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Oh, it stabs ya right through the soul, and we enjoy it immensely. Dang, Peter is scorching hot, and Janice elevates the feel with her sensational sense of The Blues. Black widow, praying mantis... love 'em and eat 'em. You guys are my most-listened-to --well, you and Blue Attitude are my most listened to bands.
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Wow, it keeps building into a wonderful song, lingyai (or is it Ken?). Man, unlike B.D. i liked the drum opening, then each layer afterwards was a special addition that just kept making the whole tune so enjoyable. Well composed. Ha... playing piano at half speed. i can relate. My first studio in the 70s i soloed an acoustic guitar at half speed so it would sound like a mandolin in the mix. Well done.
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Sensational sounds, Scott. As always. I really enjoy the memories captured in the video images. You always make magic with 6 strings, 2 hands, and a creative mind. Thanks for sharing your talents. And a big congrats to your granddaughter. Excellent choice.
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Ha, BIG smile here, Mario. Your story reminds me of ones i'd make up for our kids at bedtime. Start of with "Once upon a time," and end up with "happily ever after," and never knowing myself what would come between. You are jamming here with this wonderful soundscape. Lone Wolf has the music in him and you brought it out so well.
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That's a long one. Suitable for a song about a train ride. I like the concept you employed as stated in your OP. Good mix.
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Excellent idea and very well done, Patrick! I checked out your other videos too. A good learning spot for others.
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Very nice work. I really like the fact that your chorus is one short line, 6 words repeated. That simplicity just works well. The song had, to me, a clicky feel and sound to it but not uncomfortably so. From my second listen.... It's the percussion causing that. It's all good. The steel was nice. Was that the instrument for that fuzzy sounding solo in there? I think it is after a second listen. Nice overdrive tone. I enjoyed listening. Good job
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"The wind is a palomino." Great opening to the rest of the wonderful lyrics. The feel of the song fits perfectly. When you and Joliz come in together it's like angels through clouds. A fine write and production.
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I like the song. It's got that easy going country rock groove with a chorus melody that lends itself well to killer harmony. You didn't list the tracks and instruments you used but that doesn't matter at this point. I'll make a couple of personal observations on the mix. All of them are my opinion. You have a guitar in the mix, I'm assuming you're playing it? It's brighter and more forward in the mix than everything else. There's a few places where you sweep the chord and it's really loud. To my ears, and this might be due to my high frequency attinuation but I don't think so. The mix seems a little top end rolled off, except the guitar I mentioned earlier. I like to put EQ on my acoustic guitar tracks and electric guitar to a point, to accentuate the higher harmonics of that acoustic guitar. The vocals. In my opinion, I would like to have heard them up front a little more and again with some high end polish. I'm rarely a fan of really prominent harmony, you know, like barber shop quartet and Southern Gospel, but in this case I would definitely consider raising the harmonies to the point of being able to hear the distinct voices, kinda like the Eagles on Lying Eyes or so many of their other harmony rich songs. IMHO, the mix is probably 80% there. Good, but could be polished up. At this point, the changes are subtle. All in all, this is a good song and a good mix.
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Hello Noel, "Resolultion 1 Beat", Ya I knew that!" but it was not working! Until I tried again this morning and all was good. Nomally I would chalk it up to just another bad day, but yesterday was actually a good one for me. Well, until this happened. I apologize for going off here in the forum. I will mark this resolved. Sometime, I look at this stuff and I just don't see what is there on the page. Thank you Noel for taking the time to help me see better. Dan
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I have a dictionary & a rhyming dictionary. I use them when I absolutely need to...not often. I've used the intro generator in BIAB form generator occasionally but it's a little too obvious in it's preference for augmented chords when attached to a non augmented chord progression and has a couple of other tendencies that need intervention as well. I tried the melodist in BIAB a couple of times but found it to be bloody awful. I have no problem with other folk using A.I. so long as it's declared, but don't see it as something for me until such time as I cannot physically do things.
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This definitely rocks! I love the drive the bass and guitars create. You’ve also got a really good singer here, he’s perfect for the song. Enjoyed the ride! A lot ![[Linked Image]](https://www.pgmusic.com/forums/images/icons/default/thumbs_up.gif) Thanks BD. Glad you liked it
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You did right by putting your vocal in this. It fits like a glove (pun intended). I like how the music sounds slightly off-kilter, like a wobbly boxer in the ring.
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Thanks, K-Dub. Unlike Queens, I only recorded/layered each harmony vocal three times instead of dozens of times.
