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When my teen son who was into rock and metal heard me playing this he said with a puzzled look on his face was…..“birds??”

I got this at audiodeluxe along with the db occasionally free uvi digital synsations and for me, who is missing the drummer gene, this solid was easy and way quicker than my usual struggles with drum parts !

Hi Starise, ha. Glad you were pleasantly surprised, I try not to terrify anyone, although my song Red Alert about the time a few years back when I had a mandatory evacuation from a close wildfire is complete with the sirens, helicopters overhead, and newscast warnings. Now that was terrifying. Fortunately it did not destroy my home, neighborhood or kill anyone around here ! Maybe I should keep all the music parts and change the words now that hurricanes are so deadly, and make it about a carnival coming to town...brace yourself the clowns approaching...Thanks for listening and comments

You should be very proud Dad ! I understand how you feel, when my sons were young and I was in bands that practiced at our house they had access to all kinds of instruments and gear plus I "made" them take piano lessons for 6 years. They both have written music, not as important to them as it is to me, and neither ever wanted to be in a band ha. Its really great to share music with the next generation and for them to blossom as your son has. The song and the video are very good and the passion shows ! I hope they find success and enjoy the journey !

Really enjoyed this song, very smooth and well done all around. Your voice is very expressive and has a sincerity to it. I agree about the sound of the lead guitar being a bit different, unsmooth for such a smooth warm piece. Anyways, great job !

Very peaceful and relaxing music. One suggestion I have is when the individual guitar notes have the delay/reverb on them, I would automate the volume of the delay/reverb notes so they are decreasingly lower, so they are more drifty and not competing with the main note which would add to the spacey vibe you have going on. I started with Kontakt Player and Im sure anything else you add will only add to the beauty.

Sounds great, very clean mix, nice changes, enjoyed the ride !

Very beautiful and well done, the mountains do you good !

And you made me smile. Thanks!

Thanks for listening and your comment SupaReels, I appreciate both! It was fun to make and glad you enjoyed it and yes these days hurricanes are very serious.

Thanks David, appreciate the listen and your comment. Glad you enjoyed it even without a chorus, ha, I honestly didn't realize it had no chorus ! just did what I did. I guess I will leave it to the hurricane to break things down. I have had the pleasure of writing poetry for most of my adult life so thank you for appreciating my words too.

Thanks jack c. Pop goes the hurricane! Glad you enjoyed it

Hi PhonoBrainer, thank you for listening and your comment, appreciate both. I will have to check out Tom Tom Club now that you mention it. I expected to get feedback that the drums were too prominent ha. I'm glad you mentioned appreciating the held syllables, I had fun doing the vocals this way. Yes those poor weather reporters deserve a break ! Thanks again

Hi bjornpdx, thanks for listening and your comment. Glad you liked it. Honestly I didn't even notice it doesn't have a chorus and still wouldn't have thought about that if you hadn't mentioned it. As usual I just play around without too much planning most of the time. I will make a mental note to ask myself if I think a song should have a chorus in the future ha. Thanks again !

Thanks for listening and your comment noynekker! Sorry you are in an area that deals with the now much more deadly hurricanes. I am in the high desert of AZ and we have other challenges (fires, hotter heat) but occasionally do get a hurricane here that comes up from the Gulf of Mexico, normally just makes heavy rain. When I grew up on Long Island we had hurricanes, and in PA also that were threatening more like my lyrics as in no big worries, nothing like today. Funny you got a parody vibe, I always appreciate the feedback here on the song forum because it is usually not what I was expecting !

Wrote this one before hurricanes became as destructive as they are now, so its missing devastation. Just wanted to do something a bit more fun after my last two. Thanks for listening and any feedback ! Happy Thanksgiving to anyone who is celebrating it.

Ha yes losing interest in the first 8 bars is not a good sign, maybe put the black sheep out to pasture for a while

Thanks so much Larry T ! I appreciate the listen and your positive feedback. I hope you got to enjoy a lot of the beautiful area here and nearby (sedona, flagstaff) and fun stuff to do while you were here and that no ghosts messed with your installation work

I will be paying more attention to this now, seems it is not common at all. Thanks for the editing tips too. I also have melodyne studio which has the nice make loud notes quieter / make low notes louder feature that i think is great. I overdo saving copies of projects until the song is done so yes I do have copies of things I might occasionally destructively edit but a good point for those who don’t.

thanks ! i will pay attention to if it happens with other changes besides gain and volume ? I haven't used revert, news to me. BTW when I say gain, i mean destructive gain, process - apply effect - gain menu, not the gain fader. But in the example above, I had not moved any markers to edit - undo.

Hi Mark, thanks for listening and your feedback and your story, interesting! I really enjoy messing with backing vocals and kinda had set a personal goal to finish by Halloween but you’re right its kind of a local legend thing too. The cello was old from the first recording I made of this it may have even been a soundfont ! I still liked it so used it in this version.

Thank you Boomin36Beatz! Glad to know the mix sounds good to you and the emotion came through. Appreciate it!

Like just now, I did a gain increase I wanted to undo, and when I went to edit-undo, it said I could undo moving a marker I think it was. Anyone else have this? For me it's longstanding but I never asked about it before. I'm currently on 4.21 but it predates this and other installs for me.

Really great song and very well done ! Has a great atmosphere, like the sum of the parts together make it even stronger. I'm not up on metal mixing, for me if the lyrics weren't written here I would have missed some of them and they are good. The vocal is great in tone and expression, as are all the parts, maybe just a little up in the mix would be clearer ? guitar slightly lower at times? Maybe just my listening space. Love the drums. enjoyed this song very much ps I have one called Babylon is Falling from my reggae band days ha.

Thanks for listening and your comment ! appreciate knowing you liked it and that the music matched the mood of the story. I always struggle with drums I seem to be missing the drum gene so I will check out the beats you mention.