Originally Posted by Birchwood
Hi Andrew, just a quick response to your reply to my comments: I'm also constantly searching for the right key to sing in. Sometimes I try all eight notes of an octave. But often I end up back in the same key I started in...
But then the singing sounds different again, because I always sing a little differently.
Yeah, I saw you listened to my new song. Thanks for that. It's a bit different, isn't it?
Different Hans, but I like it! In terms of vocals, I go with what I have and no longer embarrassed by it.

Originally Posted by Scott H. Olson
Lots here to like. You definitely chose the right music and instruments to convey the messages in the hard-hitting lyrics. Good write.
And you keep it interesting with varying parts and changes. Everything works well and sounds good, including your vocals.
Thanks Scott! When working with the chords and melody and original BIAB RealStyle, I knew I had to make it heavy and the lyrics (written afterward) could be angsty as well, so it turned out to be a good combination.

Originally Posted by laurent4114
Honestly, Andrew, I'm not a big fan of the grunge style; I'm probably too old for it, but I respect it. I like the theme of the song and the way it's sung. The video supports the message very well. It's beautiful work.
To be honest Laurent, I'm not a big fan of the genre either, but I don't mind variety and experimenting with styles/genre outside of my norm to see what comes up - in this case, I've learned about side-chain and 'ducking'. Life-long learning!

Originally Posted by dcuny
It's not my genre, but it nails the feel as far as I'm concerned. And your 12.125 note vocal range was more than sufficient to do the track justice.
My own 2 cents - Izzy suggested that manually ducking can give better results than Trackspacer, but Trackspacer is nice because you can have it only take out specific frequencies, so the "pumping" effect is minimized (the sound of one instrument going down in volume when another goes up). But if you buy Trackspacer, make sure you get it on sale!
Anyway, nice work.
Thanks David! Never heard of Trackspacer, but that might be because it costs something - I live at the freebie-only end of town, but I might look up to see what that type of plugin is called to look out for equivalent in free. Thanks for the suggestion! In relation to my vocal range, if we're dealing in semitones, that would make it 15. Trying to be clever, I also wanted to express this in a hz range but got horribly confused about whether I was singing C4 to D5 or C3 to D4 - I think the notation for acoustic guitar is not 'normal' so that is throwing me off. Anywho... it's limited!

Originally Posted by rayc
An accurate observation that reaches beyond Oz.
Queen Gina & Prince Rupert are 1st nasties amongst the billionaires' club.
Music bites as it should.
I like the break down too.
Excellent.
Thanks Ray! I've become aware of the global nature of this problem, so I'm not sure if it's just a distortion of capitalism (distortion - which is another reason that grunge would be appropriate) or another negative manifestation of the human condition - or both! I usually write a song uniformly throughout, and then when recording and mixing, I start looking for variation within the song to break it up a bit and maintain interest, both for myself and the listener!

Thank you to all for listening and your informative comments!
Andrew

Regards,
Andrew D
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