Who Rides the Wind

Pete_NB

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My bandmate's young kid has recently discovered that he likes video cameras and devised his own Kid's Challenge reality show. It's a test of speed and stamina and it needed a song. The proud father, Nestor Gomez, came by last Friday night with the chords and some rough lyrics, which we refined and recorded. While there was some real excitement with what we came up with, it had been rushed and had pushed my vocals into unfamiliar territory. I really liked the song so for a change I was compelled to come back to it and tidy up things.

Anyway, I'm still looking to improve it. Anyone have any ideas on how to polish it up? I can hear level changes I think I should make and I'd like to lose the high-gain guitar hiss without compressing them to badly.

All suggestions welcome!

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Lyrics

They all had a shot,
a shot for victory
Giving it there all,
Running fast and free

Muscle meets the mind
Souls about to shine
Who can find the win?
Who Rides the Wind?

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Uploaded: Sep 02, 2009 - 11:11:41 PM
Last Updated: Sep 02, 2009 - 11:21:09 PM Last Played: Nov 17, 2009 - 09:06:56 PM

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Feter	Feter said 80 days ago (September 3rd, 2009)
	Who Rides the Wind Hey my friend its been a while ..short but so cool ...a swing change with diffrent scale will be cool ...loved it so far ..kudos ..thnx alot for sharin !!!! Check out my latest song called A Night With Feter feat'(Roxylee sloparts crissew johnwhitehead and Yamin AL Yamani )

Pete_NB	Pete_NB said 72 days ago (September 10th, 2009)
	Swing Not sure what you mean by swing change. Are you suggesting doing it in a different groove altogether or switching things up half way? Thanks for the listen and advice though! Check out my latest song called First of Fall - Slide

ste	ste said 80 days ago (September 3rd, 2009)
	i think it's great to be writing for that reason. i like the tune, i'd speed it up and stick on some drums if it's a speed and stamina show. Check out my latest song called sweet potatoes

Pete_NB	Pete_NB said 72 days ago (September 10th, 2009)
	Speed I'm thinking that a bit more essence of speed might help. Toying with a drum/bass line that might speed things along. And it was a great motivation to write a song for this cause! Check out my latest song called First of Fall - Slide

composerclark

composerclark said 80 days ago (September 3rd, 2009)

Cool
Very cool… feels like an anthem of some sort! The acoustic guitar intro is really nice and sets up an "up" and kind of mellow, folky mood, but after only 4 beats of this the entry of the distortion guitar feels rather incongruous or at least unexpected. That said, the lead guitar line sounds good… I guess if it were my song, I'd try an acoustic version, then I'd try a more aggressive, electric guitar based version, and see which one I liked better. I think they'd both sound good, though.

Check out my latest song called Scarlet Nightfall

Pete_NB	Pete_NB said 72 days ago (September 10th, 2009)
	Acoustic/Electric When worlds collide eh? I think I know what your saying, but I think I've managed to marry the electric over the acoustic. I'll post when I've finished it up and see if you agree. Thanks for the insight Clark, sometimes it can be hard to hear the conflicts when you get attached to something like this. Check out my latest song called First of Fall - Slide

smokey bacon jnr

smokey bacon jnr said 80 days ago (September 3rd, 2009)

Nice guitar work
You've got a really good voice for this sort of song. Gravelly! You could use EQ to tidy up the hiss, rather than compression which would not tackle that problem. Use an 2 band EQ where you can select a frequency, turn it down so the line dips at some point and move the dip up and down the line til you find the part of the sound spectrum that's causing the problem. Either that or use a noise gate which cuts out when the sound becomes white noise. You have to be careful not to cut out too soon though!! Good stuff.

Check out my latest song called Sunless

Pete_NB	Pete_NB said 72 days ago (September 10th, 2009)
	Gravel hiss Thanks Smokey. If I can find a free plug-in to do such a thing I'll give it a try. And thanks for the singing compliment, my first! When are we going to hear some Toneport magic? Check out my latest song called First of Fall - Slide

Ed Hannifin

Ed Hannifin said 79 days ago (September 4th, 2009)

Dude!
I think you and Nestor really hit it in terms of coming up with something anthemic. I think this suits the theme of the show very well... What I hear here is an excellent demo for the fully realized theme song...

If it was me I'd contact jiguma or perceptual vortex and beg for a stellar drum track... Failing that, I'd use one of those tempo-deriving little programs like the bpm widget for Dashboard, and get the tempo, and then I'd mess around with drum loops until I found one that sounded cool with me playing the acoustic bit over it... Then I'd build the whole thing up again from the drum track...

If you don't want to go to that degree of trouble, then I'd just remix it. I'd get the two acoustic guitar parts hard left and right, and I'd compress and tame the electric part up the middle. I'd spend a lot of time messing around with the vocals, trying reverbs and compression, and then I'd bring the vocals up in the mix--if yer gonna have an anthem, it's gotta be anthemic. Big, bold, strong... You could also add some bass...

I'd also take a look at the tracks and see if anything needs nudging as regards time....

This may sound like a laundry list of complaints, but really it's me saying--this is just perfect for its purpose, so take it all the way...

The lyrics and melody are right there, so you can work it up as far as you want to...

Ed

Check out my latest song called Next Time Around (w/jiguma)

Pete_NB

Pete_NB said 72 days ago (September 10th, 2009)

Great advice
As usual Ed, you've provided some excellent insight. I've tried your recommendations and it really does clean up the mix quite nicely. Looking forward to you hearing the results.

Still not sure I've got the anthemic vocals going. Maybe there is a magic plug-in but I'm limited by the pipes I was born with!

And trust me, it never comes off as a list of complaints, just rock-solid advice. So thanks!

Check out my latest song called First of Fall - Slide

VicDiesel	VicDiesel said 74 days ago (September 8th, 2009)
	Nothing wrong with the song But for a show that's about "speed and stamina" I think you should up the bpm a little. Check out my latest song called Desert Stars

Pete_NB	Pete_NB said 72 days ago (September 10th, 2009)
	BPM I'm detecting a theme here. I'm working on increasing the precieved pace of the song with a drum track/new bass line. At least I hope it will! Check out my latest song called First of Fall - Slide

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Name: pete_nb

Bio: Just a guy who likes to play guitar, get the idea down and move on to the next thing. My tunes don't require a lot of polish to my ear, they just need to have that special something captured in them that appeals to me. If they d... [see more]

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