Hi, om

Originally Posted by justanoldmuso
this is very inventive.
its wonderfull what your doing with the tools your useing.
Glad you liked it!

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by any chance could you state how many hours of work this song took.
I've added it to the notes. This took about four days total, which is super fast for me.

Usually I'll go looking through BiaB styles for a base track that matches the sort of feel that I want. I'll then try putting in some sort of melody, which doesn't usually take that long.

On the other hand, lyrics can take days, because they're a slog. But I'd been intending to write this song for a while, so already had some ideas for the verses. Fortunately, I was able to drop words onto the notes.

When I was thinking about it the other week, I'd been intending to write a three verse song. But I decided to go with a two verse song instead, so I wouldn't get stuck in that dreaded tarpit of the third verse.

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in this song i particularly like the way the pacing changes.
Thanks! I decided to make the chorus more distinct by not having it start on the main beat, which worked well. It helped that the style has a strong beat, and adding the mandolin "chop" chords emphasizes that. I was tempted to add a fiddle doing something similar, but figured that would just overstuff the arrangement.

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amazing your work on the vocs.
I suspect it's more the software than me. Mostly, I just put the notes down and then adjusted the timing.

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great lyrics..
I'm glad you liked them. This is one of those "less is more" songs that doesn't delve much into details, and I suspect that I should probably lean more in that direction in my songwriting.

Thanks for your comments! smile

-- David Cuny
My virtual singer development blog

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