treesha

Memories of lugging around my gallien krueger bass amp and cabinet. Youth is good!

Hi, I don’t have exact areas to tell you but generally the bottom of the piano roll diagram is where bass would be and up higher you would do chords and melodies. Of course the choice of octave areas is up to ones taste, like some bass is played very low others up higher. Just experiment to see where you want things.

Sounds great good job making it longer. A few places the backing vocals are slightly off the lead, no big deal but i am nitpicky about mine being together. I like the changes and the variety in your vocals. “ It started with a whimper and then there came a bang”

Hi noyekker, thanks so much for your positive feedback. Im flattered by your comments and on my second day with a water main break that is finally fixed (i hope!!) you really brightened my day!

Hi kevinburns0423, thanks for listening and your positive feedback I appreciate both! I do use some pretty good air filters and yes i think they help some but my older home is leaky. Here in arizona its getting to be almost year round now. I miss singing normally ! Glad you enjoyed it.

Hi Jesse, thanks! what would happen if i did? A mess ha. I haven’t learned the way ppl mess with tempos as yet. I would probably sound like bigfoot singing at a karaoke night mostly drunk. Thats what your comment makes me think ?

Hi jack, Viewing this video was just suggested to me over in the songs forum.

Very lovely and well done. Mix works good over here. Nice to think about spring, birds, flowers and pleasant stuff !

I like the guitar riff and drums, bass is cool, and the creepy mood and ominous vocals would go great in a crime movie !

unique and interesting piece, captures how I feel when I wake up in the morning

Good stuff, will you make this longer?

Hi Nigel, thanks for listening and letting me know you think its a real improvement. I appreciate it ! It was more challenging for me to add bass and an extra track of kick drum to a song than if I would have had started with them in. Not sure why but it was. But I am glad I added the bass and remixed the song and it seems the low end could use some work when I have fresh ears for it. Thanks again !

Hi t, thanks for listening and your feedback. I will check out Mikes tutorial, he makes great ones. I am aware of sidechaining but have not learned it yet. Always more to learn! I think I mention my difficulties with my singing in most songs I post that have my vocals. Its frustrating but what I have to work with. I never had allergies till 5 yrs ago and each year it seems worse. I did not expect the arizona desert to be so full of pollen but it is, and its forecasted to get worse due to climate changes. My singing is kinda out of my hands ha...Thanks again

Hi Mark, thanks for listening again and your feedback. Thanks for affirming my efforts ! appreciate it

This is a second version of Out of My Hands, I am grateful for the feedback I got on the first version so I could make it better and I hope I have…let me know. I appreciate the comments by KurtS Steve Poole and Mark Skinner that it needed a bass guitar part because I like it much better now with the bass and all the other suggestions too. Its a much more walkie and not growly bass, not my usual thing, but what happened. So thanks to the forum listeners and commenters I appreciate the feedback ! A lot of it remained the same just remixed, but I added the bass, some extra kick drum (jackc.) and had a chance to play with some new vsts, and changed the ending. I didn't try to sing it again as the pollen is worse than when I first tried to sing it so can't do much better on the singing. Feedback on this version appreciated ! Treesha

Decoda is able to separate out notes in a melodyne- like display and you can highlight notes you want to export as midi and then export those as midi. I have decoda but have never used it to export parts as midi so no idea how accurate it would be, but while listening to selected areas playing back it seems to separate things well.

Enjoyed this, love the interaction between the guitar and the vocals. Very expressive and uninhibited bet it was fun to do.

I think the vocals in this arrangement are better than the first version. Nice improvement.

Hi t, I think it sounds great ! The mix is good over here. I agree it could be a full song. You made good use of the deals !

Hi t, appreciate you listening and your feedback. Hope the movie you see it running before or after was a good one! Ha

Hi Wookiee, thank you for listening and I am immensely flattered by your hypnotic description. I don’t know why it is so special a compliment for me but it is. Sometimes I do get a bit pleasantly lost in a song Im making interesting that someone listening might feel something similar. Thanks for sharing.

Hi David, love the big band version. Just the right amount of inflections of strangeness! Would be a great theme song for a quirky tv show or online whatever or podcast.

Hi jack, I am self taught and don’t own a lot of mastering type plugins but i do find ozone helpful. I use the mastering assistant for a starting point then tweak stuff like the eq or compression settings. I usually add modules like the imager, low end balance, exciter. I also put their tonal balance control on the master bus after ozone to check the overall balance of the mix, and their insight to watch the lufs and peaks measurements. I find these tools helpful and so far my feedback on songs i post in the songs forum are good.

Do you run a vst scan after you put the dll file in the right place so cakewalk finds it ?

Hi David, thanks for listening and your comment. I guess it was slowly evolving because its Still, ha. I used the new nation guitar vsti called Blaque which I assume is what you think sounds sitar? Sitar would have been interesting in there. Thanks again