Latin Pop - Rock and a Hard Place (Prod. Markno999)

Ole!  I love the arrangement of the trumpets in this and your lead vocal.  This is the kind of music I'd like to hear more of.  It has a good dance beat, and I can still hear the melody in my head minutes after it's over.  That's staying power.  Well done, Cian.

Lynn, thanks for your another comment. Both mark & I both came up with the horns, we glad you liked them cos they took about 5 revisions before we found common ground. I like this myself and have been trying to gear song towards a good beat and groove, its a decent start.

Scoot, that was harder than you think at the time!

Hey Cian, I am a little lost with this track.

The mix is nice, but the latin feel is a little distracting.  I like the melody but because of the type of voice thats featured I would find it to be a better song if you kept it as a straight forward pop song.  Even if you backed the latin feel off a little.

It just feels a little busy and out of place.

But thats just my opinion.

Peace Ben

The Band19, ditto to that. not only good at what you mentioned, but a perfectionist and the patience of a saint.

Ben, My previous version had a less latin, but a general consensus was to make it one or the other. It may be busy, but I do think the latin style fits it and I do prefer it that way. No probs dude, thanks for swingin by.

John, Thanks for comment and superglad you got a kick out of it. Lot of work went into it and am enjoy listening to it myself.

Cian

Only listened to it once (so far) but i like it, a real toe tapper. I like the horns, but after the first time they come in, to great effect, i would have duct them out for some sections to give the arrangement more dynamics and interest. Also i would add more percussion; shakers, cabasa etc to add to the latin feel. We did this on our track 'It must be nice'

Nice job though, I like it

Philip, thanks for dropping by and for sure enjoyed your contemporary sounding ariba, ariba! I thought the opening line of my chorus was enough to hook, but obviously not as infections as some of my other stuff. I need to start writing more toe tappers, delighted you njoyed it.

stuart, glad you dug the horns and that your feet were tapping. The horn ducking may be a good idea in fact although I would say as it is, the track is busy and adding more percussion may just make it too distracting.

Jim, Thanks for chirping in with that. although incorrect! the women is always to blame, rule no.1! on a serious note, both the "we" and "I" work here, and choosing we would certainly make it more mysterious and I may just do that if this track gathers some traction as either a live set or if someone label want to rerecord it! Cheers

Cian

I like this a bunch, but then I would because I like a Latin feel in any genre.  Good lyrics and performance.  Love the horn work, what are you using there.

This is a one of my favorites of yours.  Good tune.

Daryl

The horns are Kontakt 5.  Three separate MIDI parts using a NI Trumpet sound.   I usually always treat all the horn parts as single line instruments rather than stacking parts, using multiple notes on a single MIDI channel and sending them through the same patch.  I think you get a more realistic sound that way.    The three parts are running through a bit of Vahalla Reverb.    Glad you liked them.