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Road To Valhalla - UPDATED


Glenn Stanton

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updated - additional lyrics and new singers including backup 🙂

70 BPM
~ G Major / E Minor 🙂 

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breathe in the air
reach for the stars
heal everyone
and dream with your heart

then the road to valhalla lies clear
there's nothing left to fear
oh oh i'll let bacchus decide
how we spend tonight

Quetzalcoatl will call the tune
as we dance in love around the moon
Hera says that all is fine
cause i am yours and you are mine
Gaia dances for all to see
don't mess with her ecology
cause i did hear a wiseman say
please don't let it slip away

clean waters
still matter
clean waters
still matter

help those in need
reach for the stars
feed everyone
and dream with your heart

then the road to valhalla lies clear
there's nothing left to fear
oh oh i'll let bacchus decide
how we spend tonight

Quetzalcoatl will call the tune
as we dance in love around the moon
Hera says that all is fine
cause i am yours and you are mine
Gaia dances for all to see
don't mess with her ecology
cause i did hear a wiseman say
please don't let it slip away

peace and love
still matters
peace and love
still matters

breathe in the air

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updates + lyrics
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Now this is something I can relate to in my own little way.

What effects did you use on the vocal?

Did you play the guitar?

I like the way it has different comings and goings.

Very cool and inspiring.

It is a great message if you listen to the lyrics.

This is cool, what do you call this style and who were some of your influences on this song?

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the vocals are actually from my original demo and i chopped them up and melodyned the crap out of them to get them to sound reasonably close. i was going to only use them as a reference and re-record them, but after listening to them, i thought, hey - these are kind of quirky in a good way so i'll leave them for now. mainly the only other effect was long delays on the "clean water" section and then reverb as part of the overall room. on the "viking march" at the end, the bom-boms - i used melodyne to drop them low and auto-panned them. i had done that in the demo and it was freakish so i had to keep the concept...

update: using my Synth V vocals with background singers as well. 

in this recording - the instruments are all computer generated with some tweaking, except the solo. i used HookPad, Scaler, patterns, etc to create the tracks, and in HookPad where i used some instruments, i substituted some of those for other sounds.

so when i started writing this song (or parts), it as 2016. then a close friend passed in 2018, and as i worked on it, i took some of the things that were part of our life experiences and shaped lyrics around that - our wiccan / earth magic beliefs, drunkeness / etc, blues music, etc and it seemed to stream together. i put the demo together (mainly played live on acoustic guitar and double bass) in 2019 but didn't really record it "proper" until late last year.

--- yes i know Quetzalcoatl is mispronounced 🙂
 

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