I think we're alone now
Michael4000
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Hi all, I was inspired to do this song Because Billy Joe Armstrong from Greenday just did an at-home version of it. Please tell me what you think!
Thanks,
Michael
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Thanks,
Michael
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Comments
To my taste the piano has too much low-end rumble, and cutting some of would make the whole track enjouable and get rid of distortion. I don't know what your piano/keyboard and recording process is, but should be fairly easy to fix in many ways
just a really minor thing: i think in some of your posts (including this one) i feel these little embellishments you sometimes throw in on the piano could have a different timing sometimes, maybe it's just me. i am not able to explain it any better. it might well be you do this on purpose, and i just expect something else timing-wise. i just mention it because i noticed it recently.
regarding the bass (even though you said you didn't need feedback on the mix ) i don't think you need to add bass for the missing bass. a) it's not gonna replace it, and b) imagining your piano man set, he would just play on the "analog" house piano, so i would reckon leaving the piano preset as it is would be more accurate. along the same line, using the same reverb on both voice and piano would also make sense (i only have laptop speakers atm so not sure,how the reverb really sounds on your mix, it is more a thought)
are you going to make a playlist of the "set list so far" at some point for us?
Re: the mix-- I plan on performing with my keyboard, not a traditional piano, because I use the transpose feature at times, and most places just don't have a piano anyway. I'm interested in learning more about the mixing of reverb on piano and vocals. For live performance, I plan on using my TC Helicon mic mechanic. It's very simple-- delay and reverb. Anyone familiar with this, or knowledgeable about vocal effects pedals in general?
Finally, my set list. Well it's pretty much everything I've posted on this forum so far, but I'll paste it all in one place below. There are 37 songs on my list, right now I'm up to 30. It's been a lot of work, I had to create a piano arrangement for almost every song cause most of them are guitar driven songs. This is the first 30 I've done so far since last October:
Fat Bottomed Girls
Ain't No Sunshine
Hard to Handle
Sympathy for the Devil
Werewolves
Santeria
Believer
Only the good Die young
I'm still standing
I Got a Woman
Better Man
American Girl
Africa
Drops of Jupiter
What it takes
The Gambler
Waterfalls
Hey Jude
Living on a prayer
Three little birds
Don't stop believin
I Won't Back Down
Forget you
Why they Call It The Blues
Let it be
You May be Right
Hello
Breakdown
NY State of Mind
I think we're alone now
if you don't already, you should use a metronome or beat sometimes for practice. if you do it regularily, it really locks the timings in, and it helps with avoiding tempo fluctuations across the length of a song. i tried it with my band a few times, and weeks later we still felt an "after effect".