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Songwriter Forum => Feedback on Finished songs => Topic started by: cowparsleyman on September 24, 2019, 08:11:47 PM
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This is what happens when there is no plan, no direction....no idea what genre it is, part of my Genre Jumping suite...if you know which pigeon hole to stuff it, answers on a postcard to:
Wood Lane
London W1 A 2AA
Remember that? you might win a Crackerjack pencil... 8)
Any gloves off/on/no gloves at all critique is fair game by me, and I'll take on board any that I think will improve it.
Sorry I haven't contributed much lately, should be able to do a bit more soon...I have been able to listen to some of your songs here and blimey it's pretty blimmin marvellous.
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Wotcha Rich @cowparsleyman (http://www.songwriterforum.co.uk/index.php?action=profile;u=21308) Love your genre jumping stylee. Wah ! What a mish mash of styles this is. Really enjoyed the listen, such a lot going on. Loved that funky bass solo in particular but enjoyed the whole listen. Excellently executed and produced
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Bhangra btw :)
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@pompeyjazz (http://www.songwriterforum.co.uk/index.php?action=profile;u=20269) - Thanks John, glad you liked it, What do I know...Bhangra, well I never...I'll have a word with Peter Glaze and get that pencil off to you...
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excellent
a new one from you.
ok, a tad mad, lol.
I wonder what DAW you're using? (... a Collaboration?)
lovely playful dance track, with such tracks, when they're well done hint at the esoteric for me, in a good way.
I enjoyed the listen!! thanks!
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@Rightly (http://www.songwriterforum.co.uk/index.php?action=profile;u=20219) - You're welcome, you are a brave man for taking a dip into the murky waters of this part of my musical brain - god knows where it's yucked away, maybe near the hyperpottamus, glad you dig it, yeah it was a bit a bit mad, but I was losing patience with a few songs and just wanted to put something thumping together, with a bit of spice and mango chutters.
I use Magix Samplitude pro X3 which is a superb piece of software. Yeah I'm up for a collab if you want..
Rich
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Very cool, CPM...I enjoyed the ride.
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Yeah, very cool... I often admire the way I have no idea where your songs are going to take me... even when they are half way through, anything can still happen. Excellent mishmash of influences here. I'm also a complete sucker for a bit of chanting in one of the Indian languages (Kula Shaker rocked) so it ticked multiple boxes for me - and that hyperactive ferret of a bassline towards the end was a parting bonus - proper fonky, man. Top notch.
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It all sound fabulous which is an aspect of your stuff that I am in awe of...yes the funky bass is a highlight when it appears. So is the funky key thing that comes in towards the end. So I like the funky bits the best! And the opening percussion is nice..
I can't fault it really...super dancy track with a lot of neat invention throughout...like the plucky interlude at 2.30ish.
Lots of different things popping up....listening again...oh yes I like the funky keys!
As PaulAds says, I enjoyed the ride.
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Yeah. I liked it too CowMan rattles along very well. It's quite mellow really and enjoyable to listen to. I loved the vocals when they came in and my only want would be for perhaps more vocals. Cheers Micky
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Thanks very much all for listening, as always greatly appreciated, and the comments are gratefully received.
@mickyplankton (http://www.songwriterforum.co.uk/index.php?action=profile;u=20769) - Sorry about the drought of vocals, I'll make a Monsoon for the next one.
@Viscount Cramer & His Orchestra - Dear Viscount - Didn't know you were a funky monkey, I always remember when I first joined the forum, your reputation on the brass arrangements preceded you, I got a lot of ideas from you..
I'm rather keen on perc, we had a percussionist in one of my jazz funk bands and I seemed to play better when he was around, he was one of those rare dudes that seemed to play what I would have done were I able to play perc.
The funky bass section wasn't meant to feature at all...so I'm gald a couple of you liked it, just popped that in to fill a gap and provide a means of changing the flow abit, a precusor to the funky bass at the end.
The 'funky key thing' is a Clavinet - Stevie Wonder was keen on it - Superstition starts with one, they and Rhodes/Wurlis always seem to always have a place in the more dancey songs I do.
@PaulyX (http://www.songwriterforum.co.uk/index.php?action=profile;u=21034) - Thanks for the kind words, the truth is Paul I get very bored very quickly with music, If I able to guess what's coming next too often then I switch off to 'anyone fancy a pint' mode...There was a great quote I remember from Jerry Coker's 'Improvising Jazz' book..Try and get the predictability of your solo right on 50% predictable - any more then people will get bored and switch off, any less and they'll switch off because they don't understand it, I based my solos in my early jazz days on this principle, and it kind of stuck.
Yeah I liked Kula Shaker, they painted such wonderful musical images in my head...go Vinda jiyah jiyah n'all that jazz.
I'll try and keep my notch as top as I can. Thanks again.
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Hi CPM, I shall be writing to 'Points of view' to complain about this cultural appropriation ::) ;D. Really enjoyed this, great mix of sounds and ideas. Loved the bass guitar stuff and the vocals. I would liked to have heard more vocalisation and maybe some vocal harmonies too.
Excellent production!
Cheers
Jamie
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Ha!! What a pick and mix! Reminds me of my mums old "leftover" stew...throw all kinds of things together and hope for the best!!🤪
THIS stew turned out alright! (many didn't!🤢) it kept my interest mate and if u cant have fun trying different stuff out...then why are we doing it??😁🎶👊🏻🎶
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Not my genre but it was interesting :P
I like the first 45 seconds, that has a nice atmosphere.
