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Thank you, I jumped from 2024 so missed that last year.
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Soundcloud: Revolution (2026 remix) YouTube: Revolution (2023 mix) For a good couple of months, I've had in mind to post some 'heavier' songs - in a rock sense. This one is a remix, with another I am aiming to post in a week or so's time which is new and grunge-like. DEVELOPMENT Written in 2007 and recorded originally in 2008, the song is a bit 'angsty' which is unusual for me (e.g. 'Your angles are stuffed and your ankles are bound'). I have sometimes wondered if I am harbouring some pent-up aggression? However, I choose to think I intended it as a positive message about choosing a more generous way of changing the world. The lyrics ask the listener “Are you really sure you know what you will be called to do if you ask for a revolution?” The first recorded version was a mixture of midi, my own guitars and singing and was what we would probably class as synth rock. It used the WOODSTK1 style. It was a few years later that I realised, after listening to a playlist of classic Aussie rock, that the first line of the song (but nothing more) was similar to the first line of a well-known song, so I did some melodic re-wiring. In 2023, I wanted to modernise the recording, so I replaced it with the _HIGHWAY Highway Driving Country Rock style, upped the key by a tone to Bm and added new bass and guitar work. I stylised the rhythm guitars on the strum and chord voicing used by Keith Richards and also The Dandy Warhols on ‘Bohemian Like You’. In the latest Soundcloud mix, all instruments are played or sung by me, with exception of the drums and three guitars in the bridge from BIAB. The bridge got an overhaul with piano and acoustic dumped and new guitars added and swapping a Daug for a C#m7 in the bridge (I’m mellowing in my later years). RECORDING INFO Style is _HIGHWAY.STY (Highway Driving Country Rock) RealTracks in style: 1417:Bass, Electric, RootsRock Ev 100 - replaced with my own bass RealTracks in style: 2763:Piano, Acoustic, Rhythm CountryBluesRockMike Ev 110 - jettisoned RealTracks in style: 2635:Guitar, Electric, Rhythm CountryBluesRockHigh Ev 110 - replaced with my own guitars RealDrums in style:NashvilleEven8^5-a:Snare, HiHat , b:Snare, Ride RealTracks added: RealTracks in song: 3163:Guitar, Baritone Electric, Rhythm BluesyPopSteady8thsBrent Ev 100 RealTracks in song: 3162:Guitar, Baritone Electric, Rhythm BluesyPopHeldEmbelBrent Ev 100 RealTracks in song: 4818:Guitar, Electric, Rhythm SteadyPushMuted ev 110 Me: Bass Squire Jazz (the cheap one), Gretsch G5120, Peavey Predator Strat, Ibanez AMV10A Vocals – main vocal triple tracked but with tracks 2 and 3 -12db and panned 60% L&R; backing vocals doubled and singing octave harmony Recorded and mixed in Cakewalk Sonar. Special comment: The new Drag’n’Drop feature in BIAB is very handy! LYRICS INTRO VERSE 1 You say it’s time for a revolution But you ain’t prepared to put in the work We all need some restitution But I say you gotta deserve it first CHORUS When love ain’t enough, it’s taking you down Respond off the cuff, don’t give in your ground Don’t act like you’re tough, lose your angry frown Your angle is stuffed, and your ankles are bound VERSE 2 You believe you’ve got persecution But you wouldn’t know the meaning of hurt Are you prepared for the retribution When your hands ain’t been in the dirt? CHORUS When love ain’t enough, it’s taking you down Respond off the cuff, don’t give in your ground Don’t act like you’re tough, lose your angry frown Your angle is stuffed, and your ankles are bound BRIDGE We all need a means to be free and forgiven But I don’t understand the feelings by which you are driven VERSE 3 You say it’s time for a revolution But I say you gotta deserve it first CHORUS When love ain’t enough, it’s taking you down Respond off the cuff, don’t give in your ground Don’t act like you’re tough, lose your angry frown Your angle is stuffed, and your ankles are bound Repeat and fade CHORDS Intro and Chorus: | Bm | D | A | E | Verses: || Bm | Em | Bm | % | Bm | Em | A | G :|| Bridge: | F#7 | % | E7 | % | F#7 | % | C#m | E7 |
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I recall this originally being done years ago as well. Great song and a super great performance and production by you and Rodney Gene.
