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#401014 - 03/16/17 04:06 AM
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Re: NEW SONG POST: Sailing Ships
[Re: Greg Johnson]
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Greg,
You certainly know how to shape a melody, choose the right notes and craft the best words so that a person's heartstrings resonate. The ambience you create with your composing, your singing and your arranging is magical. To my ears, everything about this is first class music.
All the best,
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#402399 - 03/24/17 08:33 AM
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Re: NEW SONG POST: Sailing Ships
[Re: Achordocaster]
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Registered: 12/21/13
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Hey Greg,
This is very nice. Everything sits together well. The sax sounds great! So does your vocal. The transition to Sailing Ships is cool. I like the strings too... Great Job! Thanks so much Greg. Much appreciated! Been loving your stuff lately! Take care. Greg
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#402400 - 03/24/17 08:34 AM
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Re: NEW SONG POST: Sailing Ships
[Re: VideoTrack]
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Registered: 12/21/13
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Marvelous Greg
Well written and produced.
This song stands out with the cool style, the sax work, the melody and the sensational vocal delivery.
Another winner. Thanks Trevor. I really appreciate your consistent wonderful support! Take care. Greg
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#402539 - 03/24/17 03:55 PM
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Re: NEW SONG POST: Sailing Ships
[Re: Greg Johnson]
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Excellent song and vocal.
Real tracks used are very great. Super sax ending.
Sergio
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#403936 - 03/27/17 10:39 AM
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Re: NEW SONG POST: Sailing Ships
[Re: RichMac]
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Hi Greg.
Your music, vocals and lyrics are so tasteful and evocative of the scenes described.
The two pieces certainly belong together.
Beautiful music. Very skillful production. Thank you. Cheers. Thanks so much for the very kind words Richard. Wonderful to have you around the forum again! Take care. Greg
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#407003 - 04/12/17 02:52 PM
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Re: NEW SONG POST: Sailing Ships
[Re: Skyline]
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A superb piece Greg, with lovely changes that reflect the shifting emotions of the lyrics. Expertly sung, arranged and engineered. Sounds like this will be a pretty impressive collection of songs.
John Thanks so much John. Your last one really blew me away! Incredible!! Take care. Greg
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#407005 - 04/12/17 02:53 PM
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Re: NEW SONG POST: Sailing Ships
[Re: PeterF]
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Greg,
A really pretty piece and it compliments the Lighthouse Keeper track perfectly.
Really nice up front vocal and the track has been beautifully mixed with the haunting sax playing a strong role.
Very atmospheric and well composed.
Peter
Thanks Peter, I was glad to finally find a home for this long lost melody. I felt like it really fit with the Lighthouse keeper lyrically and melodically. Thanks for your support. I'm diggin' the songs your posting! Take care. Greg
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#407006 - 04/12/17 02:55 PM
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Re: NEW SONG POST: Sailing Ships
[Re: rsdean]
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Greg,
I really like this song - excellent lyric and vocal. Your mix is also great - loved the sax.
Bob Thanks Bob! Much appreciated. The sax RT just happened to fit really well-had a custom feel. I love it when that happens! You're doing a lot of great stuff lately!! Take care. Greg
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#407007 - 04/12/17 02:56 PM
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Re: NEW SONG POST: Sailing Ships
[Re: Charlie Fogle]
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This is over the top good. The lighthouse light is shining bright. Looking forward to release of your CD. You are one of my favorite vocalists on the forum, or anywhere for that matter. This is a very sophisticated write, arrangement, mix, performance and production. Enjoyed this one a lot.
Charlie Thanks so much Charlie for your wonderfully kind words and consistent support! Your last one was really good. Looking forward to your next! Take care. Greg
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#407008 - 04/12/17 02:57 PM
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Re: NEW SONG POST: Sailing Ships
[Re: 90 dB]
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Greg,
Great project, great songs. Good luck with the CD.
