i feel the same way about my woobie too.

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Jeeze ... thanks for the helpful feedback, eleveneyes. I'll have to add "when my
sensibilities get mocked" to my list of anxieties.

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I didnt like it at first but it definitely has charm and grows on you.

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That's ironic - that's the same thing my wife said about me after our initial
encounter.

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This was fun and made me wish I had some Jonathan Richmond ... but I
have some Harry Nilsson I can listen to.
I like the spirit of this, very winning and whimsical.

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jonathan richman <- can't spell today.

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Ars longa, vita brevis.

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This is a wonderful and warm tune...so real...and just like life!
Delightful simplicity and honesty.

Thanks for posting :)

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Mr. Smith your song is "Still with me" and it sounded okay. You need a
little of something in there - well I think - maybe drums, bass and
strings? Sounded okay my man.

PS: Hope I wasn't to harsh?


mvh: )

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If it sounded "okay," then it passed the test of being a musical sketch. I've got hundreds of pieces that never get beyond this stage - ideas I've recorded on tape or disc that are outlines for songs. This particular piece was recorded and then sent out as a possible collaboration with a couple of other macjammers (the idea was for it to be sung as a duet - which is why my vocals are split over the left and right channels to show the two parts), but it went no further. I decided to post it on my page because it represented something a little different from my other entries.

That said, I really don't try to work from a specific formula. Sometimes a song gets worked over through a series of new takes and developments. Other times it starts up and becomes a complete effort as a single entity. And a lot of stuff gets recorded as an idea or a sketch and never gets beyond that stage.

I keep telling myself I should go back and work on some of these old ideas, but as new ideas keep popping into my head, it seems all I have time for is to chase after them.

Anyway, thanks for listening and leaving a comment - even if it was meant to be facetious.

By the way, my first name is Warren - not Mr.

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it's true.

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Great base for a catching song.

The panning was a nice effect but it's a bit awkward to hear at times. One
side seems stronger than the other. Left seems like an "afterthought" and
the main voice was Center-Right (if that makes any sense).

I would also like to hear 8 bars added of maybe the guitar and you
whistling (don't know why whistling... it just feels right :-) Maybe at the
end of it fading. Just can't get the whistling out of my head...

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Thanks for the comments. I am a whistler, but not a particularly good whistler, so it's unlikely I'd try to use whistling as a finishing device. But you never know!

I whistle when I walk, and that also happens to be my usual method for documenting a new melody - I whistle it into a microphone attached to an iPod. New melodies can appear at any given moment. I have learned to capture them on the spot - otherwise, poof, they are gone a moment later. These iPod voice memos get transfered into iTunes when the iPod gets updated. I review them, and with Garageband open, try to turn them into songs.

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You have a cool voice, and this expresses perfectly what we all wish we
had- friends who stick this close. :-)

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