Next Time Feat Leahcim - RitsLong

Ok nice one. Reminds me of the Meters. Especially the guitar. Thanks for sharing. Peace.

Mark

No problem. It's kind of an exercise and challenge for me to work out what I like about a track and then try to determine what could be improved. And then see if I can express that in any helpful way. I have to do this stuff constantly with my own music.

Careful about contracting me to be the producer. I don't think you've heard any of my productions yet!

I checked out your profile briefly and it turns out we have a couple of things in common. I am also a Cubase user and have been using the Boss GT-5 since I got it in 1998. I mostly just use a few settings but all my guitar and bass goes through it.

I'd actually like to switch to pure software guitar effects and record with none on. Then I can automate them all afterwards and really, really vary my guitar sound and movement as the track requires.

These days, I rarely record with delay. I add it afterwards because it makes it much easier to chop up guitar parts (I do that a hell of a lot) if there's no delay. I also like to sometimes automate the feedback on the delay to make single notes ring out for longer as they decay away.

So many tracks of mine I could recommend featuring prominent GT-5 guitar tones. One mega blues one would be Thousand Ball Blues. There are some good tones and playing on that.

Hey, no problem, man. My comment was actually quite a short one from me. I generally go into more detail, with specific time references etc

I've listened again and still think you need some other sort of change and quite possibly an instrumental break section. Could be an opportunity for the bass to break out and do more of a solo. Also, good opportunity for the drums to do more. If you could program up some more fills and move away from the drum loops, that would give it a lift.

Just moving the drums to the ride cymbal would give it a lift and also the opportunity to drop back down into that hat verse, something people always like when it's done well.

I also think the slight monotony here comes from the bass always dropping back down into the same funky verse pattern. You could work out how to play the same notes/follow the same chords in a different way, which would make a difference.

This sounds quite classic but if you look to do something a bit more unusual, you could really make this track stand out. It's got a classic vocal on it and all the other elements are good. When you've got those things, you should be trying to think how you can bring in unexpected (but still somehow appropriate) elements to make the whole thing more distinctive.

That's what I try to do. But some people like classic and are good at it so please choose what feels right to you.

Good work. I instantly liked this. Lots of people won't be able to resist that bass.

Good vocals and I particularly like the first phrase eg "Thinkin' about".

Good key change though I guess it's necessary so that the bassline doesn't get boring.

Some useful wah guitar chords.

This is one laidback lounge funk groove.

Maybe something missing from it is some sort of proper change or breakdown or guitar solo or similar. It sort of feels quite long even though it's only 3.5 mins.