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Hi Andrew. I like the instrumental section, but for me, there are too many words struggling, regimentally to fit in. Also there is, to my mind, too much tell and not enough show. Leave some imagination for the listener to interpret. Just an example here to keep or sweep: "This is where my wife and kids lived after they moved out," lines, could be: "That's the place they're living.(breath) Nicely kept no doubt. I remember all the anger. How easy it came out". Could be delivered in a less regimented way. I'm not suggesting you use those exact words. I'm just trying to demonstrate that my lines introduce a little space and mystery for the listener to wonder what's coming next. Then the next lines make a little path to the next revelation. Does that make sense? Vic .
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B.D., Thanks so much as always. We appreciate the kind words. Bob
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Thanks TuneMonger! 
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Nine or Ten cheapish guitars here, free to students is the way to go.
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Thanks Mario and Ron. And just to be clear, I'm not suggesting a formulaic approach, but what is appealing to me is that this might tug me out of routine thinking to try out new ideas. However, I have to admit that Steve C's version of the song has some interesting and appealing harmonic passages on the back of familiar lyrics and meter. Andrew
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Hi Andrew, sorry, I haven't been in the forum for a while... It is also the use of external monitors that causes this behaviour. I tried this because of the drop-station failure in a multi monitor setup. I use 2 external Monitors (because of Cubase, not for BIAB), one via usb3/thunderbolt and one via HDMI. If I disconnect the monitors and work with the internal macbook display everything is fine. I feel a bit sorry for you guys because it is nearly impossible to test every weird setup.
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Hi Mario! I like the tempo and movement of this piece, and much of that IMHO is due to the ‘riff’ you’ve got going on the piano - I love that. I eckon it’s the signature of the tune. It makes me want to pick up a guitar and strum along. I’m going back for a second helping! Andrew Thanx Andrew. That piano riff is verbatim from BiaB. Gotta love BiaB!
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Gosh - no wonder practise seems so hard - I didn’t realise I was helping overcome humanity’s existential struggle against the human condition! Andrew
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I really REALLY don't mean to make anyone mad and everyone has a right to do their own thing but . . . I would beg you not to use AI. Find a friend who sings, or go on your local Craigslist or Fivrr and pay a working musician to sing / play what you need. I can't stress enough how much I hate what AI is doing. First, it's all theft second it's killing the planet. I really could go on for days on the issues with using AI but that should be it's own thread. Again, try and find someone willing to work with you to accomplish the goals. "Community" is a big part of what music is about not technology. Lets clarify a few things. There are several kinds of AI. Generative and cover are the two main kinds in my opinion. Suno and others like it can kinda fall into both categories. There is generative AI, where you simply write a prompt, a sentence or two and it will generate a complete song from scratch using it's learned experience. You can call that theft but it's essentially the same as you writing a song and relying on your cumulative musical experience to come up with what you imagine to be an "original" song. On the other hand, you can also upload a demo that you have recorded in your studio and ask it to use that as the reference and simple do a cover where it adds much better quality tracks and vocals and by knowing how to write a prompt to guide it, you can have a major influence of the final production. For example, do you want it slower, faster, acoustic, electric, soft, hard, male singer, female singer, duet between both, guitar solo, piano solo, fiddle fills, what other instruments do you want, and more. If I use any kind of audio file/track with a vocal melody, or if I use Synth V to "flesh out" a vocal melody, and then import that audio into AI such as Audimee, that is not stealing, and I don't see how it's killing the planet. To me it's using a tool that has recently been developed and is being refined daily. The voices that are being used as models in Audimee are all licensed and I'm sure the artists who gave their permission are getting, or were compensated for the use of their voice. I pay a monthly subscription for the rights to use those voices, in the same way I would have to pay someone from Fivr or any other vocal singer for hire. Nothing is being stolen and it is not the generative AI that you seem to think it is. Since the chance that anything I write would be placed with an artist where I could recoup my investment in a singer that is going to cost anywhere from $100 on the low end to multiple hundreds on the high end, I can't justify running to Fivr and hiring a real singer every time I have a demo that needs a singer. AI has been a great, affordable, and viable option for my songs.
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