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I can see and hear why this is a favourite of yours Floyd. What great storytelling lyrics, sung perfectly and played/produced correctly. Really enjoyed it, well done. Kind regards.
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Thank you for the listen and advice Scott. Glad you enjoy the song. I’ll certainly take note of your advice, I’ve already noticed the benefit of adding reverb to the guitars as per version 3. I still have to work and understand some of the mix and production techniques. As long as we’re living, we’re learning…..well, most of us!! Kind regards.
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< The issue: The sound volume of some instruments fluctuates too much between different song parts. > << The need: I want to be able to adjust the volume of guitar 2 IN THAT SECTION OF THE SONG (chorus 1) to be even with the overall volume of the song. So far I have only been able to adjust the volume of guitar 2 in the "Mixer Instrument Tracks" BUT, doing so adjust the volume for the entire song NOT just chorus 1. How do I adjust the volume of guitar 2 just for that specific part of the song (chorus 1)? >> There's multiple ways to address your need using BIAB. Volume automation is one way but there are several different features in BIAB that can also do it. BIAB has an advanced feature called the RealTrack Medley Maker that will not only allow you to balance the volume, but adjust the panning, and mute and unmute, of up to eleven RealTrack instruments at once. Further, because of the BIAB's reading ahead capability to determine what RealTrack data to select for each RealTrack instrument, BIAB is aware of forthcoming outro's of one instrument interacting with the second instrument beginning to play its intro prompting BIAB to automatically create a "smooth transition" between the two instruments. A user can instruct BIAB to apply these processes and it will literally render a finished and arranged track that replicates exporting and editing multiple tracks in a DAW. It will create your arrangement automatically and it can be modified completely to meet the user's arrangement considerations. Each of the 24 Mixer Tracks has the RealTrack Medley Maker. Each of the 24 tracks can hold up to eleven RealTracks, each independent from the other 23 Mixer tracks. Most users don't know they can generate, control, manipulate, and program as many as 264 RealTracks, arranged as they have directed, all in a single render. To load both guitars onto a Mixer Channel using the RealTrack Medley Maker: Select the Mixer channel of one guitar. Open the RealTracks StylePicker, to open the RealTrack Medley Maker; It's located located in the RealTracks Picker under the Settings Button. Then complete your arrangement for muting, panning and volume adjustment in that dialog window and BIAB will generate those two instruments in the arrangement you programmed. I've attached a screen shot example of two instruments playing on the same Mixer Channel and alternating every four bars at first and then having four bars of silence between the two instruments alternating with each other.
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Interesting, _CRYSTAL.STY is not in my BB:\Styles folder yet it shows up in the style picker when I enter _CRYSTAL.STY in the filter string. &Memo: Slow 12/8 classic country Style with background pedal steel. Also includes Electric Bass, Fingerpicking & Strummed Acoustic Guitar RealTracks and Nashville128 RealDrums. T=55-90 -Examples: Make The World Go Away, Crazy, Genre "Intensity" Score=55/100 _CRYSTAL.STY. Country 12/8 Ballad w/ Pedal Steel All RealTracks. Quintet. Tempo=65 (55-95) Instruments: El.Bass, Ac.Guitar, Ac.Guitar, PedalSteel, Drums RD: Nashville128^01-a:Sidestick, Hihat , b:Snare, Ride :Brian Fullen RT533: Bass, Electric, 12-8 Crystal Sw 065 , Byron House RT526: Guitar, Acoustic, Fingerpicking Hank Sw 065 , Jason Roller RT529: Guitar, Acoustic, Strumming Hank Sw 065 , Jason Roller ** N/A ** RT627: Pedal Steel, Background 12-8 Crystal Sw 065 , Steve Hinson I'm a rookie at these styles, so I'm just posting this in case it is in any way significant to the diagnosis of the issue.
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I can verify. The same thing happens here with 2026.
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Confirmed in BIAB 2026 over here. FWIW, I tested in my 2022 BIAB and it does not do that. (Kinda expected that or it would have been a known issue long ago).
