I had been working on another mix for the last several weeks at least and I finally decided to bury it completely. I couldn't get the parts to jibe correctly,it wasn't happening so I decided to move on.
 On a whim I recorded this more traditional piece as almost an afterthought. I happened to be playing it live so I thought, why not?  I didn't go for the loud volume thing here. Tried to keep it more like background music.
 
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Starise, I listened to this tune a couple of times because it caught my attention.  Your piano performance is very dynamic and moving.  The trumpet that accompanies the piano was a little problematic for me.  At times it seemed buried by the piano, and the two parts didn't quite gel, for me.  Yet, this seems to be a very devotional song, and the spirit is there in spades.  I hear things differently from day to day, but I can feel this one very well.

Nice song... I like the sound of the piano. 

I say this next part with care and concern..... not lightly and certainly not in an insulting manner. 

My nits go to the performance. There were a few places where it seemed to be hesitant where to go next.... some of the bass notes and piano seemed to be off or stumble onto the wrong notes.

The cool thing about midi is that it is so easily edited to fix things. Wrong notes can be dragged to the right ones or simply deleted.  It is important to take you time when editing and mixing. I find myself spending as much time as is necessary to fix things so they are just about as perfect as I can get them.  If I can't fix something to my satisfaction, I hide it.  No shame in that. I either bury it or more commonly I will envelope it out. 

Example...I'm working on a remix of an older song with another calkwalker. We both did vocal parts and when I popped in his tracks today.....oooops... one of us had a different word in a phrase.... his worked and mine worked...alone. So I enveloped one of the parts down just on that one word.... in the mix... heck, you can't even tell it was taken out. 


I'm guessing this is 100% midi..... so... another "cheat" you can use is to slow the BPM down to allow you a few seconds more to think about what to do as you are playing....I run into that all the time when I try to do piano...I run up against the "oh man...where do I go next..... hurry hurry..... dang... blew it" syndrome all the time....  just a suggestion... 

Don't take my statement wrong.... man you are just about there on the perfection scale.... but, to make it absolutely perfect... there are a few things that need fixing. 

or you can tell me I'm way off base and to shut up already. 

This song is one of my favorites from the old P&W music days on Sunday mornings. Nice work and nice song choice. 

I thought the piano performance was really good. If you recorded it with midi then there are maybe 2 or 3 places where you can fix a few things, but the performance over all on the piano was very good.

The trumpet has potential but it seems to get lost in the mix. There are several places were the trumpet was hard to make out. It needs to be a little louder. The trumpet would sound great with some delay and a little reverb.

I like this song. It is a great worship song. and your arrangement is top notch. I like what you did here.

What Herb said. Except " the old P&W music days" unless W stands for something other than whipped? In that case, then what Herb said.

 Lynn- Thanks for your input here. I seem to have this thing for adding too much into something or of hearing extra parts that seemed to fit but only confuse things. I thought the trumpet would be a good idea at first but after listening to this a few times I am thinking about scrapping it totally. I can hear the things you are talking about. Thanks.

 Herb- At one time I thought midi correction was for whimps lol. The problem I seem to have is that if I retake a part and correct a mistake in one place then more times than not I make another small one somewhere else. In live performance I just go with it but in a recording it can be changed in midi. I'll see what I can do to this in midi. No offense taken at all. Sometimes though to my ears what some would call a clash doesn't sound bad to me ...not sure why that is maybe my ears are wearing out.

 Marcus- Thanks for the comments man, yeah I think the trumpet is history for now and I'm going to look into some corrections in the piano parts.

 TheBand19- Thanks for listening and your comments. I'll repost a secong try here in a few days.
 

wow, i for one really enjoyed this - AS IS.   I saw why you wanted that trumpet in there.  you sprinkled it in at just certain times/notes to accent the emphasis on top of certain piano notes.  And that's one very well-played piano too, in my very humble non-piano ability opinion  HaHa    Sure i hear the couple places where slight hesitation happened.  I do the same thing.  
Herb has the fix, with slowing down tempo to play, then bring it back - I don't know if I know how to DO that though, maybe you have a handle on it but I intend to give that a try next time I'm actually playing a piece of any complexity.  on one final note (no pun!)  and just a personal thing - I love this tune and it is always uplifting to me.  Even if it was a mediocre performance (and I've heard a few), it makes my heart smile.  Yours - is far, far above that level.  I sincerely thank you for sharing it, and my own nickel worth is, KEEP the trumpet there.   
My only nit for real, is -  what is the other mix that you buried?   I wanna hear it !! 
best wishes!
JOHN    

Very nice arrangement... great performance too... I heard a few clunkers, e.g., around 2:35... easy fix... 

I like the sound of the piano and the horn...

I'll listen again later after you revise it...

well done...

Great playing Starise. I too will be back for take 2

I like it but imo, it just meanders along without direction. I kept thinking of Johann Pachelbel's "Cannon in D."

I think you have an excellent start of something.