Without Her Anymore

Nice song, reminded me a little of Harry Chapin. I didn't care for the piano sound, but this was very well arranged.

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James

Oh, I do know Harry Chapin music. I just never knew who the guy was but I have heard his songs for years. They just don't play his stuff on the radio anymore around here.

Never tell people your singing sucks before they hear the tune, it just puts them in the frame of mind to agree with you.  I do not agree.  You can obviously sing, and it works just like guitar or piano, you get better the more you do it.  If I put a 10th the work into my vocals as I do my guitar, even I could sing.

This is good tune, well played, and well sung.   I never know what chart to put my songs on because there is no chart for "Daryl Music" and that's the only thing it fits in.

I wasn't wild about the lead break mostly because it didnt fit with the rest of the song.  Which is unusal for me because I like ALL guitar playing.  It wasn't bad it just seemed like it was from another song.

I like this song.

Daryl

hmm, I actually didn't mind the bridge.

I do agree that a better piano might help.   Also it felt like some the instruments were a little indisinct.  Maybe a bit of EQ would help (also maybe an exciter to give it an edge).

Overall though nice tune.

How about "replace the heavy lead guitar solo with something else" instead of "get rid of it"?

I really like your mixing, arrangement and production.  It sounds so clean. 
As far as your singing, it is pretty good.  Very nicely recorded.  At the key change it sounds like you are stretching, maybe it is a little high on you vocal range. 

I just had to listen when i seen the mention of Harry Chapin. I like his songs a lot.

This too was a good song. I think the vocals were way too out in front, could do with going back a notch as it was difficult for me to hear most of the instruments behind.

I wasn't too keen on the piano at the beginning. It sounded a little midi like to me.
also the cello? at the end wasn't convincing enough.

Still very good though.

Mark.

I did another mix today and added a few more background vocals, bass, and drum fills. Let me know what you think!

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Not my thing, I did listen to an earlier version but made no comment, this sounds better, clean more balanced.

nice tune...I really enjoyed it.....i like your vox.....i try to warm them up a bit but toher then that...dont really care for the 2:50 stop and pop break....felt a bit unbalanced on the timing...

good job overall!

Thanks, thepogue for your comment!

I have changed a lot of things in the song since last week. It sounds nothing like it did when I first posted it. People have been telling me to put pop breaks and all kinds of things in it all week, so I did. Some have told me to rewrite the first and second verse, but I have to stop somewhere or it will be so different that it will be a completely different song that I didn't even write. I think that I will have to stop messing with it or it will be chopped all to pieces.

What type of warmer should I use for the vocals?


Hey Janet,

Thanks for your nice comments!

I have Sonar Producer 8.5. I just got it about 7 months ago. I have no idea how to play the piano or put feeling into it. I just bang on it when I am making a recording and find the notes as I am recording. I am using True Pianos 64. I made a huge mistake. After recording the piano, I changed the midi to audio and deleted the midi track. I realize that it was super stupid, but I didn't think that I needed it anymore. I made sure that all of the notes were in time and that everything was in key. I will never do that again!

Siince I have no timing on the piano, I had to quantize it, and it made it too exact, not like the flow of a human. So it is a robot playing the piano now.

Since you actually know how to play the piano, I can send you the song without the piano track. Maybe you can lay down some nice piano to it. In the future, if you need a guitar or bass track I can lay one down for you!

If you are interested, please let me know!

I have a drop box account and I can place the file there, then you can go to drop box and download the file.

Janet,

I don't read music so I don't know the chords. I just made up the piano chords as I went along. Some of them are different than the guitar chords, so they would give a cool sound. I will try to see what I can do with it.

I am downloading a program right now called Synthology Piano 1.5. It is 32 gigs. It is supposed to be a nice sounding piano vst software. I read a bunch of reviews and quite a few people say that they love it.

I am just a music hacker, so I just do everything by the seat of my pants!

Thanks!

Michael, nice tune dude.

All the instruments were recorded really well - mix is clear - well balanced.

This is a good one.

Nice song... Well done.... Janet is a great piano aficionado and a great help to us all!

Janet was nice enough to record some piano and I might use it on the song.

I gave the Piano track another try myself this weekend. I downloaded Pianoteq and goofed around with it today. Does this piano sound any better? It is very hard for me to tell, since I don't play the piano. I just hack at it when I need to lay down some tracks on a song, so I do not have an ear for it at all. I think that the velocity is better and it don't sound as much like a harpsichord anymore.

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