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Dear Stefan...

The video is so well-produced that I would have thought it was a segment of a popular television show laugh !!!

The song is funny as all hell with its clever lyrics, and the music is a rollicking example of what the "happy blues" should sound like. There's nothing like a hard-driving "shuffle" rhythm to get your blood up!

Stefan, not only are you an excellent musician and an entertaining vocalist, but you're obviously quite a showman, too. I'll buy a ticket anytime!

Still laughing,

LOREN


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Oh yeah...THE blues!

The back story and the write are cool

The vocal and guitar performances are cool

The video is cool

A lot of coolness here cool

We like it...a lot!!!!

J&B

PS Odd about that RD. I don't often use styles but when I do, as I expect everybody does, I always take any reverb off each track, any "tone" off, set the pan to zero and turned the volume all the way up...and then render them for my DAW. I'll check that RD and see if it behaves with BiaB.

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Originally Posted By: bluage
Dear Stefan...

The video is so well-produced that I would have thought it was a segment of a popular television show laugh !!!

The song is funny as all hell with its clever lyrics, and the music is a rollicking example of what the "happy blues" should sound like. There's nothing like a hard-driving "shuffle" rhythm to get your blood up!

Stefan, not only are you an excellent musician and an entertaining vocalist, but you're obviously quite a showman, too. I'll buy a ticket anytime!

Still laughing,

LOREN



Dear Loren,

you're not writing reviews - you're awarding medals! And I have to admit that it feels awesome to have one(at least one of yourt kind) pinned on me every now and then.

So thanks a lot of lots for your flattering words, and, yes, I agree as much as I can: There's nothing like a rough blues shuffle whenever you having one of those days: I got it bad, and that ain't good. It should be regarded as a remedy and the health insurance companiers should consider paying for it...

Thank you as well for considering me as a show man - I have to admit: I'm not. If I would have to act like I do in the vids in front of an audience I'd fall dead within ten seconds. I never acted that way prior to 2016 when I first took up composing after a very long period without any musical activity and shortly after that found that coming up with all that goofy stuff is, at least for me, a perfect way of forgetting about those serious issues that 'escort' aging. And I also found that being busy with things you've never been busy with before (like BIAB, RB or the video stuff) might help to stay 'mentally awake'. And since I've always been very fond of the English language it's an immense pleasure to write those lyrics, even though it always takes quite some time.

So, I hope that I will be able to make you laugh again with my stuff in the future, thanks again for the great things you wrote.

All the best,

Stefan

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Originally Posted By: Janice & Bud
Oh yeah...THE blues!

The back story and the write are cool

The vocal and guitar performances are cool

The video is cool

A lot of coolness here cool

We like it...a lot!!!!

J&B

PS Odd about that RD. I don't often use styles but when I do, as I expect everybody does, I always take any reverb off each track, any "tone" off, set the pan to zero and turned the volume all the way up...and then render them for my DAW. I'll check that RD and see if it behaves with BiaB.





Dear Janice, dear Bud,

and your comments are aslo VERY cool - thanks an awful lot for your nice words which were the first ones I read on this (otherwise very dusky) Sunday morning. Couldn't think of any better start for a Sunday...

As to the drums thing: You might have noticed that I prefer to write my own drum part, whenever this is possible. The main reasin for this is that I can customize the fills, but also because Maha has full volume control over every single instrument. But it's hard to write a rollicking Texas shuffle in MIDI, so with this song I tried some of the RealDrum tracks.

When I get going I use BIAB for the mere structure of the song and, of course, for finding the appropriate style. As soon as I think this might be roughly OK, I import the BIAB song to RB which, by the way, is the only DAW we use, because we get along with it and, most of all, because the GUI is BIG.

So the single tracks come in 'clean' and apart from some normalizing they always stay that way until the song is complete and Maha takes over for EQing, panning and mixing.

In the process of editing the songs I very often replace single tracks at a later stage. Since I had never thought that somebody might be interested in how I put my songs together I never kept the long track captions that appear when you generate a new track, but replaced them by 'Drums', Bass' and so on. That's why I can't figure out which RD I finally used with this song. (Now that I'm active in this forum I changed that habit, of course!)

But whatever RD style I used: The stereo track is definitely panned to zero and we seem to have accepted that 'list', because we must have liked the rollicking drive of it.

And I'm aware of the fact that this is not the best song I've written and produced so far anyway, so I can live with that flaw pretty well.

Thanks again so much for listening, watching and commenting so kindly and have a great week.

All the best,

Stefan

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Originally Posted By: 44kfl
Nice groove,

rockin' blues, good raw guitar playing!

enjoyed the listen,

Kenny


Thanks, Kenny. I'm glad you enjoyed the thing.

Take care,

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Originally Posted By: Deryk - PG Music
Oh ya - this took about 10 seconds for me to know I'd be into it. Love the bluesy groove, and found your vocals to be top notch. It has a lot of attitude behind it, and the progressions are fantastic. A real proper mix job too.

Great work, and thanks for sharing!


Oh ya - what a nice review, thanks a lot, Deryk - I'm really gladthat you enjoyed the listen. And if I'm not totally misled you have a certain taste for uptempo songs which I have, too. Well, there's more to come...

