Crawdad - As soon as I get over my little cold/cough thingy here, I'll try a couple different ideas musically with that part. Again, I appreciate the input and am taking good notes with the suggestions.
SSB - Thanks man, I appreciate the listen and the postive words! I must say that I've read almost everything I could here for about two years, really trying to implement everything I could that applied to me. Any recording quality success I've had, is mostly due to the information I gathered here. I'd still like a little more action in the keys at the end, but I'm glad you could hear them more on the download. I'm not a big fan of streaming, but some people don't want to have to do a full download, so I make it available.
WP - Thanks! I like all those guys. My style seems to fall in between a newer acoustic driven country sound and a lot of guitar driven pop/rock artists like you mention. I'm also really into John Mayer, who is also acoustically driven, most of the time. Thanks for listening!
Beezo - Thanks, I'll have to take a listen at that spot and see what's up. The drum programming was all done by my buddy, and I just kind of gave him control. I told him I wanted a little 'loopy' type sound at the beginning before the drums kick in, like Keith Urban or Gary Allen have been using, but really gave him full control to do whatever he thought sounded best. My ultimate desire is to have my drummer track them, but I'm just not set up to get a good sound that way yet...but someday!
TripleM - Good suggestions! I may add another simple guitar part with some of the stuff going on. I'm not the greatest harmony singer, but have played around with some stuff. The keyboard player I use sometimes has an amazing knack for harmonys, and I've talked about having him come in. It's been fun and crazy to watch this song take off from my original acoustic version to more of a fully produced song. (you can go to
www.buzzsawmusic.com and listen to the original version on the Music page. it's neat how it's still so much like my original guitar/vocal version, but still different).
Scott - they are some sampled kits of some sort. He programmed them up in Logic with his gear there. If I can find out some more specifics about them, I'll let you know, although it's entirely possible that he sampled them himself off of a drummers kit.
Chris - Hey, thanks a lot! I agree, that line has gotten thinner these days. Look at Shania's latest, she released both a country and pop version of her album, and you get both when you buy it. In most cases, it's just changing out an instrument or two that make the song one way or the other. Mark McGuinn is cool, and it's funny, I've actually had a couple people make a similar comparison, and I agree he's got some talent.....so that's a good compliment! And you're right, I'm taking Crawdads suggestions to heart. As a new writer, I can't afford to not take the input of a more seasoned writer....I always say I can learn from any critique or input session.
Thanks again for listening!
Paul
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