Originally Posted By: Janice & Bud
Having recently finished the series Humans makes this all the more intriguing smile

And you are welcome as we, indeed, read to the end!

Thanks! I figured if anyone was going to wade through that, it was going to be you! smile

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Irrespective of the vocal source we first want to mention that this is an excellent tune and the arrangement is high bar.
Loving those counterpoint lines.

They're also a lot of fun to write, and a lot easier to have a program sing it than for me to do it. wink

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Reading your list of tracks is a bit mind boggling. We could never imagine doing that and ending up with something that sounds this good ... and cohesive.

Well, the trick is - as you're aware - it to have as little happening as possible at one time. Only one bass part is playing at a time; two of the guitars are panned to either side; some of those guitars only show up on the chorus, and so on.

I like to have a fair amount of change happen on the arrangement, and this is a pretty simple way to do it.

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Excellent vocals and I (Bud) want to mention that "excellent" was the exact word used by Janice. Your command of the phrasing, the melody and the vibrato is amazing and something we would never take for granted.

blush I appreciate that, especially coming from you two!

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We really hope you keep the "la la's" as they sound good and fit with the whole "nothing left to say" theme, as does the abrupt ending of the song. We also enjoyed the change to a "happy beat" (as Janice calls it) in the chorus.

They're staying in - I never found something better to replace them with, and I didn't really try that hard.

I'd actually extended the ending a bit more than what it was before, based on a misunderstanding of what floyd jane had written, but it was something that I intended to do anyway.

I don't think I've ever really figured out how to write a "pop" song. After I wrote the first version of the chorus (which I thought was pretty good), I went back and completely rewrote it to be more upbeat and poppy. I think it was pretty successful, and I'll see if I can improve my writing in that general direction this year.

Thanks again! laugh

-- David Cuny
My virtual singer development blog

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