BradoSanz

My favorite of yours yet.

very soothing and great even without vocals. I love it

I hope the vocals would be very good!
These are the types of songs that I could relate to even though it's still in instrumental.
I'm really touch, and seriously, I'm really touched and emotional. A nice composition, with perfect instruments such as those strings and guitars and especially the piano. The clock mixes well too. This song can inspire many people so yeah, a very great job. Your the best!
- 2D2R

I from a vocalist standpoint, a very clever songwriter and vocalist will make this even more pretty. I agree with Tumbleweed, you have left room for what happens next to take this on a new journey. Thumbs up!

Hej BradoSanz,

is this track free to use for commercial purposes?

Regards,

Rokas

"Now I'm stuck just playing by ear."

It's never too late to learn Music Theory. Instinctively you already have the general idea you just need to know why it works.

Arpeggios are when you play the elements of a chord in a measure.
the chord C consists of C E& G So in a 4/4 measure you play the notes C E G &E you have created a simple quarter note arpeggio. And you can play a nice pad sound consisting of the notes C E & G played all at the same time and they will fit nicely with your arp's. You can change up your arps by instead of playing E play an F. this is called a suspended 4 chord. or you could play the D note instead of E and you have a Suspended 2 chord. Suspended notes need a resolution in the song so you do not usually end a phrase on a suspended chord or note. A great example of suspended chords is Eddie Van Halen playing Keys on there song Dreams.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zsXCs41DkWs
30 secs in you hear the suspended chords and the feeling of drama they create.
Another thing you can do is to play the arpeggios straight C E G E and then for the pads play them suspended
Take four measures
Guitar part
CEGE CEGE CEGE CEGE
String Pad part
CEG (hold for whole measure) then CDG then CFG then CEG again
Or if you take eight measures of:
CEGE CEGE CEGE CEGE CEGE CEGE CEGE CEGE
and the pads you go.
CEG CDG CFG CEG ACEG ACDG ACFG ACEG which is now the Basis of a I VI progression of chords with the ACEG creating a minor 7th chord. (If you have a Piano it's easier to play and see what I mean) The exercise I would give to you is to constrain you to those chords but experiment with the bass root note and see what interesting combinations you can come up with. I highly suggest you pick up the book the Guitar Grimoire as it's an awesome guide to chords and hand positioning of the chords for guitarists. Every now and then I refer to my Keyboard version for resolution in conflicting sounds that I make in my music.
I hope that helps you a bit.
Also I read your reply to Static.
"My DAW sucks."
Never blame the DAW, because the talent will always shine through. An exercise I like to do sometimes is limit myself to just one keyboard and one chord and I have to do something creative with it that sounds interesting. Many song Ideas come out of inspirational exercises like this one.
https://www.looperman.com/tracks/detail/162165#comments
Would be an example of that. Just a long Jam in the key of F minor using only a Microkorg and the open source DAW Ardour.
Take Care
Cru

hi again. that guitar clock-like metronomical background looped muted strumming thing was too sweet. I love the harmonics and I always enjoy listening to high frequency acoustic guitar range. Fine performance!

Perfect backing track with some excellent mood changes throughout. Always different without repetitions. Amazing how guitar and piano are corresponding in harmonics!

So maybe leave it as a teaser only. For me there is no need to add any vocals to this anymore at all. Just a thought.

You're great in songwriting anyway. Do what you want.

Your guitar recording always sound nice! I'll be looking forward to a version with vocals.

Hola Brado, my remarks about pop should not be taken in a negative light, but just the opposite. You do POP very very well. Why is this POP. Because you use a chord progression that's very standard to pop songs. In your case you used a very Standard I VI V IV Progression F#minor, D#minor, C#, B and back again. Using the arpeggios on the Guitar that you made ,you ended up suspending the chords as arps that cycled through the chord structure. Similar songs" Dust in the Wind"(Kansas), Send me an Angel( Scorpions). "Time of your Life (Green Day). POP is a sound which the majority of passive music listeners enjoy and can relate to when they hear the familiar patterns even though they may be made in a myriad of different ways. It's why when we hear something that's completely new in music it's off putting at first because it doesn't fit our predicted expectations. This song fits that predicted mold and is done extremely well. If you developed it with your talented voice it would be a pop hit (with the right marketing and distribution team).
So to answer your question it's the structure of the song and not exactly the play-style that makes this POP.
Carry on!
Cru

The test of a musicians talent I think is to play his/her solo instrument and leave the listeners enjoying what they just heard with out the adornment of all else that may be added....I enjoyed this one BradoSanz.....I`m guessing it will be even better when you add you vocal...but its good now...Ed

Drumless, acoustic greetings, BS.

