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Hi Rob, That's a crackin' pop song. Really love it. Like the way you double time the lyrics on the last line of the chorus, or Tom did. I thought we were going to get a Brian May solo there at the beginning. Great work, kind regards Thanks, Lee! Brian May, that would have been nice! Plus, he's a vegan, which always scores points with me!
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Well done. The magic of this one is the use of repeated and harmony lines...they make it really real. Everything about this is cool...cajon included. I LOVE the double solo...the counter line underneath doesn't compete but adds context. ACE writing, arrangement & mix. Thank you Ray. Janice made up those harmony and BGV bits in her head and Bud had no idea what was happening until record time. đ Weâre glad you liked it. We certainly agree with you re Peterâs guitar and we appreciate the cajon and mix mention. J&B
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Wistful indeed, Ken! Great job with the vocal phrases, they sound super. Nice composition and well mixed. Sounds quite nice through my studio monitors: Very clear with a good stereo image. A lot of us have grey stubble, or worse, so welcome to the club!
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Funny and fabulous, Mario. Love the B3! Super vocals that capture the down trod narrator's mood perfectly. Quirky and cool band, especially the bass player. Nicely done, sir!!
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Nice upbeat groove. Guitars sound great, bass too (pretty sure he is getting paid by the note  ) Good one, Andrew, I enjoyed the story, lots of fun, nice job on the video too. Thanks Dave! Itâs good to let fellow band members to shine, and sometimes that even includes bass guitarists! And regarding the story, Iâve always had a good imagination, which comes in handy when coupled with shallow life experience. Thanks for listening! Andrew, clever and funny write. Super band! Especially like your guitar work here, and the Gretsch comes in quite magically. Those two RealStyles blend well together, too. That's an effective trick I don't use as often as I should. Vocals are exactly right and convey the narrator's plight quite well. Another finely crafted pop treat. Thanks Ron. I like to give my fingers a run occasionally. Being a bedroom strummer for my early years, playing alone, I taught myself how to mimic each songâs style as much as I could with only one instrument, so the âup strumâ in ska became part of my arsenal. Careful, or you'll be a lyrics-first songwriter before you know it! Itâs still the hardest part for me that I have to work at. Many of my teen and early twenties songs remain unfinished due to lack of lyrics, or bad ones. I probably have around 50 or so âsongsâ waiting for words that have sat there for years. One day. Really enjoyed reading the details of the process you used. Fun stuff. (FWIW, Drop Station has been around for years so the comment about loving "this feature of BiaB 2026" was a wee bit baffling.) Thanks Ron. I like reading about othersâ methods and approaches as well. Regarding Drop Station, do you mean to tell me that my productivity has been sub-optimal for years?  Seriously, I saw it in the top left corner of 2026 and thought it was a new feature! Great song! Love the rhythm and sheen this one has. You craft some superb pop pieces and this one is no exception. Love the backstory as well. Awesome stuff! Thanks Bob! You used the term âpopâ in the sense of how I understand pop, but which nowadays is used for Katie Perry, Taylor Swift and the like. In my view, âpopâ is best illustrated by the brilliant Beatles double A single of Strawberry Fields Forever and Penny Lane. Thank you all for listening and commenting! Andrew
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Hi Chay! I like the pace youâve chosen for this instrumental - not too quick, not too slow. Just right for the soloists to be able to dance around it. And it always helps when your foundation is reggae. Your soloist choices add a lot of colour and provide good examples of how different instruments can mix with others. Andrew
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I gotta say this is easily the best thing I've heard from you and I'd certainly rate it higher than a B- So affecting, so true to its time period. I'm really impressed with what you've done here. The only thing I'd do is rewrite the line "You and me married summer '53" due to ambiguity. You never mention a female in the body of the lyric, so it confused me. Not a big deal, this is one of my favorites by anyone on the forum of late. (Also "raised" should be "razed") EDIT: My first listen was on Soundcloud. Then I watched the video and the line about marriage made a lot more sense.
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Hi Dave, Marty and Chris! I listened to this song again and my thoughts havenât changed - itâs a really classy song. Chrisâ vocal is good and loved the doubled parts, and you Dave and Marty have some fine playing over some very tasty chord moves. I enjoyed this a lot! What I also enjoyed was watching your âHomeâ performance video - itâs good to put some faces to the names and see the three of you in action. Andrew
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Love the choice of the laid-back instrumentation in this, plus your guitar solo is superb.
