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Dear Bass Thumper, What caused you to be filled with such bigotry and hatred for Jews? Please provide evidence to support your accusation of anti-Semtism. This is a very serious accusation and failure to prove it makes your question defamatory. In Australia the only justification, in law, for such a statement is the "In Truth" defence. You need to prove that I am as you claim. Have at it. Is it jealousy and resentment that you were not a success musically? What do you know of my level of "success" and my measure of it? Are you implying that I'm unsuccessful? Does a lack of "success" by someone-else's measure guarantee jealousy & resentment? Is it bitterness associated with your socio-economic status? My socio-economic status has changed over the years as is common with my cohort. Which period and which status are you referring to? Were you unsuccessful in your chosen career while others advanced in theirs? Again, what is your interpretation of success? I really loved my job. I deem that a success. Advancement within a particular hierarchy isn't always a measure of success - in fact within my profession advancement is often seen as a move away from core principles. Are you dismayed by the status of your country on the world stage when you see other countries rise? That's an odd question. My "country", a socialist democracy, is doing okay except with regard to injury inflicted upon it by your president in his latest round of tariffs for bogus reasons. There must be some underlying stress or trauma that fills you with this hate. Must there? How then do you explain your appalling response to my comments? What causes you such grief that you project onto me? Who else do you hate? See my previous response People of African descent? What is there to hate based on ancestry? Italians? Some of my best friends... you're probably unaware that Australia is a successful multicultural society Native peoples? As I type I'm wearing a sweat shirt emblazoned with the text "New South Wales Teachers Federation - in active partnership with indigenous people" Women? Misogyny too? The successful? In Australia we have a history of The Tall Poppy Syndrome where by anyone who raises their head above the crowd, and does so in a way that denigrates the masses, is brought back to reality swiftly & publicly. That said I'm not a huge fan of the vigilantism that can come of this. I do like the idea that people can be "successful" and not rub it in the faces of those less so. Your questions are an interesting insight into you.
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Dee Johnson was a teacher of mine in high school when I was first learning guitar. She would have "Sings" at her house on weekends. All kinds of musicians showed up. Fiddlers banjo dulcimer guitar you name it. They did a lot of old ballad type stuff and some "hillbilly moonshine" style music. She was a fan and a master of old Scottish and English folk tunes. I swear she had the entire Childs catalogue memorized. This was my favorite and the first I learned. VERY different from the Jim Moray version you introduced me to and this is how I play it. I'm thinking about visiting the Celtic styles in BiaB and do a semi rocked up version of it myself now thanks to you. Hope you enjoy this version
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Thanks, Sawmill! I had to look up "Fair Margaret and Sweet William" as I'd not heard of it. Jim Moray does a rocked up version and I definitely prefer that to the folk versions. To not clutter this thread I put a post up in the Off Topic forum for you WaoBand
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I am highly disappointed that Bar Lyrics are not yet supported in the IOS app. It found several references saying "bar-based lyrics are supported in the IOS version". It was a significant factor in my decision to purchase BIAB. My plan was to use the IOS version on my iPad for backing tracks with lyrics. Now I will have use a workaround. I should say I have found great value in the Windows version. But the IOS version is worthless to me without the bar-based lyrics in the chord view.
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Hi Floyd! A really classy sounding song! Very professional, yet the heart feelings come through. I noticed the similarity between the piano and the vocal phrasing, and it made me wonder what came first for in the songwriting process? Did you start with the piano style and that informed the ‘paper and pen’ metre, or (as I suspect because of your source of inspiration) the metre and melody of the ‘paper and pen’ phrasing was then mimicked on the piano - and in the guitar? In any case, it’s really cool that one is similar to the other, and a useful idea for songwriting. Your song reminds me of a post that Herb Hartley recently made to the Songwriting forum about what we use to write, and I think back to when I used to write (with paper and pen) lyrics with chords above and then the melody notation elsewhere on the sheet so that I could remember it. I still have those pieces of paper and they are special to me. Thanks for bringing out this fondness in your own song! Andrew
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Hi Chris You always come up with intriguing lyrical themes! Good choice of style and chord progressions as well. I like the syncopated banjo(?) used in parts as well. A question in ignorance: do you give Suno a melody for this song as well as the words, and if so, how do you supply it? Do you provide a recorded draft vocal or a midi/notation melody for the Suno voice to follow and interpret? This is a good result. Andrew
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yes it has that capability. Once i know the free lite version is working i will need to test the Pro version that has some cool features. Like A BiaB type chord sheet that allows the user to copy paste in text lyrics, type in chords or to copy paste in Ultimate guitar sheets as well. feel free to shoot me a private message and i will link the html file.
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I daren’t clean my studio … I have an idea for a new song scrawled in a film of dust across the top of an amp. When creativity strikes, you have to get it down before it disappears.
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B.D., Thanks - we appreciate that! Bob
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Thank you, rayc. A brief, positive response from you is quite high praise in my book. We appreciate it! Hey there Ron, 45 years in the making, just like wine getting better with age. Love your fills, nothing wrong with them, if you throw the ones you discarded my way, I'd be more than satisfied. Loved the harmonies that came into the song toward the end, exceptional. You're a fine musician, lyricist, and artist. Love yer work, kind regards Thanks for the kind remarks, Lee. My brother doesn't play an instrument and I'm not a lyricist, SOoooo...we make a good team. The extra harmony on the chorus at the end is an added high harmony. I'm mostly in falsetto, and not singing it particularly well, but I got away with it in the mix. I do love the dynamic punch of added harmonies. Fun to sing, too. 
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That's a good though, although I can't duplicate the looping problem as described. I don't think it would be related to the (fixed) bar one offset bug when loading an old song.
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If 2 billion people are posting three bad songs on your platform everyday that took them 2 minutes to write how in the world are you supposed to find your way through the trash and handle the paperwork burden. It's not possible. There's another layer of that ... how in the world does one sift through that to find songs to ones particular taste? That will also get more difficult, perhaps become impossible.
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Agree, additional looping functionality would be great. To be clear, it currently works the same as it did in the previous version.
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Press this button: ![[Linked Image from nn.pgmusic.com]](https://nn.pgmusic.com/pgfiles/support/temp/songsettings100.png) Or Command+K and then[More] The global setting for Natural arrangements is in the main Preferences on the left (Options | Settings).
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Interesting mix of a blues singer with the island beat going on in the tune. Thanks, well Janice sang bluegrass and acoustic country for many years before the blues thing. And we listened to Marley and Buffet during that time. 😀 J&B
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Bonjour, Oui j'avais pensé à cette façon de procéder. Je pensais qu'il y avait plus simple. Merci pour ta réponse.
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