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March 27, 2018 - User Showcase Song - Bound for Freedom
Bound for Freedom: https://soundcloud.com/dcuny/bound-for-freedom
Technical Details
Strummed Guitars - Native Instruments, Strummed Acoustic 1 & 2
Bass - Drums on Demand, Essential Bass (loops)
Drums - EZ Drummer, Nashville Basic Brushes
Horns - Zero-G, Brass Elements (loops)
Sax Solo - Band in a Box, Sax, Tenor, Soloist PopCountryMark Ev 085 #2019
Vocal Processing - Waves Tune
Mastering - Ozone 7 Elements
Effects - EZMix
DAW - Reaper
Notes
As part of my personal songwriting challenge, I'm working on incorporating various cool things that I've bought, but never gotten around to using, into my songs. This time, I started with the EZDrummer Nashville Brush kit - lovely sounds! I added the Session Guitars to that, which are my current go-to toy. As usual, I built the bass line using Essential Bass loops. It's probably not the best way to get things done, but I like the level of control. Then I went searching through my hard drive and found Zero-G Brass Elements loops, and went to town with those. Probably way too much horn, but whatever. Horns are cool. I tried adding some other horn elements using Session Horns, but it was sort of blah. Maybe next time.
Backing tracks completed, I worked out a melody, which I thought was fairly nice, but verse and chorus are a probably a bit too similar too each other. My daughter concurs, saying the song "sounds the same" all the way through. I thinned out the vocal on the verses, and went with a big harmony sounds, but it's still an issue. Lesson learned. I left a big hole in the middle to drop in a guitar solo from BiaB, and got to work on the lyrics. Speaking of lessons learned, did I bother to check the range of the song this time around? Of course not!
I'm not David Snyder, so writing lyrics ended up taking about a week. Since the song has a sort of bluesy Gospel sort of feel, I went in that direction and ended up with a song about the Underground Railroad. When it came time to fill in the bridge with an instrumental, I couldn't find any guitar solo that worked. I finally hit on the second to the last Sax soloist. The first solo one out of gate fit perfectly. The vocals are obviously a bit lower than usual - it's a comfortable range, but it tends to be a bit "tubby" and harder to carve out space in the mix for. My son's friend wondered how I got that cool distorted sound on the vocal. Turns out gain staging isn't something I excel at. Sorry about that. The ReLife plugin helped recover it a bit.
As always, feedback of any sort if appreciated.
Original forum post: http://www.pgmusic.com/forums/ubbthreads.php?ubb=showflat&Number=464113
Posted on March 27, 2018 10:12 AM
Entries from March 2018:
- Mar 1 - User Tip - Band-in-a-Box MusicXML to Reaper Notation & Chords
- Mar 1 - User Showcase Song - Pier Pressure (Merritt/Adams/Jane)
- Mar 2 - Audio Harmonies Feature Enhancements in Band-in-a-Box® 2018 for Windows!
- Mar 2 - User Album - "Out of the Box" with the Boydstun Brothers!
- Mar 2 - User Showcase Song - The Day That I Won't Love You
- Mar 5 - Band-in-a-Box® 2018 for Windows - Guitar Window Enhancements
- Mar 5 - User Showcase Song - It's Getting Away from You
- Mar 6 - Artist Performance Set 8: Traditional Songs Sung by Béatrix Méthé
- Mar 6 - User Showcase Song - The Good-Morrow
- Mar 7 - User Showcase Song - The Traveller
- Mar 8 - User Showcase Song - "I'm So Good At Doin' It Wrong"
- Mar 9 - Get to Know RealPAK 14: Country (RealTracks Sets 278-285)
- Mar 9 - User Showcase Song - Gotta Walk The Foot Log
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- Mar 12 - YouTube Find - Tools to Improve Your Music Composition
- Mar 12 - User Showcase Song - My Grandfather's Clock
- Mar 13 - #TechTipTuesday - Opening MIDI Tracks in PowerTracks Pro Audio
- Mar 13 - Introducing RealPAK 14: Rock-Pop (RealTracks Sets 286-293)
- Mar 13 - User Showcase Song - Charlottesville
- Mar 14 - User Showcase Song - I've Got A Girl
- Mar 15 - #TBT - Automatic Soloing in Band-in-a-Box® 7!
- Mar 15 - User Showcase Song - Do Your Magic (On My Soul)
- Mar 16 - User Tip - Custom Drum Shots
- Mar 16 - #FunFactFriday - Team PG!
- Mar 16 - User Showcase Song - Fox Den
- Mar 19 - #Monday Motivation - Free Band-in-a-Box® Hard Drive!
- Mar 19 - User Showcase Song - Find My Way Back Home
- Mar 20 - Band-in-a-Box® 2018 - Cleaned-up BB folder!
- Mar 20 - User Showcase Song - Addict
- Mar 20 - Oliver Gannon Interview - Appointed to the Order of Canada!
- Mar 21 - Video - Installing Band-in-a-Box® from the Flash Drive Tutorial
- Mar 21 - Guitar Riffs Solo Lesson - YouTube Find (EricBlackmonGuitar)
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- Mar 22 - Video - Band-in-a-Box® 2018 for Windows® - Installing from an External Hard Drive (Option 1) Tutorial
- Mar 22 - Bach Chorales - Article: “Musical Perfection”: Reflecting on the Contemporary and Timeless Bach Chorales
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- Mar 23 - Video - Band-in-a-Box® 2018 for Windows® - Installing from an External Hard Drive (Option 2) Tutorial
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- Mar 27 - TIP: Saving Your Band-in-a-Box® Songs
- Mar 27 - Blog post: The lazy way to make harmonies with Band-in-a-Box and Melodyne Studio 4
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