Originally Posted By: jannesan
And your singing is nice, I hope too that you don't have to use so much pitch correction in the future smile I'll be waiting for your next song.

Hi, Janne.

I see what you did there! laugh

I'm a big fan of the group America, and a sucker for that major 7th sound. And the BiaB string trio has a very lovely sound.

I've been trying something different with my songwriting these days. I typically start with lyrics, and then work out a melody and a (hopefully) interesting chord progression.

Now, I'm starting with a chord progression, trying to build a melody with a strong chorus, and then adding the lyrics.

I end up using much simpler chord changes which actually come across as better than before. Lesson learned.

That said, I changed the chorus from:

Dmaj7 | Dmaj7 | Gmaj7 | Gmaj7

to:

Dmaj7 F#m/D | A/D F#m/D |Gmaj7 Bm/G | D/G Bm/G

I don't really think of that as changing the chord progression, though - it's basically the same harmony. It was more a trick to get some additional movement from the strings.

Thanks for listening! smile

-- David Cuny
My virtual singer development blog

Vocal control, you say. Never heard of it. Is that some kind of ProTools thing?