but I was very bad at it last time I tried. So maybe that's a new trick... simply play the violin every time I want a song with harmonica!

@berni1954 2w

So glad you liked my Queen Beaver track. But I think she is more suited to the raunchy double entendre bluesy thing she has done up to now. I should have found a genuine female vocal for that song, since it would have far more power coming from a female vocalist.

PS Made a slow start on the lyrics for our blues track. Will do further work on it tomorrow. How many instrumental breaks (solos) do you want? I need to know how many vocal verses we need.

@newukenewyork 2w

I've gotten such a kick (and so much inspiration) out of following through FAWM. Thank you for all the encouragement you've so generously offered during my first month plus -- and for the recent comments on "I Remember Dying" and "It Don’t Land Easy" -- especially the latter. You made me realize I'd accidentally changed a lyric and now I've changed it back to the line you liked (which I also preferred to my accidental change, as well).

@musicsongwriter 2w

Thank you again, Nadine, for your beautiful comments and support. I hope we can convert you into liking musical. By the way, in musical theatre there is rock, pop, punk and many more genres, it doesn't have to be only theatre songs. I love this genre and other genres too. I really enjoyed my collaborations on FAWM and it was absolutely amazing to collaborate with Kristi and Chris. I hold very dear my collaboration with you and @caitlin. I hope we can continue working on our song for the monts to come.

@sheslin 2w

Oh no kidding - well you did a great job. I have participated in challenges where you get 10 words, and have to use 5 . I will look up words and get definitions sometimes just to really think about what they mean how how I might be able to associate them. I also think having to work them in limits me in a good way - and often takes me down a road I might not have gone down. Have you written to a picture yet? It was new to me a few years ago and I really like it if the picture speaks to me - so to speak!

@mandolinda 3w

I do like singing a variety of genres, blues included. My Achilles Heel is the instrumental part. I can post songs where I can find a suitable instrumental track, or I can post what I can play. on my own. I found a few tracks this year with @monty and royalty free on YouTube. They were really a good experience. If you have some bluesy songs, I would gladly give them a try. I am open to try singing any type of genre. I love listening to your tracks.

@tezzin 3w

Thanks for your comments on "Puppeteer". No alternate tuning on the chorus; I think the "deeper" guitar and bass sound comes from a combination of (1) switching from the almost-clean, slightly overdriven tone in the verses to the much crunchier distorted tube amp tone in the chorus, (2) the low, chuggy power chord voicing in the chorus, and (3) there's a synth doubling the root throughout the chorus. At least that's my take on it.

@zeekle1998 3w

Hi @nadine - thanks for you lovely words on I choose the grey. For a skirmish I liked this one and think I'll pick it up and work on it over the next few months. Find a better singer too!! :-).
Congrats on getting over the finish line. I mush come back and take a listen to everything, I've been trying the Random Song button a lot, it's a good way to find some smashing tunes.
Will pop an email in the post shortly... Jason

@chrismyth02 3w

Thanks for checking out "Friend in Fire" and "Be Your Ghost" - I need to get better at instrumentation so I can flesh some of these out, but I was really feeling the acapella on "friend" so it worked out! I have no idea the time signature - embarrassingly the technical points of music are not my strongest suit! My click track was 4/4 but I was definitely doing my own thing. For "ghost" @rshakesp is working out some music for a collab so stay tuned!

@emplate 4w

Thank you for the comment on "Filth Spawn"! Yup, I intentionally wanted to keep the lyrics quite open, as that's the way I like to write them. But yeah, it's mainly about raging against racists and those who value profit over people. And thank you for the compliment on the vocals!

And yes, record stores ❤ We still have a few left, but unfortunately this one that is my favourite, is closing its doors in coming months. I guess reality is you can't hold on your own with such a marginal music as extreme metal in the city size of Helsinki, but it's still sad...

