I have a bigger challenge for home recordists!

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Continuing on from my successful thread

'can anyone mix my track?'

https://homerecording.com/bbs/showthread.php?t=282245

I have a new challenge or at least a discussion about how this could be achieved.

Here is my idea.

I feel I compose decent songs, at least many people tell me so.

Well, I have a great song already arranged an composed.

Arrangement pretty much nailed with simple chord structure and open to interpretation.

What if there was some sort of co-operative from day one to record and mix this song with track contributions from members of this great forum, which is always alive and busy and people here know their stuff.

The song I'm proposing is at my website in only basic acoustic form on a youtube video.
Never Let A Good Thing Slip Away
http://www.gordonadamsmusic.com/

Many years has passed and I havent yet had the time to attempt a recording although I believe it deserves one.

Surely there are musicians, guitarists, programmers and singers here that could submit tracks for the mixers here to get their hands on and eventually produce an amazing track? What a story that would be?

Even the mixers here could have a say in how it is constructed?

The only condition would be that the arrangement, words and chords stays fixed, avoiding any confusion with those issues.

Is digital recording software able to conform to this proposal?

There must be resources, perhaps i could provide to allow upload and download of individual tracks and it would probably take many months to complete.

I know this would benefit me but also whatever musicians and sound engineers here would benefit too?

Never let a good thing slip away is a moody track with a lot of scope for sound, ...mean, sad or uplifting.

Saying that, maybe theres another song someone has that has bigger appeal?

Interested to know your thoughts on this idea?
 
If you can post a .wav file so it can be imported into a sequencer, it would make it a lot easier for people to experiment.]

If you do that, I'll try and have a go. I'd enjoy having a go something like that. It'll be a nice change not to have to do any full-on writing or structural arrangements, and just experiment with someone elses work.

That said, I'm a rather flakey and unpredictable individual, so don't hold me to it. And I can't guarantee that you'd like the result.

But yeah, as I say, a .wav, preferably lined up on a sequencer, and some information about tempos would make it a lot easier to play with. :)

Anyway, I'm at work at the moment, so I can't even listen to it on youtube, but I'll have a listen later and see if anything comes to mind.
 
I would be interested in this project . . . but I'd rather not be bound to conforming to arrangement, words or chords . . . the very conditions you'd like to see unchanged.

What I would be interested in is getting the source guitar and source vocal tracks separately as WAVs . . . actually, for the purpose of the exercise I could get by with MP3s.

I would then let the song take me where my mind says it wants to go . . . which may be a different place to what you have in mind.

However, I'm just as flakey and unpredictable as legionserial . . . and it's possible that the song will send my mind nowhere.
 
Yep....and I'm the same as the other two above. I had a mess with it the other night...I got a nice little piano going played live against the youtube vid but after recording the audio(from the vid) and loading it into my DAW, I found the problem I knew I was gonna find...that is, the timing is roughly around 72bpm but of course, you didn't play to a metronome and so there's no way to keep my DAW in time...which a project like this needs.

I mean if you had some sort of electronic beat keeping you in time, then I could sequence an initial track aswell as creating a track with the tap of a hi-hat to keep other musicians in time etc.

Another thing...it's a pain picking out the chords....A-G-A-G-D or something I can't remember but ideally, I'd rather not have that hassle...it's easier to jam along to the song if I have the chord sequence infront of me. We need to learn the song as we jam to it rather than trying to learn the song and then recording without any reference.

So if it's possible to re-record it...just audio will do(and quality doesn't matter), then I'm sure alot more would be interested cause just like 'Soul motion'...it has great potential.
If you ain't got a metronome...just let me know and I'll record you that hi-hat tap as a mono track that you can use. Just like most things in life...if we aint all working to the same pulse, there can be no synchronization.
 
Hi I was away for a week...just rejoined this thread.

I see your point about timing.......thats what I wanted to know......like building the foundations correctly.

I think it's pretty well arranged as far as the song goes.

I'll have a think about what to do.

I'll be back.
 
I'm in class right now, I'll check it out when I get home but I play drums for a bunch of bands and I'm always down to lay some stuff down.
 
Remind me not to post hungover... :o
 
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If I read & interpret you correctly you have the progression and structure but no fixed arrangement.
That might make the offer more enticing.
You ought to post this in a more appropriate forum though. This doen't really conform to mixing or mastering.
 
rayc said:
If I read & interpret you correctly you have the progression and structure but no fixed arrangement.
That might make the offer more enticing.
You ought to post this in a more appropriate forum though. This doen't really conform to mixing or mastering.
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My thoughts exactly. This is a request for a collaberation. MP3 clinic or songwriting, not here.

All of my best stuff is the result of collaberation. It helps to give them a well tracked, timing locked down scratch to follow, but leave the end resluts up to the collaberator. If you want something more stringent, it's better you do it yourself. You won't be satisfied with it if you don't.
 
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