You Give Hope

yes! you moved outside the Herb box on this! great tune. the vocals need some work, i think it's more bringing them into the track as the focus. it's mixed as a guitarist. take those electrics back a smidgeon, the bass is a little boomy too, and try and thicken the vox a little. but it's very good! Herb i like this!

Cool stuff Herb! You sound like Neil Young on this.

love the guitar and bass on this.  the bass is a just little hot, IMO, not much.  maybe bring it down just a hair. 

great song!  love it!

Hi Herb - What a truly great song and such a powerful performance. I love it. The only think I would do is to add a harmony to the chorus - perhaps a woman to give that extra oomph (they always do)! If that guidance councilor is still around, no doubt she will now say "oh yes, NOW I know who you mean"!

Malcomb and James.... Thanks for listening guys. 

James... yeah... I know what you mean. It's too easy to ID CCM most of the time..... while zipping across radio stations, just 2 seconds of the instrumental parts, you can say Yup... thats a "Christain" station, just by the music. 

Very well done. Traces of Neil Young on the vocal. The drums and guitar sound great.

This is great Herb, sounded like classic Tom Petty in the intro with that chiming guitar part and the organ.

Really rocking tune Herb, great vox and guitar tone. Keys and other instruments superb as well pro sounding production to my headphones.

Really great stuff, Herb.  This song immediately reminded me of a band called "AGE OF FAITH" out of Georgia so many years ago .... 

Hi Herb, 

Love the song, lyrics and production.  The drums sound great (what did you use?).  
Guitar arrangements are super. 

Rimshot

Rimshot.... the drum samples are  from Real Band.... One of the rock drummer styles.

geeare1 thanks... I kinda like this too.  It has encouraged me to write more in this genre and style. 



It passed the teenager test: I asked my daughter (18) to listen and comment. She smiled and said it was good ... in the first 20 seconds. 

Thanks Philz  I appreciate the kind words. 

Freddy J


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Freddy J

please do try again.... the link is good. maybe SC was having issues.

Thanks Scotty, Neil Young is what I was thinking but couldn't put a name to it.

I like the tune Herb and the arrangment.  I seems a little boomy, could be the reverb plus the drums.  Maybe roll the reverb back a take a tad of EQ off below 60hz, although you probably have already done that.  I'm not getting much seperation on the insturments here.

Solid lyrics but may a verse that includes some personal component from the singer would be more engaging.  The song is asking for a lot, but there is no frame of reference.  Hymns do that, but they are meant to sing in a congregation that is just shouting praises.  This has a lot emotion and I think a verse or two that tells me what it is that motivates you, rather than just the praise part.  Althought I think that is what a lot of Christian rock does, and it's the part I don't like.  They tend to all sound alike lyrcially, even though the music is very good, like this.  I think that's why I like country Christian songs better, because there usually is a story involved.  But that's just my thoughts from one lyricist to another.

Nice powerful melody.  I like the lead guitar part, but I would back off the verb on that a bit too.  That's a lot of crits for me, but just offering feedback.

Keep 'em coming Herb.

Daryl

Nice job Herb. Love the production and arrangement.