{"id":430,"date":"2006-06-15T03:18:02","date_gmt":"2006-06-15T03:18:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.nargalzius.com\/blog2\/http:\/www.nargalzius.com\/blog2\/archives\/2006\/06\/2006_06_15_1118.php"},"modified":"2017-02-08T05:22:59","modified_gmt":"2017-02-08T05:22:59","slug":"new-song-finished","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/nargalzius.com\/blog\/archives\/2006\/06\/15\/new-song-finished","title":{"rendered":"New song finished"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I finished my newest song. This was my first Filipino written song so I was constantly struggling with the right balance of simple to complex pinoy words. I wanted to make the sentences simple enough for normal speech\/singing, but complex enough to sound&#8230; lyrical (for lack of a better term). Anyways I still don&#8217;t know if I got it right &#8211; and ultimately I could never personally judge because I don&#8217;t really &#8220;compose&#8221; in a Filipino mindset.<\/p>\n<p>Tell me what you think, it can be found in my <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nargalzius.com\/music\" title=\"visit music page\">music page<\/a>, It&#8217;s entitled &#8220;Hiling&#8221;<\/p>\n<div align=\"center\">\n<!-- iframe plugin v.5.1 wordpress.org\/plugins\/iframe\/ -->\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"100%\" height=\"166\" scrolling=\"no\" frameborder=\"no\" src=\"https:\/\/w.soundcloud.com\/player\/?url=https%3A\/\/api.soundcloud.com\/tracks\/134725223&#038;color=ff5500&#038;auto_play=false&#038;hide_related=false&#038;show_comments=true&#038;show_user=true&#038;show_reposts=false\" class=\"iframe-class\"><\/iframe>\n<\/div>\n<!-- \/\/ --><!--more--><!-- \/\/ -->\n<p>There were a lot of mixed reactions to it when I sent the &#8220;rough draft out.&#8221; I&#8217;ll just mention the concerns and not my actual opinions about them. Suffice to say, I appreciated everyone&#8217;s input and carved the final version on what I thought was a middle ground.<\/p>\n<p>Again, these comments were based on the rough draft:<\/p>\n<ol>\n<li>One person said it lacked &#8220;repetitiveness,&#8221; or it was too complicated<\/li>\n<li>Come final version, one said that he liked the rough draft version better (because of how &#8220;raw&#8221; it sounded)<\/li>\n<li>Another person said the exact opposite, that the latter half lacked &#8220;oomph&#8221; (too simple)<\/li>\n<li>A guitarist, said that it lacked &#8220;guitar parts.&#8221; Fills, solos, etc.<\/li>\n<li>A lot of people asked about, or stressed how they didn&#8217;t like a line at the start of the song.<\/li>\n<li>It sounds like what certain bands today would write.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p>The affirmations were:<\/p>\n<ol>\n<li>The lyrics were good<\/li>\n<li>The song was moving<\/li>\n<li>Singing in Filipino actually suited me<\/li>\n<li>Almost everyone who wasn&#8217;t into music production commented about how it the quality easily match commercial  quality.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p>So what I did to address most concerns was as follows:<\/p>\n<p>As far as toning the rough draft was (to address #1), it was impossible in my case, the song had 2 verses, the <em>exact same<\/em> chorus repeating 3 times, and a very short bridge. I just can&#8217;t think of a way to make it any simpler. Plus the fact that #3 wanted it to be more complex at the latter parts. He literally suggested adding words, and going wild so the last chorus would sound &#8220;busier.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>So what I did was indulge #3, but use #1 as a &#8220;limiter&#8221; so I wouldn&#8217;t get carried away. The result was just putting vocal harmonies here and there while retaining the original chorus track as is.<\/p>\n<p>The guitar parts (#4) I was supposed to put more in, but I saw how many guitar tracks I already had in there just to &#8220;stereo-fy&#8221; everything &#8211; that putting any more &#8220;fills&#8221; would just make everything a mess. I decided to just put the guitars in front of the mix a little bit more so they&#8217;d be clearly heard (hence the little nuances of the riffs could now be heard, and acted as the &#8220;extra&#8221; detail needed)<\/p>\n<p>5 was a no-brainer. There was a line at the beginning that said <em>&#8220;&#8230;silahis ng bukang-liwayway&#8221;<\/em> &#8211; which roughly translates to the rays of the sun at dawn. Some people would be thrown off by the word <em>&#8220;silahis&#8221;<\/em> because of modern vernacular attributing it to &#8220;gayness,&#8221; or whatever. Another mentioned that compared to the rest of the lyrics, it sounded too complicated\/deep. Others didn&#8217;t get the line at all. Hence I chose to change it to <em>&#8220;&#8230;kagandahan ng umaga.