@sunfire 4w

Hi, Nadine
I'm glad you enjoyed Memory Glands.
I'm wondering if you might be interested in doing instrumentation for another lyric I wrote called 'Can't Whisper'. @chrismyth02 said he would be on board to do vocals if I can recruit someone to do the music. I thought the collaboration you did with him was phenomenal on Glimpse and had something in mind similar to that in the sound and vocal dept for Can't Whisper. I'll provide a link to the lyric below, but if this doesn't interest you, no worries at all.
https://write.fawm.org/songs/19812

@arthurrossi 4w

Hey! Thank you so much for all your support, encouragement and kind words like recently on the Wuppertal-lyrics... Really, do you know all these places? I spent almost 30 years there, grew up, went to school, and my parents still keep living in Wuppertal... and actually, this summer I plan to go to see them there again after not having been in Wuppertal for many years... It is strange, when my life was centered in Wuppertal I didn't like that city at all, but now from a distance you see things with different eyes and I discover a certain charm and beauty even in things I used to hate... Once again, thanks so much for all, I really appreciate it a lot...

@jeff9 4w

Hi, Nadine. I don't know how you manage to do all the listening you evidently do, but thank you so much for checking out my country stuff--The Badder the Better and Sounds Like a Song To Me. You always manage to make my day with your kind words. Sorry I'm a little late responding, but I tool a few days off from FAWM to do some serious (and joyful) grand-parenting. Back on the job today, though and looking forward to hearing your latest.

@jacobeverettwallace 4w

Hey the mid-FAWM lull is no joke. Gotta take care of your ears especially! I'm the worst at that usually but this year I'm too busy to break my ears so I guess I should be grateful! haha. I'm really digging your mini-band collab model for your songs! Tbh I've always wanted to try a heavy rock-metal track but I don't have the skills to pull that off on my own. I can play really nice chunky rhythm electric though and I think I could do a heavy vocal track if had all my vocal power back. (lost my voice last year from Covid, still on the mend) All that to say, I wish we could collab but maybe it'll have to be next year when I've got my electric guitars and more voice! Keep it up, your stuff is great.

@calfman8803 5w

OMG, yes! @tfish77 and I have said that it feels like having a superpower. For the longest time I _wanted_ to write songs but anything I thought was good I felt like I had to protect it and not mess it up. Now, it feels like things come a lot easier which means I can get into the process of writing and trust what will come out of it even if we take risks.

Our current issue is that we have a lot of forward momentum so we keep starting new things and then neglecting to circle back to things from a year ago that are 90% there. At this point, we have decided that we are just going to go for a bit longer and see what we produce and then pick tracks from that pile to make an album from... Odd spot to be in. Last year I thought "well, if we can get like 4 songs that are decent maybe we can put out an EP..."

@chroes 5w

Hey there, thank you for asking. Somehow, FAWM has lost me a little bit. I'm trying to find a way back in, trying to motivate me again, trying to make time. I would like to participate in a skirmish, but the ones that took place over the past week didn't sit well with my calendar somehow. I hope I can get back into the groove later this week, but I might end up not "winning" FAWM 2023... Well. I can at least give it my best shot for the remaining days, right?

@calfman8803 5w

Thanks for the comment over on How Do You Do It?

After last year and, frankly, comments from you and others, @tfish77 and I got some confidence and just kept going. It is funny to listen to some of our stuff from that FAWM or the one before at this point because we are evolving past it. So some of those tracks we were very excited about seem like practice or warm-up takes compared to the newer stuff.

This bit:
> The weird synthesizer fit so well with the guitars
That is how we both feel about it. We have jokingly said that we are going to start a new genre: Electro-Goth Metal.

We are both very excited about what we are working on but it keeps being a moving target as we write better things and debate whether older things should be improved or left in the dust. We will have something out some time this year though!

Thanks again for the encouraging words!

@oswlek 5w

Thanks for the tip about my SC page, Nadine.

