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A new one from me  See what you think? All comments, feedback, etc., welcome ... thanks so much for taking the time to listen! Once more, a big THANKS to PG Music; without you, none of this would be possible. Hail Mary HAIL MARY (the lyrics): Hail Mary, full of grace, Hail Mary, the Lord is with thee. Blessed art thou among women, blessed is the fruit of thy womb; Blessed art thou among women, blessed is thy Son, Jesus Christ! Blessed art thou, Holy One; blessed is He who'll be born! Blessed art thou, among women, and blessed is the fruit of thy womb, the Lord Christ ... Holy Mary, Mother of God pray for us, sinners, Now and in the hour ... Now and in the hour of our death. The BAND: Soloist: Eleanor Forte (Synthesizer V Studio Pro) Flute: Mixcraft Pro Studio 10 flute MIDI sound Choir: Mixcraft Pro Studio 10 Concert Choir MIDI sound ****** Song Summary ************* Title: Hail Mary - 2 June 2024 File:Hail Mary - 2 June 2024.SGU Key=D , Tempo 65, Length (m:s)=3:23 No intro. 51 bar chorus, from bar 1 to bar 51. Repeat x1 chorus No Melody No Soloist track. Song is saved with Volume, Pan, Reverb, Chorus, Bank0, Style is _CONSIDR.STY (Consider Songwriter 12-8 Blues) RealTracks in style: 533:Bass, Electric, 12-8 Crystal Sw 065 RealTracks in style: 2368:Piano, Acoustic, Solo-Accompaniment Bluesy12-8John Sw 060 RealTracks in style: 3278:Vocal Mmms, Rhythm RockNRollGospel12-8 4-part Sw 065 RealDrums in style:Bodhran and Shaker [Multi] ******************* Mixed and mastered in Mixcraft Pro Studio 10
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Hi James,
You are getting there with the synth vocals I think. Still a bit of an issue with some of the phrasing, "blessed" for example sounds a bit off.
I like the flute melody, are you playing that on a keyboard?
Overall very nice, enjoyed!
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James,
Very nice arrangement. Some amazing work with the synth vocals. Love the mix & production.
Much enjoyed!
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James, this sounds great.
Super flute leads.
Nice job with that synth vocal.
Super backing band and mix.
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Hi Dave, thanks for your kind comment. Yep, "blessed" is indeed off, looks like I didn't get the right phonemas (is that the word?) out of the singer. I will fix that, thanks for noticing! No, I wrote the flute music (as with the solo voice part) in Musescore 4, and exported it as MIDI. Saves a beginner like me all the trouble trying to quantise things, afterwards? Thanks for your kind comments, once more!
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Hey very cool! Nice production, James.
I really like this!
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James,
A nice BAND.
And quite an interesting melody.
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Hi, James. Interesting choice for backing! And a nice melody. I like the flute, too. A few nits, most probably stemming from not knowing how to handle a melisma in SynthV. Singing "hail" as "Hay-yul" is a bit... wrong. It's a single syllable, so the second note would be part of a melisma. To do that in SynthV, put the word hail in the first note, and then a dash - for the lyric on all following notes to indicate it's part of the prior syllable. This can be repeated for as many notes as you need. Use + to indicate where the next syllable of a word goes. That can also be extended with at -. Use a + for the next syllable, and so on. The word "blessed" is being pronounced as B L EY - EH S T, when it should either be B L EH S T (one syllable) or B L EH S - IH D (two syllables). Both pronunciations are acceptable. I suspect that the issue here is again how you're doing two-note words, since it pronounced the one note version correctly. The just as "Lord" is a title, so too is "Christ". It means "anointed one". So you'll see "Jesus Christ" or "Jesus, the Christ", and even "Christ Jesus" in the New Testament. But you won't find "Lord Christ", because it's akin to saying "King Anointed One" - you've only used the titles, but left out the name.  "Now and at the hour" sounds a bit weird, because SynthV chooses AH N D by default, when it would be more typically EH N D or AE N D... at least, to my American ears. Feel free to disagree. "Pray for us, sinners". I'll note the comma is artistic license on your part, as are a couple of the other lines. Anyway, nice work.
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David Snyder: thanks! floyd: thank you David Cuny: you are a miracle - thank you. That's exactly what was going on ... I was going spare on how to handle the pronunciation quirks of a singer who, whatever I tried, would just not find the right pronunciation for "blessed", etc. . Eventually, I just gave up and said: "have it your way", lol. THANKS for explaining to me how to handle two syllable words in Synth V ... invaluable, I thought I was going to lose my patience with trying to get it right, lol "Sinners" is another spot where I just said: "argh, have it your way", lol. I will go back and fix things "Lord Christ": of course. I was aware of them both being titles - I just thought I could get away with "the Lord Christ" meaning "the Annointed King", or something like that. Evidently not haha ....... THANK YOU so much for ALL of your help, it really is great to learn how to use these voices properly. They have SO MUCH potential - if one does know a little of what one is doing, of course ...
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James, this is an interesting composition musically, I enjoyed listening to it. The use of the bluesy piano at the center of a very old school "sacred" lyric was inspired. Very creative.
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Ron, thanks. I just thought: "hey, the lyric conveys good news - why make it 'boring' ?", haha. Wanted to modernise it, make it sound almost like a party, make the joy of hearing the good news as modern and as "real" as possible ... so I went for the blues/gospel sound. Glad you liked it! I've got to do a LOT of work on it, now, to tidy it up, as per David Cuny's kind suggestions ... but the basis of the song is there. Thanks for listening and for commenting!
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Pleasant melody. Well done on that flute score. It complements the sing part. Sweet sounding synth voice.
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Thanks, Ezekiel's Storm ... glad you liked the song!
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Nice melody and arrangement.
That flute is mesmerizing ... in the good way!
Enjoyed it,
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Excellent tune James. Very cool use of these new technologies to present your lyrics. Really well done...
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Hi James,
Such a lovely song! That flute fits so nicely - excellent choice. I agree with the comments about the word "blessed". Since I know nothing about programming synth voices, I can offer no suggestions. i would trust David's suggestions, nonetheless - he's pretty good with that stuff.
Very pretty and inspirational lyric and delivery.
As always, your music shines.
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