Originally Posted By: MarioD
I did listen to the 17 minute version and although it is a long song it keep me interested all the way through. Very nice chord structure here.

Along with a super mix and vocal your guitar work here is outstanding.

PS - I don't think I have listened to a song this long since Arlo Guthrie's "Alice's Restaurant"!


Thanks Mario for taking the time to listen to the full version and thank you for your comments which are much appreciated. I just had a listen to Alice's Restaurant and it's quite a masterpiece!

Originally Posted By: floyd jane
Rec,

Wow. Quite an undertaking... It sounds terrific.

Nice job on the drums, btw... they sound good.

Very tasty guitar work in the middle and at the end.
You did a nice job of keeping the sound consistent from beginning to end. I would have liked to see a lyric to follow along...

I do hope people will find 17 minutes to have a listen to this.
It's impressive. What does the family think?

floyd


Thanks Floyd for taking the time to listen and for the positive comments.
Thanks also regarding the guitar work and drum sounds.

I have some way to go to get close to your drum sound but now that I have seen the painstaking process you follow (in the This Town Ain't Big Enough thread) I can understand why you get such good results.
To be honest I felt a little constrained by the quality of the realdrums track output compared to say the Addictive Drums plugin but after playing around with the EQ in Sonar the results are OK once mixed in with the other instruments.

My Mother and Sisters all love it and there wasn't a dry eye in the house when they listened to it the other day. I will post the lyrics below this reply. I have to say that writing these was my major challenge having never written something like this before. I still look at some of the phrasing and don't like what I see but hopefully the songwriting course I have just started will help with my next song.

Thanks again,
Rec

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