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About Me

Hi Millions!!

I'm a singer/guitarist/songwriter from Schiedam, Holland, Europe.

Writing songs, and performing them now and then, I am very much interested in other independent musician's work.

I believe that because the rawness of songs by more-or-less amateur musicians, it is clearer to hear the song itself. Without the blur of a multi-million production, that is.

And in that perspective Myspace.com is a very interesting playground to look around.

My Interests

musical instruments, recording techniques (home recording) the internet, webdesign, graphic design (magazines, internet, advertisement)...

Sound and vision, in one, errr, three words.

I'd like to meet:

Allthough I'm very interested in HTML too, building sites for bands the past year, I'm mostly interested in songwriting. I know how I write a song, but how do YOU start, work and finish?

Are there any 'rules' to the game of songwriting, or is there only this one moment the adrenaline tells you: 'this is some line/lick/sequence to put in a song..?

And what do you do when a song is a dream to play, but a bore to listen to, or even worse: the other way around?

If you ever think about songwriting, I'd like to know more about you and your work.

Music:

Music that does something to me.

I re-discovered guitar- surf- sixties- and garagebands on Myspace. Man, is there some good music in this world!

Television:

Documentories, infotainment, news, music television, soccer, that '70 show, ehr... anything that MOVES on that damn tube..!

Books:

Vonnegut, De Winter, Fante, Sjowall & Wahloo, Toonder... or comics: I love the work of Hermann.

Heroes:

Friends helping out when you're having a bad time.

My Blog

Fab songs on Myspace

Er staat meer goede muziek op Myspace dan je zo op het eerste gezicht zou denken en voor je het weet ga je liedjes verzamelen. Maar ja, het is geen platenverzameling die in de kast staat. En voo...
Posted by Nils on Sun, 08 Jul 2007 08:39:00 PST

Songwriting Vl - Changes

Any given song has a raw version. The song is kinda finished, but there is still some work to do. There's always some work on the intro and the ending of the song. And that guitarsolo, is it stretched...
Posted by Nils on Tue, 27 Jun 2006 07:42:00 PST

Songwriting V - The End

Everything comes to an end, besides worms and snakes, coming to an end twice...Even a song has an ending. Let's forget about the fade-out, a way to trick the disc jo...
Posted by Nils on Mon, 26 Jun 2006 05:47:00 PST

Songwriting lV - Give it away

When you present this gift, why wrap it up? Why save the best for last? Because it's nice to surprize!In a song it's the same. If there's this fab backing vocals to a song, you could present them in t...
Posted by Nils on Sun, 25 Jun 2006 06:39:00 PST

Songwriting lll - Rip off

Cover's little sister is the rip-off. There are well known rip-offs: The Troggs's 'I want You', the flipside of their hit-single 'With a girl like you', is ripped off of 'Louie Louie', made famou...
Posted by Nils on Sat, 24 Jun 2006 05:41:00 PST

Songwriting ll - Something in the air

Is it possible that a song writes itself? And I don't mean throwing dice. There are 12 notes in an octave, so with two dice you could try to get the chords and the tune of a song. Hmm. And don't ...
Posted by Nils on Fri, 23 Jun 2006 06:52:00 PST

Songwriting l - Why bother???

There are (amongst others) two very good reasons to write a song. First: you have a band of musicians but no songs to play and you don't want to perform covers.Second: you have something to say. ...
Posted by Nils on Thu, 22 Jun 2006 06:27:00 PST