FWIW, when I mention slap delay, I don't mean something overt like CCR has on "Bad Moon Rising". I'm referring to a more subtle usage that is less effect and more spatial enhancer. If it isn't immediately clear what I mean, this video does a pretty nice job of illustrating the technique.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QXC-JHr_btw

EDIT: I have no mixtape regrets either. I just don't use tapes that much these days! 😀

@richaaaay 5w

Hi Nadine, we set out to do a skirmish that would incorporate doing the skirmish. We knew that was a tall task to get done quickly so we came into it with music and a chorus. Once the prompt was give we planned to create some banter around it a piece together a few verses. We were mostly on track. We had everything sketched out and Wobbie went off to record her vocal take. She claims to have done that quickly but her email to me got lost in internet space and actually didn’t show until 12 hours late. I just thought she was rewriting words and stuff I was on FAWM killing time. After two hours or so she emailed without a file attached to check in on my progress. That’s when we realized our grand plan was in trouble. Wobbie got me the file through some file sharing site. I got to work on my bit but by the time I was done it was four or five hours after the skirmish deadline. The humor of what we were trying to do no longer seemed relevant and we were burnt out because we had put so much into it. We took a break and neither of us could bear to revisit the project for days. The video was our trying to deal with and salvage what we had done.

@emplate 5w

Cheers for the comment on "Runes Shining in the Mist"!

I'm very honoured for you to ask me to play guitar on your track :) I unfortunately can't promise anything 100%, as I'm very busy at least during March: we have a studio booked with one of my bands right at the beginning of March and then have a show with another group at the end of the month. I'm also quite hesitant, 'cause I don't exactly see myself as a skillful player, I just do straight forward tremolo picking :D But if you aren't in too much of a hurry with it, I can check it out if you have tabs for it.

@davidtaro 5w

Thanks! I’m definitely forcing the voice a bit - but I kind of recorded myself into a corner if that make sense! Bit sore now. I was struggling quite a bit with the mix tbh. The vocals are definitely over compressed (I added a 1176 at the end as it wasn’t sitting, but I was a bit heavy handed). Will try and fix that. Question: do you think the kick is too loud? And anything else poking out for you? There is an organ in there ;)

@elesimoMod 6w

Hey! I do play the uke... I always write a song on Feb 2 for FAWM using the uke, for International Play your Ukulele Day. But it's a nice instrument to have around to doodle some notes. I got a baritone just before FAWM (the one I play in the video is a tenor), and the tuning is DGBE just like a guitar!

As for the tape, I forgot to say in the liner notes but it started in 2022, which is why it was so "quick". I'll update the liner notes!

@zecoopMod 6w

Hey thanks!! That foam was nothing special, just some soft gray packing foam that came in a package sometimes in the past. I cut a 1 inch strip, which muted the strings way too much. I cut that in half, which was still too much, so I ended up with a piece that was about 1 cm wide and fit below the strings and pushed up from below. It was jammed right against the bridge. Completely different for me and super fun!! :) (I have a bass with a big piece of this foam under the strings and it gives a very 1960's sound.)

@nancycunning 7w

Nadine - thank you for listening to my Rilke song. I guess the rings in the poem could be tree rings or rings in water disturbed by a stone or even the orbit of a planet or comet or something. I like that cycling outward image - and the idea that even if I don't understand exactly what my life is for, I want to keep doing it as long as I can. There's another poem on the facing page in the Reclam Hefte that is about a tree growing over a grave...Maybe I'll try that one some day...

@deadhead 7w

I'm sure we'll both keep our ears open, and if something comes up, we'll make it happen! I'm not one to force collabs or songs either way.

Our album's not on bandcamp, but we do have it up on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SUsaYuoVMzc&list=OLAK5uy_mlnlTzKVd4ft3y0POOOdyO8VVnhLFbOhI&index=2

Though that might have ads... if it does, let us know and we can figure out that whole bandcamp thing, or just send it your way. Otherwise, it's also up for purchase on... I think Amazon's music store and iTunes if you do those. We just released it with distrokid and let it do its thing.

Nadine

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