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<img src="images/smiley_icons/icon_twisted.gif" border=0 alt="Twisted Evil"> <font size="4"></font><font face="Century"></font>Sup... My name's gabe, a young(13 yr old) guitarist who loves to write music, mainly punk and punk-rock. I'm in the middle of thinking how to make the chord charts, but when i do i'll have about 15-30 songs... so you should be satisfied with me.
Hello Gabe - welcome to the forum. I look forward to seeing some of your stuff here when you are ready to share. When you say "make the chord charts", what do you mean?
I mean, like, figure out how to put it together, if you know anything about it i could use some help. And you like punk? im the only person in my town that likes it... what types of bands do you like? Later.
Hope this helps - - - To put it together here is what you do: Once the lyric is written, you can then place your chords within the lyric by enclosing it within brackets: [C]. Position the chords where they go in the song. Melodic riffs and other embellishments may be indicated in tab form.
To see how the formatting works, go to your Chordie songbook. Hopefully, you have some songs in there that are well-formatted so they appear nicely on the screen. Open a song using the "edit" button. You will see a 2-pane window with the unformatted coding in the upper pane. There is also a 'help' button that explains about the formatting commands.
Can't say as that I'm all that into Punk anymore - although I did buy "Never Mind the Bullocks - Here Come the Sex Pistols" when it first came out on vinyl . . . guess that sort of dates me. The band that most fascinates me lately is Old Crow Medicine Show because they play and sing with great gusto.
I am also quite enamored of Gillian Welch's music and artistry. But really, I just can't get all excited about bands much anymore - I just enjoy music.
When did you start writing songs?
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I mean, like, figure out how to put it together, if you know anything about it i could use some help. And you like punk? im the only person in my town that likes it... what types of bands do you like? Later.
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I totally dig punk. But what is "it" that you are trying to put together?
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t into Punk anymore - although I did buy "Never Mind the Bullocks - Here Come the Sex Pistols" when it first came out on vinyl . . . guess that sort of dates me.
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You're old!
My 17 year old daughter had never even seen a vinyl record until a few months ago. I remember saying to her one day "I'm going to buy such and so's new album." Her response?
"What's an album."
Ahhh, kids....
punk?????? I love lots of punk...
the older stuff though, the real punk.
although, really there is no such a thing as punk style rock as such. It is rock music with punk attitude. Punk is not so much of a style as it is an attitude.
The clash ( godfathers of punk) are completely different to the sex pistols, then theres toy doys completely different from green day.
all classed as punk. Punk is the sort of lyrics they write, the meaning behind the lyrics.
punk bands I like are ( in no particular order)
Stiff little fingers ( influenced greenday heavily)
Drop kick murphys ( just back from their concert 15 minutes ago with less than jake)
The clash
dead kennedy's ( but in small doses)
the alarm ( in big doses)
sex pistols
undertones
the jam ( although some consider mod, but again, no such a thing as mod music, it is again rock but different dress style)
the macc lads
and quite a few more but after quite a few pints I cannot remember right now,lol
iggy pop, the pixies, skids, greenday yeah ok stopping now
Ken
Yep - I'm absolutely geezerly - and I still have that Sex Pistols album along with a few others. As I recall it, Punk was basically a reaction to the over-produced, over-hyped, and over-slick stuff being pumped out by the record labels at the time . . . some things just never change!
I seem to remember there were alot of really good (& really sick) Sid & Nancy jokes . . . but somehow I just can't recall a single one.
Speaking of geezerly . . . here's a link to a song I posted a few days ago:
Re: Post formatted songs [message #3156 is a reply to message #331 ]
The sing is entitled "My Geezerly Years". Don't know if a link to another forum thread will work, but there it is.
hey hey!
maybe it's just me, but i seem to hear echos and whispers of Marc Bolan in most of the "old school"
punk music. just my opinion, but i think T Rex laid
the foundation. Planet Queen, Mambo Sun, and Lean
Woman Blues are still amoung my all time favorites.
peace, slim.
I would disagree that marc bolan was writing punk rock music, he was more of glam rock and led the way for other glam artists. Although I think there were quite a few other glammies about before him.
Punk rock is ( and I think I said it before) not really a style of music but an attitude brought out on music.
So, therefore the people to lead the way would be ( even though not rock music) the likes of eddie cochran, johnny cash, syd barrett, even elvis.
And there will be lots more from the late 50's and early 60's. All those "hellraisers" for their time. They might seem very tame now but back when these people started out they done outragsous things.
Punk rock, really is rock, rock music came from the rockabilles etc, and that dervied from blues.
We have the orignial blues people for the music we have today.
thats what i tihnk anyway.
so, punk came from the blues even though one is laid back sad songs and the other is anti establishment songs.
Ken
Is this punk? It definately has attitude and raw energy - but it does not have absurdly decorated posers flailing about and complaining about hard it is to be so sensitive and yet so cynical . . .
<a href="http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-5880903364755031753&q=paul+thorn&hl=en" target="_blank"> http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid … 4755031753 &q=paul+thorn&hl=en</a>
Paul Thorn - this guy can write and play and perform and paint and someday he might even get popular . . .
good song but definetly not punk!!
no punk attitude in there.
but then the clash were the punk and quite a few of thier songs if I did not know it was them, you would say they were not punk, same as a few songs from stiff little fingers. And even the damned and all other big punk names.
But when you see that guy and his band on that clip, you just know they are not punk.
Ken
Sorry I Haven't Had the chance to be on in a while,Thanks for the info, actually i took guitar up last year, i picked up on it really fast, and in the last 3 months i made about 12 songs, some good some just threw out. You like the Sex Pistols? There what i started out playing, i love their stuff. I might only have like 2 or 3 actual good songs on here because some of em werent that good. Well, Later.
Dude, I like all of them but Greenday, they just never caught on to me, I always thought punk was both an additude and a style? I skate so im into allota skate-punk like rancid, i thought that was what it was considered. thanks for replyin, later.
The song format, and what types do you like? I like the old stuff like sex pistols, but im a bit more into rancid and dropkick murpheys.
Hey,
I just wanted to say that I have writen punk/punkrock music. And, I wrote music when I was 13 too. But it seems that with age it gets easier. I started writing when I was about 7. yes, young but, it was well put together. I've writen about 20 or so songs since. I'm 15 now and I play guitar and sing. If you need any help with putting anything together like lyrics or music, let me know, I would be happy to help.
Yes, It's ok to ask a girl for help.
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Dude, I like all of them but Greenday, they just never caught on to me, I always thought punk was both an additude and a style? I skate so im into allota skate-punk like rancid, i thought that was what it was considered. thanks for replyin, later.
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Good punk is fast, and I prefer a cleaner guitar tone over one that's completely distorted, and the lyrics should be just on the edge of raunchy.
Guttermouth is a band that I've liked for a while now.
I've got a friend that does a great, slowed down mellow acoustiv version of the Ramone's "Sheena is a Punk Rocker." It's pretty good. But is it still punk?
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