★4★ mistakes

4 days ago by @burrMod

★4★ mistakes

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Liner Notes

#LoFi #BedroomPop #Cassette #Omnichord #Ukulele #Mellotron #Llama #Feast

i enjoyed writing a 4-song EP in FAWM week 1. so after a creative drought in week 2 where i hated everything i did, i decided to try it again...

this time i asked 🦙🤖 llama 3.3 (open-source chatgpt alternative) to give me a "roadmap" for a 5-song EP, suggesting BPM, time signature, song structure, chord changes, and which instruments to use (out of a handful of options i provided) in a lo-fi 4-track cassette recording.

amazingly, it mostly understood what i was asking 🤯, so i used its output to guide the creation of these 5 songs.

the original AI output is below, but i did take some liberties. i built these up in a passes (track 1 for all songs, then track 2, then 3+4, then mixing). i'll post them as i finish mixing them...

==== SONG-SPECIFIC NOTES ====
i didn't even entertain the suggested title. when it came time to write lyrics i skimmed snippets from the ones i keep in my phone's notes app. the opening line and "learn from your mistakes" both popped out at me, so i sort of worked in both directions to tie them together. felt a little weird writing a song almost entirely of similes, but whatevs. played shaker along with the mellotron track...

==== ORIGINAL LLAMA 3.3 OUTPUT ====
Song 4: "Fires in the Night"
BPM: 100
Time signature: 4/4
Song structure: Intro-Verse-Chorus-Verse-Chorus-Outro

Chord progressions:
Intro: Am−F−G−Em
Verse: Am−F−G−C−Em
Chorus: F−G−C−Am
Outro: Am−F

Track assignments:
Track 1: omnichord (backing track)
Track 2: baritone ukulele
Track 3: vocals
Track 4: mellotron

==== ALL THE SONGS IN THIS EP ====
1 ◄ https://write.fawm.org/songs/312138
2 ◄ https://write.fawm.org/songs/312151
3 ◄ https://write.fawm.org/songs/312163
4 ◉ THIS!
5 ► https://write.fawm.org/songs/312207

Lyrics

like a book through a bandsaw
or a demon in a dance off
slicing the silence with a side step
with my head in a storm cloud
in the eye over the underground
finding shelter in a shipwreck

like a square out of shape
we bend and we break
into pieces we know so well
like a mangled mixtape
can i learn from your mistakes?
because i can't make them all myself

i call your name like a question
i ask intercession
constantly conscious of cowardice
yet another dead letter
will it get any better
is there power in feeling powerless?

like a dream we forsake
in the morning when we wake
the charm of a forgotten spell
like an old record scraped
can i learn from your mistakes?
because i can't make them all myself

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