Song: Baby I gotta tell you we gotta be more than friends don't you think I care for you? don't you see me make amends?
I wanna be the one to tell you you're the only guy in my life don't you care if you make me blue? we gotta be more than friends
Here we are you know we're just chasing them chasing the moon and stars I'm a holding on tight, but you still want to fight and fight baby it's so hard for me to know if you don't love me, go Why do you make me, please don't make me and I'm still so strong for you baby still hoping you'll be there to save me Don't make me, don't make me, Don't make me, please don't make me blue
I know I wanna give it my all And I hope that you feel it too I know that special look-in your eyes But why do you make me blue?
Here we are you know we're just chasing them, chasing the moon and stars I'm a holding on tight but you still want to fight and fight baby it's so hard for me to know if you don't love me go Why do you make me please don't make me and I'm still so strong for you baby Still hoping you'll be there to save me So don't make me, don't make me don't make me please don't make me blue
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Absolutely a great and beautiful song ! And what a great voice of Desi ! Masterpiece !
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This is great!!!! Desi's voice and her performance are outstanding (and then some)!! I love the laid back, cool-jazz-with-a-twist-of-funk feel.... really classy music and a credit to everyone involved! Your mix is superb. Everything sparkles
What a nice "first write" on lyrics.... You certainly nailed it first time out...
My only crit is that this superb vocal is way to far down in the mix. Your vocalist is a great singer and her vocal needs to sit CLEARLY on top of the mix, not down in it. My guess is a few dB up (3 to 6 dB should do it) would do the trick. It's almost where it needs to be but not quite fully there. Listen to Celine or Cher or Marriah .... set your vocal level accordingly.
Excellent work.
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DANG! I'm not sure what I was expecting, but this song blew my expectations right out of the water... and I wasn't even swimming!!
I'm guessing Desi had her vocal chords surgically replaced with rubber bands, right? Her vocals stretch so well from note to note! Just beautiful... the perfect vocal accompaniment for your rich jazz composition!
I've always had a hard time trying to build convincing transitions in the jazz realm, but I thought your chords flowed VERY well in this piece... and the lyrics are a perfect fit for the mood and cadence of the song... very well done all around! It's surprising to me just how adding vocals to a good song can make it a great song, and the sum of your contributions on this project work together to create a very compelling composition... as Josie said, it's absolutely gorgeous!
Hi Trev ! An incredible emotive voice with an efficient smooth jazz music ! It is great......I appreciate very much. Thanks for posting this song. Christian
What a nice "first write" on lyrics.... You certainly nailed it first time out...
My only crit is that this superb vocal is way to far down in the mix. Your vocalist is a great singer and her vocal needs to sit CLEARLY on top of the mix, not down in it. My guess is a few dB up (3 to 6 dB should do it) would do the trick. It's almost where it needs to be but not quite fully there. Listen to Celine or Cher or Marriah .... set your vocal level accordingly.
Excellent work.
Herb, thanks for taking the time to listen. I genuinely appreciate the feedback, and will have a much better listen to the levels. I thought that they were a fair bit on top from the middle to end of the song, maybe a bit light at the start. I did deliberately keep the vocal "Mmmmm" and "Yeahhh" low during the intro, but perhaps this needs lifting too.
Thanks again.
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DANG! I'm not sure what I was expecting, but this song blew my expectations right out of the water... and I wasn't even swimming!!
I'm guessing Desi had her vocal chords surgically replaced with rubber bands, right? Her vocals stretch so well from note to note! Just beautiful... the perfect vocal accompaniment for your rich jazz composition!
I've always had a hard time trying to build convincing transitions in the jazz realm, but I thought your chords flowed VERY well in this piece... and the lyrics are a perfect fit for the mood and cadence of the song... very well done all around! It's surprising to me just how adding vocals to a good song can make it a great song, and the sum of your contributions on this project work together to create a very compelling composition... as Josie said, it's absolutely gorgeous!
Pro sounding from start to finish! Great job!
Pat, I'm really blown away by the fantastic feedback. I have to admit I am extremely pleased with the vocal, and there's no doubt that this is the one single item that gives massive strength to the song. Thanks for your comments, greatly appreciated. Trevor
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Hi Trev ! An incredible emotive voice with an efficient smooth jazz music ! It is great......I appreciate very much. Thanks for posting this song. Christian
Hi Christian, Let me say that I'm buzzed out by the positive feedback, yours included. Very much appreciated. Trev
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Very gorgeous and beautiful song with emotive vocal. It is such as a song written by B. Bacharach and sung by Whitney Houston. It was so nice to use Acoustic Piano instead of Rhodes Piano. I also like your chord progression, which is a little bit different from mine. For example, maybe I will put chords on the first 4 bars as follows. (But it is merely a matter of taste.) Ebmaj9 / / / - Fm9 on Bb / / / - Cm(add9) / / / - Dm7 / G7(b5) G7
Anyway, this is great. I look forward to your next song very much.
No need to be shy about writing more lyrics. You left the gate running and never looked back. Excellent write, mix, production and performance. Enjoyed this from start to finish.
Hi Trevor. Well, if this is your first attempt at writing lyrics, that is quite incredible! Absolutely love the Jazzy vocals. Well done. (Very much)
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Pat, I'm really blown away by the fantastic feedback. I have to admit I am extremely pleased with the vocal, and there's no doubt that this is the one single item that gives massive strength to the song. Thanks for your comments, greatly appreciated. Trevor
wellllll.... that's a very gracious statement on your part, but I don't think you need to give her ALL the credit! Her job was to sing, and she did a great job! YOUR job was to:
1) write the song 2) write the lyrics 3) mix the song 4) master the song
and YOU did a good job too! If either of you had done your part at a level of competency that wasn't in synch with the rest of the project, the whole thing wouldn't have been as good as it is. You're getting rave reviews because you both nailed your parts. And you had 4 opportunities to screw up (but you didn't)
Bottom Line: great collaboration, and a real feather in your cap!
