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Thanks for your feedback... I did go back and try to clean it up a bit...drum machines/sequences and me don't get along so well :? The music always sounded so stiff whenever I tried to do a song with one so I stopped using them many years ago and prefer to play with live drummers...since that won't happen anytime soon, I thought I would give it another shot...

anyway in all it is still a rough mix....just cleaned up a bit....

Thanks again. :D

James]]> Sunday Songwriters Group jamestoffee https://guitarnoise.forum/sunday-songwriters-group/y7-wk20-belong/paged/2/#post-323781 https://guitarnoise.forum/sunday-songwriters-group/y7-wk20-belong/paged/2/#post-323766 Thu, 19 Mar 2009 12:08:27 +0000
I'm sorry, i had to say I laughed when it started but it actually got better as it went on... :D

I know exactly how long it takes to mix and overdub tracks and NOT in a proper studio so you've done a great job if it's your first time...

You sounded really uneasy to start with but built up confidence after the first couple of verses. I think it sounded too out of sync to actually sound - well - deliberate. I'd tidy up the sync, and bring in the overdubs earlier, maybe after the second verse - they really add depth to the song. Start off with a bit more confidence with the singing.

Hey, I think we all have subliminal influences when we write songs so that isn't a problem unless you rip it off - even Coldplay have been accused of that!

Okay okay - you got rid of the intro, but got your revenge on the outro... :roll:

Rock on!
D 8)]]> Sunday Songwriters Group DylanBarrett https://guitarnoise.forum/sunday-songwriters-group/y7-wk20-belong/paged/2/#post-323766 https://guitarnoise.forum/sunday-songwriters-group/y7-wk20-belong/paged/2/#post-323762 Thu, 19 Mar 2009 09:36:14 +0000 Hint: Be sure to keep track of your eye lashes.]]> Sunday Songwriters Group jamestoffee https://guitarnoise.forum/sunday-songwriters-group/y7-wk20-belong/paged/2/#post-323762 https://guitarnoise.forum/sunday-songwriters-group/y7-wk20-belong/#post-323761 Thu, 19 Mar 2009 08:52:19 +0000
KR2]]> Sunday Songwriters Group KR2 https://guitarnoise.forum/sunday-songwriters-group/y7-wk20-belong/#post-323761 https://guitarnoise.forum/sunday-songwriters-group/y7-wk20-belong/#post-323756 Thu, 19 Mar 2009 06:36:10 +0000 ...and the song is sung to the singer's brother ]]> Sunday Songwriters Group jamestoffee https://guitarnoise.forum/sunday-songwriters-group/y7-wk20-belong/#post-323756 https://guitarnoise.forum/sunday-songwriters-group/y7-wk20-belong/#post-323755 Thu, 19 Mar 2009 06:12:14 +0000

Forrest Gump? :mrgreen:


KR2]]> Sunday Songwriters Group KR2 https://guitarnoise.forum/sunday-songwriters-group/y7-wk20-belong/#post-323755 https://guitarnoise.forum/sunday-songwriters-group/y7-wk20-belong/#post-323743 Thu, 19 Mar 2009 02:02:59 +0000
Good answers! Now I see the benefit of leaving it a mystery....each interpretation can branch off to a new song idea :wink:
It's not immigrants, or biblical....but it could definitely work in both situations :D burning their ships? . . . a figurative expression or literal? figurative expression

Hint: It's from a movie....a literal tie-in-"Blame it on our genes or your misguided destiny"

James]]> Sunday Songwriters Group jamestoffee https://guitarnoise.forum/sunday-songwriters-group/y7-wk20-belong/#post-323743 https://guitarnoise.forum/sunday-songwriters-group/y7-wk20-belong/#post-323692 Wed, 18 Mar 2009 17:23:00 +0000 burning their ships? . . . a figurative expression or literal?
Since you had biblical references in your post . . . (Old Testament)
I'll guess maybe the Jewish people moving back to the Holy Land after WW2 . . .
because that's the first thing that comes to my mind . . . as people who belonged in Israel.

Exodus by Leon Uris?

KR2]]> Sunday Songwriters Group KR2 https://guitarnoise.forum/sunday-songwriters-group/y7-wk20-belong/#post-323692 https://guitarnoise.forum/sunday-songwriters-group/y7-wk20-belong/#post-323690 Wed, 18 Mar 2009 17:04:20 +0000 Ecclesiastes 1
9 What has been will be again,
what has been done will be done again;
there is nothing new under the sun.

10 Is there anything of which one can say,
"Look! This is something new"?
It was here already, long ago;
it was here before our time. Kind of a weird effect there at the end though. Yeah, I set the drum pattern to repeat about 200 measures and then had to manually go back and delete the extras and I guess I had a floating guitar track that didn't get caught and I didn't know how to chop it up after I made the mp3 and didn't want to open fix burn etc.... :oops:

Thanks for the follow up listen and post :D

P.S. Any guess of the inspiration/story behind the song?....It's a tough one :wink:]]> Sunday Songwriters Group jamestoffee https://guitarnoise.forum/sunday-songwriters-group/y7-wk20-belong/#post-323690 https://guitarnoise.forum/sunday-songwriters-group/y7-wk20-belong/#post-323689 Wed, 18 Mar 2009 16:49:31 +0000 Intro is much better . . . nice funky sound . . . good beat to it.

I'm so glad you have a sense of humor :D . . . because Jerm said you are a big guy (gulp) :oops:
Kind of a weird effect there at the end though.

Good job, James

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