🧠 Scarred But Still Shinin’ – MySideBRAIN Harmony BRAIN

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🎵 Scarred But Still Shinin’

MySideBRAIN Harmony BRAIN · Learn · Play · Feel the Fire

🎼 Harmony Groove Block 🔥🎵🤝

Key: A Major · BPM: 92 · Time: 4/4

Energy: 8/10 · Confidence: Rising

“Healing and rhythm are not opposites — they’re time signatures of growth.”

🎸 Next Focus: Live take @96 BPM · Capture room warmth and dynamic lift.

🎧 Part I · Listen / Inspiration

🔥 Happy Version

💡 Reference mix: Poppy Fun California Country Vibe.

💀 Country Version

💡 Reference mix: California Country Soul.

🎸 Part II · Learn · Full Song (A Major)

Key: A Major · Tempo: ≈ 92 BPM · Time: 4/4

🎵 Played with open A shapes for natural resonance and tone clarity.

A The headlines hit like a hammer fall,
D Everybody’s talkin’, nobody calls.
E Dreams got dented, truth got loud,
A We’re still here singin’ through the crowd.

F#m Ain’t no savior, ain’t no plan,
D Just some love and a second hand.
A If the world burns down tonight,
E We’ll still be dancin’ in the light.

A Scarred but still shinin’, we rise again,
D Hearts beat hard, but they don’t give in.
F#m Yeah, we’ve been broke, but not erased,
A We’re still wild, we’re still brave.
A Scarred but still shinin’, we rise again.

A We’ve all been down in the dust before,
D Drunk on the fear, still askin’ for more.
E Kicked by the chaos, kissed by the pain,
A We laugh in the rain, we start again.

A Raise your scars up to the sky,
D They’re proof we lived, not reasons why.
A Turn that hurt into a tune,
E Sing it loud, it’s comin’ soon.

A Now the sunrise paints the scars in gold,
D Every crack’s a story that we told.
A We’re not new, we’re just refined,
E Broken open, re-designed.

A Scarred but still shinin’, we rise again,
D Hearts beat hard, but they don’t give in.
F#m We’ve been bruised, yeah, we’ve been tried,
A But we burn brighter every time.
A Scarred but still shinin’, we rise again,
Yeah, we rise again — my friends.

🎸 Guitar Reference

🎸 A Major – Open Position e|–0–| B|–2–| G|–2–| D|–2–| A|–0–| E|—–| 🎸 F#m Barre e|–2–| B|–2–| G|–2–| D|–4–| A|–4–| E|–2–| 🎸 D Major e|–2–| B|–3–| G|–2–| D|–0–| A|—–| E|—–| 🎸 E Major e|–0–| B|–0–| G|–1–| D|–2–| A|–2–| E|–0–|

🎶 Part III · Instruments & Feel

🎤 Vocals

Style: Storytelling with warmth and grit — soft edges, lived-in phrasing. Keep verses conversational; lift chest tone through choruses. Shadow lines should feel like confession, closer to the mic.

🎙️ Performance Tips
• Hold space on “truth got loud.”
• Add light vibrato at sustain peaks.
• Reverb ~15 % for live ambience.
• Stack 3rd-above harmonies for chorus width.
• Whispered outro = cinematic closure.

🎸 Rhythm Guitar

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🎸 Technique Notes
• Light palm-mute in verses for air.
• Open strum in chorus — let sustain ring.
• Bridge: arpeggiate; roll off volume for fade.
• Amp EQ ≈ Bass 4 · Mid 6 · Treble 5 · Presence +1.
• Tone: mild chorus, low-gain drive.

🎵 Bass

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🪕 Groove Direction
• Root–fifth pattern (A↔D) anchors the pulse.
• Add octave slides in 2nd chorus for lift.
• Verse: finger pluck · Chorus: pick attack.
• Compression 3.5:1 · EQ boost 120 Hz · cut 800 Hz.

🥁 Drums & Pulse

🥁 Rhythm Layout
• Groove ≈ 92 BPM · 4/4 medium pocket.
• Verse → rim taps + low kick.
• Chorus → snare 2 & 4 + open hats.
• Bridge → half-time drop then ride lift.
• Outro → floor-tom swells into fade.
• Reverb ≈ 0.7 s short plate.

🎚️ Mix & Feel

🎧 Mix Blueprint
• Vocals +3 dB above instrument bus.
• Guitars +2 dB at 2.2 kHz · cut <180 Hz.
• Bass → parallel comp · light tape sat.
• Drums → glue bus 4:1 threshold –6 dB.
• Reverb → small hall 20 % wet · delay 1/8 L-panned.
• Master → –13 LUFS · Ceiling –0.8 dB.

🪞 Part IV · Artist Insight

I never set out to write songs — I was just trying to survive my own thoughts.
The pages filled with poems, half-lines, and memories that wouldn’t sit quiet.
Over time those lines found rhythm; the rhythm found melody; and I found voice inside the noise.
These songs grew out of scars — not to hide them but to prove they can heal and hum at the same time.
Cracks don’t mean you’re broken — they’re where the truth gets loud enough to matter.

— Destyn Dagle