&#8221;<\/em><\/p>\n<p>As for #6, I wouldn&#8217;t say that it was a negative thing because I intentionally wanted it to sound Filipino. I guess that somehow backfired as the &#8220;sound&#8221; is a very common EMO\/ROCK sound. This is proven by the different bands which the people mention to when they listen to it. Since I&#8217;m always locked in my room, and I never watch TV &#8211; I only hear about these bands (and have a basic idea of their sounds) but never really had the time (and patience) to &#8220;analyze&#8221; their sounds.<\/p>\n<p>Suffice to say, if we were to speak of a direct influence of the sound I imagined when I first wrote this song September last year &#8211; I would have to say it was Kitchie Nadal&#8217;s hit <em>&#8220;Wag na wag mo sasabihin.&#8221;<\/em> I wanted a slow-ish, rock-ish song. Wether or not people can actually find the resemblance of the sound to that particular song will depend on them. But that was my &#8220;peg.&#8221; Some people didn&#8217;t have Kitchie on their mind at all when they heard the song. They mention Sugarfree&#8217;s &#8220;Panday theme&#8221; &#8211; which by to me is a compliment, what I wouldn&#8217;t give to make a song similar to that. Other people mention a general sound akin to &#8220;Hale,&#8221; or &#8220;Cueshe,&#8221; or <code>insert_your_pinoy_emo_band_here<\/code>. One other person didn&#8217;t say anything about a band, instead they said it fit a <em>telenovela<\/em> quite nicely.<\/p>\n<p>In any case, it just proves that no matter what band\/genre\/sound you relate it to &#8211; as long as it sounds <em>Pinoy,<\/em> then I probably succeeded in getting the intended sound across.<\/p>\n<p>Anyways, here are the lyrics in case anyone&#8217;s interested:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<h2>Hiling<\/h2>\n<p>09\/20\/2005\nCarlo Santos\nTheme: Infidelity<\/p>\n<p>Pagdilat ng mata, at nakatitig sa kagandahan ng umaga.\nPuso Niya&#8217;y sa &#8216;yo at ang pag-ibig na ito&#8217;y hinding-hindi na magmamaliw.<\/p>\n<p>Bakit ba? Bakit pa naghahanap ng iba?\nAt inaasahang di niya makita.\nDahil ayaw mo Siyang mawala.<\/p>\n<p>Kaya pilit mong tinatago ang tunay mong anyo, nagdarasal na tanggapin ito.\nNgunit bawat udyok ng puso mo; unti-unti na siyang nawawala\nat tuloy ang &#8216;yong pagiging sakim&#8230; tungkol sa &#8216;yo pa rin ang lahat ng ito.<\/p>\n<p>Andiyan muli ang buwan, kay linaw-linaw ng pagkislap ng mga tala.\nKay gandang buhay, kay daling magpasalamat sa Tagapagbigay<\/p>\n<p>Bakit pa&#8230; bakit pa naghahanap ng iba?\nano pa ba ang &#8216;di makuha sa Kanya &#8211; kung kahit buhay Niya&#8217;y nailalay na?<\/p>\n<p>Pilit mong binabago ang tunay mong anyo dinarasal na tanggapin ito.\nNgunit bawat udyok ng puso mo unti-unti na Siyang nawawala\nat hiling mo sa Kanya ika&#8217;y patawarin&#8230; at palipasin ang lahat ng ito.<\/p>\n<p>Pag-ibig Niya walang kapantay.\nAt ang pangako Niya&#8217;y panghabangbuhay.<\/p>\n<p>Pilit mong binabago ang tunay mong anyo dinarasal na tanggapin ito.\nNgunit bawat udyok ng puso mo unti-unti na Siyang nawawala\nat hiling mo sa Kanya ika&#8217;y patawarin&#8230; at palipasin.\nDi na uulitin ang lahat ng ito<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I finished my newest song. This was my first Filipino written song so I was constantly struggling with the right balance of simple to complex pinoy words. I wanted to make the sentences simple enough for normal speech\/singing, but complex enough to sound&#8230; lyrical (for lack of a better term). Anyways I still don&#8217;t know &hellip; <p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"http:\/\/nargalzius.com\/blog\/archives\/2006\/06\/15\/new-song-finished\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;New song finished&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p><\/p>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[7,8],"tags":[549,754,803,834,1093],"class_list":["post-430","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-media","category-music","tag-hiling","tag-media","tag-music","tag-night-flight","tag-song"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/nargalzius.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/430","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/nargalzius.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/nargalzius.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/nargalzius.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/nargalzius.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=430"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/nargalzius.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/430\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1580,"href":"http:\/\/nargalzius.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/430\/revisions\/1580"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/nargalzius.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=430"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/nargalzius.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=430"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/nargalzius.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=430"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}