YES I CAN!

Hello again!

Just wanted to write a blog post to organize my thoughts and goals. I feel like I've got quite a big helping on my plate right now, and I'm just not sure how to attack it. =P

First) There's my music. Which always comes somewhere near the very beginning of my thought process. And right now, what I'm thinking about is my first album. I've finished producing 3 songs (almost 4) that of which includes You'll Never Know, Rewind, Push and Play It Again is the one I'm almost done. It just needs some tweaking. So timeline wise, I'm pretty much on schedule, but I'd like to pick up the pace a bit. You see, I still have to record the harmony's for Rewind, and all the vocals and guitar for Push and Play It Again. At this point I'm just done doing all the Garageband work for those songs. Their still technically not finished. So that worries me just a tad, for I still have 6 more songs to complete by this May (June at the latest).

O_o

I can do that right?

Yes, I CAN...

I CAN!

And I must! And besides, not all of the songs have to be completely or overly produced. Just the main ones. I was even thinking of doing some more acoustic songs. Maybe with just a little strings, or electric guitar. Hmm.. I'm gonna play around with them. But I've decided that at the least, there are 7 songs that must be fully produced. And they are:

1) You'll Never Know

2) Rewind

3) Push

4) I Can Hear You

5) Stay Strong

6) Goody Two Shoes

7) Play It Again

And those are the songs I'm working on getting done right now. Then after that, I have to decide the 3 songs that also make it onto the record. And produce those! When I'm doing that, that'll be the home stretch. Actually.. maybe not just yet.

8)

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10)

After I'm done those 3 I will have completed my 10 song CD. =D And after that all there is left to do is choose and make the acoustic versions of two songs. That will be easy, and fun! ^.^

So there's my game plan for my album. Now I just have to stick with it and get 'er done! So far it's been pretty fun, but things have slowed down dramatically because of my illness (don't worry, just the common cold) and ..

SCHOOL =O

AAAHHH! I know. -_-

It's starting to get to me again. It just seems to be in the way! And it doesn't help that I'm starting to fall behind. =( With math (which was a given) and social studies (BIG TIME). I really have to pull it together. Not for me, but for my music. If I get too behind, juggling everything plus extra homework is going to be a struggle. Heck, I feel like I'm struggling already as it is! I mean, I'm okay with falling behind in school and getting a lesser grade because of it, but I'm definitely not okay with falling behind on my album and having to delay the release.

Which is why I must hold it together. And not go insane during the process.

I need to work really hard.

... Great! Nothing says buckling down and working hard like Christmas. x_x

But actually, the break from school helps a lot! In fact, I produced You'll Never Know during last years Winter break, which is what inspired this whole project! =]

=o Oh man, I produced You'll Never Know.. a year ago. O.o

Hm. =\

Well anyway, I just have to stay positive, motivated and hard working.

I've done enough slacking lately, and come to think of it, maybe that's one of the things that's been getting me down. I always feel better when I do something productive. I guess I hate being lazy, even though I can be sometimes.

Well, I think I've taken up a pretty good portion of your day, so that's all for now!

I'll check in soon, hopefully to report some progress.

Signing off,

Karly S

"I AM SO ECSTATIC RIGHT NOW!"

I AM SO ECSTATIC RIGHT NOW!

I'M JUMPING OFF THE WALLS.

Actually no, that's a lie.

I'm just trying to express how I feel right now in figurative speech. :P

But, really, I am just, so happy.

Today, after I got home from seeing my friends and getting my schedule for the new school year (sigh), I decided to keep working on producing my latest song for my first record. The song I was working on is called Push. It seems to be a lot of people's favorites, so I'm glad that I decided to produce it next.

Man, I have never produced a song this fast before.

And it doesn't have as many tracks as they usually have. It's simple, but it's ..

AMAZING.

If I do say so myself. ^_^

I'm sorry, someone has to! lol

I'm just super stoked about it. :D

It's the first time I've produced a song using both guitar and piano. In fact, it's the first time I've produced a song with guitar. Both the two songs I've produced are just piano. They were originally written on the piano. This song, Push was originally written on the guitar. So, naturally that's the instrument I'm going to focus on and start with first. But, once I had that track, I knew it was missing something. Some piano licks were just the thing! :)

I feel so, like.. Jason Reeves.

I've been listening to his album "The Magnificent Adventures of Heartache (And Other Frightening Tales...)" and I just love it. I love his style of music. I think that's what inspired me, or at least influenced the production of Push.

I gotta listen to his songs more often. :P

My favorite song right now (and it's Jason's) is "Pretty Eyes," from that album.

I love it.

I love piano and guitar together. Their just so darn good together! lol

It's good I've learned how to play both. =]

Well, I'm gonna go listen to it some more.

Tomorrow, after breakfast I can see myself going back and tweaking it.

Which is all good. ^_^

Goodnight everybody

(wow, I just realized that it's 12:01 AM)

Well, in that case, Good morning?

lol.

How's this .. BYE!

-K

My Goal: The Ultimate Busker. =P

 Today I have a gig, and I was looking at my set list from the last gig, which has 13 songs (2 are covers) and it dawned on me, again, that I have way more songs then just the ones that make it onto my set list. So, I went through the file of songs I have stored on my computer and I have at least 20 more songs that are good enough to be played. A lot of them are just not finished yet. It makes me sad. :( I want to play them!

So, this summer, I'm really gonna get on that. I'm gonna do it one song at a time. Revive them, finish them, whatever I have to do. So that I can be the Ultimate Busker, as I like to call it. ;) haha.

So really. I'm just continuing doing the whole "KS Restoration" project. 