Regards,
Bob Thanks so much Bob! Just listened to one of your old ones, which I thought was a new one. Couldn't disagree with you more on the vocal-it is BEAUTIFUL!!! Take care. Greg
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#407025 - 04/12/17 05:55 PM
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Re: NEW SONG POST: Sailing Ships
[Re: Greg Johnson]
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Registered: 12/27/03
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I'm late and everything has been said that I was going to say. Things like great lyrics, arrangement, mic, orchestration, mix, and of course your super excellent vocals.
Let us know when the CD comes out.
This is a keeper.
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#407172 - 04/13/17 02:47 PM
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Re: NEW SONG POST: Sailing Ships
[Re: Janice & Bud]
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Registered: 12/21/13
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Lighthouse remains one of our favorite tunes of yours.
We think you richly fulfilled your goal with this reprise. It is beautifully written, sung and produced.
And we have no doubt that equally excellent material will lie between these two compositions on the CD!
Kudos.
J&B Thanks so much J and B for the very kind review! You guys are so kind. Loved the vocal in the recent post-Janice killed it!! Take care. Greg
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Band-in-a-Box® 2018 for Windows Build 520 Available!
Band-in-a-Box® Version 2018 for Windows users can download the latest free patch update, Build 250, here.
Summary of changes for Build 520 since 519 (July 17 2018):
Added: Save As style feature has support for MIDI velocity changes if volumes aren’t 90 on mixer when saved.
Added: Support for MIDI velocity changes in styles. Use the Misc-More dialog in StyleMaker to set velocity changes in MIDI styles.
Fixed: [Style Memos etc] button was not visible in the Style Editor -> Misc dialog.
Fixed: Bar lines would not display properly in the Audio Edit window if launching through the menu item "Audio Chord Wizard (Audio Edit)".
Fixed: Hitting the Return key while in the Audio Edit window might trigger Loop Screen mode.
Updated: PDF Manual and Help.
User Blog - Recording and Processing Vocals Using RealBand...
Joanne Cooper's latest blog post is a "start to finish" of how she records and processes vocals for her songs using her three "go-to" programs: RealBand, Melodyne, and Nectar from Izotope (with a little help from Band-in-a-Box...)!
Check out this blog post here.
Video - Using MIDI SuperTracks in Band-in-a-Box® for Windows!
Video - Using MIDI SuperTracks in Band-in-a-Box® for Mac!
Musician Brent Mason in the Studio Recording RealTracks!
Before leaving Nashville, Tobin caught up with Brent Mason recording some future RealTracks in the studio.
We can't wait to hear them!
Video - Adding RealTracks to Your Band-in-a-Box® Song
There are 300 RealTracks Sets available (over 2,500 RealTracks!), and here at PG Music we have this to say about them: You'll want to use RealTracks in all of your projects... and you can!
But what if you're not sure how to add them to your Band-in-a-Box® song? We have a video for that! Click here to watch...
Save Notation Window as a Video with Band-in-a-Box® 2018 for Mac
Did you know... Band-in-a-Box® 2018 for Mac allows you to save the Notation Window as a video? What a great way to share your songs with users, and LEARN from the notation as you listen!
From the program manual:
[Save As] | Save as video
-In the Make Notation Video dialog, select a track at the upper left corner. (Note: The dialog title says “Make Chord Sheet Video” until you select a track.)
-You can also set the dimension (width/height) of the video and select the number of frames per second and a specific codec.
-Press the [OK - Render Video] button to start rendering the video. When the video has been created, press the [Show Video File] button.
-You can then double click on the file to watch the rendered video.
Note: A special use of this feature is to combine a Video RealTracks (new with version 2018) with the corresponding notation in a single video. This creates an educational video, which shows the actual performance with notation/tab, playing over your chord progression! To do this, right-click on the Master button or one of the track buttons at the top of the main screen and select Render Video(s) from the menu.
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