To say "I'm blown away!" would be an understatement.
A stunning arrangement. The interplay between the piano and the guitar is very well done. The bass line is tasty. And the drums are superlative! Don't know if they just "fell into place" or you worked hard to make them do that - but it was one of the best drum tracks I've heard in any forum song - like it was a live drummer recorded for the song. Stellar.
Your vocalist should be a star. That's a million dollar voice.
EVERYTHING is top-notch. Pro level.
And it all begins with the song. This CANNOT possibly be the first lyric you have written. The melody is gorgeous. The lyric is every bit a match for it. These type lyrics are not easy to write. Very few people ever master them. It is a real talent. They have to "say the right thing" but more importantly have to "sing" in such a way that they (the sung words) become one more instrument among all the other instruments that make up the song/production. They are not lyrics to be read - rather, they are lyrics to be HEARD - and if they do not "fall on the ear" perfectly, they fail. At no point in your lyric does that happen - they work perfectly all they way through. This is amazing songwriting.
WOOOOOOOOOW!!! This is incredible. Sounds like a hit from the 70's/80's. The music is so pleasant and your vocalist is nothing short of amazing. I'm not sure the last time you posted a song Trevor, but I will be anxiously awaiting your next post. This is SOOOOO DAMNNNNN GOOOOOD!! Take care. Greg
Floyd, thanks a million. Coming from you and many of the other experts here can only be taken as a great compliment.
Thank you so much for taking the time to explain what you identified as key points.
What I can say is that after the initial melody was established, a lot of time was spent in Real Band with the Multi-Riff and regeneration in an attempt to get the instruments to work harmoniously together. I think I eventually achieved that.
Well, yes, it's the very first lyric, ever. And it somehow came rather naturally. Maybe I'll give up electronics and computer software development and try songwriting a little more. But hey, maybe it was just a one-off, by chance(!).
One thing I have learned about BiaB and RealTracks, is that they don't ever try to deliver what you want, because they set the framework. Taking this approach helped my to establish a process of understanding exactly how the drums, bass and other instruments would be decided, and then I worked on how I could establish integration of my song, my melody and my lyrics to harmonize / mesh them seamlessly together, without conflict. I wanted to allow all of the musical phrasings to continually complement each other. I think I achieved that.
Notwithstanding, you are part of a team of continual high-class deliverers, and your words carry significant gravity. They are much appreciated.
(Color me flattered and in much gratitude to you.)
Sincerely Trevor
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Not hard to like this one! I agree that the vocals sit to far back in the mix a tad, not much but they seem to be competing with the piano for attention. Other than that it's a great arangement and production, The lyrics are very good also, you should do more (lots more).
Such an amazing song and beautiful vocal as well. I hope that you pass on congrats to the singer, she sure can sing
Where have you been hiding your talent Trev up to now?
Brilliant arrangement as well, I do feel that the audiophile version does add that little bit extra of sparkle as well.
Great song, so good you could go places with this.
Really enjoyed the listen Musiclover
Hey, Musiclover, It's sure remiss of me not to have sent a big thanks for your extremely supportive comments. They are appreciated and received with much gratitude! Thanks again for your feedback. Trev
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I just noticed that you've gotten about twice as many views on this song as anybody else, even compared to the heavy hitters whose hit count always tends to be higher than the norm.
Can you shed a little light on this? Did you link to the forum post on other web sites to draw more hits than the regular forum traffic would generate?
Whatever you did is something we should all be doing to draw people here to the BIAB site so others can be exposed to the potential of PGMusic products!
I'm not only impressed with your song and with your first lyrical work, but now I'm impressed all over again by your promotional skill!
No, I never mentioned this on any other site. Guaranteed. In fact I'm not even a member of any other music related forum (except for Cakewalk, but I'm not active there at all).
However, Floyd's Take Me Drunk has received a similar number of views in the same amount of time (and it deserves it too).
Not hard to like this one! I agree that the vocals sit to far back in the mix a tad, not much but they seem to be competing with the piano for attention. Other than that it's a great arangement and production, The lyrics are very good also, you should do more (lots more).
Rick
Thanks Rick, your feedback is greatly appreciated. I am going to have a much closer look at the levels. It might be that I've been a little too conservative with the vocals. Thanks for your ideas. Trevor
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Videotrack first time is always the best time, great job.
dga, Thanks a million.
Yours and others comments are truly appreciated.
In think I really need to look at the vocal levels, and so I've started to look at the mix in more critical detail, I will hopefully post a remix shortly.
In the meantime, everyone's support and feedback is absolutely received with much gratitude.
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Really pretty song Trevor!! Did not realize you don't write many lyrics......you're off to a good start!! Really well done in every way.....love the singer (voice and performance)!! GREAT!! Take care. Greg
I really really like this !! One of the best songs I've heard on this forum in quite a while. It's absolutely refreshing and the vocalist is great. She is a little low but her tone still comes through in the mix. I know lyrics are hard :-) But you did a very nice job on this. - Henry
I'm late to the party and everything that I would say already has been said so all I can add is this is one hell of a fantastic production, pro all the way.
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