Randall822

Hello meestege,
I appreciate your review, but apparently your reviewing a different song than mine. My song is totally an instrumental and I don't sing at all, nor play a clarinet. Thanks anyways. :-)
Randy

Hello there Six...
Hey, thanks for your valuable comments! That's how I learn to get better. The rock song, I have to agree with you on. Nice piano part, but little else except a lot chord playing, and not much lead guitar to shine through.

As for the acoustic guitar sound, it isn't really distorted on its own, as I just listened to it on the track by itself. What is happening is, the distortion from the electric guitar is overriding to make it sound like the acoustic is distorting as well.
I liked the sound of them 2 playing together, but was no way to get that distortion sound out unless I made the acoustic softer and in the background. Anyways, I'll listen more closely on my next song and try and get things separated more. Thanks again!
Randy

Thanks Six,
Country music is what I grew up around. Not for everybody, but still mainstream in America and I will make more.
Randy

Hi ya Six.....
Thanks for the review. Basically I get the sound in my head and then search for a drum set that will match it. If I can't find one, then I make up my own drums. A cool place to get live acoustic sounding drums is at: Betamonkeymusic.com. They also have free samples to download...including heavy double bass (kick) drums kits for rock music.
My next song will be partly a more familiar 12 bar Blues shuffle type beat.
Thanks again,
Randy

Hi Planet,
Thanks for the nice review. I just woke up to check my mail, and your message was the first I seen. I liked the live feel as well as I left eveything in...including string buzz noise, etc.
Thanks again,
Randy

Hi Magician,
Thanks for your comment. I appreciate it very much. I'll be doing some more Blues and Country songs soon. I'll get to review some of your
song(s) and others that gave me a review as well, very soon.
Randy

Hello there Slap!!!!
Thank you for reviewing my song. I appreciate it very much....as if a majority of people didn't like it, or the sound, then I'd obviously need to change something.
Getting it to sound good is my main goal after getting the tracks laid down. It's wonderful to have all the tools they have these days available so you can do a song justice.

I am not that good at slide really, but I try. Just go real slow and do a half dozen notes at a time until you have it down so it feels natural.

Then go another 6 notes or so. Once you can get a half a dozen notes down good, record them on a track, and then keep adding to it and edit as you need.
Pretty soon, you'll have a whole tune done!
I mean this song took me a whole month to do that way.
Good luck with your playing and learning,
Randy

Hello REI.
Thanks for reviewing my latest song! Hopefully I'll get better doing songs on the computer as most people seem to be doing it that way these days.
A lot of editing of commercial songs is all done on computers.
As far as timing, yeah, my earlier songs of 5-6 years ago, I had timing issues. I started using a click track, or metronone, and that straightened it all out for me.
Randy

Hi Profita. Thanks for reviewing my latest song. I used to play in a country-rock band about 25 years ago. I started working shift work so couldn't play in a band anymore. So I gave music up.
But now I have decided to get back into it. So stay tuned. Not sure you'll like all the types of music I'll try, but I'll do another Blues tune of a different style, down the road.
Randy

Thanks so much for the review 'Rockinchair'. At my age, I am about to need a real one Ha-ha.
I've got a collection of quality loops disk and I can produce many more songs of any type. It is helpful that I can play 5 different instruments as I know exactly what they sound like.
In fact I have all the instruments here in my house, except for the 'Dobro' which I sold many years ago. It was a 1932 National with a square neck.
I don't play my real instruments as much as I'd like because of my shift work type of job......which also cuts out any live band playing.
So I turned to the computer to help me out and make songs. With all the great equipment these days, anyone can make music without ever having to play a real instrument.

I realize there are a number of other web sites that I can post my music on as well, but I started here and will stick around awhile. I am no spring chicken tho!!! :-)

I will make more varieties of music, and country and older rock is where my roots start from. So there will be more songs with Banjo, Fiddle and Pedal Steel coming.
The Blues song(s) I am finishing up will be quite unique I think.....even tho the one is only 78bpm.
Thanks again for writing and your helpful comments!
Randy

Thanks Planetjassbass for the nice comments. I love upbeat country style music, as I grew up with country music all around me since I can remember. I recall my mother taking me to square dances when I was maybe 3-4 years old, as a babysitter wasn't always readily available, and just sitting there listening to it all.
Of course, that was old time country. Still it had a big influence on me going forward. In the next few days, I hope to get more of a chance to listen to many of the artist here, including your songs, and give feedback. :-)
I'll make more country music. Working on a Blues song now. Thanks again...
Randy

Hi there Junfrey!
Thanks for your nice comments about my Alternative rock song. I usually get 'complaints' that I should have vocals in all my songs, but I am not a vocalist, and therefore, I do make an effort to make my songs more 'interesting' as instrumentals.
I grew up in the 60's era, learning 'The Ventures' many instrumental songs as I was learning guitar back then.
I suppose if I did Rap, or Hip Hop type songs, I could just talk my way through a song.

I will be getting around to listening to your songs and the many other artist on here and will leave comments.

I forgot to mention in my profile that I am almost 64 years old...but I still love rock music and always will. So, I'll make some more songs of that type and other types as well.
Randy