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| Title: |
That Black Line of Sparrows |
| Artist: |
furiousBall
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| Copyright: |
2004 |
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c-dex |
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http://www.furiousball.com |
| Description: |
a song about birds and Texas
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The sparrow is a small and assertive bird. It lives all over the world. This ability to survive reflects the idea of great nobility in even the most "common" person. If you have a sparrow come into your life it may be trying to tell you to look around you, are you allowing others to take away your pride or dignity? Do you feel "common"? Have you forgotten your self worth? The sparrow can show you how to assert yourself and triumph over outside circumstances.
This comes from the American Indian Animal Totem of the sparrow. Amazing how fitting this is for my life recently. One day driving to work in Austin, TX I noticed a line of sparrows, for some reason it struck me as a bad omen.
It was and it wasn't.
Two weeks later my wife and I had our baby girl, Vivienne. One month after that, I was laid off, 2,000 miles from any relatives that could help my family. We moved to New Jersey, where my family is (this is the third move my wife and I have made in the past three years). Needless to say, we're tired of the nomadic life that is a result of this crappy economy, we want our son and daughter to know their family and we want to grow roots. I needed control of my destiny. I've got it now. I came back to my home town with determination to get a better job and stop allowing circumstances creep into my family's happiness. The lesson - You ALWAYS have a choice, even if you're just a small assertive bird.
So, about the song.
There are about 16 tracks from my Motif, 15 or so from Reason (including a ton of Redrum - new for me), and ....this was fun about 25 different guitar tracks. I experimented a lot more with doubling and trippling parts with different contrasting guitar tones. A few of the passages actually were reversed mid-way through the riffs and then righted again, so half way through a sequence, if it sounds backwards - it is. I also used a lot of American Indian samples, some Apache shakers, Koto, Dulcimer, and Taiko drums in the background. And the horse samples are actually Smarty Jones...well no, but go ahead and tell everyone that it is.
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