Originally Posted By: Cathie
Originally Posted By: muzikluver
Thanks for the suggestion, but I think what you're really asking me to do is to eliminate the piano because the fingerpicking guitar is still there. It's just being drowned out by the piano.

Oh! maybe a volume change would fix it then.

This song is already an earworm; I heard it all evening last night. I don't know if your producer can do better than that. **smiling**

Your definitely right about it being an earworm. It was stuck in my head and playing non-stop for several months. Plus, it keeps coming back into my head because it's such a relaxing song that has a way of pulling me into listening to it and because of the awesome arrangement that BiaB enabled me to create. Though my producer has done better than BiaB with his arrangements for some of my other songs, I think this one is going to be a tough one for him to beat. However, I suspect that he'll create an arrangement that is just as good but with a little different sound. One thing I will insist on him having in his arrangement is a dreamy electric guitar because that's what makes BiaB's arrangement so appealing to me.

Regarding the piano, I did play around with the volume levels but wasn't able to prevent the piano from interfering with the sound of the guitars and still be audible enough to impart its accelerated effect on the overall sound of the bridge. I've had the same kind of thing happen when I added a piano track to some of my other songs, which eventually compelled me to disable the piano track completely and not even use it. I suspect that will be the case with this song as well. At this point, I just don't know what other instrument I could use as its replacement, but I know I need to have some kind of instrumental change in the bridge to enhance the vocal triplets and the message of the lyrics. For now, though, I'm just going to leave it as is until I have time to do lots of experimenting. In the meantime, I'll be taking my new demos of this song to the studio this afternoon at 2 pm and sharing them with my producer for him to evaluate. I'll let you know what happens.

Tom Levan (pronounced La-VAN)
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