Paradise

Update: I went back and re-did some of the trumpet parts, and replaced the third verse with an acoustic guitar solo.



This song has been sitting on my hard drive for a while. I wasn't making any progress on the lyrics, and the melody was out of my vocal range, so I finally decided to do it as an instrumental.

I should probably go back and edit in a few more spots for the trumpet to breath. The EWI takes a lot less breath than the trumpet!

The core was built around BiaB tracks, and then I sort of went overboard with the Native Instruments Session Guitars. I also doubled the drum track with EZ Drummer because I wanted some fills, and I liked the handclaps and tambourine.

To make things more interesting, the verses are in C major, and the chorus is in D major.

I was going for a '70s sort of feel with this - thus the overly long guitar solo at the beginning and the handclaps in the chorus. I should probably trim this a bit, but what the heck - you can suffer through a song that's a minute too long. grin

The mix can probably do with more tweaking, but I figured it was "good enough", since it had been sitting around for so long.

Sorry, I didn't really keep track of which RealTracks were used on this.

As usual, comments of all sorts are welcome! laugh

Instruments
Lead Guitars: Renegade Electric, Renegade Acoustic (Indiginus)
Lead Trumpet: The Trumpet (SampleModeling)
Electric Pianos: Band in a Box
Bass: Band in a Box
Drums: Band in a Box, EZ Drummer (Toontrack)
Guitars: Electric Sunburst, Strummed Acoustic, and Strummed Acoustic 2 (Native Instruments)
Strings: Amadeus Symphonic Orchestra (Sonic Scores)

Plugins: EZ Mix, Lurssen Mastering Console, Ozone Imager

-- David Cuny
My virtual singer development blog

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