This is a fun piece to play along with, its got a kick. Put together some chords from Sorrow, but instead of learning the lead, I took the easy way out and just jam to it. My short fingers keep me from blazing a guitar lead, let alone just warm it up.   Will have to get brother to redo the leads. He has a near perfect rendition of "Sorrow" on my SoundCloud page.
 
Re-Mix:5-30-14
http://www.soundclick.com/player/single_player.cfm?songid=12799868&q=hi

first, it needs some compression, the rms levels are way too low.  I hear some unflattering distortion on something.
 
nice guitar playing

I second everything Beagle said. It sounds to me like the distortion may be coming from the bass guitar. The mix is good , aside from the things mentioned, to my ears. Cool tune , like the guitar tone and the playing.

Thanks for the feedback. The bass has a bit too much gain causing it to be on verge of distortion when booming, I didn't notice til you both mentioned it. I don't understand about using compression (on what?) and rms levels being too low (what indicates this so I can be aware on future projects) Is the overall vol low?. I am trying to educate myself on these and other past comments using the Sonar help manual, but dang our nuclear reactor manual isn't that complicated. I wonder if I am relying too much on vol mix by ear instead of visual use of the meters using the console (which I haven't been using). I hate to redo the bass track since the drums are on it also, I may try a lower vol on that track and same on other tracks and then bring final mix vol up to compensate (which may put the distortion right back-will see) thanks all cap

+1 to the above: good performance, the mix just needs some work.
 
I'm sure there are more appropriate articles for DAW use, but this podcasting article covers some of the basics so still might help. 
http://auphonic.com/blog/2011/07/25/loudness-normalization-and-compression-podcasts-and-speech-audio/
 

Lowered vol on track with bass, and then raised master vol a tad. Has this made the song unbalanced? I put this together just to jam and practice one afternoon, so I don't know if it is worth starting from scratch to get bass track right unless I can improve the lead some (high on enthusiasm, low on talent) cap

I'm a novice at mixing myself. But for what it's worth, I like the mix. I especially like the sound of the guitars. You put some nice texture in there with the keyboards too. 

My music turns out that way too, because I am using Sonar 32 bit program, I guess the 64-bit programs must go louder, or else they are talking about loudness wars, which I am not in.
 
previous posts point out the mix in the song then.
 

hmmmmm sound good but i this the drum need work. are they analog?

Yeah, the bass and drums were made some time ago and put together on single track. Would help to lay down separate tracks, but right now my drum selection is not ideal. Thanks for the comments. I may have to keep going on this one. cap