PG Music Home Forums General Discussion Off-Topic A SONG ABOUT A MAN AND A WOMAN.

(thought i might put this song in off topic for critique as it didnt use all pg products and im not sure its good enough for user showcase.)

link...

https://soundcloud.com/alfsongs/a-man-and-a-woman-c-alfsongs

Details.

1..feel free to critique even harshly....i can take it.
use good quality earbuds/iem's.
2..various people seem to like it even tho it wasnt done in a zillion buck studio.
3..song came about because often in my travels people have said to me...
'how come i cant meet THAT SPECIAL SOMEONE'.
4..the song is also about my wife and myself.
5..note the comedy in the song...listen for the bass player..
around 1min28secs...lol. lots of fun.
im sure lots of couples (hopefully) will identify with the lyrics as they travel thru life together and loving each other thru ups and downs.
6..the song was mapped out in pg powertracks and then done in a small studio.
it was when i was recording in various commercial studios and at the same time showing various studios the power of powertracks daw for such a low price.

kudos/shout out to pg and Jeff Y who created the powertracks app cos it saved me lots of money mapping out songs in commercial studios much as i liked them.

anyhoo thanks to anyone that might listen.
apologies if you dont like it.
frankly i dont know how to classify the song as to genre.
any ideas ?? romantic pop maybe ?
(its quite a fast tempo.)

happiness.

om

Love this Justa, nice and bouncy happy song, put me in a good mood, I wouldn't change anything.

Well done a good write choice of instruments and well sung.

Put this in the showcase where it belongs as its that good.

I agree!

This is an excellent song.

Post it!

That's easily "good enough" to post in the showcase.

FYI..... the requirements in the showcase are using a PG product. So you can use ONE track or even none, and record it with Power Tracks which is a PG DAW, and it qualifies. Quite a few of my songs this year have had just one PG real track in them.

Re the song 'A MAN AND A WOMAN'.

..wow thanks for the positive comments and sorry i couldnt reply sooner. just been very busy with family and various projects.
i'm chuffed at all your comments because your all such extremely talented musicians and i go thru these....
'is this song i am creating any good' phases...lol.

..heres some inside info...
i think meeting my wife brought out my softer side...lol.
eg this man/woman song and others like pretty girl about my wife
that is on my scloud and others.
cos in my youth i was kinda a wild one due to living in the east end of london uk where one had to be rather tough as it could be a gritty place to live.
so some might say i'm sorta like jekyll and hyde...lmao.
ie one week i might do a hard rocker (the mad hyde side) or sing in a hard rock band and the next a softer song like this man/woman song
(the jekyll side.) and do some choir work.
(my wife likes to watch call the midwife on pbs which is set in east london. cockney life is tough for many many people.
mind you today the assistance and social programs are better.)

..re posting on the showcase,.

well the competition is fierce with so many talented people who know all their chord extensions/inversions etc etc as well as notation which i'm useless at....lol.
haveing been in crazee rock bands by comparison its mainly simple chords. eg punk x.5 etc etc.

i'm rather busy right now to post more songs and i'm also revisiting checking out further various song distro services and trying to assess if i can even make a few hundred bucks a year from song distros services...
(eg that distro ones songs to spotify etc.)
which would help sate my constant gear lust...lol.
i would like to get a mac m4 mini for example and see if i could
get rb running under win emulation and compare to my ry pc.
(hint to pg lol.). but i'm sure i would need a zillion song net plays to
cover a m4's cost...lol.

once again thanks to you all and great happiness.
i'm thinking i might use the showcase next time to show a
very hard rocker that started off in powertracks but was the one
few times i could afford a well known world class studio.
this was a very big production with hours and hours of getting
the right guitar sounds. used all the big boy studio gear etc.
hopefully it will appeal to folks that like blazeing wild guitars...
and crazeee rock vocs....lol.

once again the greatest respect to you all.

om

I think I see your problem.
The showcase isn't meant to be a competition .. or at least I hope not

Rharv (and all).

re Showcase.

i just meant there are so many great artists on the showcase.
(heres an example of me pushing myself and i credit rb and pg content as well as the talent on pg site/showcase for makeing me always strive to improve my songwriting.)

one day i'm sat down with rb and thinking to myself...
'its time for me to do a song outside my crazee rock comfort zone'.
ie 'a completely different genre.'
at the same time by happenstance i was cheesed off seeing a program on tv in the usa about the plight of some usa farmers loseing their farms.

so i thought 'a country song perhaps ?'
then i thought 'but this had better be darn good as there are sooo many great country artists out there includeing on the pg showcase'.
so i'm noodling around in rb and came across the bluegrass genre.

lol...i'm thinking to myself 'no blinkin way a hard core rocker lad from east london can pull off a country bluegrass song'.
'my rocker mates in east london down the pub would think i'd gone off my rocker'.

but as i like a challenge i persevered and thus the 'Banker Man' bluegrass song in my scloud sig came about. a ton of work frankly and much to my amazement from comments ive had it seems people actually like it.

bottom line is knowing there are tons of great country artists in the world and on the pg showcase...it pushed me to go outside my comfort zone and challenge myself big time.
i never thought in a zillion years i could do a bluegrass song.

i often challenge myself this way. for example ive been working on a jazz song recently to broaden my songwriting.
as your into rb...i love to use rb for 'noodling around' with the rt session musicians till i get a song idea. plus i got a ton of tracks in rb i can useto develope a song idea.

(why i like rb is it used to cost songwriters loads of bucks to rent studio time and hire pro session musicians by comparison...but now people dont have to do that and a songwriter can relax and develope song ideas useing the pg session muso content and rb....skys the limit plus ive got way more tracks than we used to have with 24 track studio mtr's.
i mean 256 tracks in rb 2025....holy moly Batman. )

take care and happiness.

om