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New song : Movin' on

Written, played, sung, mixed and mastered by myself in January 2019.

Title : Movin’ on
Background : more of my quest to write the perfect pop song! Wanted to try my hand at an upbeat tune but piano-led.
Which tracks were recorded by you : All of them
Which tracks were generated by Band-in-a-Box / RealBand : none of them in the final mix, but the former used as a composition aid
Other programs used in the production : PG Music's Power Tracks Pro Audio V.12
Effects used in the production : nothing out of the ordinary

Thanks in advance for listening...

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Great work nglinert! The overall production on this is quite polished love the overall form. Very good job!


Cheers,
Joe
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the perfect pop song

a fine goal

I really like this one, nice vocals, good melody

the piano and your vocal will make people think Joe Jackson

good mix in my headphones

enjoyed the listen,

Kenny

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Terrific pop song...
I really like your vocals...
Nicely done!


Jim
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I love the piano intro and throughout the song. Cathy pop chorus.

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Marc,

A good listen. I agree with Kenny - this has Joe Jackson vibe to it (a sparse, drum-driven track). The piano phrases are nice. The piano volume drops at the 3 minute mark - I don't think it should...

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Many thanks to one and all for listening and for your kind comments.
I’ll check that velocity drop Floyd – probably something to do with the normalising. I still have the original MIDI piano tracks so shouldn’t be a problem.
Thanks for the Joe Jackson references. Portsmouth’s finest. I have seen Joe live several times thinking what I would give to have written just one of his songs.
Yes Ezekiel I wanted to hook the whole thing onto what could sound vaguely like a Carole King piano riff (thinking 70s not 60s).
A version 2 could be in order – I had quite a cold when I recorded the vox!!

Marc

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Hi Marc,

It's great to see you in the forum again! It's sure been a while.

I like this! It's got all the hallmarks of the other fine songs that I've heard from you.... lot's of attention to detail (especially those consistent perfect rhymes). It must taken a while to get this arrangement together -- there's a lot happening but it all flows together seamlessly.

All the best,
Noel


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Thanks Noel
Great to hear from you. So glad that you are continuing to hone your own already redoubtable skills.
The structure to this one is a bit A/A/A/A/A (ok I guess there is that short pre chorus build) still I'm happy with the composition.
I'll try to not leave it so long next time!
Marc

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Good pop-song! I enjoyed your vocal performance. If you can fix the drop in volume of the instruments in the end it will be an even better track.

Thanks for sharing!
Will

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Marc,
Nice positive pop song. I believe you reached your goal on this... but as you said: "got to keep moving on...never stop!"

I wish soundcloud did not chop some frequencies. I am sure it is much better on original file.

Thanks,

Misha.

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