A waltz for Penny

 Penny was my neighbor and best friend when I was about 5 years old. She was 2 years older than me and she used to teach me all kinds of staff, like riding a bike, whistling or how to tie my shoe laces. But her biggest achievement was teaching me how to dance the waltz.
 When she was nine, she was killed by a drunken motor biker, while trying to cross the street. This was one of the biggest shocks I've ever had in my life till now.

I never forgot Penny, and here's a waltz I wrote for her. That song got me into the semi finals at the 2010 UK songwriting contest.

http://soundcloud.com/ioa...stis/a-waltz-for-penny

song-performance + + + +1 - - - excellent vocals and harmonies

Thanks a lot guys. I appreciate the good words!

Janet: that's a bass clarinet, one of my all time favorite instuments.

Robby: a) you are right about the crackles and fret noises, they are are extremely loud, but i wanted to preserve every single flaw of the recordings. I did do an alternative mix prior to this one, reducing all those fret noises and the noises in the vocals,  but the song lost more than it actually gained. I never wanted to treat this song as a pop track.
            b) What do you mean out of scale? do you mean wrong note?
            c) I know the bass clarinet it's low in the mix, originally it was supposed to be just the guitar and the main vocal. Later on I added the backing vocal and the bass clarinet only as small helpers, but I didn't want them to stick out in the mix.

rockinrobby


out of scale = wrong note. I like it low in the mix, I wasn't commenting on that, I was commenting that it's very difficult to hear the note to which I'm referring, and I may even be wrong? Check it out :-) Right at 1:53

yes it's low in the mix but it's not a wrong note. the chord played by the guitar is a D and the note played by the bass clarinet is A which belongs to the scale.

thank you very much Rik!