Outside my wheelhouse...

ok so my GF likes to watch The Voice and Idol. Ok I like The Voice more then Idol and she asked me if I could make a POP song because of something on of the judges said about trying stuff outside your wheelhouse. So im all like, but Babe I dont have all that crazy keyboard **** POP stars use. Shes like you freakin slacker! (much worse then that, for real, for real), and bought me Alchemy 1.5. crazy woman!!!http://www.camelaudio.com/Alchemy.php 
ok so I can see where this is going, no sleep for the wicked. I am not a great singer, but I figure V-vocals will help. Im not good at writting POP for sure, but Im not opposed to trying something new( aka outside my wheelhouse). So here it is, I was late the other day picking up my daughter, who lives with her mom ATM. I realised after finally getting there I was way more upset about being late then she was and she was totally cool about it. I tried to generalise the lyrics to fit for just about anyone being late, and the other person being totally cool about it cause THATS LIFE MY BROTHERS AND SISTERS!
 
Everything here rec/mix/mastered on X1
all guitars Guitar Rig 5, bass too!
all keys done with Alchemy 1.5
Drums Metal Machine Ezdrummer( I love using metal kit for everything else but metal)
Crappy vocals fixed with V-vocal (*whew*)
Special thanks for the 80's or I wouldnt have a clue as to what pop is
http://www.reverbnation.com/jasonhanerfeld/song/15969979-she-waits
 
 

lol I cant cut the guitars, pop will just have to lower its standards to my guitaring  hahaha! Thanks for the Men at Work ref, I liked them alot back then. I was one of the first guitar players in my hood to learn  "who can it be now"

Thanks for listening!

I like this song very much, and I, too, hear the Men At Work in your voice.  Even pop music can have its rules broken from time to time, so I say you did an excellent job.

Hey...very 80s sound to this and some nice changes...enjoyed the listen :)

Allan

Alchemy's website seems to be infected with malware. I think you did an amazing job with this.

Definitely a Men at Work vibe.

Nice not overly mad about the pan of the drums, bit wide on the Hat for me but it is all down to one own personal taste.

Thanks for sharing

well the Drums were panned that way from EZ drummer, but I think I have bleeding turned off. Great point though because Ill pay more attention to that from now on.

BigJGTR

Drums Metal Machine Ezdrummer( I love using metal kit for everything else but metal)
   
 

+1


For most metal these days I use Drumagog with the Invictus library.






Back on topic.
I kinda like this song. Just drop the pop reference IMO. It's just a nice song. Almost catchy on first listen.

Love it! Great job, although I agree with a previous comment that the vocals should be a bit more up front (and maybe drier) to fit in with current pop song production (but what do I know?).

Cheers,
Terry.

         Agreed about the bends, and my excuse is; "its that damned floating temelo system..." lol ive played so long on Custom Gibsons I never worried about it. Now im playing more with my Schecter Synistar with the floating temelo and once in a while I bend my 10s hard enuff make them sound a bit off. I have to be honest about my playing now, if I had gone back to redo that solo it would have been different. What if I didnt like that, then do it again, hated it do it again, no wait that note wasnt as climatic... and so on and so on. I liked almost every part of the solo, so i kept it as is.  I have learned to let go these days, I guess I can just call that the "indy" guitar part of the solo