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@Ed 209 thanks for the feedback on my song.
@Peteclag thanks for the feedback on my song
Haha, yes. That word is a giveaway. Tidy butt! About an hour West from you in Pembrokeshire. Can't believe it's actually dry today! Need to write a song about that as its so damn rare not to be dripping wet. I do the same. Anything just not right in a song gets a crash cymbal smashed on its head to mask it! Have a good one.
Hey, @Ed 209: thank you very much for the compliments. I'm curious about what your father would say if he actually listened the song. All the best!
Well funnily enough we live on opposite sides of the earth (England & Korea) but I'm meeting him in a few days in Thailand so I should be able to find out. I hope you don't see it as a weird compliment, I honestly think my dad has a good taste in music and can imagine him chilling to your tunes. I'll check out more of your tracks when I meet him.
Thanks, @reid. That would be fun, to add those sounds, but might be a bit campy. I actually wasn't intending on making a Spanish/Japanese sounding piece. It just happened that way.
Thanks, @Peteclag. So many tools to check out in this world we're in. I enjoy writing the way I do, as doing in Notion lets me experiment with the timing and composition of things like those piano chords. I just don't come up with things like that when I'm sitting at an instrument. I get my start, like the opening riff and main guitar chords, but then I need to not have the constraints I've built slow me down.
@rickwaugh I’m using Auria Pro. I did edit out noises in my vocal track in Audacity, but if @crony hears them, I obviously didn’t succeed. (Maybe they are in the guitar track?) To be more precise, he heard two flange/empty sounds and a plop. Not too much for me to check out as he was generous enough to listen that carefully.
Currently I’m in the midst of working on a new song, but at some point I will start fresh with my mix and make use of the advice given here. I think I’ll post the result and see what people think.
My reality is that I have lost some of my hearing. So obviously what I hear is not what others in the SOTMC hear. But that is the value of this community for me.
@Ed 209 Wow. Thank you. Very kind.
@reid, my hearing is pretty good, (though it did take a fair bit of abuse as well,) and I sometimes don't find things until much later. Sometimes they get introduced by other things I do, and quite often it's a bugger even figuring out which track they are on. I was finding the occasional bit of glitch with this last piece right up to the end. It's worth taking a pass, ignoring everything else, and just listening for pops, especially in the quiet sections. I had one that had somehow shown up on my bass track that I had to cut out. But it's one of those things that you tend to "not hear", because you're concentrating on other things.
Thank you so much, @Reid !
@Reid Beeeyuuutifully played & sung song sir. Welcome to this wonderful club. You have got a fabulous voice & I was impressed with how much control you have. Your delivery & tone lay all snuggled up n cozy inside a duvet of expertly played instruments. Your lyrics were great, I particularly liked that "Shed your violence/thunder" line. The melody is catchy & I keep humming it, (definitely not to your high singing standards though, sorry) so nice one! Sorry to hear about your ears & you probably don't want to see a Marshall amp again but was wondering if you have already or intending to play & sing any rockier type material for us to have a listen. I'd be interested to hear that if you have/are because of your vocal tone. In any case I'm looking forward to listening to your next track & am still enjoying this one.
Confident, assured & a delight to experience.
My entry for the month, created in record time for me, just over a week from first inception to finished recording. 8 days ago I wrote a list of titles down, picked one that seemed evocative and came up with a vocal melody and rough lyrics for it. I wrote the music and chord progression and final lyrics that evening. I then added additional parts after I recorded the guitars and vocals at the weekend.
I always used to write music first, but recently I've started doing words and melody first, and although it does make it quite tricky to fit the music around the melody, it does seem to produce much stronger vocal melodies when I do it this way around.
I wanted to try and create a sense of progression with the melody, so there are two key changes in the song, one half way through the first chorus, going from C into G, then the song stays in G until the third chorus which modulates back into C but is sung an octave higher than the first. I was worried that the key changes might be a bit jarring, but they seem to work fairly seamlessly (it helps that the chorus sections use chords that are common to both keys). I had to record the first verse and chorus first thing in the morning to be able to sing that low
Lyrics are here:
http://www.itchy-animation.co.uk/lyrics/distant-thunder.txt
Very nice composition, reminescent of Stone Roses' best period. The mix is quite better than the previous entry. Congrats, like it a lot!
Thanks - although I have to say that I'm surprised by the comparison to the Stone Roses, I can't really hear it myself (maybe it's the vocal?) Musically it's probably closer to Neil Young (Harvest or Helpless period) IMO, not that I really want it to sound like anyone
Perhaps because I used to hear a lot of british alternative rock and not so much Neil Young (I confess I mostly know his greatest hits). All the best!
