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I listened, now I`m in love, what is one to do? :eek:

absolutely knock this ol boy`s socks off.
You got the feel hon', and the touch. The piano is good, the focal point was the sung story. If you concentratre on the piano in accomp' with the singing now that you got the vocal line down I think you got the skill to get it where you want. THe boys have covered everything else, especially Viol's. :)
On the drums, cool and tasteful little comp thing you did but as you said, you got the fonts, and will get the touch with time. If you are using Live Synth to play your midi drums tracks, Just tap a high hat for a measure and record it, then copy and paste it as many times as you need for the whole tune. Then you can go back and add at will. I got you bookmarked, and if Ped is time cramped and can`t help you, sincerely I`d love to...
After hearing your voice I thought, wow.... If the tune daf and I are working on turns out decent, there will be something on there that will be a treat for you I hope. Then you`ll see why I`m so startled. ;)
 
Kirstin, I heard a few inflections that reminded me of Sarah from "Fumbling Toward Ecstacy." I just read your some of your favorites and I'm into most of them...Tori, Radiohead, Floyd...

Definitely looking forward to hearing more from you.
 
Aw shucks,

You guys are like the best family I ever had. I am happy today. Thanks.

Toki, I hope Ped has the time for the bass for sure! He's offered to do drums too, although viols has offered to do that for me as well. Ped PM'd me today, to say he'd been noodling with the song. Not sure if it was drums or bass yet.

I think this is super scary and super fun all at the same time...LOL.

Studioviols wants me to get something complete to a point so that he can put some strings on it too. He's really been helpful in giving me lots of organizational production steps and is coming up with some web space for us to visit to note the status of the progress. He's really taken a lot of time for me. I definitely appreciate that. Fun stuff. But, there'll be more songs for sure, so you can help whenever you want. I'll keep plugging. Man, I wish I didn't have to work. Takes too much time.

Ped--I'm doing "the chart". I think it will actually help me anyway. I need to keep a reign on myself...well it's actually more like I need that framework to keep reminding me that an end doesn't have to be unreacheable, you know? I'm not even sure I know.

So, Toki thank you so much for such nice words. It means more to me than you guys know to hear some good encouragement. And I am going to keep working on drums for the future. Can't wait to hear what you guys have cookin on that HRC. :p

And Sluice, I'll try to do more, but I'm afraid much of it will be similar for awhile. But not identical. ;) I'm just getting into this more now in the last couple of months than I have all the rest of my life combined. Maybe in time other musical feelings will emerge...who knows.

Fumbling Toward Ecstacy is a very good album.

Now, don't anyone kill me for taking a break, but I rented Chicago tonight, and I'm not even watching it right now. It's playing on the tele, and I'm typing to you dudes instead. That's $3 dollars, you know. I love you guys and all, but, you know...

:D

Ciao,
Kirstin
 
Very smooth, and jazzy... didn't hear too many hiccups in the performance... though a closer listen might reveal a few tiny warts :) Cool voice ya got there , sis :D

(cuz I cain't call ya "bro" ;))

A lot of things going right


Chad
 
Re: Aw shucks,

kgirl72 said:
Ped PM'd me today, to say he'd been noodling with the song. Not sure if it was drums or bass yet.
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Dance routines of course! I've invented a lot of interesting new moves for this song. LOL :D

Actually, it was everything. Figuring out the chords, adding organs, piano, vibe, guitar, bass...singing along. Just noodling around to get it into my brain.
 
Tjarko,
Definitely keep working on the dance tunes...we can use them in our video. :o ;) :D :confused:

So...what chords did you find? I don't know that. I could probably figure that out myself, but I haven't done that yet. You'll get a kick out of this, what I'm about to say, considering a conversation we had in an earlier post, regarding my backwards musical universe. I said that I was probably playing one of my other song partials in B-flat, cause I had no sharps or flats on the piano for that one. You called me on that! And I believe you called it something similar to a backwards musical universe, or something like that.

Do you know where that B-flat came from? The clarinet. Our B-flat concert scale was a C- major scale on the piano. Or something very close to what I just said. That's about all I remember from that instrument. (That's not really true, but I'd rather never play a clarinet again.)

So, anyway, I figured somewhere in that midi track, I'd just see in the notation view how many flats there were (or sharps) throughout the music and translate that to a key. Lazy. I'm a very backwards composer, I suppose. LOL. I think the problem is I never really know where the scale starts in my songs...don't make fun of me guys! LOL.

Chad, thank you for the compliments--the hiccups aren't too bad, I just don't want them! I never get specific about where they are or how many, but I'm guessing about 4 of those snap crackles throughout. You can call me bro if you want, I'll still talk to you. But, isn't it fun to say sis a little?

got to get to work. It's early. At least, I think it is.
-Kirstin


:)
 
Mmmmmm.... Another beautiful piece...

I love your voice, its so smooth and rich,
and its a nice change of pace around here...:)

I was just listening to your other 2 songs just a couple days ago, I'm glad you posted another one...

