Originally Posted By: HearToLearn
Strangely, this is the second time that I signed on to find you posted a song only minutes ago. I love that because if it's been up for an hour, I feel like I'm the 100th person to reply. wink

Anyway, this song is perfection. I'm not kidding. I seriously wouldn't even have a suggestion of something different to try.

"perfection"? well what can I say to THAT? smile

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First when I see FJ and J&B before even hearing the song...I know my chance of liking it are high. Really high. There is a chemistry there, no doubt. From writing, to backing, to mixing, to just everything that makes a song this damn good!

It is always a treat to have Janice sing with me...

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One specific thing I wanted to note, the delivery of the lyric is something I experience very rarely. For me, in the verses, it brought it to somewhere between hearing a conversation or story, to also emphasizing words by holding them out longer to give it more emotional lift. Then the chorus just sang! Wonderfully cohesive contrast! That's brilliance to me. What an absolutely cool effect.

As both a "singer" and a "songwriter", I take that as a real compliment...

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Something I touch on lightly now and then, but here I'm going to go further. Drums. Those are some of the best drums I've heard on here. Not just one element, ALL of them. The processing and production are killer. But, man...I am a sucker for those ghost notes on the snare. It's all locked in with all of the other instruments so well that I would be impressed hearing it and not knowing at all that "drummer" wasn't in the room playing along. AND I would have thought he was doing the song perfect justice. I'm not sure if you took different parts and copy/pasted but the breaks in the chorus were EXACTLY as they should be. I'm seriously impressed by the treatment of the drums!

The drumtrack is pretty much as it is played out of BIAB. A Shannon Forrest track which simply "DOES ALL THE RIGHT THINGS"...right outta the box. No cut and paste involved. I drop the Studio One "S1 Drumgroup" preset on it - like I always do - an EQ and a MultiBand Compressor that accentuates the kick and snare slightly...
To have a guy who drums be that impressed with the drum track is a treat. The credit goes to Band-In-A-Box (and Shannon Forrest, of course).

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Love, love, love this song!


Music to my ears!!