Cheers,

Stefan

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Fun song Stefan!! Some really great lyrics and a passionate vocal. Really got a kick out of this!! Take care. Greg

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Hey Stefan,

This is some smokin' hot blues! And what a great video. This is more than a great song a delivery - it's entertainment. Great vocal, hot guitar, big sound, and a nicely-done video! You have a lot of talent, my friend!

Sie haben mich mit Ihrer ausgezeichneten Musik außerordentlich unterhalten. Sie haben ein spezielles Geschenk für die Musik! Ich schätze Ihre Sachkenntnisse.

Alan

PS: Ich werde auf Ihre Private Nachricht morgen abend antworten.

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Groovy blues tune. Great vocals on this and a nice writing. Good job man.


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Really nice blues. Great power in it.
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Originally Posted By: Greg Johnson
Fun song Stefan!! Some really great lyrics and a passionate vocal. Really got a kick out of this!! Take care. Greg


Thanks a lot, Greg. I'm glad that you enjoyed the thing and I really appreciate your kind words.

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Originally Posted By: Samuel Davis
Groovy blues tune. Great vocals on this and a nice writing. Good job man.


Hi Sammy,

thanks a lot; I'm glad you enjoyed it.

Cheers,

Stefan

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Originally Posted By: Sergio Guarneri

Really nice blues. Great power in it.
Sergio


Thank you very much, Sergio. I really appreciate your nice comment.

All the best,

Stefan

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It's a fun song but there're a couple of things in the mix (video version) that seem odd:
. The drums are over on one side - feels almost like a Beatles early stereo mix.
. The music sounds like it's in a different room to the vocal - different reverb?
The lyrics are good and the play on hounds works well.
The playing is fine and your project of humour, music and visuals is always a good time waiting to be had.


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Originally Posted By: Al-David
Hey Stefan,

This is some smokin' hot blues! And what a great video. This is more than a great song a delivery - it's entertainment. Great vocal, hot guitar, big sound, and a nicely-done video! You have a lot of talent, my friend!

Sie haben mich mit Ihrer ausgezeichneten Musik außerordentlich unterhalten. Sie haben ein spezielles Geschenk für die Musik! Ich schätze Ihre Sachkenntnisse.

Alan

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Dear Alan,

oh boy, you really abashed me with your great comment - thank you so much. There's a lot of guys around here whose feedback means an awful lot to me, but I feel especially honored by your kind words, because with every song of yours that I get to know my respect for your incredible musical abilities gets deeper and deeper.

Looking forward to your PM (which doesn't mean that you got to hurry !!!!)

All the best,

Stefan

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Originally Posted By: rayc
It's a fun song but there're a couple of things in the mix (video version) that seem odd:
. The drums are over on one side - feels almost like a Beatles early stereo mix.
. The music sounds like it's in a different room to the vocal - different reverb?
The lyrics are good and the play on hounds works well.
The playing is fine and your project of humour, music and visuals is always a good time waiting to be had.


Hi Ray,

first of all thanks a lot for watching and listening.

Wow, I envy you for your ears. While I, of course, noticed that the drums are mainly on the right, I would never noticed the other issue that you mentioned. But I've never been very much into the sound editing and mixing thing anyway, most of all because my vision prevents me from coping with all that tiny buttons, captions etc., but a heavy tinnitus I've had for decades doesn't help either - what I sing in the song about vision and hearing isn't made up. Unfortunately. So I'm very glad that Maha (who is otherwise not interested in computers) came to grips with it and, even more important, enjoys it.

As to the drum issue: Floyd already mentioned it and if you move up in the thread you can read what I found out about that issue.

You know, this song was the third or fourth one ever that I arranged using BIAB and RB and which Maha took care of soundwise. Because she would never add any reverb to a complete backing track I tried to recall what might have happened. I think that this might be the explanation:

In the beginning I rendered every single BIAB track and then imported the WAVs into RealBand. This way there might have been some reverb on the tracks. Now I import the BIAB file into RealBand and have it re-generated there, so it's always 'dry'.

One thing I should add is that we never had thought of our projects being reviewed by people with expertise - we just did it for our own and some friends' kicks. Now that I finally dared to show up in this forum things have become more serious, of course. But all our projects that I put on display here are still 'pre-forum', so there will be more issues to be found smile .

And that's why I (or we) also appreciate any technical feedback. Although we will not work on any of the projects again once the videos are out, we will try to keep every hint in mind so we (hopefully) won't make the same mistakes again.

So thanks again for your attentiveness.

All the best,

Stefan

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Excellent rocker Stefan, kicked in gear and fully loaded up.... Love it Cliff

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hi Stefan awesome work here love the blues really like the arrangement and guitar work great energy love it thanks eric


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Stefan

Great video and excellent track - enjoyed it all (some interesting technical comments in the thread as well).

Peter

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Excellent rocker Stefan, kicked in gear and fully loaded up.... Love it Cliff


Thanks for listening and watching and of course for your kind words, Cliff.

Happy Holidays and all the bedt for 2019.

Stefan

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