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Yo Rich @cowparsleyman (http://www.songwriterforum.co.uk/index.php?action=profile;u=21308)
Heh,I dig this one for sure.
A multicultural collage of sounds and styles all welded together with some great panache and élan!
I too am a fan of the funky bass,'tis a mighty groove you plough. Sweet percussion touches and that piano dropping in around 45 seconds had me thinking another track had started to play on another browser! ;D
Keep on keeping on. 8)
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Full of admiration for the way this is put together - all the styles seem super well arranged and produced.
Part of me was wondering whether you could pick one part and make a killer dance track out of it. But it's really listenable as it is. Fun times!
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I really enjoyed the variety and it all flowed together so smoothly. Very nice!
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Yeah!! a good dance/club track.. :) the only bit that didn't work for me was the piano at around 46 secs, the track was just getting going then it stopped... :o :) otherwise pretty damn cool man 8) 8) 8) 8) 8) 8) 8)
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Crazy mash up, sounds like you had fun with this CPM! :) Disco, funk and Bhangra, who would have thought it. Like that bass riff towards the end, and the chanting has a quality dimension to it. Would be good in a club after a little alcohol has been consumed - it has that kind of hypnotic feel to it! Very creative.
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Cheers all for taking the time to let these rather mixed up vibrations play upon your ear drums...
@Jamie (http://www.songwriterforum.co.uk/index.php?action=profile;u=19125) - Yeah the famous Robert Robinson comb over - I remember him. Hmm about the vox, I just didn't think about the vocals too much, it was supposed to be more of a dance track, and one of my DJ friend in Seoul once put me in me place by saying about one of my tracks simply 'Too much talking, I just want to dance' - rather brutal in a Gloves off kind of way, but just what it needed, unfortunately it stuck.
@LostBoy (http://www.songwriterforum.co.uk/index.php?action=profile;u=20481) - Would have loved to have tried that stew, CowParsleyWife (CPW) is cooking one tonight, it's called 'Eintopf' or a 'walk through the garden'. Glad you like the taste. Let me know when you turn pro, it's just a matter of months in my view.
@t.wretborn (http://www.songwriterforum.co.uk/index.php?action=profile;u=22159) - Appreciate that you listened T, thanks
@Skub (http://www.songwriterforum.co.uk/index.php?action=profile;u=20061) - Thanks, so kind of you to notice the piano, I just want to danger things up a little, why do what everyone else has done, do you remember Nigel Kennedy rebelling about playing 'all those dead guys' songs, so he started playing Hendrix (also dead) and I once saw him play 'here we go, here we go here go'
I stopped playing other peoples stuff, I leave it to them. I read your SC profile notes today, such wise words Man.
@adamfarr (http://www.songwriterforum.co.uk/index.php?action=profile;u=20124) - Thanks Adam - fun times indeed, I have another similar song called LoAir (after the Waves PLugin that I used on it) and it needs some drastic plastic action - it's a trance number and I know sod all about trance (as I know sod all about Bangra - PJ noticed I can't even spell it right), but I'll finish it one day....
@CaliaMoko (http://www.songwriterforum.co.uk/index.php?action=profile;u=19928) - Thanks Vicky
@shadowfax (http://www.songwriterforum.co.uk/index.php?action=profile;u=20024) - Cheers man - the 45 sec piano, well, that's a like it or loathe it thang, I guess, I just loved it, it added a tinge of tension befor that huge crash cymb comes in to get them going i the dance floor again. I could just image the groovers looking around for a few secs thinking 'What on Earth', through their drunken sweaty heat, then prancing around doing whatever moves their body/arthritis will allow.
@MichaelA (http://www.songwriterforum.co.uk/index.php?action=profile;u=21274) - Mash is best, you can toss your baked, boiled, sauteed dance tracks in the garbage, Your'e right on the money - that was exactly the vibe I was after, thanks for noticing.
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Nothing to fault here.
I know the genre - it's called "Great"
Inventive and catchy as all get out.
Love the bass ;)
Now sell it to an Indian movie house and you're off!
Paul
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CPM
To me the musical collage was interesting like a mix tape. Enjoyed listening it held my attention all the way through.
It is what you said: an eclectic set of sound run together, like a producer having fun, but I'm not sure it sound like a song.
There are several bits like the start or end which sound like they could be the basis of a tune.
Sorry bit too old for the target demographic...
:-)
neil
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Love how you venture in to different styles. This is great listen. I didn't know what was coming next all the way through. I turned the volume right up on the 2nd listen and felt like i was being thrown around a room. Love it. I don't know much about production but this was so clear to my ears. Great job.
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@Paulski (http://www.songwriterforum.co.uk/index.php?action=profile;u=19241) - Cheers guy, really appreciate your comments
@Neil C (http://www.songwriterforum.co.uk/index.php?action=profile;u=18856) - Thanks for taking the time to comment, despite not being your bag, I agree it's not really a 'Song as in the songwriter sense, with deep meaningful lyrics and formal structure, but that's what I like, danger it up a bit, a step away from knowing what's coming next, it doesn't suit many folk's ears. There is no target demographic in anything I do, one either likes it or not. 8)
It was sort of fun, but quite frustrating sometimes, how to make it flow, as you said like a mix tape, but in a believable, yet surprising way, it's more difficult than a formal structured song, as the rules are less defined.
@Modestmouse1965/ (http://www.songwriterforum.co.uk/index.php?action=profile;u=22459) - so kind of you, I like a challenge, I do the same when mixing, Volume up, Volume down, Mono, Stereo, Mid, Sides, flying around, looping the loop and defying the ground....I try my best