Hi Samuel. You are totally correct about the variety of current modern country and understand I'm not advocating you be anything other than who you are. For me, this is a discussion of music style and production and nothing personal. You just happened to post a song ripe for analysis. I have been a fan of you since you began posting. I've attempted to critique for discussion, not criticise for content. People hear a lot of The Grateful Dead in my compositions and I've never listened to a song completely through to the end by them. I updated an old tune thinking it was quite the modern tune and it missed that mark by a mile. I guess it's all subjective and we filter what we hear by what we've always heard. Just let me assure you, I'm a true fan and will always critique for discussion and not criticise the content or your purpose in your song.

Regarding using your original composition as a loop, I did as I always do with my experiments and discarded the sgu file and downloaded audio from my computer after my 'experimenting' but remembered I had printed a copy of the mix to a flash drive to listen on my truck radio to hear my mix on something other than just headphones. So I have uploaded the wma file to SoundCloud.

Samuel Davis Rendered Instrumental Track

I think stem is a better word for your track in my render than loop because in my version I used your track in its entirety rather than sample it and make an acid loop.

I also did not move my tracks to a DAW for any further processing, such as eq, panning, volume envelopes or add any effects. I just generated additional instruments to play over your stem.

It's a busy track and because I did not alter your chord chart other than to place rests so I could distinguish with my instruments playing holds. Using holds and changing instruments is how I marked the structure of the song between intro (after 4 bars) You can definitely hear the ac guitar soloist and mandolin end at the rest and then the fiddle come in. My track is completely done within BIAB on a single generation and I abandoned any further experimentation with it when I saw you had produced a song from the original snippet. I planned to make it into an actual acid loop and completely change the structure into the way I explained above.

Charlie

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