Hi everyone,

Here is my new song. It is called https://soundcloud.com/user-296497130/a-river

It is about me dealing with the here and now as a way of living.
I called it a rocksong, because it started like that, but later I raised the tempo, changed instruments and suddenly also SKA influences entered, a tiny bit. I don't know if you are familiair with that music. I thought I wasn't, but it seemed it was already there in my youth and I even liked some of it's songs. I only didn't know they called it like that.

It has a high tempo of 110 bpm and is played in the key of C major.
I used the following instruments:

Style: BADMAN.STY (Bad Man Country Blues Attitude)Tempo 110, key C
RealTracks:   579, Bas, el.
RealTracks: 2158, Guitar, el., Funky Groove
RealTracks: 3351, Guitar, Bariton  El, Swampy Blues
RealTracks:   799: Guitar, el., Southern Snappy Clean
RealTracks: 2023, Piano, ac., Country Rock
RealTracks: 2205, Guitar, Solo, Pop Promise
RealDrums:PopAmericanEv^1-a:SdStkHB, b:SNHB

I used VocAlign for the first time to handle the background vocals. I think that is getting better in the future.
I use Logic Pro X as my Daw and Ozone9 advanced for mastering it all.

I think it was the name of the style that drew me to it.
I really hope you like it. If you do, tell me and if you don't, tell me.

Hans
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Following are the lyrics:
A River
(c) HWBerkhout, june 2021

There is a river of feelings
knocking on my door
It looks like an overkill,
So I simply ignore

Don't want a river of emotions
rushing through my veins
I need to feel happy
Much better for my brains

There is a river of troubles
peeping through a crack
It looks like an overkill
But I turned my back

I embrace today and tomorrow
Not yesterday
I live in the present, you see
The past doesn't bother me

I have friends around me, somewhere (2x)
Don't want a river of emotions
rushing through my veins
And I feel happy
Much better for my brains

Bridge
Something happened
And aches my heart
Maybe the past is more important,
And I didn't act smart...

Now there is a river of emotions
rushing through my head
Nothing stays in place
I fear it turns me mad

Now there is that river of emotions
rushing through my veins
And I feel happy
I finally used my brains

There is a river
rushing through me

Hans Berkhout
(Birchwood)
https://soundcloud.com/user-296497130