FAWM : Susan Veit Heslin (@sheslin)

Susan Veit Heslin

@sheslin

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2018

Ellicott C US
sheslin1.wixsite.com/website

Coming back for my 4th FAWM.

I write on guitar and piano. I am primarily a finger style player and love playing in different tunings. I also love collaborating, both by turning your lyrics into songs, or by creating lyrics and a melody for your instrumental track. One of the very best parts of FAWM for me 😀 The second best part of FAWM is getting to listen to so much wonderful music and seeing such creativity! I love to listen and to comment, and am inspired by all of you.

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I've Stopped Listening To My Brain by @sheslin 3w #acoustic_one_take #girl_with_guitar #alternate_tuning

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@karlsburg25 3w

Thank you so much for your beautiful comments and yes the other part of me is or was in education, i am more freelance now, and my life views often come out in my songs, and the emotional development of our youngsters is something i feel we can do so much more with but how also it could create such a much better society for us all to see being in touch with those emotions as totally part of life. THank you again lovely soul and look forward to diving into more of your huge output. woohoo xxx

@paulharrison 3w

Thanks, Susan, for your most recent comments on a couple of my songs. I'm truly glad you like them. I do think of myself, strength-wise, as guitarist or songwriter first and singer last, so anytime anyone compliments my vocal work in any way I'm especially pleased. As one of my mentors called his own singing style, I "talk with a hint of melody" a lot of times. Anyway, thanks for commenting and enjoy the waning days of FAWM.

@paulharrison 3w

Hi Susan. Congrats on a very productive FAWM! Thanks for the nice comments on "Hello Hello." Yeah, that song started with my co-writer talking about the incident in the first verse (I coined "digital foreplay" in reaction to the thumbs flying) and expanded the song as we got into a "so what?" discussion. Anyway, I'm glad you liked it. The Gnadts...yes, very nice folks. My wife and I have gone a few times and hosted about 6 concerts ourselves while we were in a bigger house in Severna Park. Now we are on the Eastern Shore and can't consider that anymore. You may recall, too, that Larry M. is a decades-long friend of mine and sometimes-coworker.

@paulharrison 4w

Thanks for your nice comments, Susan, on my family reunion song! A little backstory: I wrote a song at Summersongs songwriting camp (which I have been to a number of times) about "life" at camp...stressing unnecessarily about camp things, etc. but the song too camp focused to be useful as is in most other settings. So, I kept parts of it that I liked and changed the focus of the lyrics to a family reunion. It was a fun transition to try to pull off, so I'm very glad you liked it. Thanks again!

@oswlek 5w

Susan, you are too prolific for me to keep up with! I'll get to more soon, I promise, though you'll probably send up another dozen in tie meantime!

Thanks for the kind words on "In This Moment". I decided it didn't have enough melodic variation on the title line ("in this mo" was F over middle C for every instance in the song), so I made some changes. It's funny that sometimes the act of sharing something let's you hear it differently. It does for me, anyway. My brain takes a listener perspective that was seemingly unavailable the hundreds of times I heard it and played it previously. It's great that this helps resolve issues I didn't know were there, but I wish I didn't have to share a substandard product to get there! 😄

@paulharrison 5w

Thanks SO much, Susan, for your very kind comments on "Loyalty." I'm least confident about my vocals, so I'm especially pleased that you liked what I did. That song has indeed become a recent favorite for me (but don't tell me other songs 😀!). I think we are even going to play it when my sometimes-music partner (Janet Griffin) and I open for Pierce Pettis at a show in Pasadena next month. So, thanks for (unknowingly) supporting that song choice!

@nancycunning 6w

Susan - I'm so excited about collaborating together. Hooray. Two possible places to start - I'll go listen to a bunch of your songs, and see what bubbles up for me. Also you are welcome to send me a few snippets of possibilities. Could be phrases knocking around your brain, or bits of music, or pictures or images or just anything. To me both approaches feel like channeling the spirit voices. My email is nancy.cunningham1451@gmail.com

@jorh 6w

Aw thanks Susan, I couldn’t think of anyone better to set it to music, you always do an amazing job on reflective, hopeful lyrics like this one :) can’t wait to see what you do with it - also please feel free to make some tweaks as I’m aware it has quite a few different parts that need slotting together.

The original outro was this before I changed it for the last 3 lines:

The search for perfection
Is clouding my reflections
Need to stop questioning if i’m less than
Cause we’ve all got imperfections

I considered it for a bit but then decided I’d maybe gone a bit too cliche, and wasn’t sure it fit the tone of the rest of the lyric - but happy to hear what you think :)

Susan Veit Heslin

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