kakku

Very nice. Heart break is real bad

Hi. This one I sent to 3 Record companies. It is a ballad again. I welcome comments. 

https://youtu.be/IJ__aXZr2Lc

40 minutes ago, S.L.I.P. said:

Is that maga cream?

I have a dream

But I need to scream

I have a car 

But it is too far

I have a bow

But it is too slow

6 hours ago, bayoubill said:

Cm ?

Is that the dog from the Excorcist? He cannot quite do the 360 degree thing, but compensates with cuteness

12 hours ago, daryl1968 said:

Thanks Kakku. Is that the band the lead singer from Wings was in?

 

Dunno

Love and listen to my own tunes so many times and expext everybody to do so too??? Am I John Vain or sumthin???

I am from Finland but Sweden is close enough

53 minutes ago, Wookiee said:

Nice to hear something  little different from you Kakku

I cannot control what kind of melodies come from my mind but this is one style I like

1 hour ago, Jesse Screed said:

Haunting, with a Spanish feel.  This would be good in a spaghetti western.  Go Kakku

I like the mix on the drums too

You have really started to shine

Thanks Jesse. I feel that this is one of my better tunes

1 hour ago, Douglas Kirby said:

A well constructed instrumental - kept me listening all along. The harmonica in this worked well.

Thanks for posting.

Thank you Douglas. Harmonica is a versatile instrument and one of my favourites atm

4 hours ago, freddy j said:

What do you know ----- I finally got it to play.  I'm very glad that I did.  This does have a bit of an '80's feel to it.  Everything is put together very well (e.g., performance, recording , mix, arrangement, etc.) and best of all it is a fun song.  Well done!!

Thank you

Hi. This a pop tune with some classical music vibes thrown in. I hope you like it. I welcome comments

https://soundcloud.com/madrigal7/the-harmonica-song

I think this is great. The ending was a bit short but that is a minor niggle

Very good for  adventure meditation and scifi settings and so on

This has your signature sound on it. Nice! Bit like a Beatles song

On 5/18/2019 at 6:39 PM, emeraldsoul said:

Too late, I called the police for you, they should be arriving shortly.😳

Thanks but police said that living with my wife is punishment enough

Very nice song. Well performed also. Dreamy vibe

Hi. I would like to know if any of you fine people here have tried and really liked the hornet  Eq plugin thirtyone that is supposed to help the mixing process? Or the other hornet plugs if you have 'em

3 minutes ago, msmcleod said:

My brother and his wife hit each other with sticks.... it's brutal !

 

Nasty. 

Sorry

On 5/18/2019 at 4:03 PM, msmcleod said:

I've gotta say (and I know I've said this tonnes of times before on this forum), that there's a fine line in the time takes between getting Shreddage sounding realistic and actually practising the part on a guitar and playing it for real.

I use Shreddage in two specific cases:

1. When I want to get an idea down quickly, and I've not got a guitar to hand (though if it's a simple enough part, I'll probably use U-JAM VG IRON)
2. When I physically can't play the part (like really fast sweep pick scales). In this case, I record a real guitar for the parts I can play, and comp-in Shreddage. I run both parts through Revalver's ACT engine so they sound more or less like the same guitar.

In every other case, I'll use a real guitar. Even in case 1, I'll usually re-record it with a real guitar later on.

You can literally spend hours trying to get a Shreddage part to sound like a real guitarist... or you can spend that time practising the part.

Of course if you can't play a guitar, or don't have one its a moot point.

I agree. I can play a lil' guitar but the guitar is so small you cannot hear how it goes... 

1 hour ago, msmcleod said:

I like this one.

I agree with all the comments above... especially the open hi-hat level, and the timing.

As far as the timing goes, I think you might get away with just concentrating on humanising the Shreddage part.

The three things I'd do are:

1. Slightly adjust the timing of power chords. In most cases, I think coming in slightly early would work - but sometimes they want to be slightly late.

2. The gaps between the chords are just a tad too long. Try making the chords last a bit longer - even if it's just some of note in the chord (e.g. the highest note by a very small amount).

3. Experiment with the velocity of the notes within the chords. Think about whether the guitarist is picking down or up, and give the first note picked a slightly higher velocity than the others.

As a user of Shreddage myself, I find bypassing the effects whilst doing this can help. If it sounds like a typical GM MIDI, you've still got work to do... but if it sounds like a guitarist jamming along on his acoustic, or his unplugged electric then you're there.

But a great sounding tune.

Thanks for all the tips. I got a ton of work to do. Believe it or not but i even sent 3 of my best tunes to 3 record companies. I will post them here too as soon as I can. I will have to tell peeps that they are the ones i think are good, otherwise someone will ask me that when will i post the good ones... A lil' joke.... I wish it was a joke. If it was a joke, my wife wouldn't have to beat me up every day so much. I pity her... She says it really hurts her hands when she hits me. And She knows karate and knows how to break a brick wall with her bare hands. When she beats me She uses gloves because i am such a disgusting loser... Her life ain't easy i tell ya... 

5 hours ago, emeraldsoul said:

Nice and fun. Nice to know you are retro rawk, plus a bit of Scandanavian 80's synthpop to boot. Its a cool tune.

 

One crit to track down is maybe that open hi-hat on the left side that pops up JUST AFTER  the "2 and" in many measures. That open hi hat is a ton louder than it needs to be IMHO.

 

As in, "1 and 2 and 3 and 4 and"

 

Certainly is a breeze to listen to!

cheers,

-Tom

Thanks for commenting and for the tip. I need to check the hi hat thing

4 minutes ago, kakku said:

Maybe country is so epic, that any sentence which might be or is about suffering or heart ache is good country song material. This was clumsily written but I tried to make my meaning understandable

Even any of these sentence would be good country material