It’s as if you perfectly tuned in to the vision I had for the song. This is so amazing. I’m in awe and so proud of my creation.
I was already before but your words are music to my ears! (eyes… whatever)
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I’m a blues guy at heart, my initial reason to take up the bass was that no one ever had the time to play so I picked it up to record these songs. Who knew I’d fall in love with the instrument.
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Wow, these are great.
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I like the filtered voice
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Thanks all, its all new to me, the recording, playing bass, never sung before. I play guitar and write lyrics…old dog, but new tricks
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Very nice work @terb,
Dark with nice overlays, love the guitar work.
It’s a big YES from me.
Cheers Brian
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Hi @gcancella,
Very nice work, love the subtle flow with peaks of power.
Bass and guitar chugging along parallel very nice.
Love the Black Sabbath thunder at start and finish.
Cheers Brian
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Don’t forget the middle! 
Thanks @TNKA36!
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So those chords played in there were played with a bass?
I also like the thunder although the first one shook me a bit 
Overall nice to listen to. Personally very rarely fan of (heavy) distortion but since it was kept to a small part still good!
No no, those are real guitar parts. My sentence was poorly worded. Towards the end of the song there are guitar parts that are played with the bass using an octave effect.
The theme the song tries to convey is a storm being observed with unease by someone in land thinking of his\her significant other crossing the ocean.
It’s a somewhat common theme in Portuguese poetry and music, seeing 2 out of our 4 borders are the atlantic ocean and the heavy historic background the Portuguese have with the sea.
I’ll end with a bit of a famous poem from Fernando Pessoa and its translation
Portuguese
Ó mar salgado, quanto do teu sal
São lágrimas de Portugal!
Por te cruzarmos, quantas mães choraram,
Quantos filhos em vão rezaram!
Quantas noivas ficaram por casar
Para que fosses nosso, ó mar!
English
Oh salted sea, how much of your salt
Are tears of Portugal!
For crossing over you, how many mothers cried,
How many sons prayed in vain!
How many fiancées won’t marry
For you to be ours, oh sea!
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Ah. Okay ah. The part where I thought “This sounds too high for a bass but it sounds like a bass”. Makes total sense.
Yes. Okay. Now the feeling of being shaken by thunder at the start makes total sense and fits perfectly into the theme.
I also get the message in the poem but as I noticed with the translation of my own lyrics - it just doesn’t translate well enough. As said - I get the message. I doubt I get the feeling the original would create.
And @Tokyo_Rat I haven’t come around to listening to your creations yet. I don’t want to rush it as I want to take my time and be in a mood to listen to new songs and be open. I can’t force that but I promise that I will listen to it.
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It loses all its musicality with the translation, true. But the poem is not directly linked with my “song”. It was a way to illustrate the relationship the portuguese people have with the sea.
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Soooo… I did it.
The complete thing. On a music sheet.
It was quite an effort but well worth it I think.
It just messed with my brain skipping between the bass and the treble clef.
PDF: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1hsdSdYUkt7ryXJL5ce-tDgVeKOwbRDfd/view?usp=sharing
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I’m quite proud as I think I did it right. Of course it helped to listen to it on noteflight to instantly notice errors but still… It is my complete composition on a music sheet. Okay… I didn’t write out the change with the fade out in the last verse but… basically it’s thought as song that can have verses added and added for each and any of Giddis escapades.
And just because I could it shows the fretting of the guitar chords - preview:
I had to use standard drum notes as I have no idea how to communicate to a drummer my weird “drumset” in notes.
Edit: Of course there was (at least) still one error in it. In the 11th bar the bass did not play root (A) but something else. Fixed it.
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Well done, I’ve listened to several of your originals, and I like your stuff… you got an old school, Lou Reed vibe going. (and interesting vocal mic/effects style as well)
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Thank you…thrilled that you liked it…some one else mentioned the Lou Reed vibe being a fan that always nice to hear…there was a band in the 70s called Flash and the Pan that I thought sounded great and they had that distorted spoken vocal that kinda set them apart. thanks again!
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There’s a lot of punk, post-punk and industrial bands that use similar vocal techniques. Some do crossover work and retain it. I really like the technique too.
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That was awesome!!
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