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    I'd like to write songs for other people

    well . . . Hey, if the Gallagher brothers could do it . . . :p But yeah, I know what you mean. Not much advice I can offer here, especially as I live in New Zealand, where the industry is probably quite different for songwriters (there's no country music to speak of for a start), but you seem...
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    texturing your music

    One thing I think you gotta remember is that simple doesn't always equal bad - Robart Johnson's stuff has more power than a lot of other music made after it, and it's just him and a guitar . . . IMHO
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    500 Top songs per Rolling Stone Mag

    what's with jeff Buckley being listed next to "hallelujah"? If you go into it, they credit Leaonard Cohen with writing it, yet it's Buckley whose name is next to the song. I mean, clearly they've chosen the song because of his rendition of it, but that raises another question - can you be...
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    Famous, "stolen" songs???

    fucking hell, laughed my ass off. I thought Nickelback at least sucked in a half original way. and yes, Prince wrote "Manic Monday". Speaking of which, Ryan Adam's "Chelsea Hotel Night's" copies "Purple Rain" almost exactly - chors progression, verse melody - only thing that's different is the...
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    The Last Wave (muddy bass?)

    I'm listening on computer speakers so I can't really comment on the bass, but I really like your music. Gonna be good for the long summer ahead :)
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    Mocking Chord Progressions from existing songs

    dunno if this is any help, but I'm a guitar player, so if I wanna learn a piano part, I figure it out on guitar and then transfer the notes over to the keys on a piano. do you have a "first" instrument you could do this with? dunno, just a suggestion. could you not just listen to the song and...
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    lyrics: no one lives forever (everyone must die)

    personally, I liked the last 2 lines. I thought they kind of added a bite to the rest of the lyrics, making you see them in a different light rather than trodding the same line. I think you could lose "nothing lasts forever / yeah everything will fade away" as it's so cliched that the words...
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    m-audio audiobuddy problem :/ (not turning on)

    yeah it might have gotten to the point where you need to take it to the shop. when I said the button wasn't "engaging", I meant, when you push it in, is it pushing the right things in place to start it up? (sorry I don't know much about electronics either) basically, if you opened it up, and...
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    m-audio audiobuddy problem :/ (not turning on)

    I have an Audio Buddy, but I haven't had this problem (thankfully). have you checked the 'on' button on the front to make sure it's engaging correctly?
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    an experiment: no chorus, no hook, still catchy?

    on ya mate :cool:
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    an experiment: no chorus, no hook, still catchy?

    I think that's a BIT harsh, but I see your point - no-one here is a fucking AMAZING songwriter, otherwise they wouldn't BE here. Having said that, we're all here to help each other learn, and posting un-constructive criticism which measures a promising song up against impossibly high standards...
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    an experiment: no chorus, no hook, still catchy?

    woah, woah woah. I don't wanna be Mr Leap-to-the-Defense-of-grn, but I'd just like a bit of clarification of your criticique, Limowreck. You say that the end of the song is plagued with cliche - which words in specific? how would you change these words? "I can't figure out if the prupose of...
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    Well, If you didn't like the last one, You're gonna hate this...

    hahaha the funk master
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    an experiment: no chorus, no hook, still catchy?

    well sir, I thought that was a fan-fucking-tastic song. :) I really like the melody - it's naturally catchy without a chorus. I think the song is actually quite repetitive in the way that the melody kinda stays within the same harmonic range and that you keep repeating the word Breanne - the...
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    ok, I don't wanna start a war, but . . . m-audio audiophile or emu 0404?

    haha cheers. I went to the electronics store today and stumbled across them :)
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    ok, I don't wanna start a war, but . . . m-audio audiophile or emu 0404?

    cheers - that's what I really wanted to know. I'll prbably go with the Audiophile cos it seems more hassle free. cheers everyone ofr the help.
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    ok, I don't wanna start a war, but . . . m-audio audiophile or emu 0404?

    right, so stupid question time - how would I connect the Audiophile up to my current Audio Buddy preamp, without significant loss of audio quality? sorry, I'm learning . . . slowly . . . :rolleyes:
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    What is the MOST important piece of equiptment in your studio?

    my pootah, definately. I didn't record jack shit on my old 4-track - it was when I discovered Cool Edit that things really took of for me. so yeah, computer for me too.
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    ok, I don't wanna start a war, but . . . m-audio audiophile or emu 0404?

    also - one more question., although it may be a stupid one. why are the inputs diferent on audiophile and 0404? On the ones I'm looking at the Emu has 1/4 inputs, whereas the audiophile seems to have 1/8" RCAs. if I'm running cables into them, wouldn't I have to get a 1/4" to 1/8" adaptor to...
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    ok, I don't wanna start a war, but . . . m-audio audiophile or emu 0404?

    cheers heaps mate. anybody else got 2 cents?
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