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Hi all. Just something I have been messing around with.
All comments welcome.
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You Make The Sunshine


You make the sunshine. Key (Em) Bpm (85)

There is no doubt about it when you walk into the room
you bring the sunshine.

This old heart you melt it when you walk into the room
I know your all mine.


Tracks
1. 085_Lights_Loop_Ac Guitar 1B_Dmaj-Fin Dynami Fx
2. 085_Remember_Drums_Mix 3-Fin Dynami Fx
3. DecentSampler-Fin Dynami Fx
4. Leed Vocal
5. Backing Vox (1)
6. Backing Vox (2)
7. Backing Vox (3) Del
8. 085_Lights_Loop_Ac Guitar 1B_Dmaj
9. Reverse cymble
10. 085_Lights_Loop_Bass A_Dmaj
11. 085_Lights_Loop_Bass A_Dmaj-Fin Dynami Fx
12. 085_Remember_Drums_Mix 4
13. BB-Guitar 1 - 2650 Guitar, Electric, DreamyPopBalladFillsBrent Ev 085 (1)
14. BB-Guitar 1 - 2650 Guitar, Electric, DreamyPopBalladFillsBrent Ev 085 (2)
15. BB-Guitar 2 - 839 Guitar, Electric, Rhythm PopBalladClean Ev 085 (A arp)

Mixed with Studio One 5 Vocals myself


A youthful pop style that has a swung-sixteenths feel and features a dreamy electric guitar.
It plays a melodic background part with extra reverb, and serves as a solo in this context.
Two electric guitars offer chording support with clean guitar tones. One plays arpeggios while the other strums.
Electric bass plays a simple even-eighths pop part with accents on beats one and three. It is matched with RockModernRnB^ RealDrums.
These drums play a modern rock part in their eleventh variation, which includes ride cymbal at A and crash ride cymbal at B.
This song is in the key of A and uses a mix of major, minor, and slash chords that change every 2 to 8 beats.


****** Song Summary *************
Title:You Make The Sunshine
File:robs sunday.SGU
Key=C , Tempo 85, Length (m:s)=0:56
No intro. 16 bar chorus, from bar 1 to bar 16. Repeat x1 chorus
No Melody
No Soloist track.
Song is saved with Volume, Pan, Reverb, Chorus, Bank0,
Style is _ANGSTY4.STY (Angsty Youthful Pop Dream Guitar)

RealTracks in style: ~701:Bass, Electric, PopHalfNotesSync Ev 085
RealTracks in style: 2650:Guitar, Electric, Background DreamyPopBalladFillsBrent Ev 085
RealTracks in style: 839:Guitar, Electric, Rhythm PopBalladClean Ev 085 (A:arp)
RealTracks in style: 840:Guitar, Electric, Rhythm PopBalladClean Ev 085 (B:strum)
RealDrums [in style:RockModernRnB^11-a:Snare Busy, Ride , b:Snare, Crash Ride

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Rob,
very cool and a youthful vocal too.
Your experiments are excellent...I do want to hear more of your voice and more narrative but this is really good.


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Hi Rob,

What a nice intro! Very strong, full of interesting sounds and well mixed!
The build of the song is also powerful, but there are two 'buts':
1) your song is much to short, so double it, because it is very entertaining
2) I prefer the bg vocals not to go downwards but up, because you are happy (considering the lyrics)

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Rob

Very entertaining. Again quite different and immersive.

I'm impressed by your imagination and creativity on this.


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Drums seemed a bit much but considering the nature of your experiment, maybe they're fine. Like to hear you put it all together with a fully fleshed out song. Great work.


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Well done Rob.

The should be great sync library material!

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Thanks, Ray.
I'm still feeling my way as I go.
Thanks for your comment.
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Hello Rob
Top song with great sound effects
Really well done
Many greetings
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Sounds very modern, reminds me of U2. Interesting structure. The dreamy guitar is a very good selection. I like how you mixed the drums to give them nice concert sound. Very good experiment, I think this has huge potential and could be turned into a successful hit song.

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That's a pretty cool creation.

well done.

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It was a bit of a wait for the vocals (01.13) but no doubt you were using that time to allow the instruments to build atmosphere. And when the words came you used them so sparingly, perhaps to give them extra weight.
Secret Garden used slightly fewer words (30 in all) in their 1995 song Nocturne.
And there was a trend, back in the Swing era, to include a short vocal refrain somewhere in the middle of an instrumental (e.g. At Last, Glenn Miller/Ray Eberly, 1942).
All in all, a very intriguing piece.


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Hello Hans.
Thank you for your in-depth comments.
Rob4580

Originally Posted By: Birchwood
Hi Rob,

What a nice intro! Very strong, full of interesting sounds and well mixed!
The build of the song is also powerful, but there are two 'buts':
1) your song is much to short, so double it, because it is very entertaining
2) I prefer the bg vocals not to go downwards but up, because you are happy (considering the lyrics)

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Hi Rob,

Great track - I absolutely loved your intro!

Such a well done track!

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Very cool song! I like the switching of sounds and processing you are using. It feels a little like what Owl City does.

A great and fun listen. Thanks!


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Fantastic production and arrangement!!! Drums and guitars sound great!! Always love your vocals!! Take care. Greg

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Loved the intro Rob. Some very cool instrumentation. Super vocal.


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