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Description:
Hi!
Here is a song I just finished in Garage Band. It is based on a poem by Emily Dickinson, called "morning". I am doing my best to make good recordings of my orchestral scores. Please feel free to give suggestions!
Lyrics:
Will there really be a 'morning'?
Is there such a thing as 'day'?
Could I see it from the mountains,
if I were as tall as they?
Has it feet like waterlilies?
Has it feathers like a bird?
Is it brought from famous countries,
of which I have never heard?
Oh, some scholar!
Oh, some sailor!
Oh, some Wise Man from the skies!
Please, tell a little Pilgrim, where the place called 'Morning' lies!
11 Time and Eternity.
This world is not conclusion;
A sequel stands beyond,
Invisible as music,
But positive, as sound.
It beckons and it baffles;
Philolosophies don't know,
And through a riddle, at the last,
Sagacity must go.
To guess it puzzles scholars;
To gain it, men have shown
Contempt of generations,
And crucifixion known.
Hardware:
mac g5
Software:
Garageband
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quite good! &mdash 06/24/07 - 10:53:00 AM
This sounds good! Did you use some of my ideas yet? The reverb presence sounds more realistic. The strings are a little better, nice harp, good stereo spread. I admit that I do not like the synthesized "choir vox" intrument that you chose, it sounds out of place in an orchestral setting. If you are planning on re-recording sometime with a human-voice choir, and this is a place-holder, then I understand (maybe you can explain your intent in your description.) If you wish it to be just instrumental, and you want an instrument to be the "voice"... maybe a couple of clarinets or clarinet/oboe to carry the meter of hte poem instead? But this sounds much closer to a real orchestra recording... and I like your other choices of instrumentation too. The repetitive melody line is OK, given that it is a poem, but maybe a little more variation would make it more interesting. Those are my thoughts.
ttfn,
Drakonis [ Reply to This ]
yes &mdash 06/24/07 - 01:22:28 PM
I did use your suggestions on this song, thanks for that. The voice part is really a problem. I have some nice voice sounds, but somehow it never works. I want to make a good recording as possible of my songs ( I have more of them) because one of the other composers/singers on this forum offered to help me to sing the lyrics under them. I will post them here as soon as both of us are happy about the result. I am greatly thankful that he helps me with this!
If you have some more suggestions to help me make my mixing better, please feel free to give them...!
André
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Love to write... [ Reply to This ]
What about... &mdash 06/24/07 - 01:54:15 PM
Is it possible to increase or decrease the volume of a whole track without changing the hand made adjustments in the volume line? So just raise or lower that line under the track? [ Reply to This ]
Yes. &mdash 06/25/07 - 12:36:39 AM
Next to the word "Tracks" at the top left of the screen, make sure the arrow is clicked so that you see the "Mixer" column. You can pan the entire track using the left/right knob and change the volume by using the slider. (If that's not what you were asking, I apologize.)
This is a really pretty tune. I agree that it could be improved by replacing some of the "synthier"-sounding instrument. I think it would sound wonderful with real voices and I hope you can get that to happen! --- The Art of Procrastination[ Reply to This ]
Morning &mdash 06/25/07 - 04:54:19 AM
strings and other parts of the orch
sounds very awesome ....but I m afraid
I m with Draki about the choir"voice"
very nice mood on this piece ..! [ Reply to This ]
hi &mdash 06/25/07 - 07:26:50 AM
Hi Peter, I was looking for a way to upload a newer version of this song, now with the voice replaced by an instrument, but I don't see how to update it.
André
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Love to write... [ Reply to This ]
all the right questions :) &mdash 06/25/07 - 08:08:09 AM
You are not allowed to "update" an MP3 in-place, but this is a common and hotly debated question. If you could replace it with a new one, then all of these comments would stay, and refer to the old one. That would confuse people who read that we are complaining about the synthy choir, when they heard a new perfectly good choir sound :-) What we do (while we wait for MJ to fix this) is to upload a new version and call it "Morning version 2" or "Morning (new Vox)". Someday MJ will have a versioning song page, and we can group multiple versions of a song on a single page, each with its own comments.
ttfn,
Drakonis
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Deja vu - It's the next best thing to being there<br>
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ok &mdash 06/26/07 - 02:15:42 AM
than I will wait till I am really happy with the version before I load up a new one. Otherwise there are going to be update after update.
André
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Love to write... [ Reply to This ]
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ttfn,
Drakonis
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