Take Your Place
By SteveSkiano on February 17, 2024 10:43 pm
Someone close to me lost a child and sent me a poem she had written. I used some of the phrases and words from the poem to create this song. This week I tried to experiment with strings to really create some dramatic emotion. I think it worked pretty well.
Production notes- there are some little weird things in the vocals that I could spend a lot of time fixing, I think because I just quickly pitch correct the doubles and harmonies, rather than going through note by note to save time. I still haven't got the vocal tone down that I want. Maybe it's just that my voice is like...not my favorite? haha. I'm not happy with the very last note. Just sounds really cheesy to me to end it on the major triad with strings.
I should have re-recorded the guitar at the beginning to get it perfect as well, but was being a little lazy.
I was happy with the fact that even listening back, it moves me on an emotional level, so that's kinda rad.
Oh, and I switched digital drummers in the middle for the first time. That turned out nicely too, I think.
Ok, thanks for coming to my Ted Talk.
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