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Originally posted by Bunny.:

Ted, your song is really good. Thank you.

 

Chris, I think your intro is great. Nicely done.

 

I'll be chiming in when appropriate.

 

:wave:

Agreed, ted the song works! ..and rowks! ;)

 

The intro, well if its to be used i'll do it nicer on acoustic guitar.. i would have tried it already on acoustic, but i left it at my sisters house, Doh! ..i just think the classical is a wee bit off the timbre ted has already layed down.

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So folks, can I ask what everyone's availability is over next 24-36 hours? Shars has been working her butt off getting charities / media interest, and wraub is now doing same. This means we need a finished track as soon as feasible.

 

So you guys ready to lay down some tracks as soon as we get chord chart and bpm?

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I gauged the BPM at about 133.6, so we could just go ahead and use 133 if that's cool with everyone. I could put together a click track with sampled drums as a guide track for everyone to record to. I 'll try to get that finished this afternoon, and post it by early this evening.
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So.. to every body who has offered, when the click track emerges, everyone feel free to use it and mix with it, and get your bit in Wav 16 bit, [shortened using shorten] , or into a midi (track, is this correct? bunny?) and send it off.

All deadlines for this to be what? (thinking out loud.. its ten to five Forum Time now so..) are we talking 12 hours?

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Originally posted by forceman:

Sylver, I was thinking about simply throwing down a track of Fender Bass (4-string passive), following the chord progressions, with a complementary (separate) track with some fretless "color" (4-string MusicMan Stingray Active).

 

I will not be using my active 5-string (no slapping/popping, etc) but perhaps you want to do some of this?

 

Bunny/Phil can then load our bass lines and fade up/down as they see fit..

 

thoughts?

Cool, that works. I threw my hat in for bass playing(because I figured that's where I'd be needed), but I'm pretty much a utility player. I can step in anywhere I'm needed.

 

Guitar, bass, vox(backing or otherwise, though Ted has a better voice, IMO), looping(the creation of), sequencing, drum and percussion programming, whatever.

 

I just want to help best I can, so if you want to lay down the low down, go for it.

I really don't know what to put here.
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Originally posted by Bunny.:

If I can make some time during the day this week, I can record some live drum tracks for this song, as long as nobody else wants to do it. Of course, if we could get a big name drummer to do it, we should.

 

I'm also open to doing vocals and/or background vocals. Also, lead guitar, sound effects, or whatever.

 

I'll certainly help out with the composition and arrangement, if needed.

Bunny, are you doing drums then? maybe I can help out with some percussion. I can do backup vocals too if needed.
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Originally posted by billster:

I won't be able to do any playing because of the time factor, so don't look for any tracks from me.

 

Hope my lyric ideas helped move things :wave:

Billster they sure did - are you happy for some of them to be incorporated into Ted's song?
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Yeah, Billster, we may need some of your lyrics and/or musical parts. Is it OK if we use them?

 

I just cross-posted the following in the Mixing/Mastering thread:

 

Here is a click track with drum sounds for people to play along with.

 

Fear - click track. <---CLONK IT!

 

It's a 133 bpm. It has one measure of silence at the beginning, then the intro click starts. The click has two measures (eight clicks) included before the eight measures (32 clicks) of the intro. That sounds complicated, but it's not. The form is exactly like Tedster's demo.

 

I can add a scratch guitar later tonight if my power deosn't go out. We're expecting a heavy rain storm here this evening, so I may be forced offline.

It occurred to me that we don't have a middle section (aka "bridge" or "middle eight") for this song yet, and so the click track reflects this.

 

I gotta go eat. I'll be back later this evening, if my power doesn't go out in this storm.

 

:wave:

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Hey all, online at night, eager to help. How goes it?

I'm going to try the dial-up download here, check out the latest, if I can.

Again, my apologies for not being able to help on this end. I'd love to, but not sure how. My computer equipment hampers me...

 

Peace,

 

wraub

 

I'm a lot more like I am now than I was when I got here.

 

 

 

 

 

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Tedster, Force, Chris...all you folks...nice work. OK, I've downloaded Tedster's last post (the MP3 file created by Force), and I'm going to create a bass line, record it, and I'll post it on my FTP site as a WAV file with bass only that is perfectly in sync with what Force has posted. Is that what I should work from?

 

If you guys decide to use the bass line, great, if you don't, I was happy to contribute anyway.

 

It seems we already have a good drum track. I could also record some percussion for this if anyone thinks it would be a good idea? I've got djembe, bongo's, tamborine, maraccas, etc. I'm thinking djembe might be a good fit. I may run with that under the same guidelines...use it if you like it.

 

Thanks,

Dave

Old bass players never die, they just buy lighter rigs.

- Tom Capasso, 11/9/2006

 

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There's a click-track (sequenced drums) posted a few posts above. Everything at this point should be recorded along to that track.

 

Here's Ted's chord chart (from another thread):

 

D ...A ...Bm ...E...

Em... A... F#m...G . A (G & 2 A 3 & 4 &)

D... A... Bm... E...

G... A... D... D...

 

Chorus...

 

G . G/F# A...

D . D/C# Bm. Bm/A

E ... A... F#m... G.G/F#

Em... A... Bm... E...

G... E... G... A...

 

Repeat.

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Originally posted by forceman:

Dave,

 

I think we are waiting for the "final" lyrics, as these would dictate whether or not a "Middle 8" is needed.

 

If you want to do the bass by all means do it--I am having a blast watching this thing come together. If my bass lines are used--cool! If not, no biggie.

 

Regards.

I've tentatively finished the lyric (although some modifications may yet be made)...a middle-eight didn't jump out at me, so I didn't chase one. (Shrug)... :D
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Paul, are your wave files under 10 MB each? If so, you can email me your files (unless you're on dial-up). You can also use a program called Shorten to compress your 16 bit wave files if they're too big.

 

Shoot me a PM if you need my email address. :thu:

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Here is a guide track with scratch acoustic guitar, to make it easier to play along to:

 

Fear with acoustic guitar - guide track. <---CLONK IT!

 

I'm not sure if that'll be the final form, but go ahead and record to it and we can edit your part to fit the final form of the song later.

 

:thu:

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