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Re:A miniature scale prog epic (To the Sun)
2011/09/23 18:25:10
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Yeah. This is growing on me. ;-)
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grayzer
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Re:A miniature scale prog epic (To the Sun)
2011/09/23 18:27:40
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The organ sounds are very nice....well chosen. The chord progression is lovely as well...trippy, dreamy sublime and ... morose! The vox melody is great. Lovely vibe. It's actually inspiring...nice filter sweep on the synth in the chorus.
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Re:A miniature scale prog epic (To the Sun)
2011/09/23 19:44:04
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Great tune! I am mooded out now. It's too short unless you go concept on us and it leads directly into something else.
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Re:A miniature scale prog epic (To the Sun)
2011/09/23 22:36:43
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I like the vocal effect, very similar to some Beatles tunes as well, must be a British thing.
Nice smooth backing tracks, I can't comment on the Pink Floyd sound since I missed that whole era. I missed about 30 years worth. When I left the road band in the 70s, we were playing Eagles and Loggins & Messina and original tunes that soundedl like the Eagles and Loggins and Messina, then for the next 30 years I listened almost exclusively to jazz. Now I'm all screwed up because I don't even know what kind of music I'm supposed to play :)
Anyway, I liked this. Very well done.
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Re:A miniature scale prog epic (To the Sun)
2011/09/24 01:38:43
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Very Floyd-esque! I love it.
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Re:A miniature scale prog epic (To the Sun)
2011/09/24 20:36:37
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@grazer, thanks for the comments! As mentioned the synths were done with a Tetra. I just played around with the patch and EQ until I found tones that balanced nicely while having pretty different textures.
Iinteresting the lyric and the melody were just made up on the spot in a few minutes. If I'd actually worked hard on them, they'd probably have been a lot worse.
The song was basically done as an improvization of one of the synth parts, to create the chord progression, then everything else was layered over that.
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Re:A miniature scale prog epic (To the Sun)
2011/09/24 20:37:52
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darylcrowley
I like the vocal effect, very similar to some Beatles tunes as well, must be a British thing.
Daryl
It's just a doubled vocal, with different EQ and mic position for the two so that they blend together pretty well. Generally it's depending on them being pretty tight, so that they get a little phasey, though I'm not quite good enough to totally nail that effect all the way through. And in some cases that's a good thing, like the 'open my heart to the sun' part, it actually sounds nice in a messy sort of way to let them slightly be off from each other. I was kind of thinking of the Jefferson Starship album Sunfighter, which has a fair amount of that sort of thing going on, as does a bunch of JS music really. Occasionally towards the end it's tripled just to thicken it a bit more.
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Re:A miniature scale prog epic (To the Sun)
2011/09/24 20:41:38
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I liked this a lot. Not just saying that either. Great vibe, and your vocal delivery and sound is perfect.
I agree with others on it being too short, but that's only because I liked it so much. Any kind of middle instrumental would have worked to lengthen the song. The Toms were sometimes a bit awkward, but no biggie. Thanks for sharing.
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Re:A miniature scale prog epic (To the Sun)
2011/09/24 20:43:39
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geez. is that it? I loved what there was. it was just getting going. Finish it.
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Re:A miniature scale prog epic (To the Sun)
2011/09/24 21:47:16
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BTW, it might not be obvious because it's such a slow tune, but some of what might make the toms seem awkward is that a number of those tom fills are in 5/4 or 3/4, but there's no snare or kick there to make it obvious that there's an extra or missing beat. So it might seem like it's throwing off the timing in a way.
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Re:A miniature scale prog epic (To the Sun)
2011/09/24 21:49:07
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timidi
geez. is that it? I loved what there was. it was just getting going. Finish it.
Like I said, it's a minature scale epic :-) Maybe a Weepic?
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Re:A miniature scale prog epic (To the Sun)
2011/09/24 22:56:18
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I could have enjoyed it for longer too. :)
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Re:A miniature scale prog epic (To the Sun)
2011/09/25 05:57:25
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Dean, this was fantastic. Loved the buildup and the chord progression was superb.
Drums were nice and meaty, vocals sublime, and synths exciting.
My only gripe is that is could have been a couple of minutes longer.
Mark.
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Re:A miniature scale prog epic (To the Sun)
2011/09/25 18:52:52
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Re:A miniature scale prog epic (To the Sun)
2011/09/26 01:00:50
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I enjoyed this, Dean. It sounds like the start to something bigger. Rick Wright would be proud...
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Re:A miniature scale prog epic (To the Sun)
2011/09/26 03:04:21
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It's the first song on my new album called The Screen Door, kind of a slightly less alienated version of The Wall :-)
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Re:A miniature scale prog epic (To the Sun)
2011/09/26 08:20:50
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Too short to be an epic, but it has all the pieces to be one.
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Re:A miniature scale prog epic (To the Sun)
2011/09/26 08:50:36
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Yes, I really enjoyed the intro and I was left hoping to listen to more.
Good job!!!
Plus my mother in law walked in and asked "is that from the '70s?" so you know you are hitting the mark!
best,
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Re:A miniature scale prog epic (To the Sun)
2011/09/26 20:55:24
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Yeh, that's interesting. Certainly I was going for the sound of yore, so that's a complement.
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