I wont comment on the mix since I know less than you and everyone else already has, but as far as the song goes, I like it very much... the ending was pretty abrupt, I'm guessing that wasn't planned?...:p

Anyway, cant wait to hear what more on this one....



:) :) :)
 
Kirstin, do you really want me to name every single chord in your tune in here? Who do you think I am, Studioviols? LOL (just teasin' ya, Studio! ;) )

It doesn't matter if you know your scales/chords or not. You don't seem to miss it. And since you don't have to communicate with other bandmembers you don't really have to know it. Anyway, I'm not making fun at you because of your lack of knowledge. But the piano scale thing/backwards musical universe joke was too funny to let go. :)

About the drums. There's only one way to learn it (not counting taking drumlessons as a serious option, because you don't have an actual drumkit to practice on).

Simply start listening to drums!

Watch drummers play. Memorize what they're doing. Pick for instance a Radiohead song with a simple drumpart, and try to listen to the drums only. Pick a few bars of the song and try to program that on your keyboad. Very educating. If it's too difficult, break it down to just main kick and snare and forget the cymbals/hihats. It's all basically training your ear.

I'd love to play clarinet....but I can't. :)

(btw, you've said the secret word....which is XTC.....I'll do anything for people who like XTC)
 
Thanks Kelly!

I know it ended abruptly...that's cause I had all kinds of other crap going on in the initial sonar file, and I cut all that out at the end, because some parts ended here, and some parts there. This was the point I was ready for bed and had something tracked for each part up to this point, so I just cut off the rest and posted it as a section of the song instead of the whole thing.

What I initially did was make a click track that went all the way out past where I thought the song would end. Then, I just dropped each part out in different places, cause this was just an experimental session really. I'll retrack EVERYTHING. Actually, there will probably end up being a bridge or solo section then a third verse/chorus/out section. That may make this pretty long, as it's already at around 2:56 if you don't count the 4 seconds of silence at the beginning.

The mix isn't really a mix anyway...I tracked it, threw a couple things on there, like some reverb, and ren bass on the drums to bring that kick out a little more, but other than that, I don't know how to mix. But, I guess I've done a million times worse than that too. I'll only get better.

Ped, yeah, I've actually been trying to remember to listen to drums a bit now. Same with bass...but my ears strain to hear some of that low end content. That's what I need to train my ears to do, to separate out that low end stuff and try not to let the rest of the music drown it out for me. I know that without the bottom much of this stuff the songs wouldn't be well rounded, but man they mix them so tight sometimes, I have to dig them out of there.

And, you can go ahead and make fun of me too. I was kidding. I know it was funny. This is even funnier, although it might be true...I was asking Studioviols what a "turnaround" is really, and he said some stuff, then said, it's where the band literally turns to look at the singer because their part is getting ready to start. That was funny to me. Ha ha. But, also likely true, too.

I'll never be taking drum lessons. And I'm not letting my daughter play drums. My stomach doesn't like too much aspirin. :)

Well, I liked the clarinet too, but I don't like it anymore. I quit around my junior year of high school after I moved to a very small town, and was used to a caliber of playing in a larger area that just wasn't going down in this new place. They were AWFUL. I couldn't stand to listen to it, and I was thinking, haven't these people been playing as long as I have? I quit the choir too, and went to sing at the University of Missouri instead, by just joining the choral union where there was actually some proper music being accomplished.

I got voted most likely to succeed in that high school, and I firmly believe the only reason I got voted that is based on musical ability. Ha ha. 31 people in my graduating class...now that's kind of funny too. I haven't been to any reunions though, so I guess we'll never find out. I also auditioned for Worlds of Fun once when I was around 15, but they didn't pick me. Sadness. In fairness to me, I'll say it was the very last audition round, and there were around 200 people to audition, or more. I imagine they'd already had their group picked for the most part. It was a fun day though...a bunch of people hanging out in a hotel, singing and dancing all throughout the halls, and in every public restroom, practicing their audition pieces. I'll never forget that day.

Ah, I gotta get some work done. Crap. I do like my job, I just wish I could be rich so I had all the time in the world to hang at home. Plus, I've got to go out of town this weekend, and I don't really want to do that either.

Talk to you later guys,
Kirstin
 
XTC rocks. They are some of the most musically interesting people. And their lyrics oftentimes are very amusing, though I'd never write like that. But, they are a group I'll never get tired of I am certain. I don't have any of their real old albums, I think that Oranges and Lemons or Skylarking are the oldest two I have, but I have pretty much everything after that, if I'm not mistaken. Even their "demo" cd of Apple Venus (I think it's number one that they put the homegrown demo version of out) I have the originals of number one and two as well, but I've never really listened to #2 all the way through...it's more rock-y I think than volume one, which is all instrumentation and strings and the great water drop effect on that first song!

But, they are truly good. An acquired taste I'm sure.

See ya!-Kirstin
 
Hey Kgirl,

Really nice vocals man.
Very sweet indeed!

Just seems like you didn't quite catch the beat.
Needs a more solid rythym.
JMHOP:)

Definitly has a lot of potential,hope to hear more from you.

Pete
 
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