This is a song that my friend, Laura Bryan, wrote a few years ago and brought to me to produce.  She worked out the arrangement, and I just did the engineering and instruments.  She did all the vocals.  Since today is her birthday, I thought that I would share this with the community because very few people have heard this song.  It's about growing up with a verbally abusive parent and her escape from her harsh reality.  It was originally recorded in Sonar 7 but remixed in Splat.  I'm now happy to introduce Laura Bryan to the community.
 
The song is called "Falling Upward" and can be found here: https://soundcloud.com/ly...-upward-by-laura-bryan

Very cool song and very creative with the changes here and there. Creative production too.
Nice playing and vocals except there seems to be a timing issue early on with the acoustic guitar versus the drums (could be my ears). It would be interesting to run the acoustic through Melodyne.....?...! 

Nice song .. Interesting orchestration and arrangement with tempo changes

Lynn,
 
What a great singing voice she has! Reminds me a lot of Sarah Mclachlan. Having said that, I think that her voice resonates at very much the same frequencies where you've placed the two acoustic guitars. During the chorus (?), that's also where some percussion and synths come in, also sitting right in the same frequencies where the vocal is. I think her voice really needs more space so it can "breathe" better.
 
All the best!
Dan
 

Daryl, Makke, and Dan, thanks for your suggestions.  I didn't have Melodyne available when this was recorded, but I do now, so your idea makes sense.  Dan, I see that, now.  I think that I can fix that.  Thank you all for your time and ideas.

Hi Lynn , nice song she has a good voice for singing .
Like the the music , very nice

Take care ! James

Thanks, James!  She'll be glad to hear this.

daryl1968
Very cool song and very creative with the changes here and there. Creative production too.
Nice playing and vocals except there seems to be a timing issue early on with the acoustic guitar versus the drums (could be my ears). It would be interesting to run the acoustic through Melodyne.....?...! 

Daryl,  it's interesting about the tunings of guitar.  I have studied and played guitar since 1969 (the year we landed on the moon),  the g -string and (esp) the b-string ALWAYS sound out of tune to me, regardless of the guitar having been intonated.  Some others have claimed to have this bias as well.  I can play an open e chord and the b-string ALWAYS sounds wrong to me. :D  Interesting song though, the abrupt changes in tempo..me no likey but that's a compositional thing.  It's extremely well produced.

eph221

daryl1968
Very cool song and very creative with the changes here and there. Creative production too.
Nice playing and vocals except there seems to be a timing issue early on with the acoustic guitar versus the drums (could be my ears). It would be interesting to run the acoustic through Melodyne.....?...! 

Daryl,  it's interesting about the tunings of guitar.  I have studied and played guitar since 1969 (the year we landed on the moon),  the g -string and (esp) the b-string ALWAYS sound out of tune to me, regardless of the guitar having been intonated.  Some others have claimed to have this bias as well.  I can play an open e chord and the b-string ALWAYS sounds wrong to me. :D  Interesting song though, the abrupt changes in tempo..me no likey but that's a compositional thing.  It's extremely well produced.

Very interesting.
I really meant Lynn could try to use Melodyne to fix the timing though.

haha, nevermind