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Big thanks for all your helpful responses, Gordon, Jim, Matt, Johnx3 & Noel96! Very much appreciated.
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Hi Chay. I listened first before I read your post. I was thinking "this is made for a vocal". Carry on. Vic I'll keep in mind that you thought "this is made for a vocal" as I predominantly want to be focussing on sung songs. I listened to the Audacity mix without the solos and wasn't inspired, but then listening again I thought that if the vocals followed most of the notes of the opening solo it could really well. Thanks for that idea!
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Hi Herb! It was good to hear the evolution of the recording. I note that a few forum members post remakes/re tweaks of their songs from time to time. In your case, did you want to freshen it up, add elements that you wanted to improve the song, or were you hearing things in the original that you always wanted to change? I wonder how many of us are never quite happy (Iâm not suggesting you were) with our song, and itâs only the passage of time after a lengthy recording/mixing process (that we begin to loathe) that we feel we can come back to it? I really liked watching your 2011 video - itâs good to see a writer âin the fleshâ in their native habitat. Andrew It wasn't from any perceived deficiency in the original song per se. Time just gives a new perspective and obviously the tools have changed drastically in the interim. With those new tools, there were new directions that were open to my interpretation of the song. Thanks for listening
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Dave, Thanks very much from both of us. Bob
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Excellent song, Marty, and man, that video is something else! Thanks to everyone that mentioned my bit.
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Good manners are in short supply these days... Kevin
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Thank you, Dave. Yes. Those were the days. How come we didnât miss all this modern stuff? Vic
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Hi Thomas. I notice that you've been using BIAB for a long, long time so you have probably tried the suggestions below. In case you haven't, though, here they are... What I would look at in this situation is:â 1) After the song has loaded, set the base tempo of the audio file. To do this, right-click on the User Audio Track in the mixer, select Track Settings and then select Base Tempo. There is also a 'Conform to tempo' option underneath the Base Tempo that might be worth trying too. ![[Linked Image]](https://www.pgmusic.com/forums/ubbthreads.php?ubb=download&Number=32704&filename=Audio track base tempo.jpg) 2) The User Audio exists as a separate file. Is you re-import it, you can set the import options so that it loads at Bar 1 and not Bar -1. ![[Linked Image]](https://www.pgmusic.com/forums/ubbthreads.php?ubb=download&Number=32706&filename=audio - import and set bar to start import.jpg) 3) Lastly, it is possible to timeshift the audio in milliseconds. Positive values will move it right and negative values will move it left. This option is found under the Audio menu. (The Set Base Tempo can also be accessed from this menu.) ![[Linked Image]](https://www.pgmusic.com/forums/ubbthreads.php?ubb=download&Number=32705&filename=audio timeshift.jpg) I hope this helps. --Noel
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Izzy, you nailed this one. You have the Raggae groove down pat. Great vocal and mix but the lyrics are the star of this show. Loved it
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Thanx so much Ron, Janice and Bud, Bob, Chay, Bob, Floyd, Laurent, Herb, David, Dave, Brian, and Marty for all of your very kind words. I appreciate them.
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There really isn't anything new here. When I was teaching guitar I'd tell the students after you learn the basic techniques I will divided the lesson in half, half for continuing out of the book and half for having fun. If ignoring the book learning then the fun stuff will stop. My lessons were not a strictly go from book 1 to book 2 etc. Students learned more advanced techniques more easily when playing songs that they want to play. Learning fun stuff started early in the lessons to get the student motivated. Note that all of the fun stuff was in notation that was modified to the students skill level. I have had great success with this method and so did the other guitar teacher I was sharing students when we both worked at a music store together. YMMV
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RIP Sonny, and thanks for the music.
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whats really needed imho is to have one app that splits into 6 parts AND at the same time creates new tracks that are assessed that might be better than one or more splits useing AI. thus the user could have 'options' to improve the split tracks.
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It's cool but the AI vocal seems to have overdone the "humanizing" as there's way to much breath, sibilants stuff, clipping etc. for my liking. Nifty backing and a good result with the mix. Good ears man. Thank you so much for listening and for your always valuable feedback, Ray. I really appreciate it ![[Linked Image]](https://www.pgmusic.com/forums/images/icons/default/thumbs_up.gif) The imperfections are not the AI's fault, I actually requested the vocals to be that way and didn't remove most of the imperfections. That's a conscious decision, because I don't like the overly polished vocals you usually hear on the radio. Of course, that's just my personal preference, and I know a lot of people who would agree with you.
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