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Hello everyone, Our new song: Remember the days video soundcloud.com/r-am-music/remember-the-days]Remember the days soundcloud (link no longer valid) I consider Remember the Days our best song so far. Both lyrically and musically. But ultimately we leave that for you to decide  . The first arrangement (as far as we know) featuring two user tracks as the basis of the arrangement: Rodneys beautiful Sleepy Vibrato user track and Hezy's Unchained Melody fingerpicking user track (which is played very constantly and tight) ,and the additional (always functional) bellpad real track. Initially I created this one with the melodist (which also came up with this title) I immediately liked the chord progression, but it sounded too much like MIDI. A couple of weeks later I downloaded all the user tracks of the user track contest. Definitely some very interesting ones there. These two added something extra to the chord progression, which was kind of familiar to me, because these were the kind of guitar chords I used when I first started playing guitar and started writing (simple) songs. The singing melody was created pretty soon. I tried to avoid the 'standard' singing notes in this very familiar chord scheme. Then came the next challenge........... proper lyrics. I thought they would come easily. Well, they didn't. I sat down one evening trying to write lyrics. Nothing came up. After two hours, still nothing... I forced myself to keep going, I wanted to finish this song this very evening! No matter what (the kind of mood I was in....). Then another hour later the first words started to come into mind. Not really convincing yet, but it was a start. It took me another four hours (word for word) to get them right (I didn't get much sleep that night). Anne-Marie, being an alt(o), did a very nice job with the backing vocal, which is pretty high-pitched. We hope you like it, and as always: any comments are welcome. Regards, Rob Lyrics: promised myself I would never look back cherish the memory and leave it at that but lost in today it's coming back to me now what could have been, what might have shown you were older than me, so much brighter than me as you stood on the porch that your daddy made looking for love, looking for life in this town are you still there, wondering too embracing life, living it all for love in a lonely place, in a sleepy town dreaming away like me as you fill up his days, doing his nights keep him in line, loving his ways keeping the peace, being his wife at some point you wish that someday you tried to lower the shields and let her love in count back the days when love was in reach I failed to give in, I failed to try I'm older now, should be wiser now I look for the love from back in the days are you still there haunting me are you far away in happiness or are you one step away from me looking down upon me as you rush through the days fly in the night, with golden boys golden lives, golden loves, golden lies
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The two guitar Usertracks definately work well together in this song. Both of you make singing sound effortless. I'm glad you kept working until some lyrics came to you. They match the feel of the song.
Unlike the majority of your songs, this one did not touch me immediately. I don't know why though. Now, I can't get it out of my head.
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Rob,
Beautiful. You have a wonderful voice.
I have to find time to puruse the User Tracks. Nice work.
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Rob and Anne-Marie ...
As always a very pretty song and wonderful performance! Anne-Marie's high alto voice is such a perfect fit! Wonderful song!
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Outstanding song, and beautifully arranged and the vocals are great thanks for sharing!
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A lovely song, with your signature imaginative chord changes into the choruses, a brilliant move. And beautiful vocals as usual. Thanks for bringing this along!
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Hi Jim, Thanks again for your nice comment. Mmmhh...the song has to grow a little on you then, ha ha. The singing in our songs may sound effortless, but in fact it's pretty rare that the first vocal takes are good enough. We usually sing the song a couple of times on several tracks, and then choose which parts are best. Usually that takes quite a lot of editing. Luckily we don't have to record on tape anymore. Some 20 years ago when I recorded on a four track cassette recorder, the tape was worn out on a regular basis, and I had to start from scratch again  Regards, Rob
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Great arrangement and production as usual. Stellar vocals too. I read the posted comments first and then read the lyrics before I listened to the song. To me, you also did a really good job with your story line and everything fell into place nicely. You have a lot to be proud of.
You and Anne-Marie have a good thing going and I look forward to hearing what you come up with next.
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Awesome song loved it. Excellent voice...
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Really beautifully done!! Nice song all the way around, and great vocals. To me the strummed electric with the tremolo may be a bit loud. It seems that the rhythm swims a little bit at that point. Just a thought. Great work, and a great song!! Take care. Greg
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I agree, this is your best to date.
You have chosen the perfect backing tracks for this song. That finger picking and vibrato guitar are perfect together and your vocals and lyrics took it over the top for me.
You should be very proud of this one!
I want my last spoken words to be "I hid a million dollars under the........................"
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Hi Rob and Anne-Marie !
Yes, this must be your best
so far !:)) I enjoyed it very
much especially your lovely duetting !:))
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Rob and Anne Marie,
You never fail to impress me with each new song!
I too find that BIAB can come up with interesting chord changes when one writes a song/ get a chord sequence, using the melodist.
