Hi Will, That's a nice song with a nice melody and vocals - if you're up for a critical comment, maybe a little too nice? The synth pad is a bit lush for a mournful song. Sparse would be better. And I'd be playing with the EQ on the voice to bring up the low-mids and cut down on the nasal higher tones. Maybe cut one verse, and throw in a bridge to suggest a wistful look out the window... But I liked it! Cheers Norv ----- Original Message ---- > From: Folderol <folderol@xxxxxxxxx> > To: linux-audio-user@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx > Sent: Sunday, 13 September, 2009 6:41:21 AM > Subject: As promised! > > Inspiration is a very strange thing. On this occasion there were a > number of quite separate things going on in my world. > > It was early spring and someone had commented on magnificant sunrises > there were seeing. My reply was that lately it seemed all my sunrises > were just shades of grey. Someone else commented that it sounded like a > song title. > > At that time I had just devised a new voice patch for my favourite > synthesiser, and had recorded just a few chords. Quite unexpectedtly I > played a few notes that exactly fitted the phrase 'All of my sunrises > are shades of grey'. > > Some six months previously, I had gone to the funeral of a very dear > friend and had been deeply touched by how alone his widow suddenly > looked. This must have been going round in the back of my mind, and > once triggered by that phrase, and the sad melody, the entire song was > written and the music substantially recorded in one day. Normally a > composition takes months for me to develop. > > My next problem was singing. I collaborated with a friend who did a > very good job, but have always wanted to sing it myself. It has taken > about two years to get up to my current standard. This is not good, but > I think is just about listenable. > > http://www.musically.me.uk/music/All_Of_My_Sunrises.ogg > > All of my sunrises are shades of grey, > Now that I'm on my own. > There's no laughter, > No joy now, > You left me behind. > Gone where I can not say. > So all of my sunrises are shades of gray, > Now that you've gone away. > > > All of my sunrises are shades of grey, > You were the only one. > In our springtime, > We'd run through, > The meadows and streams. > Oh how we loved to play. > Now all of my sunrises are shades of grey, > The meadows have all turned to clay. > > > All of my sunrises are shades of grey. > We loved each other so. > We were honest, > And faithful, > Through trials and pain. > Though we were poor, we stayed. > But all of my sunrises are shades of gray, > No riches would help me today. > > > All of my sunrises are shades of grey, > I said goodbye in tears. > Though our children, > Are with me, > I know they must go. > They have their own lives too. > So all of my sunrises are shades of grey, > There's nothing for me, without you. > > -- > Will J Godfrey > http://www.musically.me.uk > _______________________________________________ > Linux-audio-user mailing list > Linux-audio-user@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx > http://lists.linuxaudio.org/mailman/listinfo/linux-audio-user __________________________________________________________________________________ Get more done like never before with Yahoo!7 Mail. Learn more: http://au.overview.mail.yahoo.com/ _______________________________________________ Linux-audio-user mailing list Linux-audio-user@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx http://lists.linuxaudio.org/mailman/listinfo/linux-audio-user
