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Yeah, beautiful song. I liked them both. Really nice to relax to.

Gary Professional caliber performance again. I've listened to some "today's" country music on a local radio station and it all seems bland to me. What you're singing seems to be country music from maybe 60's-80's (?) which has melody and a lot of character to it.

Bob Thanks. You're always that shot in the arm with your nice comments. Yeah, late 60's early 70's music is where I still am I guess. You know, back when music was good. 😀 martins and amiller thanks for listening and commenting.

Cool song. Love the lyrics and guitar. Freddy is an amazingly good gtr player and also the nicest guy around here. I thought I had Jesse all figured out but things are shifting. Sounds a bit like that guy in the B-52s here and then there's all those coherent posts in the forum lately. Don't know what to think any more. 😁

Opposites Sung in the vocal styling of Leonard Cohen, Bob Dylan, Tom Waits and other bad singers. I've come to terms with my singing - it pretty much sucks. But I like to write lyrics that are meaningful to me so I want to tell the story myself. Thanks for listening.

Jesse You posted a song a while ago about trying to get someone out of your mind by drinking etc. I remember because it motivated me to write something similar. And speaking of hearing anomalies, lately anything in the 4.7K Hz freq sounds distorted to me so certain songs sound like a radio that's not tuned in correctly. Anyway, I really like this song esp the guitar playing.

What John B said above.

Wookie Thanks for listening and commenting. You weren't supposed to withdraw funds with my bank info, you were supposed to deposit money. So give it back and then chip in a few extra bucks. Thank you. Douglas Sadly Alchemy is no longer available in the PC world. I think it's a Mac program now with a different name.

JohnB, amiller, kakku Thanks for listening and commenting. Steve and JohnB, once I've put you to sleep the subliminal messages I've inserted will go to work. Do you feel it, that irresistible urge to send me money....

I like the Devo-esque sound of this. Whatever treatment you did with the vocal works well to make it stand out and it's appropriate for the quirkiness.

Thanks Grem. The sound designers for Dream Voices did a great job manipulating the voices of the three ladies on the library.

Playing around with Alchemy Dream Voices again. I like the quirkiness of this library. Thanks for listening Alchemy Omnisphere Zebra Diva Repro-5

I'm not familiar with Josh Turner but you've nailed that country sound for sure. Excellent vocal - I'm impressed and jealous. Can I ask how you got the pedal steel guitar?

John The piano and flute work together well to bring out the melody (great melody!). The strings came in at the right time. I did notice a volume change around 3:30 when Session Strings (?) came in but not really distracting. Not sure if you even need those pizzicato sounds there or that synth around 3:50. Nice job on arranging the piano, flute and bg strings. I like this one a lot!

Groove3 already has tutorials on Massive X https://www.groove3.com/tutorials/MASSIVE-X-Tips-and-Tricks There probably are tutorials on YouTube as well. Haven't checked. Not that I need a tutorial. ..😃

Nice one Andy. Listening to this I found myself trying to follow the evolving layers, looking for repeating patterns and such. Which to me was as enjoyable as listening to the music, nerd that I am. Great video too. I thought the drum track was very good too. Maybe you owe your kid a favor now like coming up with a head banging drone creation.

Douglas, Thanks for the comment. Appreciate it; Andy, Haven't heard from you in a while. Thanks for the comment. I'll have to check out your site and see what you've been up to lately

Douglas Outstanding guitar intro. Professional arrangement and production as usual. Not sure if I like that cymbal phrase but probably just me. Ending seemed abrupt? I listened to a few of your other songs. Good stuff! They're rock songs with kind of a dreamy quality to them which is really engaging.

Andy Yeah, beautiful song. I like the chord changes, some of which surprised me but they work. The vocal track is very good and fits well with the piano. Well done!

skyline Great production on this and the music is outstanding. I watched the video several times and I made up my own meaning of the lyrics before reading your background info on the song. Boy I really like your observations of the outsider and the pros and cons of that. Wonderful lyrics!

dr hash I tried animation once and gave up on it. Too difficult. So I can appreciate all the work it takes. About the only thing I can comment on is that the audio seems to be mono until 3:00 when the stereo kicks in. Just something I noticed.

Bat Since I don't trust my aging ears any more I won't comment on the mix except to say it sounds professional quality to me. Listening now thru Sennheiser PXC 550 headphones bluetoothed to my laptop. I remember the previous version of this song and now you've made it even better. I like the intro which suggests an aborigines story Nice change up 3:30 with the chant thing and the almost heavy metal guitar.

Lady FT I'm listening through headphones while loitering at Starbucks this morning. You could go in a whole lot of directions with that energetic background track including vocal. I like your choice of pad type instruments which seems to be in direct contrast to the background. My only suggestion is to bring up the volume of the instruments on top and give them more separation. Sounds like everything is in the middle to me.

@amiller Hey I really liked that Steve Vai song with the Asian(?) flavor mixed in. @gtrpastor They're recorded phrases and little sighs and ooohs and things like that. Just makes it interesting to put them into a song exp if they're a bit "exotic" sounding. @tom Thanks. I thought I'd bring back some Alchemy sounds for this and the Dream Voices ladies were perfect.

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