P.S.: forgot to say: to mix in Auria, I had to solo each track, select open in, bounce, and then when the whole exhaustive process was concluded (I had to bounce 22 tracks in a rather slow and tedious manner) I created a new project in Auria and imported everything. Hope that helps people to experiment more in GB, which has some really nice synths and guitar effects.
P.P.S.: GB will only export in 16-bit. Improve this already, Apple!
@richardyot, nice tune. Mix is great. I know what you mean about the doing the melody first, it has worked for me very nicely also - it gets me away from the standard things I do on guitar, and creates a more interesting piece. It gets easier to fit the chords in around as you do it more, and you'll find you have some opportunity to change the chords up a bit to suit.
The rhythm, if I'm remembering correctly, is much the same as last months, which is a small sample set, but to get myself out of rhythmic ruts, I have deliberately taken something that started out in my "default meter" and pushed it faster or slower, or more of a shuffle, etc.
I didn't notice the key changes, really, which may or may not be a good thing. It obviously worked, but it's often done to heighten interest at that point, as well.
@theconnactic, Suplica is excellent. Great mix as usual. Love the tonal edginess to the piece, and the way it accented the build up and dynamic changes. Guitar solo was great, just the right length, nice nasty edge on it.
@richardyot 1st off curse you for invoking Weird Uncle Neil because of course I couldn't help but have him in my ears and head while I listened. And, yep, you're right, the backing in part is very or could be etc. But I can see the hint of the Roses in some of the vocal phrasing earlier on, and when you come to the chorus repetition at the end you're in anthem territory. May not immediately seem so, but just imagine Glasto and it's late and, yes the thunder's rumbling, and the muddy masses are swaying and you are but a small Richardot up there shrouded on the stage. Would have been cigarette lighters at one time, now all phone torches, also swaying.....ah, reverie, patchouli and girls whose names have long been forgotten etc.
Yeah, I like it. Such strides this past year.
Thank you so much, @rickwaugh! By the way, to get that exact tone, I applied an envelope filter during the mixing stage to the bounced guitar track: this filter is the one that is available inside Overloud THM. Glad you liked! Dimitri.
Thank you @Bluepunk I find it funny that you are humming “Trust the Silence.” I am very proud of it, but I never imagined anybody humming it. I do write rockier tunes, like this one.
I’m planning to bring “Birds of Prey” into Auria at some point and remixing it. I would like to add a synth to it, and just generally mix it better with the skills I’m learning here. Sure would like to get rid of that single drum loop that plays here and do something nice with DrumPerfect Pro.
The song I’m working on right now is electro-swing, if you can believe it.
@richardyot Intro's, as I'm learning through this club, must be important. I suppose it's like reading the back cover of a new book. Will those few words get my juices flowing? Does it interest & excite me into wanting to read the whole thing. Your intro had me scrambling for my wallet....... "Yep, can I have this one please Mr Shopkeeper? Don't bother with a bag, I'll be listening to it all the way home on the bus."
We all have our own musical influences & it does play a part in creating our stuff but this is a Richard tune & has your flavour stamped all over it. I've noticed over the months how much more confidence I hear in your songs & this one carries on that theme. The melody is very catchy & memorable. I hear that progression you worked hard to achieve. The transitions flow beautifully (no jarring). The morning singing paid off & that's a great tip. And of course, the excellent, haunting slide seals the deal. So far, 2 slides this month. Yippee!
I don't own a mobile but I would be there with me Zippo lighter (old school) held aloft, swaying at the front of the masses, feeling the breeze. Very nice one indeed.
@theconnactic that's another nice instrumental - what works really well here is the edginess and the excitement, we have a lot of instrumentals posted and it's great to hear one that has this kind of edge and energy to it. Good job.
@Reid "Birds of Prey" has a got a pretty decent melody, but as you say yourself it needs a bit more in the mix and arrangement. I think it needs more oomph, more guts to it, maybe even some grit on the guitars, beefier drums and more bass in the mix. Also consider double-tracking the vocals (which you do in the last section, but could do with more throughout), also some harmonising in the chorus sections. The bare bones are there, but some additional production polish would definitely give it a lift.
@richardyot Yes, I want to do that someday. Imagine what I could do with GeoShred! In the meantime I am inspired to do new stuff.
Thank you very much, @richardyot!
Nice song, @Reid! I agree with @richardyot suggestions about double tracking the vocals and adding some harmonies, as well as a mixing treatment on par with the qualities of your song and your playing.
@rickwaugh Nicely put together track. Production pretty good, nice clear sounds
@achromus Enjoyed your track alot, seemingly simple but alot going on.
@richardyot lIke the lyrics and the song, reminded me of Stone Roses/Elbow. Only comment would be overall the mix might benefit from some more high end and mid highs