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22 hours ago, Johnbee58 said:

Long Beach Island!!

I love the place, but it's been more than 30 years since I've been there.  It's a beautiful place to vacation.  I used to always get a room at the Spray Beach Motel (ocean side, of course).

I hope you had a great time there.  But I think your song and vid reflects how much you enjoyed yourself.

😀John B

Thanks.  I'd never been there before, even after so long in NJ.  Yeah, it was really nice.  We enjoyed it a lot.

Best song title ever, and it lived up to it!  It was peculiar,  in all the ways I really dig.

If that's what somebody who sucks sounds like, I wish I sucked like that, too.

Well, that woke me up!  Awesome job.

Nice job!

Oh, I love this.  So much going on here and everytime a new instrument was added to the layers it got better and better.

I'm certainly not qualified to critique anything about the mix other than to say it sounded great to me.

Only two small nits were there was something about the sound of the horns that struck me as a little off when the came in at 0:42.  When other instruments come in later though, I didn't notice as much.    Other thing is I loved the solo piano section in the middle, but for me it when on just a little too long without adding something else back in.

Great job!

I wouldn't know how to categorize this.  I usually hate worrying about categories.

Awesome tune, whatever category it is.  Sounds ready for the radio to me.

22 hours ago, Joad said:

Cool, I hope you got that seagull to sign a release form before you used it's image🐦🐦

I didn't, and you can see from the look on his face he is pissed.

9 hours ago, emeraldsoul said:

That's pretty impressive from a tablet. Looked like a nice cheery vacation, too!

 

Cheers,

-Tom

For 15 bucks, FL Studio Mobile is a crazy bargain.  It's a blast to lounge on the couch, poke at the tablet screen and fiddle with synths.

23 hours ago, jude77 said:

It's beautiful.  Just beautiful.  What a tremendous way to honor your dad.

Thanks so much!

On 7/31/2019 at 8:02 PM, Lynn said:

You did a marvelous job in this tribute to your father.  It makes me sad that I haven't done this for either of my parents.  You may have inspired me to do that!  Congratulations.

Thank you so much.  If my song has inspired you in any way, well, that makes it all the more worthwhile.

On 7/31/2019 at 7:46 PM, markno999 said:

Very  good composition.   I would agree you acheived your goal and created a fitting tribute to your father, and, perhaps hit on a theme for that generation in the process.    Really enjoyed the song and the orchestration.

Regards

Thanks, that means a lot to me to hear that.

Really well done.  I enjoyed that a lot.  That's some fine guitar playing.

That's some fine noodling, indeed.

Very cool and evocative.  Reminded me a little of the soundtrack from the game Superbrothers Sword and Sworcery, which is one of my faves.

damn. that's smooothhh.  Excellent.

It's crazy times, isn't it?  It's a very timely song with a great message. . Good job!

This is a little tune that I wrote while on vacation last week.  I actually did the whole thing on my tablet using the FL Studio Mobile app which I love ( I hope I don't get banned for admitting that 😀 )

On 7/27/2019 at 7:17 PM, Hidden Symmetry said:

"play something soothing to the spirit"- you did a great job, enjoyed your composition.

Thank you so much.  It means a lot to hear that I achieved my goals with this.

On 7/25/2019 at 11:44 AM, freddy j said:

What a wonderful tribute to your father.  Well done!!

Thanks so much Freddy for taking the time to listen and comment!

On 7/24/2019 at 1:43 PM, Joad said:

I love the horns, the solemn mood of the tune is great.

Thanks, Joad.  I played trumpet in high school band and I've always loved the sound of french horn and trumpet, so I'm really glad you liked the horns.

On 7/24/2019 at 7:17 AM, Grem said:

I liked this. You must have remixed and put the piano more up front because it sounds perfect to me. Really good work and a wonderful tribute to your father.

I liked how it built up, came back down, then up again with the final ending becoming quiet and calming. I liked the ending. Very well done.

Thanks!  This is still the original version.  For the most part I think the level of the piano is fine, but there are a few spots where it's carrying the main theme and I want to bring it forward since it does get a little buried by the orchestra.  I just haven't had a chance to work on it.

17 hours ago, Kenny Wilson said:

Very nice tribute to your Father . Your song exhibited  some very nice classically inspired  arrangements and  musical motifs  through t its play .

A couple of time I thought the tympanist volume was a tad high  . In addition to that I  also thought the marching snares could have come up in places  ...

I'm a fan of those type of snares because when I joined band in Jr HS they didn't have guitar so the made me play snare drum 😅

anyway very cool song ,

 

Kenny

Thanks, Kenny.  I kind of knew I was cranking the tympani a little, but I love the sound of that low boom

On the other hand maybe with the snare I was a little nervous because of the great Cardinal drum controversy 🤣

Jeff

On 7/16/2019 at 11:24 PM, bjornpdx said:

Very moving tribute to your father. I agree with Tom about the piano volume.
Really like the theme starting ~2:40.

Thanks so much.

On 7/14/2019 at 10:25 PM, emeraldsoul said:

Great tune, very mellow but kind of stirring. You might make the piano louder when it's in there, as now it takes a back seat to the orchestration.

cheers,

-Tom

Thanks so much, Tom.  That's exactly what I was aiming for.  I agree, I think I need to bring the piano forward a little.

Jeff