Good use of the user tracks, I too have tried using Rodney's vibrato guitar but so far it hasn't fitted my song idea BUT this shows, in the right song, that it can sound perfect!!
Nice singing and harmonies.
Enjoyed
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Hi Rob and Anne Marie,
really perfect backing tracks for this song. Your vocals and lyrics are outstanding.
Enjoyable listen.
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Hello SD,
Thanks you for your positive response!
Yes, some usertracks are a valuable addition to real tracks.
Regards,
Rob and Anne-Marie
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Hi Charlie, Thank you for your supporting comments! And since you're looking forward to our next song... it will be something completely different, as it is one of my songs  Regards, Anne-Marie
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Thanks Scott,
Appreciated!
Regards,
Rob and Anne-Marie
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Hi Alan and Di, Thank you for your supporting comments. Rob had to pinch me every now and then to reach those high notes   Regards, Anne-Marie
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Thanks Robert!
I noticed you're already at song #40 in the contest!
Great work.
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Thank you John,
Much appreciated.
We're also looking forward to your next song (and video!).
Regards,
Rob and Anne-Marie
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Hi Greg,
Thank you!
You are right about the slight 'sync' difference between these two user tracks. We noticed that too, but couldn't change much about that (it would only have made things worse).
Regards,
Rob and Anne-Marie
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Hi Mario, Glad you agree with me, however I hope our next song will even be better  We sent a message to Rodney and Hezy to check out this post. We hope they like what we've done with their user tracks. Regards, Rob and Anne-Marie
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Thanks Dani!
Our next song will be a duet as well (sort of) although completely different from this one.
Regards,
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Hi Alyn,
Thank you!
About Rodney's user track:
It doesn't match all that many songs, however it really adds something extra to the ones it does.
We did have to do some editing on it, because the sustain of one note tends to be the beginning of another. We had to trim every part.
Regards,
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Hi Guenter,
Thank you, appreciated as always!
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Hi Rob and Anne-Marie
Greetings from sunny Florida.
What a magnificent song! The lyrics may have taken some time but were well worth the effort. Interesting sentiment that many might understand.
Good tune too and the change at the Chorus surprised and delighted me. Also to finish at the end of the second chorus was also a delight. V unusual.
Well done!
Cheers
Ian
PS - when we get back I must try harder to get User Tracks to work. I have not ANY of them work when I download them. I must be doing something wrong - I just don't know what. Lol.
( great song title ;-) )
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.... Luckily we don't have to record on tape anymore. Some 20 years ago when I recorded on a four track cassette recorder, the tape was worn out on a regular basis, and I had to start from scratch again Regards, Rob Rob, The quote above made me laugh out loud - do I remember those days. Nice to hear some user tracks. I have looked but I end up getting lost in that forum so I haven't tried any yet. I wish there was a way to categorize them somehow making it easier to find things. +1 on what's already been said. I especially liked the higher harmony which blends so beautifully with your voice tone. Josie
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Rob and Ann-Marie,
A beautiful song. I like the writing. Both lyrically and melodically.
For some reason, it reminded me of Jacques Brel (except in English!)... Beautiful vocals/harmonies.
Cool that you have used User Tracks. Obviously, I am in a minority here... I did not care for the Vibrato electric. To my ear, it clashed with the nylon finger picking. I felt that the nylon finger picking track could have stood alone for this. Seems like everyone else like it a lot... so.. just me...
Wonderful song.
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hi r&am great vocal everything perfect love this thanks for sharing eric
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Thanks Floyd!
The vibrato usertrack is a matter of taste I guess.
The spanish fingerpicking track indeed is good enough to stand on it's own. I think it's the best usertrack so far. Most guitar and piano usertracks I tried so far had syncing problems, this one is clearly an exception.
Regards,
Rob
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Hi FMM,
Thanks for your positive comments, much appreciated!
Regards,
Rob
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That fingerpicked nylon was enough to get me over and peruse that forum. It sounds great. The wonderfully written lyric is incredibly well executed vocally. One of the best flashback "wondering how it could have gone" tunes I've heard. Those are hard to pull off without sounding angst ridden. This one works incredibly well. I much enjoyed the listen and look forward to the video this evening on the "big screen."
PS Thanks for the backstory. It's always interesting to hear how songs developed.
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Thanks Janice and Bud,
This must be the most complimentary response of you guys so far!.
As always very much appreciated.
Sorry our response is so late, but we were off to London for a week and we just got back this evening.
Regards,
Rob and Anne-Marie
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Hi Sorry for the delay.. I came across your post just now.. It is very nice what you did! your voice fits so much that kind of sentimental tune.. I like it , and happy to be part of your team All the best Hezy
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Hello Hezy,
Thank you for your nice comment on the song.
And thanks even more for your beautiful user tracks!
Hope you will be creating some more in the future?
Regards,
Rob
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