This just makes it official.

I'm sure if I really stick to it, I should be able to have approx 30 or more songs on my setlist by then end of the summer. Which, would be very cool. :)

Ttys!

-Kar.

You Said

New song! - Well, for you it is. =P For me, it's like, the oldest of songs. 

I wrote it when I was 11, I'm pretty sure it's the first song I've written that's a full length song, that's actually good (good enough to still be playing four years later), and the first to have instrumentation (the guitar). What I did was, I wrote the lyrics and the melody when I was that age (11) and then, I think about a year later, I came back to it and figured out what chords would go best with it and viola! Now it's actually a performable song! 

It's called "You Said" and it's about, well it's probably pretty obvious what it's about, but If you need a hint then, I wrote it about a disappointing friend. One that only made things worse for me. And if someone does that, than there not really a friend at all. 

Remember I was only 11 when I wrote this, so some of the things are fiction, like the line "but then you take the boy I like and turn to jealousy." I only wrote it in there because it rhymed and worked in the song. Also, it could be applied for other girls in these types of situations. Representing the immaturity. 

I usually have some level of exaggeration in my songs. It makes them more moody and interesting. But the feelings I had while writing them are not exaggerated. My songs are for you to interpret, for you to apply to your own life and experiences, to get what you will out of them. Not for me to tell you exactly what their about. They mean something different to everyone. 

So anyway, here's "You Said"...

You Said

Friends forever,

it seems like that would be a very long time

I'll take whatever,

maybe once but not a second time.

It does seem this way, maybe not, who's to blame?

But your not what I thought that you would be.

You said you'd be clean.

You said that you'd be my friend,

but then you turn around and stab me in the back.

We agree to disagree, you turn around and act nice to me.

You said that you wouldn't be mean,

but then you take the boy I like and turn to jealousy.

Every thing's backwards, every thing's wrong,

but that's what you get when you're playing this song. 

Going backwards,

you just can't reverse what you've done.

It seems so easy,

but then again maybe it's not.

It does seem this way, maybe not, who's to blame?

But your not what I thought that you would be.

You said you'd be clean.

You said that you'd be my friend,

but then you turn around and stab me in the back.

We agree to disagree, you turn around and act nice to me.

You said that you wouldn't be mean,

but then you take the boy I like and turn to jealousy.

Every thing's backwards, every thing's wrong,

but that's what you get when you're playing this song. 

And I know that you didn't mean it, 

but then again maybe you did.

Thing's that have already happened, 

we can't go back and reverse them again.

Yeah, yeah, yeah..

You said that you'd be my friend,

but then you turn around and stab me in the back.

We agree to disagree, you turn around and act nice to me.

You said that you wouldn't be mean,

but then you take the boy I like and turn to jealousy.

Every thing's backwards, every thing's wrong,

but that's what you get when you're playing this song. 

You said that you'd be my friend,

but then you turn around and stab me in the back.

We agree to disagree, you turn around and act nice to me.

You said that you wouldn't be mean,

but then you take the boy I like and turn to jealousy.

Every thing's backwards, every thing's wrong,

but that's what you get when you're playing this song. 

Friends forever, 

it seems like that would be a very long time.

(Above^ Me when I was 10, just a year younger than I was when I wrote You Said.)

Well, that's all for today folks!

Till tomorrow*

-Kally<3

Inside Your Head <3

Okay so...

I'm starting this thing, actually I started it about a week ago, where I'm taking all of my songs, and when I say all of my songs, I truly mean ALL OF MY SONGS. Like, every last one of them, out of the 37 that I have stated I've written. Anyway, I'm going through all of my songs, tracing back to ones I wrote when I was 11 and from then on, taking them and basically practicing them and perfecting them so I can play them when I perform. 

My goal is to have all of these 37 songs performable... if performable is even a word. (which apparently it is because the spellcheck isn't kicking in).

I call this goal, this "project" if you will - "Karly Summers Restoration." =]

I'll be blogging my progress, so your guaranteed to have at least 37 more posts. =P

For me, this KS Restoration project has been pretty fun. It's like walking down memory lane singing songs that I wrote years ago. I was in a completely different headspace... well, for the most part. ^.^

So, the first song that I've decided to "restore" is called Inside Your Head. This is one of the first songs I wrote with guitar. I was 11 or 12 years old (can't quite remember) and I actually have the old recording of it on Garageband. I produced it and everything. =) Back then, I hadn't even got my first acoustic guitar yet, so I was still playing my dad's old electric, that's what I started playing with.

Anyway, here it is. =]

Me, when I was 12 (around the time I wrote this).

Inside Your Head <3

I've been to many places, usually the ones that are near.

& I've seen many faces, but I like the ones that are here.

Feels like I know you, and I wanna show you

who I really am..

You know where it starts and I know where it ends.

Through these eyes I see to you, even around the bends.

I know what's going on inside your head.

Yeah, inside your head.

And there'll be times when were not together, between wether or wether.

But I know that, for a fact, we'll snap back together.

I really know you, so I gotta show you

the person that I am...

You know where it starts and I know where it ends.

Through these eyes I see to you, even around the bends.

I know what's going on inside your head.

Oh, it's our chance and it's our shot.

Oh, this could turn out to mean a lot.

So should we take it, or should we not?

You know where it starts and I know where it ends...

You know where it starts and I know where it ends.

Through these eyes I see to you, even around the bends.

I know what's going on inside your head.

You know where it starts and I know where it ends.

Through these eyes I see to you, even around the bends.

I know what's going on inside your head.

Yeah, inside your head.

Oh... inside your head.