Really like the singer/songwriter vibe you have going here. Theme of the lyrics is great, and your hook is stuck in my head. Looking forward to hearing more!

Really like the singer/songwriter vibe you have going here. Theme of the lyrics is great, and your hook is stuck in my head. Looking forward to hearing more!

Great progression, lovely piano, sweet guitar.
- Devieus

Great progression, lovely piano, sweet guitar. - Devieus

Very chill vibe and a nice opener for the year.
The extremely tuned vocals and electric guitar turns the classic singer/songwriter cliches upside down so it becomes something modern.

Very chill vibe and a nice opener for the year. The extremely tuned vocals and electric guitar turns the classic singer/songwriter cliches upside down so it becomes something modern.

Nice one! I share some of your goals (recording and vocals) so this track and your description is very inspiring

Nice one! I share some of your goals (recording and vocals) so this track and your description is very inspiring :)

I really like this. The autotune effect fits the vibe really nicely. Less T-Pain and more T-Chill   I bet you’d sound great with vocoders too!

I really like this. The autotune effect fits the vibe really nicely. Less T-Pain and more T-Chill ;) I bet you’d sound great with vocoders too!

I think you have a lovely voice! Kinda reminds me of David Berman. I don't hate auto-tune, but I am curious to know what it would soundlike without it. thank you!

I think you have a lovely voice! Kinda reminds me of David Berman. I don't hate auto-tune, but I am curious to know what it would soundlike without it. thank you!

Thanks! I'm hoping to make a lot of these, so been setting up a "design workflow". Hopefully they don't get too cookie-cutter by the end.

Thanks! It's not terribly complicated, but I'm quite pleased with the piano part. I hadn't planned on adding it, but it just kind of fell out while jamming along in Ableton. Maybe there's something to this "music theory" stuff after all, haha.

Thanks! I admit the vocals were so tuned because I rushed to get them in, but after the fact, I thought how the really "bad" parts that flutter from aggressive tuning a lot almost give it an under-water-digital feel which kind of fit the vibe. Happy little accidents.

Thanks! I feel like my workflow is already getting a little better with my week 2 track. One thing that's helped me is I started tossing a tuner in the daw track, and can at least see/practice singing the root notes over and over for a section before getting the lyrics in. The visual feedback helps me feel better about it :-)

Thanks! Good news! I just bought an analog vocoder, so I'm going to put out a lot of tracks with it to justify my impulse purchase.

Thank you! I'm honestly using the pitch correction more as a crutch than as a creative tool, but hopefully I will have weaned myself off of it as the year goes on. Already feeling better about my week 2 track!

[quote=Paisleyfrog]Really like the singer/songwriter vibe you have going here. Theme of the lyrics is great, and your hook is stuck in my head. Looking forward to hearing more![/quote] Thanks! I'm hoping to make a lot of these, so been setting up a "design workflow". Hopefully they don't get too cookie-cutter by the end. [quote=DESLRV]Great progression, lovely piano, sweet guitar. - Devieus[/quote] Thanks! It's not terribly complicated, but I'm quite pleased with the piano part. I hadn't planned on adding it, but it just kind of fell out while jamming along in Ableton. Maybe there's something to this "music theory" stuff after all, haha. [quote=Dustsucker]Very chill vibe and a nice opener for the year. The extremely tuned vocals and electric guitar turns the classic singer/songwriter cliches upside down so it becomes something modern.[/quote] Thanks! I admit the vocals were so tuned because I rushed to get them in, but after the fact, I thought how the really "bad" parts that flutter from aggressive tuning a lot almost give it an under-water-digital feel which kind of fit the vibe. Happy little accidents. [quote=cortx]Nice one! I share some of your goals (recording and vocals) so this track and your description is very inspiring :)[/quote] Thanks! I feel like my workflow is already getting a little better with my week 2 track. One thing that's helped me is I started tossing a tuner in the daw track, and can at least see/practice singing the root notes over and over for a section before getting the lyrics in. The visual feedback helps me feel better about it :-) [quote=hauntedshrines]I really like this. The autotune effect fits the vibe really nicely. Less T-Pain and more T-Chill ;) I bet you’d sound great with vocoders too![/quote] Thanks! Good news! I just bought an analog vocoder, so I'm going to put out a lot of tracks with it to justify my impulse purchase. [quote=fetalface]I think you have a lovely voice! Kinda reminds me of David Berman. I don't hate auto-tune, but I am curious to know what it would soundlike without it. thank you![/quote] Thank you! I'm honestly using the pitch correction more as a crutch than as a creative tool, but hopefully I will have weaned myself off of it as the year goes on. Already feeling better about my week 2 track!

I want to do more songs this year, too! And yeah, I'm using melodyne as a crutch as well, so you're not alone. Whatever you need to practice. Honestly Weekly Beats in 2024 was a main reason why I pursued vocals at all, since everyone was so supportive. So I'm here to be supportive, too!

Glad you're doing it and the premise of the song is really intriguing.

As for nitpicking, when autotune does the weird thing where it can't decide which note to choose and it switches between two pitches annoyingly, you can usually fix that by automatic a scale choice. For this particular moment you can remove the note you don't want from the allowed notes it can choose.

I want to do more songs this year, too! And yeah, I'm using melodyne as a crutch as well, so you're not alone. Whatever you need to practice. Honestly Weekly Beats in 2024 was a main reason why I pursued vocals at all, since everyone was so supportive. So I'm here to be supportive, too! Glad you're doing it and the premise of the song is really intriguing. As for nitpicking, when autotune does the weird thing where it can't decide which note to choose and it switches between two pitches annoyingly, you can usually fix that by automatic a scale choice. For this particular moment you can remove the note you don't want from the allowed notes it can choose.

I'm wishing you a productive 2026. You kicked it off nicely.

I'm wishing you a productive 2026. You kicked it off nicely.

Thank you! Yeah, I rushed the vocal part this week, so I didn't have time to try fix some of those rough spots. I think I might adopt that attitude though for the year though, in the "releasing something good enough is better than nothing" to keep the pace. The other part was I got a new vocal processing plugin, and I misread one of the settings so set the pitch correction to go wild instead of a lower tolerance. Need to learn the tool a bit more... but that's part of the fun!

Thanks!

[quote=RPLKTR]I want to do more songs this year, too! And yeah, I'm using melodyne as a crutch as well, so you're not alone. Whatever you need to practice. Honestly Weekly Beats in 2024 was a main reason why I pursued vocals at all, since everyone was so supportive. So I'm here to be supportive, too! Glad you're doing it and the premise of the song is really intriguing. As for nitpicking, when autotune does the weird thing where it can't decide which note to choose and it switches between two pitches annoyingly, you can usually fix that by automatic a scale choice. For this particular moment you can remove the note you don't want from the allowed notes it can choose.[/quote] Thank you! Yeah, I rushed the vocal part this week, so I didn't have time to try fix some of those rough spots. I think I might adopt that attitude though for the year though, in the "releasing something good enough is better than nothing" to keep the pace. The other part was I got a new vocal processing plugin, and I misread one of the settings so set the pitch correction to go wild instead of a lower tolerance. Need to learn the tool a bit more... but that's part of the fun! [quote=Cakes]I'm wishing you a productive 2026. You kicked it off nicely. [/quote] Thanks!

i'm going to listen to all your tracks and leave comments as payment

i'm going to listen to all your tracks and leave comments as payment :P

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[quote=orangedrink]i'm going to listen to all your tracks and leave comments as payment :P[/quote] 🫶