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Thank you!
A) The whole 'I'm lying by the pool and it's nine o'clock here in Spain...' is the reason you don't have any friends. Just to be clear.
I guess that's the advantage of submitting so early in the month, I have a couple weeks left to fix the track. Ŵith the kids off school though recording vocals is going to be a challenge...
Ŵith the kids off school though recording vocals is going to be a challenge...
Good luck Richard mate!:) It will be worth it as I think it's the best song of yours that I've heard!
@JohnnyGoodyear I've read a few of your recent posts on various threads about mixing/mastering.Mixing can be a ball ache I agree but a chap that has helped me a lot is a guy called Graham and his whole website has loads of great free videos (5 mins to a better mix) his website is http://therecordingrevolution.com you should check it out man.
@LostBoy85 thanks for the website, there is some very useful stuff on it. Also thanks for the feedback! As for the drums, they were triggered via midi by Robotic Drums with a lot of probability. I can see where someone would think they don't always flow, but I think some interesting fills happened with it.
will not wait until the middle of the month to start commenting, will not wait until there are 144 posts, will not wait until ...
Oh, dammit. You're all a bunch of talented, prolific bastards with no respect for procrastinators. None!
Having to submit a bit early doors this month as I'm out of town next week.
Was trying a minimalist approach. All Gadget again. Exported the stems to cubasis this time but only really added a tiny flanging to one of the sounds. First time posting from a phone so fingers crossed..
If I make it back in time will do a marathon listening session on others submissions.
As usual all comments really appreciated.
@Jocphone That was a very musical entry coming from you, I fear that you are slipping even more off-brand than you did last month. The main riff is even quite hooky. Nice work, I like it. Maybe it could have a little more variety and evolution, but I liked the dark feel of the tune and the rhythmic strangeness.
Ha ha @richardyot. it may surprise you to know that I'm a big fan of catchy pop music. I'm currently exploring more difficult music, I guess, but I plan on creating a new soundcloud account for more conventional songwriting soon. Thanks for the comment as always
Look forward to hearing what the other side of your split personality has to show
@Jocphone Good mood/vibe. Would like to hear what James Blake would have to sing over this. Gadget really is a very nice environment to follow the noodle through to its end sometimes.
Like the sounds. Lost my way a little as far as picturing the whole shape in mind as regards it being a song but my tether is easily lost. Could be a great canvas for samples (vocalized etc).
Don't You Worry
The tears of the world are a constant quantity. (Beckett)
This is a quiet song and if you're not in favor of quiet songs then this may not be a song for you.
I started writing it the day after the shootings down in Charleston and it's not about that, but that's where it began and it became because of that and it's got a larger piece of America in it too.
I've been listening to a lot of the Lomax field recordings, thinking about how sparse they can seem to us now, but how they were sparse because of necessity as much as any fashion of the day. Most of the rest of it just came along to me as they do to all of us albeit in different ways.
I would be lying if I didn't also admit that there had been some comments about me saying my words too quickly and that there was likely too many of them also. Everything's a pendulum I suppose and while I do like having lots of words (and maybe saying them too quickly at that) I'm sure a part of the habit remains as a matter of confidence about singing in the first place that's been held over and so for this I gave up on that.
You know I've been to the preacher
and laid down with his God
got chastened all night
by his old lightning rod
(don't you worry)
@JohnnyGoodyear it's a sparse tune, there is hardly anything in the first minute, brave choice
I like the fact you let the music breathe and come in slowly. The song is quite emotional despite the sparseness of the music, it's all emotion and little in the way of tune, but the sounds you chose were well chosen, the eery theremin noises especially, and not overdone but pretty subtle.
The vocal performance was good, I think your voice could have benefited from some compression
to even out the performance and thicken the voice.
I like that fact that you surprise us each month, there's no way of knowing what will come next. I think your greatest strength is creating an atmosphere, which all of your songs have in spades, and of course your voice, a great asset you've been blessed with. I think in the long run this won't be your most memorable work, but it's a good marker on the way.
I see what your doing here Guv'nor, it is heeded but my waterfowl need more alignment first.
Samples and I don't get on. Not sure why, they just feel lifeless when I have tried to employ them.
Thanks for the comments, definitely gets me a thinkin'..
I like it, more acceptable for the masses than your other entries (maybe I should take note...), and has a Cluster/Ashra Tempel vibe to it. Only thing I don't like is the ending, it suddenly drops off, unless that was intentional. I like your titles too.
Starts off very powerfully, with some great ivory tinkling, and then the videos and song come in to great dramatic effect. For me though I find I have to strain to pick up the words, which makes it a hard listen. Not a bad thing, I'm a Liz Fraser fan after all, but if you've got something important to say, say it with confidence.
Love the atmospherics, though not keen on the high frequency stuff. But all in all, a thought provoking piece.
