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JWM - I Love You (Folk song originally written by my late mother)
This is far different than my usual fare. You'll hear no in-your-face synth leads nor punchy drums nor phat basses here. This is a straight-up Folk song.
(Okay, so I used autotune as an effect. I'm rubbish and out of practice when it comes to singing and can't afford a proper singer. Autotune has also crept its way into becoming my signature vocal sound much like T-Pain lol.)
My mother wrote this song about 14 years ago, and she always wanted me to produce the song. She wanted it to be a Folk song much akin to a lot of Ingrid Michalson's music. I had no money to hire proper musicians. I didn't have a Mac to use Garageband. I didn't even have the level of production skill I have now let alone the robust apps and plugins.
She passed in late 2018 and never got to hear a final version of this song. So yeah, I cried a little bit throughout producing this version. 😮💨
Anyways, I created the instrumental 100% in Garageband, recorded and processed the vocals in Cubasis 3, and mastered it in Logic. A keen ear will hear that I used Reelbus only on the instrumental to give Mom's song a nostalgic vibe.
I hope you all like my first foray into Folk music. This song WILL appear on my upcoming "Pop Era" EP. Cheers and enjoy. 🍻
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Will be listening as soon as I get off work ❤️❤️
Lovely song and very touching. The instrumentation fits it perfectly. The guitars and the percussion are just right :-)
The simple fact "I Love You" has over 100 listens on Soundcloud within a couple hours is baller af. 😲 Not gonna cap, a lot of my tracks and EPs barely reach over 100 listens on a good day, lol.
I mean, I don't make music for listens and follows. I make the music I want to listen to, the music that's in my heart, and/or just for fun. But getting a ton of listens in a short amount of time is a nice bonus.
(I could join a record label if I really wanted to, but having a big corporation pay me a large sum of money that I'd have to eventually pay back, barely earn anything in royalties, and lose "friends" in the industry once the "next big thing" comes along is not my kind of thing at all. Of course this doesn't apply to all record labels mind, but if I'm barely going to make money off of music, I may as well release it for free on my own terms and stick to the real friends I have here in the ABF.)
@HotStrange Sounds good mate.
I hope you enjoy it once you get back home.
@klownshed Thank you so much. I worked hard to make sure the instrumental was on point. My mother did the tough part of writing the song. Oh did I forget to mention I made the entire thing on my iPhone, save for the mastering stage which I did on my iPad in Logic?
Also note that I didn't use any Beef on the drums this time since they were meant to be more in the background, not punch through into the foreground. That would be wrong for this type of production.
When I processed the vocals, I didn't use any effects to widen them like I normally do. I used Brusfri, the 4Pockets deesser, FAC Transient, Cubasis' limiter, the autotune, an EQ simply to shave off the low end and give a slight wide-Q bump around 3.2kHz, and a slight pinch of small room reverb that's barely audible but gives it much needed space from TB Reverb. No high-passed Choric this time, lol.
No backing vocals either like in this other Pop production I wrote called "Night Sky". Some Folk songs have backing vocals, such as Peter, Paul, and Mary's prolific music. Then again, they're much more seasoned than I am.
Sometimes you want the vocals to have the widened feeling in modern Pop production, but this is Folk music. It needs to sound natural. I know, I know, the autotune isn't natural sounding, but yeah I don't have the money to hire a proper singer. :P I used to be able to sing very well, but since I haven't sang in years, well my voice is weaksauce. I'm rather good at voice acting though, so breathy vocals and adding in the right amount of emotion is easy.
Also, if you listen to the first verse, there's one syllable that's not tuned. I did that on purpose so the whole thing didn't sound robotic. I did that with a couple of random syllables throughout to add back in emotion and add back in imperfections. (Now you know one of my autotuning secrets - don't tune every single syllable, lol.)
I have two other songs. The aforementioned one is called "Night Sky", and the lyrics were directly inspired by Glenn Frey, whereas the instrumental was inspired by Sia. The other one is a rather raunchy song and is permanently on the backburner until I find the right singer for it and have enough money to pay said singer. (This raunchy song will probably not end up on this EP but rather be a single release.)
