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A power-pop song with maybe a country tinge.

Lyrics in the description box.
BIAB backing tracks with my vocal and guitar parts on top. ;o)

Grumpy (a fun song about a bad day)


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You are making good use of BIAB, Mark.

A catchy little tune (though I had a little trouble making out some words).

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Good tune and vox, worked well for me. Nice job all the way around.


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This is the first time I have every heard one of your songs and this is a very good song. Good vocal and backing tracks.


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A big welcome Mark! Hope you enjoy participating in the best forum out there for encouraging and positive input from fellow members. The tune sounds great to me and I really liked the sound of the guitar parts! Keep on rockin' Thanks, Torrey




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Tasty guitar licks.

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Yep, definitely has a strong country high lonesome touch.
It starts very suddenly.
A really good song - I'd keep working on it if I were you.


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Milkweed,
Fun tune. Interesting vocal swings. Guitar fits very well. Prolly needs some more mixing, but overall a very solid composition.
Thank you for sharing.

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Originally Posted By: floyd jane
You are making good use of BIAB, Mark.

A catchy little tune (though I had a little trouble making out some words).

Welcome to the Showcase.

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Thank you!
Sorry you had trouble making out some of the lyrics. Someone else told the vocals need less reverb and should be more forward in the mix so that they are easier to understand.
(Lyrics are in the description box, though you shouldn't need to refer to them to understand what I'm saying---that's my responsibility!)


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Originally Posted By: Torrey Bliss
A big welcome Mark! Hope you enjoy participating in the best forum out there for encouraging and positive input from fellow members. The tune sounds great to me and I really liked the sound of the guitar parts! Keep on rockin' Thanks, Torrey


Thank you, Torrey.

I think the guitar parts and vocal line reinforce each other, giving the whole thing momentum. It's one of my favorite songs of my own to play and sing by myself.


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Milkweed,
Fun tune. Interesting vocal swings. Guitar fits very well. Prolly needs some more mixing, but overall a very solid composition.
Thank you for sharing.

Misha.


Thank you, Misha.
Mixing is, for me, the next hurdle. I've spent this year learning to use Reaper (-I'm 62 and the learning curve was steep for me), get some equipment (Scarlett 2i2, a couple mics, a bass, an acoustic guitar to go along with my Tele, some plugins) and learn how to use it all.

Between now and the end of the year I want to make rough mixes of several things and thereby gain experience, establish a comfortable workflow (which will likely include buying a bigger desk to work at), and figure out the sound(s) I'm going for. I don't expect anything I do for a while yet to be "finished." To use a baseball analogy, I'm still in spring training, not the regular season.


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Originally Posted By: rayc
Yep, definitely has a strong country high lonesome touch.
It starts very suddenly.
A really good song - I'd keep working on it if I were you.


Thank you, Ray
I like the sudden start. I always thought of it as sort of a punk-pop song like The Buzzcocks used to do. (I know it doesn't really sound like that but it always seemed to me like a two-minute song, fast start, hooky vocal, and next thing you know it's all over but---I hope---you wish it wasn't!)

I think there's more of that high-lonesome thing in me than I realized. Maybe because I think of myself mainly as a guitar player, not a singer. (I WISH I had a great singing voice but I don't. I have a "character" voice and I'm trying to figure out how best to use it.) Anyway, there's a lot more country (I think) in my singing than in my playing. I used to live in Nashville (it's where I went to high school) and although I liked some country music it was never my main focus. But I think there's more of it in me than I realized before.


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Originally Posted By: Mark Hayes
Tasty guitar licks.


Thank you! It's a fun song to play.


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Good tune and vox, worked well for me. Nice job all the way around.


Thank you! I really appreciate that.


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Originally Posted By: MarioD
This is the first time I have every heard one of your songs and this is a very good song. Good vocal and backing tracks.


Thank you, Mario!

I've been using Reaper all year long and mainly recording things without BIAB. (Just EZ Drummer, my own guitars, bass, and voice.) But last year, I put a LOT of songs into BIAB but didn't record them.
Now I'm doing some of that.


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Welcome and we enjoyed your forum entry.

Nice vocal/guitar performances and arrangment.

As I'm sure along with many others we would enjoy learning the BiaB tracks you used to create that well performed band! And any other tech details you might care to offer.

We need more fun songs about bad days indeed.

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Originally Posted By: Janice & Bud
Welcome and we enjoyed your forum entry.

Nice vocal/guitar performances and arrangment.

As I'm sure along with many others we would enjoy learning the BiaB tracks you used to create that well performed band! And any other tech details you might care to offer.

We need more fun songs about bad days indeed.

J&B


Thank you, Janice and Bud!
As for the BiaB tracks used, these are them: _PB.ALADM.STY Medium Pop Ballad w / Dreamy Electric Guitar
The sample tempo of that is 85 bpm but for this song, it is played at 135 bpm, so it's not a ballad at all!

My guitar is a Squier Tele and that handles the main guitar part (which goes along with the vocal line). The guitar part came first. ;o)


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I've been using Reaper all year long and mainly recording things without BIAB. (Just EZ Drummer, my own guitars, bass, and voice.) But last year, I put a LOT of songs into BIAB but didn't record them.
Now I'm doing some of that.
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Go for it !!.... this as Floyd has said , is hard to make out the Lyrics !! not be long tho !! .

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Welcome, Milkweed. Wonderful start and I'll be spending more time listening to your YouTube channel.


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Milkweed
welcomes, nice geetar licks.

all i might suggest is on this song lowering the voc effects a tad. and experiment with dry vs fx.
try this on your vocs. (i'm a reaper user too for years.)
1. record a dry voc trak in reaper.
2. copy it to a new reaper trak.
(OR record a new voc dry trak ie a double)
3. on the copy or double slide the copy just a few millisecs. experiment with no of millisecs to use.
4. now insert on the copied trak pg echo dx plug in..
and experiment with the settings in the plug in dry vs fx
and other settings etc.

the very best to you.
om


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