Born to Fly--dedicated to Jimmy Gentry

I wrote a song.  I mean, with real lyrics and all.  And let's just say I had a little help with it. :-)  I hope you enjoy it.

Born to Fly

edit:  I sent this to Jimmy, with my vocals...3 days later he sent it back to me, so well done.  Now I'm dedicating it to him. 

Enjoy your wings, Jimmy!  :) 

Nice song.  The words are really great!  I like the chorus - the harmonies fill out the chorus nicely.  Nice job!

Fine job, Janet. Words are excellent, melody and mix super. The only comment I want to make is that there is a high (very high, like dog whistle) whine or whistle at the end, and I think it is there in the middle of the song once or twice. I'll listen again tomorrow to be sure, who knows, could be my system or the fault of the soundclick compression, but I thought I would mention it. But you sure got this writing and recording thing all figured out.

Fault of my system is a possibility, since just last night my cd burner quit on me. I use it a lot, not like the average person, but to run off twenty or thirty copies for distribution at one time, so it is not a big surprise. And I am getting a Plexor from tigerdirect for $49, which is not a bad deal for a top of the line type burner. I will be replacing this tower in the next year or so from necessity. It has served me well for five years, I have so much stuff jammed into it there isn't even room for dust, and it is being used for things it really wasn't designed for. But they only last so long, and then the big crash hits, blue screen, or no screen, and hopes that the last backup was not too many days ago.

Later
Albert

   Albert
      That artifact you hear is there. I don't hear it as a
whistling sound but a bit of a sort of phasey sound.
It's the acoustic guitar. I worked so hard on this song
finaly got to a point with the acoustic where I said
that's enough (for now anyway).

  Between finger/fret noise and ambient noise
(computer) I was ready to bang my head against
the wall until it was numb so I could get some relief

hey well done Janet, so you only wrote the music and lyrics, huh? trust you to do the easy bit! ;-)

it's nicely played and recorded, the vocals fit the music well, without ever really taking off - c'mon, it was born to fly! C+W isn't really my thing (you'll be shocked to hear) but i'd love to hear a big ending, kinda like plugged-in Garth Brooks, all stadium drums and electric steel/slide guitars.

Nice catchy hook.  Good job Janet and Jimmy!  I like the sound of the acoustic also
-Mike

Really great stuff Janet.

++++++++++++++

There are times when it just dosen't matter if things aren't so tight and polished and perfect. The vibe is all that matters. This ballad is a perfect example. And even though I would be tempted to suggest vocals "a la Crosby Still and Nash" or this and that, I certainly would not change anything at all for fear of losing that magical vibe. Janet, I am impressed. This is a beautiful ballad. Jimmy, there you go again with that rich, lush and smooth signature sound of yours. Great collab and please, both of you take a bow. I am giving you a standing ovation. Bravo!

Regards,
jc

Nicely written, executed and captured what more can I say.

Thanks for sharing.

Alegria


There are times when it just dosen't matter if things aren't so tight and polished and perfect. The vibe is all that matters. This ballad is a perfect example. And even though I would be tempted to suggest vocals "a la Crosby Still and Nash" or this and that, I certainly would not change anything at all for fear of losing that magical vibe. Janet, I am impressed. This is a beautiful ballad. Jimmy, there you go again with that rich, lush and smooth signature sound of yours. Great collab and please, both of you take a bow. I am giving you a standing ovation. Bravo!

Regards,
jc

     Thanks JC
          You make a very good point. Its funny that sometimes
perfect doesn't sound as good. I usually am extremely
critical of myself. These performances are all me and were
only meant to be scratch tracks. The thing is I went at this
so hard.

   After I did all the scratch tracks it was going to be time
to get to work on the song. Quantize, pitch fix. do this,
do that and on and on. But something happened in me
I just said "no" I aint going to do that.

  There are just things that I didnt do but it seems
weird to look back at it now. I usually am thinking
about fixing a track as I'm playing it. You know?
laying down the piano knowing all along it's going
to be quantized.

 Nope no quantizing was done on the piano. Then I
was doing the harmonies thinking the same
thing, yeah? I'll be pitch fixing those babies.
Nope. no pitch fix.

  There are just so many things I didn't do. No master
comp or limiting is another. I'm actually amazed at
the outcome given the fact that this was done in about
one day and a half start to finish.

  It's much like "my maker" took over and said this
is how its going to be. It totally drained me both
emotionally and physically. A song was born when
janet wrote it. I wasn't planning on being the singer
or the piano player and certainly not being the only
player.

  But something happened I took over as if this was in
my hands and I will take charge. The thing is I think
this was actualy in the hands of "you know who"
and I happened to be the do'r.

   Completion of it is almost sad. It's like what will
I do now? That happened to me once before
and it was downright depressing. however
this time it don't feel so bad.

  I need some rest right now, I feel like I've ran
a marathon or something. It's funny, Janet
sent me this email and said "you asked for it"
in it was this song.

  I think her and the man above ganged up on me.
she sent me the song and he said "jimmy" this is what
you are going to do with it.

  Thank you so much for the kind words and for your
support. I'm truly glad to know you. And not only that
but you are such an asset to the songs forum too.

  I'll take a bow for you but it feels weird to do it.
I just don't feel like it was jimmys skill. Maybe
his passion. Yeah that's it passion.

"jimmyman"Yeah that's it -  passion.

It's a beautiful thing.

Really nice catchy song, I really like the run into the choruses, the guitar is superb and gives a really nice rolling feel to the whole thing.

A pleasant sounding mix, a bit like Mark I think the choruses could use a bit of dynamic emphasis to bring them out some.

Other than that a really tuneful song and an enjoyable listen.

Well done you two.

And to think I offered to help you with lyrics.  You certainly don't need any help, at least from me.  This is just beautiful.  I thought it is a big production.  I can't think of anything I'd change.  I mean it's no "Jazz The Funky" lyric but...  LOL!!  Janet, will you still talk to us when your songwriting becomes famous?   Jimmy, beautiful playing and production.  Gheesh, this is great!

BIABdude, thank you.

Mark, thank you too.  Good to see you around again. :-) 

Thanks, Jon.  Glad you liked it.  :-) 

Jimmy, step in all you want.  :-)  I may have written it, but I never could have made it sound this good.  And the subtle tweaks you added took it up a notch too. 

Warren, well, sometimes they just come together like this.  Nothing fancy or clever cause, well, I guess I'm not too fancy or clever myself.  :-)  And even IF my songwriting becomes famous, I'll still just be me and will be happy to hang out here with some of my favorite people. :-)

Thanks, John.  :-) 

Yep, just like that.  I never expected this at all, but I was sure tickled when I heard it!   The words just came together too, which is unusual.  But Daryl Crowley's advice in another thread made it work.  He said to just write out what you want to sing about...in paragraph form.  I had the chorus pretty much done but had no idea where to go from there.  Then I started thinking about people and only wrote about 4 words before I could see the song forming itself.  It was easy from there. I hope he sees this soon. :-)  Anyway, thank you, Jim.