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Hope he, Jerry and Phil are jammin' away. RIP Indeed — three keyboards as well. Pigpen, Keith and Brent. Got to jam with Bobby at the Bohemian Grove more than once. Generous to a fault and I'll leave it at that. RIP
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So it finally happened. That's been in the rumor mill for a long time.
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Rootless voicing by themselves, almost(?) by definition don't really resolve anywhere ... the chord progression is never quite 'done'. Wagner wrote Der Ring, a series of four operas that never really resolve till the final chord of Göitterdämmerung. I'll admit that performing Siegfried (the thrid and longest at nearly 5 hours with intermissions) in 2000 was about as much fun as I ever had on a gig. Being double-cast in the role of Wotan, it allowed me to play bass on the nights I wasn't singing. Wagner wrote wonderfully for the bass as I learned in high school when I played Die Meistersinger. As for this so-called ambiguous chord discussion. Can't say that I've ever encountered it in over 60 years of gigging and teaching. One of the chapters in the 1964 Gene Leis book put it to bed for me when he discussed how C/E/G/A could be a C6 or an Am7 or an inversion of either depending on which note was the root. Context is everything. How many of us are old enough to remember this? ![[Linked Image]](https://www.pgmusic.com/forums/ubbthreads.php?ubb=download&Number=32170&filename=91tAgaK4wWL._SY342_.jpg) My dad studied out of it. I read it but never really worked the exercises. When I started playing jazz and theater in the early '70s, the lessons on chord leading and melody cut down the learning curve on gigs as I encountered the need to know these things on guitar. Bass was never an issue for me—I listened and played constantly so my fingers knew where to go. Besides my youth symphony chair in high school, I was jamming with Chet Baker on Monday nights at Ricardo's Pizza, a block from my house. He was in rehab and living at his mother's house in Milpitas. Get thrown into that pit and you learn quickly.
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Could somebody confirm please? Enter any song name in the Find Titles option of the Style Picker, then double-click on any of the items listed. Do you get a _CRYSTAL.STY popup message in the lower right corner of the screen? It does this for me in the 2025 version also. ![[Linked Image]](https://www.pgmusic.com/forums/ubbthreads.php?ubb=download&Number=32171&filename=CrystalMessage.gif)
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Arri, an excellent job on this Irish waltz. Great vocal Super job on playing your mandolins Sounds great
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There is no rule against posting live (busking) tracks, the only rule is you use PGMusic products, which you do. Tell the member who told you that to get a life, and keep on posting your tracks, I enjoy them. I agree with Dave. I will add the other rule, you can not post covers unless you have a license to do so. I enjoy your posts and want you to continue. I'll bet that Dave, Charlie, and myself are not the only ones who want you to continue posting your busking videos.
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Floyd, you posted this 13 years ago? I remembered it as it was and still is one of your best. Rodney Gene Junior did one hell of a job on those guitar and bass tracks. Lots of drive in this version. As usual a outstanding vocal and lyrics - I can see Ray Stevens doing this song. Great job on the mix. Loved it.
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Ron, resolution #1 complete and I rate it as an A++ Excellent vocal Super groove, backing tracks, and mix. My foot was a tappin' and my face a smile'n all the way through the song Great job on this one.
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That was grooving! I like those bells? at the instrument break at 2:15. Well arranged and mixed.
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Clever bittersweet lyrics. Backing band is reminiscent of a cool 70s easy listening sound.
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Pete, and excellent song. Love the emotion in your vocal. Personally i wouldn't change a thing but if you must go in and "pitch correct" some of the notes make sure to let the emotion shine through. I much prefer a little off vocals with a lot of emotion like this one over a song where the vocal was massaged to perfection but all of the emotion is gone. YMMV Great backing band and mix. Loved it.
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It reminded me of a film score. It's a beautiful piece of work. Well done. Laurent Thanx Laurent for taking the time to listen and comment on my little song. I'm glad you liked it.
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Great animation! Love the shots
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The fix below is what allowed me to play legacy media player files in Windows 11 version of media player. This may help. ![[Linked Image]](https://www.pgmusic.com/forums/ubbthreads.php?ubb=download&Number=32169&filename=legacy media player files update to play in windows 11.jpg)
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