SONG TITLE : "SOMETIMES YOU MEET A NICE ONE"
(a rough demo)

ARTIST : moi..ALF-L..(a lad from london (c) 2021)

***THIS SONG IS DEDICATED TO ALL PG STAFF THAT HAVE PUT UP WITH MY CRAZY PRODUCT WISHES OVER THE YEARS. ALSO TO ALL PG USERS. HAPPINESS AND GOOD HEALTH TO ALL***

****BEFORE PLAYING THE SONG PLEASE NOTE THE FOLLOWING.****


1. due to the variety of playback systems out there. watch your levels till comfortable with song...apologies if the listener hates the song. use earbuds if possible.
please note, and feel free to critique, this is one of those songs thats a 'ruff demo' that i cant ever seem to improve on the demo, no matter how much i strive.
in summary i got lots of self doubt on this one..lol.
frankly i like it and the way it 'bops along'...and like to 'crank it'..but some might not.
friends seem to like it, but maybe they were being nice.lol.
i find it difficult to classify the genre...thus i would be interested in also comments as to what genre it fits. i particular like the real track pianos....and the ending.
the song used all pg rt's n rd.
2. i like to sing in and experiment with many different vocal styles. this is one of them.
fwiw ive sung in everything from opera groups through church/folk/ballads/blues/rock/hard rock/metal and goodness what else..lol. i just love doing vocals. its my "thing" as it were.
and i enjoy the vocal challenges that different music styles present. unfortunately i'm loseing some of the upper vocal ranges i used to take for granted as i age....sigh.
3. Backstory.
the idea for the song/lyrics evolved over many years. the concept of the song is to reflect the experiences one goes through in ones life meeting and interracting with various people ...
and poking fun at moi...lol.
ie...
lifes lessons as it were, and how sometimes you meet someone who is a really nice person, and sometimes you finally meet a girl thats the right one. also how one is sometimes stupid hanging round with people that might give one grief. ie. one has to sort the wheat from the chuff as my lovely granny used to say.
the song also hints at the fact that just because you might meet someone that upsets you...
dont let that put you off keeping an open mind in meeting a new person, otherwise you might miss a very nice lifelong friend or even a partner for life.

the 'high falutin' lyric is kinda subtle and might not be clear to someone thats not grown up in the east end of london uk like moi. so heres some details...
Often us cockney lads from the poorer east end of london would go up to the london west end for a night out where the 'high falutin' women from well off families... HFW's... would hang out. or sometimes the HFW's would come in a group down to our patch in the east end and 'slum it' as it were....lol...at our clubs and pubs etc. and for some reason i never understood... some HFW's often thought us poor cockney blokes were 'cool' or 'wild' or whatever or more interesting or intrigueing than their rich west end upper class boyfriends. as they used to tell us. its cross pollenation tween the classes...i was kinda wild singin' in bands in those days.lmao.

my guitar is chugging along in the background...i used a jackson.
a little tidbit if i remember is i was testing a little very low noise mic preamp i built for peanuts, and used on the chuggy guitar track. i like experimenting. if i remember the box holding the circuit was the most expensive part and came from a dollar store...lol as i had free spare no cost i/o jacks.

if you notice i dont believe in useing a lot of processing on the original tracks in my songs..
as was hammered into me by a producer//AE once in a big studio who opined that too many people rely too much on plug ins//lots of processing, and who pointed out to me to quote..
"loads of great huge records were done before the outboard hardware processors and software plug ins we have today"...personally the plug ins included with pg and reaper apps are plenty for me imho. as well i like various plug ins that are free and included with computer music mag uk
which i buy once a year for 20 bucks to get the plug ins. i use nowt else.
my philosophy with each song is to put in the hours to make the song the best i can..
and of course i struggle like most people and do my very best i can cos i'm more a singer//songwriter than a big studio audio engineer.
i'm sorry ive forgotten the biab/rb style picker style i used on this one cos.i do soooo many songs each year and right now i cant get to my other locations where all my song details are... doctors orders etc.
all i can say is on a song i delve into every single style n' rt n rd etc to flush out the 'nuggets' of sound i want to use in a song.

4. like all my songs , i used the biab/rb/reaper combo to create this one.
(ive done about 90 original songs useing this combo over many years.)

HERE IS THE LINK TO THE SONG>>>>>

https://soundcloud.com/user-302791555/aniceonecalfl21

happiness to all.
oldmuso

Last edited by justanoldmuso; 07/05/22 08:37 AM.
my songs....mixed for good earbuds...(fyi..my vocs on all songs..)
https://soundcloud.com/alfsongs
(90 songs created useing bb/rb)
(lots of tips of mine in pg tips forum.)