Messing around with 7/8 time, and sampling the darkest cartoon I've ever seen (Drinky Crow Gets a Job)

December's Record Every Month submission is a Christmas track. I wasn't going to write a Christmas song but the seed was planted on the forums. I got a lyric idea to sing about the excessive waste of the season and the song grew from there.

The second of 3 variations based on the folk melodies known as Carol of the Bells, this being the one almost entirely nothing like the source material

A melancholic mood befitting the on-set of winter

A post apocalyptic vision of the future.

Chords, music and info about this song can be found for free at https://websterguitar.blogspot.com/2018/01/big-round-summer-moon.html Big Round Summer Moon by Wayne Webster I’d like to be under a big round summer moon A big round…

The song came together very quickly. It took around 2-3 hours to record (over 3 days) and be ready to upload - normally this process takes a lot longer and I end up spending weeks before a song is ready. I wrote the song around mid 2021 and again…