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Thank you Floyd for your very generous comments - I’m glad you like it! Andrew
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Pioneering or not, it's new to me, and quite addictive - madcap in all the right ways
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Philly. if bb 'chokes'...there could various reasons... just a few... ..underpowered pc for what your trying to do...that ryzen 9 is powerfull high end. so i dont see that as an issue. ..running other programs eg net thus chewing up resources. (my rule is i use a seperate pc for the crazy net.) are you running the net//other apps while doing music production ?? ..resource hungry vst's....seen this many times...which is why use 'lean' low resource plugins. look in win and see what resources the active vst(s) are chewing up. ..useing the same drive for windows and music production. ive seen this cause probs many times. have you searched the net for threads on session horns pro resource useage...?? this is one result i got...might be of interest. https://gearspace.com/board/music-computers/950122-session-horns-pro-cpu-hog.html could you run the tests i outline here... https://www.pgmusic.com/forums/ubbthreads.php?ubb=showflat&Number=795663#Post795663 right now please boot up pg realband...where there is a handy rough indicator of pc capability...i use it on any pc i'm thinking of buying.. should be high given your ry 9. action>>test audio performance. here on a mid range ryzen mini pc i get over 180 tracks. well actually more some days. report back on number of tracks possible reported by rb. your ry 9 should be very high. in addition look up the ry your pc uses on cpubenchmark.net and report back single thread and multithread score. it should be v good. i assume what your trying to do is record tracks with an inline active vst... CORRECT ?? ie live as you say. please clarify....this can cause probs if the pc isnt up to snuff and/or the pc hasnt been optimised for music production which ive seen many times. but i question whether the source of your prob is ry 9. re internal drives...do you have win os on one drive and music production on another ?? OR all same drive ?? there might a bug in bb...but as the saying goes 'eliminate everything and youll be left with the source of the problem'. lol...arent computers grrreat... om
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Andrew, thank you for attention to this matter. 1) Lets clear something fundamental. All programs have a "default" view. That is how programs open, music or non-music. A default, by definition is constant. It doesn't change (unless changed and saved as new default). Having an option to open "last project" layout is great, but should be looked as a convenience feature that could be turned on (or off). Andrew, I believe, users are in agreement that the most balanced approach would be : Having "Don't open song or File" in preferences - BIAB opens with Default view layout. If Preference has "Open Last song" - it opens with the remembered layout when you close the program. This should work for everybody. ---- 2) Yes some people might not want that. However most will probably enjoy that option. In my opinion main idea behind BIAB is creating backing tracks... and much smaller group use it for bulk playback (jukebox?), but I agree, this is more of a request. (unlike #1)
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Hi BD. What a great piece of work. Normally I prefer sad songs but I have to admit I love this fun song. Really well done. Vic Thank you for listening and your nice feedback, Vic. I also usually prefer sad or thought-provoking songs, but every now and then I need a feel-good song to help me break free from the downward spiral of negativity. Music therapy 
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No matter what I expect from your next song, you always surprise me with something different. I'm still not sure whether I really like it or not, but it's wild and very creative, and an Arabic Metal Opera is definitely something I've never heard before. Definitely enjoyed my listen
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“Paper and pen are therapy….Truth for your soul.” Janice feels that way about writing letters and cards to loved ones. So you have a win-win-win situation with your return to paper and pen. It was good for you, your music and us forumites!😊 You’re turned up to 11 all the way on this song with regard to everything. Your feelings shine through on your vocal, piano and guitar. And it remind us of how much we’ve learned from you about music making. Hardly need to mention it but your mix is sooooo high bar. “Look for a way to find your joy.” Amen brother. Loved it! J&B
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Very cool! BiaB on steroids
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Are you saying that BB lists the bars properly in the song's raw form, but then they disappear because I have too many choruses? Nope, I'm saying that your song actually has 200 bars in total, and the song overview doesn't display them all until you play the song for some unknown reason. So when your song loads, the overview incorrectly shows fewer bars, then it corrects itself when you play the song (according to your screenshots). The bar numbers disappearing for a song overview of 200 bars IS something that is expected for some display resolutions/window sizes, in the current build.
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“But somehow the future catches me blind Or leaves me battling for another time It flashed an image of her face Just to leave a bittersweet taste” Great vivid imagery and your vocals so well captured the emotion. It’s interesting to hear how well the fine lyric works … in both the earlier country version and this one. Nice band and fills by you. It all works for us. I know you had concerns but we don’t, i.e, no nits. We’d rather sit back and listen than to parse it out. That’s our approach when a tune like this grabs us from the get go. Oh, did we say good mix? Well we assuredly implied it! Well done, J&B J&B, thank ya'll so much as always for the kind review. Thanks as well for seeking out and listening to the original, too! I was going to link it, but my vocals pale in comparison to Dusty's, and I didn't want to set the new version up for failure. Ha!
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