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The Recording

The Recording

by Tracey Buckley ♥ 0 Leave a Comment

Three weeks ago, I was in Melbourne recording 2 songs that I have co-written.

The songs I recorded are Rise and Princess Heart, these are songs about my journey.

I had the most amazing experience, I kept on saying this is my dream.

I recorded at The Song Store in Melbourne and it was the most surreal experience.

For the song Rise I wanted it to be acoustic, so my music mentor Merelyn organised for Bill who lives in Queensland to play the piano. Oh, my goodness what he did with the song was amazing.

I think amazing is my word for this experience.

Then she organised Brett Wood to play the guitar on both my songs and yes you guessed it he was amazing.

The song Princess Heart is also acoustic and I wrote that song in 2009 at my very first mentor session with Merelyn at her house.

I did not want to finish the song it was hard, because it was my story, we finished it. Merelyn and her husband David helped me to revise it.

I wrote the song Rise with Paula from Jetty Road, on a songwriting retreat that I attended last October.

I am so blessed by how both songs have turned out and how they sound.

It was even better then what I ever thought it would be.

Now I am in the process of getting all my socials ready for release.

I am not sure when, but stay tuned.

I have a photo shoot this weekend, which is also a first and I have to get a few other things organised.

It is journey but it is an amazing, incredible and I just cannot believe this journey.

As I have said to friends, it is was a pinch me moment.

I can’t wait to share the songs with you.

Will share more soon.

Rise

Rise

by Tracey Buckley ♥ 1 Comment

My word for this year is-

                                             Rise

This year I want to Rise, Rise to be creative.

I want to Rise and have amazing adventures.

Last year I went on a songwriting retreat it and wrote a song called Rise.

This year I am really excited as I will be recording my song Rise in April.

I have been in a recording studio before, it was to do vocals over a song that I had written. It was a demo. With my song Rise I will be recording in Melbourne and I am totally out of my comfort zone.

This time it will be different in the recording studio, because I want to release 2 songs and they will be professionally produced.

Sometimes I feel that I need to pinch myself, this is my dream.

I want my songs to make a difference.

I have always wanted to make a difference.

I will take you on the journey as the countdown to Melbourne begins.

In just over 6 weeks I will be there.  AARRGG!

Yesterday I had a session with my music mentor who lives in Melbourne and we worked out how we want the songs to sound.

There is so much to think about and do before you actually go into the recording studio.

I have worked on a different arrangement for my song Princess Heart, which I love.

Now I just need to practise my songs and I will probably have some singing lessons before I go over as well.

Next Monday I will be performing at an open mic and singing some covers.

I will share more soon.

A Songwriting Retreat

A Songwriting Retreat

by Tracey Buckley ♥ 0 Leave a Comment

Last month I went on a songwriting retreat in Melbourne and it was amazing.

It was for 4 days and it was run by my music mentor’s Carter and Carter who are a country duo.

There was around 20 singer/songwriters and our hosts Merelyn and
David Carter. We also had Brendan Walmsley, Brett Wood and Paula from Jetty Road.  All country music artists in Australia.

We came from all around Australia to write, work on songs and to collaborate.

We stayed at Karma Kinglake and we shared with people we had not met but later up became friends.

We learnt a lot about songwriting, how to register our songs and other information about our music.

I was so blessed to collaborate and write a song with Paula from Jetty Road.

We wrote a song about my journey, I wanted the song to build and I wanted the song to be able to make a difference.

It was a full day of writing and I am so happy with how the song worked out.

I said to Paula this is my dream, it was a pinch me moment.

At the retreat if you worked on a song during the day and if you finished it you were encouraged to share it after dinner.

I shared my song and it was amazing.

I am so glad that I took the time away, booked the retreat, got on a plane, and went to Melbourne where I could just focus on my creativity.

It was a beautiful time where new friendships were made and the atmosphere was so encouraging.

It was great to hear other people’s journeys and their songs that they had written on the retreat.

We all wrote down a goal for the retreat and yes, I achieved my goal.

I will share more soon.

Tracey Buckley