Emerald Eyes

Herb

I can hear the Latin influence and could see Santana playing parts of this. Of course he would do it a ton faster in some areas.

The only crit I have at all is the placement of the acoustic that is playing individual notes. It seems to be right on top of one of the leads.

Very nice piece

Ron

very nice herb, but you've got the melody for a famous song in there, I can't remember it right now - that's going to bug me until I do remember what it is.  but was that intentional?

Santana  +1
Bass and keyboard sounds to midi can tell they are tracks from BIABOX
song ++1

Hi G.H.

Great song..I even liked the tittle.

Do you yet have vocals for it? I say this because your song relates to the music that I am familiar with, and all of them have lyrics...Not meaning to impose anything, though.

I enjoyed it. It's very well done.

Thank you for posting it.

thanks Janet....

NoKey... no lyrics totally instrumental.

Hey Herb,

Sounds a little reminiscent of "This Masquerade", but it's not a quote. Great feel, very sweet melodically. I have to agree about the arpeggiated acoustic being a little distracting where it is in the mix. Seems a bit thin as well. I think you need a warmer sound there.

haha!  this is funny!  Sept 5, 2009 I posted a thread in the Coffee House and I posted a link to a soundclick song with a keyboard snippet of a melody that I had stuck in my head and couldn't figure out what it was.  Gregy57 and KenB123 figured out it was "Hearts" by Marty Balin (former Jefferson Starship member).

That's the same melody I'm hearing in your song!!!

see if you think this is close to part of the melody of your song:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kSZITC4tEes

it's not exactly the same and the tempo of yours is a lot slower, but it's close enough, I think - at least to remind me of this song!

LOL!  9:12AM!!!  I searched the forum (via google) to find the thread before I posted!

http://forum.cakewalk.com/tm.aspx?m=1810478&mpage=1&print=true

anyway - it's not exactly the same, just similar enough to remind me of it I guess!
 
oh - and I think I have already figured out that particular melody part on the keyboard...you're in they Key of Emaj, I beleive.

hmm - definitely not Emaj - guess I'm hearing it wrong.

but I'm confused - you're posting the melody of the pad, not the guitar - I was actually talking about the guitar part (starting at 0:10 but repeats throughout the song).  is the guitar playing this part as well?

Yeah... if you follow the notes it is close to the melody of the refrain that appears throughout the song.... I did not play the melody as written exactly...... I took some liberty with it to make it more interesting and fun to play..... and expanded it a bit and took it to other places, coming back to the refrain as needed.

This is really, really sweet, Herb. The song is reminiscent of many songs but not to any one in particular. I think your progression is unique enough. Sounds like a definite latin (Carlos) progression with just a hint of Brazilian maybe Sergio Mendez? I really like the keys which give it that Marty Balin sound.  I really enjoy all of your stuff. Such a wonderful variety but you always pack a nice unique expression to whatever style your dealing with.

Kind words Tap.... Thanks ,  Unique and yet memorable riffs...... the goal of all guitarists....

Zungle... I generally use my POD2 (kidney bean).  For this the volume and gain were about 4 or 5 most of the tone knobs, believe it or not were turned way down, model was Rectified with verb and a slap back.
Gibson 69SG on neck pickup wide open with tone on 6. Direct into the Saffire interface.

thanks chrome.....

It is a bit of a stretch to classify this as "Latin". but it worked for me anyway.

Tone is boss.

+1 on acoustic

Melody is evocative of something, i just can't place my finger on it....

I enjoyed that Herb thanks for sharing,  I could not find anything that was to far out that needed to be mentioned.

Cool