Found an Old Softy - Arranging Thread Made Me Do It

[gvis]

The arranger thread in the off topic section prompted me to post up a tune I normally wouldn't post....because it's lighter than what I normally write.

Go easy on me, it's from 2001 in my previous home studio where I actually had time to actually complete anything. And I ain't no singer, thus the intentional burying of the vocals in the mix.

Recorded on cubase with less than ideal mixing conditions and gear, but did my best with what I had. Drums are all step programmed into an L4 plug in. Bass is painfully under mixed due to mix environment.

But hopefully it illustrates arranging and the difference between the pieces of a song mentiond in that thread versus a complete song. Of course, whether the result in this case is worth listening to is another matter.

And yes, I know the break is cheesy. Like I said, not a tune I would normally present, but I was laying it all out there at the time....lol.

http://www.reverbnation.com/tunepak/3499546

 

[gvis]

Re: Found an Old Softy - Arranging Thread Made Me Do It

Ok, lets make this easier. Try this link. Of course it exposes a few more tunes, one I like that's unfinished but has potential, the next strange but complete, and the last....eh, what was I thinking....and the only tune I ever recorded with a metal zone..lol.

enjoy

http://www.reverbnation.com/tunepak/3499546

 

[TheLivingDead]

Re: Found an Old Softy - Arranging Thread Made Me Do It

Sounds great, man! I liked it!

 

[gvis]

Re: Found an Old Softy - Arranging Thread Made Me Do It

Sounds great, man! I liked it!

Hey, thanks, I really appreciate you taking the time to listen!

For anyone else brave enough, I suggest you try sticking it out to the end of each tune, because each one has some nugget within worth listening to, and some worth scratching your head over. But I've never minded taking chances.

Don't Go is actually my favorite, but it's the least developed because I could never get my vovals to fit. So you have to kind of visual them and a melody, and stick out past the clean parts to get to the heavier sections.

And bass is not just undermixed, its a freakin keyboard. Didn't have or play bass like I do now. And, obviously, my chops back then were, uh, a little fresh and under developed...lol.

 

[P.A.Foholic]

Re: Found an Old Softy - Arranging Thread Made Me Do It

Wow, I'd definitely buy an album full of this kind of relaxed groovy pop/rock ballady thing.

 

[gvis]

Re: Found an Old Softy - Arranging Thread Made Me Do It

Wow, I'd definitely buy an album full of this kind of relaxed groovy pop/rock ballady thing.

Thanks bro! I do have a soft side...lol. Most of the scratch tracks I've written since junking that studio in 2002 and resuming a couple of years ago are much much heavier, but the melodies are still more in the pop range.

That's my vision, once I get time to develop songs again and this time let my son lay down real drum tracks in our new studio. He is an incredible drummer with a bright music future.

Heavy, but not really metal. If I had to pick a song that comes closest to what I hear in my head (not necessarily the direction I want to go, just something close to the heavy but more legato parts and moody singing), it's perfect circle's judith. Syncopated/complicated drum parts (that still fit), swelling and falling waterfall like guitar parts, thick rythmn (not the thinner, scratchier metal stuff), haunting vocals with occasional edge and screaming but with more melodies (and dark).

And no standard 4 chord progressions tnat repeat endlessly....lol...I'm sorry, but I just can't listen to basic stuff (unless it's techno and I'm wasted in a crowd of people), and that's always been my downfall as far as writing accessible music.

Thanks again for kind words.