This weekā€™s theme is borrowed from the current reddit songaweek. Thank you u/ahniwa

Yesterday we were blessed with a blue supermoon, blue because it was our second full moon in August, and super because of how close it was to earth. The moon represents a lot of different things. She is the sacred feminine. She is light, but also darkness. She pushes and pulls our tides, is at pace with the flow of our lives, changes men into wolves, and is the patron saint of crazy. Lunacy, after all ā€¦ itā€™s right there in the word.

This week write a song about, or inspired in some way by, the moon.

Some inspiration to get the creative juices flowing:

M-O-O-N, that spells ā€¦

Blue Moon

Moondance Pink Moon

Drunk on the Moon

Moonshadow

Moon Trance

Songs posted in this thread should be:

Original content (samples and such are ok)

Uses the weekly theme as inspirationā€¦ or not!

Submitted by Wednesday midnight your local time.

Written entirely during this week.

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[Song Name] (linkto.the.song) (Genre) [Themed|Not Themed]

This is where you can write a description of your song. You can talk about

how you wrote it, where your inspiration came from, and anything else

youā€™d like to say. Remember to sort by ā€˜Newā€™ so that you can see new song submissions.

And remember to give honest, but supportive feedback to others.

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  • DerKriegs@lemmy.ml
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    [Phase] (Folk?) [Themed]

    New to posting, new to music creation. Iā€™ve always loved instruments, but have only recently started to take any playing seriously. This is a stick dulcimer Iā€™m playing, sort of a light weight version of the standard instrument.

    Have always loved looking at the moon, gave the ā€œsongā€ a whistful vibe. Instrumental, though I wrote a poem to accompany it, in the description of the song on SoundCloud. Only a minute long, but this is the first thing of this sort Iā€™ve done before.

    A bit of an early upload, but Iā€™d love to hear tips on what I could be doing differently.

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      1 year ago

      Dude, thatā€™s sounds great. Thank you for taking the plunge. Itā€™s a very nice melody. Definitely in the folk vibe, I can envision an old sailor sitting on a dock playing this an staring at the moon. Have you tried singing that poem along with your music? It actually seems to fit.

      • DerKriegs@lemmy.ml
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        1 year ago

        Thanks, that means a lot! Love that imagery for sure.

        I originally had it in mind to do those as lyrics, but sort of lost the thread in terms of whatā€™s ā€œsupposedā€ to be played underneath them. Was tinkering with the just the chords, but decided to post. I might give it another shot before the Wednesday.