Originally Posted By: David Snyder
You are on a roll! These synth productions are great.

Thanks, David! smile

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Very well mixed.

Thanks again! Sometimes it's just painful to go back and listen to earlier stuff, but all we can do is keep learning and moving ahead.

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For some reason, the music progression on this sounds very XTC to me. Do you remember them? Was it Andy Patridge? (That is a huge compliment by the way.)

Huge compliment appreciated!

I didn't listen to a lot of XTC back in the day, but my son put Making Plans for Nigel on a CD recently, and that got me listening to King For A Day and Mayor Of Simpletown. That's some crazy good pop!

But the harmony for this song was inspired by some of Fujii Kaze's music.

I wasn't familiar with his music, but I'd run across an scary-good Synthesizer V cover of Fujii Kaze's Kaerou.

Cover: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FDhgbf4LlgU
Original: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zfx2EPhb4ao

Fujii uses jazzy chord progressions with lots of minor 7th and major 7th chords, but the harmony moves more stepwise than along the circle of fifths.

So that's what I was going for with this song. But XTC also has a similar jazzy harmonic sensibility, so I hear the similarity.

Thanks for stopping by! smile

-- David Cuny
My virtual singer development blog

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