Well, this weekend I wrote 5 songs (I kept getting sudden inspirations) and today I wrote tons of lyrics. I realized that I love ska, and I've always wanted to record a major ska project. So I am currently fine tuning what I wrote, I will then get a band together teach them the material and eventually (once they have learned all of it) record. This has been something I've always wanted to do and I'm very excited...

Updates to come as they occur :). I hope to have a great piece of ska done by the end of the year.

cool! upload them here and we'll listen :bounce:

^.^

Nice to hear, please use savefile.com tho, cuz here we don't have much space :(

Ok, I wrote the first verse to the song 'Cold Steel Heart, Clenched Iron Fist' today. My goal is to have the other three done by the end of the week (I did the chorus over the weekend). Horn-lines for this song are complete.

The song Gamblin' With The Devil is completely written (i.e. sheet music and lyrics have been sent out).

More updates to come!

basically you have lyrics and just music sheet, rigth? Or are you recording each sounds separately then putting them on top of each others using a sound editor afterward? I remember dysfunction did this once for one of his song

Yeah, basically I have 50% of the music (and 5% of the lyrics) written. As I complete songs I send copies of the sheet music and recordings of bass playing the part (in case they have trouble understanding it) to the musicians. Once it's all written, and we've all practiced the music together I'm gonna take it to a studio and record the music.

Cold Steel Heart, Clenched Iron Fist is done and has been sent out to the members :D.

On to the next song (yay, this one is an instrumental and doesn't have lyrics :)).

Nice ^^ I cant wait to hear it!

Well, I worked today on getting an overall story for the album. Yay rock opera!

Well, we're getting together next Tuesday to practice the first three songs (which are now complete :D) as a group.

Nice! Will you record some for us?

No recordings till the songs are complete :(. However, I will upload the lyrics when they are all complete as well as some sheet music at some point.

cool :)

I hope recording will not be cancelled, you should really get a new guy for this <_<

Oh, you meant that recording project XD. Yeah, we're looking for a new guy to record us... this is something completely unrelated :). You'll get those in a week or two...

\o/

I decided to attempt to find a mandolin player. It would really help the mafia theme :). This is gonna be hard though, as I don't know any.

hehe sound cool ^^

\m/ Real nice ;), I look forward to hearing just a little snippet!

Here's a snippet of a bass line I'm working on for one song. I improved it a lot since I last recorded it but I'll upload it anyway (I doubled up the notes and made it less repetitive, but I'm too lazy to re-record ;)).

It's uploaded here (I'll upload lot's here actually... keep you guys from getting bored :)): http://netham45.org/speler/Ska%20Album/

Skank away!

EDIT: As you can probably tell from the style I'm playing this line, I really really really want a Chapman stick XD.

Nice, i hope to hear it with more stuff soon tho

We successfully played through 4 of the songs today (and one more that the guitarist pulled out of nowhere). Unfortunately some of the songs had to really be slowed down.

EDIT: Oh yeah, and we have a name, Crank the Skank

cool, i cant wait to hear the final product :)

Just got off the phone...

I'm playing a show with Reel Big Fish, Streetlight Manifesto, Less Then Jake, Mustard Plug, etc (i.e. some of the biggest names in modern ska) on July 10.

WHAT, dude that is just awesome! I can't wait, and I hope they pass through tulsa OK ;)...

wow nice, congrats :D

I wrote the lyrics to 'Innocence'

My best work so far

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I plan on posting all of the lyrics in a bundle, they won't make sense except when viewed together (which is part of the beauty of the project)

I would love to see some samples/lyrics/artwork for this, I really hope you go far in your musical endeavor!

I found a singer. Actually, he's probably the most talented trumpet player in the High School, but he's just gonna sing for us (and write some horn lines).

Sounding great I hope you can get those vocals going, making me sad actually...Wanting to hear some SKA!

good, I cant wait to hear some of your stuff!

Gamblin' With The Devil sounds like the title to a Charlies Daniels band song ^_^... This IS a ska album right?

We're performing the ska opera (or skapera if you will) in a month live. It will be videotaped.

Great! I wonder if there will be some previews on youtube?