Nice. I’ve made songs that haven’t hit 50 plays in 2 years.
That's about my usual average for EPs during a good month, lol. Now over 150 plays for "I Love You". My mother would be astounded.
I’d like to hear it without the auto tune. Even if you practice for a while before recording another vocal, I think it would be good to have just the unadorned vocals. It wouldn’t have to be perfect, just heartfelt.
I know, but it's tough for me to sing properly anymore mate. I also feel the vocals I recorded are perfectly heartfelt. It's also going on an EP where other songs are autotuned. Near 200 listens by now mate.
Fair enough. Not trying to pressure you, I just thought it would be cool to hear.
It’s great that so many people have given this one a listen!
Thanks mate.
Yeah it would be cool to hear my natural voice as it once was. The issue is my flat doesn't actually allow real singing in the rules, so I haven't practiced my singing in at least a good solid 3 years since I first moved here. It has nothing in the rules about "reading poetry out loud" however. 😏
(That doesn't mean I'm going to rap. I'd rather not as my cadence is more like Dr. Seuss than Dr. Dre. 🤣)
I managed to sneak one "natural voice" recording in on my second OP-1 Field EP titled "Elijah" (the one with the cuss words, rofl) in a Post Punk style. 😂
Just to satiate your curiosity, I also tried my natural voice here.
https://www.dropbox.com/scl/fi/pnykw995o4fxaabts8w7b/JWM-Lover-192kbps-sour-patch-demo.m4a?rlkey=z82f8lb0hejwwzu9n1gt5jbnd&dl=0
As you can plainly hear...it's utter rubbish and a mere shadow of what it used to be 4 years ago.
Now one way to get around this is to autotune (which is why I use autotune). Another way is to hire a professional vocalist (which I've no money for).
Sorry if I seemed snippy above. I'm cooking supper and I'm rather hungry. 😆
No, not snippy at all, just conversational.
I feel hungry now…
Hopefully you had something to eat by now mate. 😂 I'm feeling much better after that meal. I made Polish sausage, sauerkraut, and golden potatoes in my crockpot the other day and divided it up into four portions. Quite frankly I'm stuffed.
I ate a muffin, so not quite the feast you had!
It was a good feast mate. I recently quit vaping, so withdrawal is making me hella hungry, lol.
Anyways, I hope others here get enjoyment from this piece that's close to my heart. ❤️ Cheers.
Wasn’t expecting that. Not keen on the autotune but respect your reason for using it.
Liked everything else about it and it’s up to 412 listens now so well done 👍
Truth be told I wasn't too keen on the autotune either, but yeah. When one's voice is rubbish (way out of practice) and they haven't the budget to hire a proper singer, autotune is about the only option. That, or vocoding, but Folk is not the type of genre for vocoding by any means. 😂
Cheers mate and thanks for the feedback and compliment.
I cried a bit when I listened to this. It’s straightforward, simple, and absolutely beautiful. You should consider sending this to a few Nashville producers. A few studio cats and a singer and you might have a hit on your hands. I think folks would sing along to this in their cars when nobody else is listening.
Moving - great work
Surprising and nicely done. Your mother must have played guitar? Too bad no recording of her.?
@Paulieworld Cheers mate. I plan to submit it to the USA Songwriting Contest and see how far it goes.
Mom would've wanted me to do so.
@dreamcartel Thank you so much mate.
@Stochastically Gracias mate.
Yeah, Mom played no instruments. She could sing okayish (well, me as well lol) and could get her ideas across just fine. I used to have a recording of her singing somewhere but lost it. But I remembered every bit of her "I Love You" song once I found the lyrics, and I created the chord progression around the melody.
Her songwriting was so good that I remembered that song over a decade later once I found the lyrics. ❤️ I wish I had the skillset back then that I have now. I wish she could've heard my final version (I say "my final version" as I expect someday to hire professionals to record it WITHOUT autotune 😂).