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Oh God, Give Me A Sign

By horatiuromantic on January 16, 2022 10:02 pm

A song about a man who seeks God's sign, but is not a good listener. Will he receive his sign?

Featuring backing track exported from SessionBand Soul Jazz Funk, vocals by yours truly including crazy scatting, and a super funky piano solo on the Ravencroft 275! Fully made on the iPad with the Yeti Nano as a mike/sound card.

I composed the full song today based on a few lines of lyrics I came up with over lunch, and then expanding that into the whole song - it even has a refrain and a coda with a semitone going up! big_smile I'm pretty proud of the sound I managed to achieve in this one, but to be fair, the heavy lifting was done by SessionBand, I just managed to EQ it just enough to fit my voice and the piano. I was gonna add thunder noises, maybe some strings or horns as God's sign, but in the end I decided to take it easy tonight and also keep the track more lightweight.

Enjoy and please give me your feedback!

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Super saucy chilled jazz right here big_smile.

More scat please

Also more voice of God please

Also that piano is great

This is such smooth jazz! Great job!

slammin' piano playing! soulful singing! the vocal scat is a niiiiice touch

Thanks fellas! I read your comments every day but I don't wanna spam it with a thank you 1 minute after each one

That is smooooth. The contrabass and drums, the cool piano and... the singing! Man that is really nice.

It's a wonderful, enchanting tune!

Wow this is great!

Love your piano, it's a great song!

YO this is tight the backing track sounds terrific!  NICE singing buddy

If I was a DJ, I'd precede this track with, "This one goes out to all the lovers out there...." because the song sounds so romantic in its performance.

LOL GOD

There's also a great montage of all the WBers getting stressed out working on music, asking God for a sign.

Great job!!!!

Thanks a lot buddies! On this one there's a lot of cheating with the backing track but not so much on week 3.

Haha yea this could easily be romantic instead of godly. I was listening to Marvin Gaye for some inspiration when I recorded it. That stuff was between romantic and revolution.

It's so smooth, this has to be the work of some lesser deity at least.

ok i'm definitely going to need more scatting in your submissions bc this rules

That backing track is quality and the piano solo is solid. I like the vocal work too, I would really love to hear you just let loose that diaphragm though and really give it some power.

This is super cool, love the vibe to the whole thing.  That's nuts that you did this all on an iPad.  GarageBand app? 

Chrisfoo wrote:

This is super cool, love the vibe to the whole thing.  That's nuts that you did this all on an iPad.  GarageBand app?


Exactly! Thank you! I forgot to mention it but that's what I used.

Thanks you friends, your comments are giving me divine pleasure

This is incredible. Have you worked/played in a gospel setting before? 'Cause this has really got that kind of feel. The harmonic structure is gorgeous.

fc wrote:

This is incredible. Have you worked/played in a gospel setting before? 'Cause this has really got that kind of feel. The harmonic structure is gorgeous.


Haha, no never but thank you! I just listened to gospel and lots of gospel-inspired jazz blues stuff. Also played some organ back in the day, so I picked up the sound. The progression was sort of trial and error to fit the lyrics and idea.

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