@Jocphone I liked the track, very full and catchy sounds. I felt this could, maybe, be an introduction to some great progression to come in the future? For some reason I thought it could continue and evolve some more. (Probably a good sign that I wanted it to go on!)
@JohnnyGoodyear I'm always impressed with the strength of the emotions you get to transmit through your videos/music; very well done. Feels like a lullaby, though it probably is (to me at least) more like poetry than a song. My only observation is that I had some trouble understanding what you were saying until about 1:30; after that there is a marked change in the clarity of the words.
As @monzo said, thought provoking. Thanks.
Thanks Andy. I think I better take a look (a listen?) at the clarity issue. I know my vocals aren't the clearest to understand, but there shouldn't be such a noticeable drop-off. I have just bought Auria Pro C but I don't know what the hell I'm doing with it so have probably put it on backwards or worse
I'm compressing them (less cleverly than Fab Filter) automatically as well through Premiere when adding the sound to video and then again when uploading to youtube which may also cause further degradation to the already degraded soul that I am. Damn engineering issues! Thanks for your comments.
That's pretty much my own experience with most of my music apps!
@AndyX We are fools, but enthusiastic. When we become wise, may we retain the same energy
Thanks Monzo, another couple of musical references to go and investigate. This isn't necessarily a new direction, more just another experiment. It occurs to me there is something completely different about drawing music on a piano-roll and playing an instrument in that you get lost in the flow when playing and the music tends to extend out in time because of this with subtle variations due to happy accidents, etc.. I was exploring that a bit here, while still only drawing the notes in. I dunno, maybe I don't normally give listeners enough time before chucking in another idea, then another..
And thanks too @AndyX this probably also relates to your comment. When I made it and listened back a couple of dozen times I thought this is the dullest thing I have recorded since i don't know when. But it's maybe growing on me. I have written another section for it but am not sure if I will have time to finish it for the club.
@JohnnyGoodyear - About Don't You Worry
Interesting approach: singing a tune, and an instrumental atmospheric thing (soundscape) in the background. I like it. It works for me.
I am not a great lyric interpreter, I only understand parts of the lyric, I listen most of the time to the sounds I hear, and not to the lyrical meaning. I want to have a musical experience and not a thinking process about what is meant. Enough about me. All the sounds sound pretty good!
Nice intro! It colors the later parts in advance. The soundscape is great. You managed to bring together your voice singing and the instruments, as a whole, in an organic way, while they probably - if you listen to them apart - seem/appear to have nothing to do with each other. Chapeau! Good singing by the way.
On the constructive critisism part: don't really know. Sounds good to me. Perhaps a tweak in the voice would improve it a little. But which tweak? Not shure. A suggestion which I am not shure of: something with the verb. Another verb, or a little less verb.
) that I am talking about. It now sounds perhaps a little too 'bathroomy' (very subjective statement). Again: I am not shure of this. I am a doubter.
Is there any verb? A delay often has a verby effect in my experience, so it might be the delay (which I do hear
I think sometimes computer musicians are a bit too close to their work, as they end up producing things as well, and lose that 'third person' perspective.
I do the same thing, I think I'm being dull or boring if I repeat a sequence for too long, which is why there are so many bits in my tunes. If I was being produced (unlikely, I know) then they'd probably encourage me to explore things more.
Your track is doing that - I enjoy the repetition, but maybe to your ears it's not evolving as much as you'd like.
Hey @JohnnyGoodyear, really great stuff. The piano in the beginning is beautiful, but the atmospherics are what really do it for me. I really like the vocals as well. Your "slowed down" approach is quite nice for your voice. The whole thing reminds me of more recent Scott Walker stuff (but less abrasive).
I'm not even sure I understand what a producer really is. In my vague understanding a producer makes sure that the 'talent' actually turns up and makes some product. Are you talking about mastering as well?
Although this is true, it also speaks to how different people consume music. I never have music on in the background. If I play some music then it gets my full attention, as near as possible. So if I'm listening to a track then it needs to do interesting things regularly to hold my attention. This is probably why I rarely listen to four on the floor dance music although, like any genre, there is wheat amongst the chaff.
I don't like writing a tune on the piano roll, there's nothing fun or organic in that process. Even in Gadget I will play the built-in keyboards to make the music, and use the piano roll to fix mistakes, but I don't see how you can write music without actually performing it - you need the feel and that can only happen in real-time IMO.
Maybe drums can be programmed, but even then I think it's better to tap out a rhythm, less mechanical that way.
It depends, not all music needs to naturalistic. I sometimes play with the tiny little gadget keyboard and other times I need to block in chord pads which might not need any particular kind of feel, especially if they have a very slow attack. Then again if you need something more robotic or you want to get all victor silvester then drawing the notes in may be easier.
Funnily enough I was just looking at the new Launchpad Pro and wondering if that would make a good input device/keyboard. Anyone used one with an iPad?