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Excellent collaborative work team H & D

A great set of lyrics, and a powerful delivery.

Everything was just really great. The guitar work shone through also.


Video track.... Thanks I'm glad you enojyed the song and the guitar parts.... Yup... I loved playing that solo. So simple.... yet.... it fit perfectly.

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Herb and David,

The overarching sound that you've created via the arrangement and the mix is first class... spacious, powerful, and a great fit for the lyric content.

I thought that the VVCVCBC format was an excellent choice for the unfolding narrative (V=verse, C=chorus, B=bridge). I particularly liked the way you used the short interlude at the end of the bridge to set up the final chorus.

What really got me thinking was how you arranged the verse using essentially two chords and in what sounded like E natural minor to me. Then, when the chorus arrived, you launched into the relative major of G. The feeling and the lift that this key change carried with it was noteworthy. How you used instrumentation to capitalise on this is a credit to your arranging skills.

An excellent listen! I was mesmerised for the entire 4+ minute's journey.

Regards,
Noel


Noel, thank you for the kind words. The structure of this changed several times. We had 3 verses but that put this closer to 5 minutes. Way to long. I scrapped the structure and rewrote V3 to be a short bridge that covered more recent events. That keeps it just over 4 minutes. Acceptable length for what this is. Em is correct. I actually asked Dave about the "happy sounding" Gmaj in the chorus. Since we didn't have any brilliant ideas, we left the G in there. Thanks for coming along on the journey. Dave was the one who suggested starting it sparsely and I wanted to end it that way too... just didn't end up that way, but that "interlude" was what it needed to break it up a bit.


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Top notch on every level. A nice collaboration. Enjoyed this one a lot.

Charlie


Thanks Charlie. Glad you enjoyed it too.

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