Originally Posted by Andrew Dee
Hi Chay!
I find it interesting that the vocal helps accentuate the instrumental sections - giving them more prominence as it were - whereas when it’s all instrumental, some parts aren’t as distinct because one section flows into another - which is good in itself. That’s how it came across to my ears anyway. The vocal sections also ‘anchored’ the song by returning to the familiar vocals.
Lucy’s vocal is very good, albeit subdued due to the pitch of the melody she was singing - I felt sometimes I really wanted to hear her ‘let it rip’ by singing a higher melody line, but that probably wasn’t what you were seeking.
A great isten - you’ve been teasing us with this for a while, while we wait for the instrumental version to drop off the ‘chart’.
Andrew

Thanks, Andrew. Lucy being Argentinean wasn't familiar with the "Twinkle, Twinkle" lullaby and her vocals pretty much followed my demo, which was sung in hushed tones so as to not get banging on my wall. When I've sung the song without recording and thus not fearful of complaints spoiling it I hit higher notes here and there which I expected Lucy to do as I'd also given her YT links to the sung lullaby. I've now done a rock version with different instrumentation and I used both my demo and Lucy's vocals together and they match perfectly except in one verse where she sings "lull-a-by" and I sing "lullaby", so as I really like the new version and me and Lucy singing together I need to sing it louder and I'm happy to pay Lucy again for a louder take with some higher notes hit. Based on the very rare opportunities to record vocals it probably won't be done until late January at best. It's so frustrating when it's sung songs I now want to be doing. Even where I need a female vocal I've still got to record a demo first and that's so hard where I live.

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