{"id":1447,"date":"2014-03-26T19:06:08","date_gmt":"2014-03-26T18:06:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.jutze.com\/?p=1447"},"modified":"2014-05-16T17:01:07","modified_gmt":"2014-05-16T16:01:07","slug":"the-bleeding-dragon","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.jutze.com\/?p=1447","title":{"rendered":"The Bleeding Dragon"},"content":{"rendered":"

Miracously, I made to the final round of SpinTunes<\/a> #8. The challenge was:<\/p>\n

Painful Progression – Write a song about PHYSICAL pain, and do so using a I-V-vi-IV chord progression in the chorus.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

My naive assumption is that I can deal with the musical restriction more easily than the other contestants this round, who are a bit jazzier in my ear. Anyway, for this round I couldn’t just throw out a quick song like I did last round. I’m not a good singer, so a “normal” pop song wasn’t my aim. My first idea was to write some kind of Irish folk song, instead. Even before I picked up my guitar I decided to write about the pain of a menstruating dragon. I had this idea for the first time back in 2006<\/a>, when I took the Hammerfall song title “The Dragon Lies Bleeding” literally. It took me a couple of hours to come up with a jolly chorus. The rest of the song manifested itself more quickly. I had a percussive click track resembling a bhodran, which I kept in the final version. I went a bit crazy with all kinds of keyboard sounds (including some banjo!) but most of them are buried in the mix. Needless to say, I would have loved to have real instruments. Anyway, there was a deadline to meet and I am quite satisfied with the outcome.<\/p>\n

What made me very happy was the following review by Dave Leigh<\/a>:<\/p>\n

This sounds like the sort of thing that Hobbits would sing at the pub. Really demented, sick hobbits. Hobbits who need therapy. Who in his right mind writes a song about a menstruating dragon? Nobody, and that should tell us a thing about Jutze. However, this is the form of insanity that’s just really, really entertaining.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Check out all entries<\/a>! I also filmed a quick sofa video<\/a> that ended up with an over-enthusiastic preview thumbnail.<\/p>\n

Deep under the mountain in the dark and the cold
\nSheltered from the wind and the rain
\nSitting on a pile of silver and of gold
\nThe mighty dragon is in pain
\nMaybe it is time to leave this cave behind
\nTime to get some fresh air<\/p>\n

And it’s raining blood on the town by the lake<\/strong>
\nEverybody screams, the children are crying<\/strong>
\nNobody knows how long it’s going to take<\/strong>
\nIt looks as if the dragon is dying<\/strong><\/p>\n

Only the elders have seen this once before
\nAlmost a century ago
\nThey shut all the windows and they lock every door
\nHiding in the cellars below
\nMaybe there’s a chance to escape the burning flames
\nMaybe they will survive<\/p>\n

And it’s raining blood on the town by the lake<\/strong>
\nEverybody screams, the children are crying<\/strong>
\nNobody knows how long it’s going to take<\/strong>
\nIt looks as if the dragon is dying<\/strong><\/p>\n

High above the lake the dragon’s breathing fire
\nFeeling that the cycle is complete – once again
\nThere’s no way around it, no use in climbing higher
\nThe time has come to bleed
\nMaybe it is time she should start to procreate
\nIt sucks to menstruate<\/p>\n

And it’s raining blood on the town by the lake<\/strong>
\nIn agony and pain the dragon is flying<\/strong>
\nNobody knows how much more it’s going to take<\/strong>
\nThe dragon in the sky feels like dying<\/strong><\/p>\n

And it’s raining blood on the town by the lake<\/strong>
\nEverybody screams, the children are crying<\/strong>
\nNobody knows how long it’s going to take<\/strong>
\nIt looks as if the dragon is dying<\/strong><\/p>\n

2014 Creative Commons by-nc<\/a> Johannes “Jutze” Schult<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Miracously, I made to the final round of SpinTunes #8. The challenge was: Painful Progression – Write a song about PHYSICAL pain, and do so using a I-V-vi-IV chord progression in the chorus. My naive assumption is that I can deal with the musical restriction more easily than the other contestants this round, who are […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[558,557,300,559,107,305,57],"class_list":["post-1447","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-music","tag-blood","tag-dragon","tag-folk","tag-pain","tag-solo-song","tag-spintunes","tag-video"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jutze.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1447","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jutze.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jutze.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jutze.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jutze.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1447"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.jutze.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1447\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1467,"href":"https:\/\/www.jutze.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1447\/revisions\/1467"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jutze.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1447"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jutze.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1447"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jutze.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1447"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}