What makes this a pop song?

Well, maybe it's the simple guitar melodies that sound a lot like vocal parts in various pop ballads. Hard to explain but that's my simple answer to your question to the Cru Dawg. Not really a proper pop song until you add the vocal but then it probably will be. I can already hear you singing it as I know your stuff so well.

Yes, your music does have the potential to make loads/at least some money. If you hit the big time, you can pay me loads to do a strange Nomad remix of one of your hits. Loads cos you'll be able to afford it. Oh, and I prefer English pounds to US dollars.

Anyway, I like the metronomic pulse coming from one guitar part. Not sure if that's in amongst the playing or perhaps a totally separate part, acting a bit like a shaker.

Sounds a bit like a ballad for American teen/early 20s emotional films. A bright, uplifting sound no doubt involving one character pining for the love (or at least hot body) of another.

Simple, powerful widescreen sound and you are good at the drumless stuff that still has a decent groove/pulse to it.

I give this a low mark on originality but that doesn't really matter - it's not that sort of track, just solid emotive acoustic stuff.

Congrats.

Very relaxing and soothing. Brings back some memories.

Thanks for sharing it "bare" as I typically enjoy music without vocals.

Not to suggest that you shouldn't add vocals but sometimes music can speak to the listener as well.

Great work on this.

this invokes that American pie university college type ambience and movie back track...like when a guy is thinking about a girl or having a dinner with friends,laughing..

you and your bros spirit is glazed all over this beat-goodwork

I think it's great. Not the average trap beat. Some parts have a lot going on so it's hard to concentrate on certain sounds but, a little mixing and mastering and that's fixed. Overall I think you did a great job. As a result I searched your page for more hip hop beats, lol. That's the only one!!!!

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This is absolutely gorgeous. I'm loving the piano parts that come in around :42...such a beautiful touch

And the chord progression at 1:03 made my heart melt. I actually almost shed a tear during this listen.

Keep doing what you do Brado, hopefully we can do something together in the near future!!

[Penga] :)

Holy C# major which is overall..a nice pop tune. (that we have heard before)...many times and many, many, many times. But it never gets old using the chord changes you have used. I think if you slow the tempo down just a bit you will get the emotional twinge you would expect from this song, but a little bit better. And then you can add your lyrics (inspirational would fit nicely) and you could conquer the POP world, if that's your intention.
Cru

This is excellent! Please pursue it and get some vocals on it. It's really nicely put together too. The acoustic sounds very good indeed and the composition is great. Top quality stuff. Great job. Look forward to hearing some more.

Richie

Sounds nice, peaceful but still had enough power - a very good base for a song i think. :)
Good luck with the extension and the vocals!

regards, traz

Enjoyed this one.An emotive sound.good luck.

This is awesome, very simple and beautiful, definitely put some vocals on this, its too good not have some good lyrics on it. I know you write some Christian stuff which I dig, I think it would be very fitting for this song. Great work so far, keep it up.

Kyle

Well, this was interesting for a pop style song. Obviously, this is far from my listening preferences. I much prefer pop music from before autotune existed, and when most instruments were actually played. Regardless of that, the songwriting did show through on this piece, and I think that is one of your strong points. This has good energy, and definitely puts some radio stuff (from my limited point of view) to shame. You said you have had mixed response to your bass on this song... I am listening with my sub turned pretty much all the way up, and I could barely hear a bass line. I could hear the kicks, but they sounded like they had there attack transients compressed. Seems like the kick and the bass both occupy the same narrow range, and I would guess that is why people are having trouble differentiating. I personally would make sure the kick has it's attack mostly intact (try saying the three times fast!) and possibly transpose the bass up an octave for most sections, and then some gentle sidechain on the bass controlled by the kick. This should bring them both out in an audible and less subby car friendly way. I realize you can't seem to access the project any more though, and I understand that problem fully... happens to the best of us. Part of why computers piss me off. Had fun listening though, thank you for sharing!

Great one
a vocal can complete this track
it will be great if you add vocals
kindest regards
J_

https://www.looperman.com/forum/thread/183960?page=3#229207
Winner! :D Congrats ER Guess it would've ended differently if I was fast enough getting to you ha? :p

This inspired 2 tracks :O Awesome ER! I posted a link for this in the looperman zombie apocalypse thread as well since it fits the story there. I wonder if you tasted like chicken ;) Hope you gave them zombies indigestion!!