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Your Majesty

This one’s for Arjay (as per his comment on one of the previous posts) hehehe.

Reprise of my old song “Your Majesty” with the following changes:

  1. Re-recorded the guitar part with my Taylor T5 – used percussive playing (slapping the guitar) for rhythmic effect.
  2. Added bass track via Reason
  3. Added electric guitar parts
  4. Added ambient pad via Rapture
  5. Re-done the vocal track with some lyric changes

You can compare it to the old one below:

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Fine

The reprise versions continue… this time with the song “Fine”

As stated [verbatim] in the Music Section:

Reprise of the song “Fine” with the following changes:

  1. Re-recorded the guitar part with my Taylor T5
  2. Re-done bass track with hybrid of reason and T5 sounds (for the slides)
  3. Added electric guitar parts
  4. Re-done the vocal track with some lyric changes and added harmonies

What I meant by #2 was that I used the T5 as a bass (thanks to the GT8) for the slides then matched the EQ of the bass module in Reason to make it sound like a single instrument.

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The Way it Should Have Been

I’ve been wanting to redo some of my older songs after getting the T5, because the guitars literally sound like shit when compared to the newer ones I made. I actually started on a couple of them, but I was able to finish the remake for “The Way it Should Have Been”

As stated [verbatim] in the Music Section:

Reprise of “The Way it Should Have Been” (duh!) with the following changes:

  1. A bit faster tempo, so it’s about 20 seconds shorter than the original.
  2. Re-recorded the guitar part with my Taylor T5
  3. Changed the percussion section with better sounding instruments (via Reason)
  4. Added a very subtle ambient pad (via Cakewalk Rapture)
  5. Re-done the vocal track with some lyric changes

Over-all, this is a better version, and it’s just fun to compare it because it shows clearly how much my sound has changed from the last time I recorded it.

If you feel like it, compare it to the old one below:

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(Do Do Do)

Here’s another composition by GP called (do do do)

As stated in the music section:

[the song was] originally titled “Dominion” but GP changed it just when I was drafting up the info for the song for the music section.

GP claims to have literally dreamt it – then immediately went to the keyboard and not long after, had the full instrument arrangement, the basic melody, and some lyrics.

I came up with the rest of the lyrics and harmonies – and there we have it.

Simply put: GP wrote the chorus, bridge and the first two lines of the first verse. Whatever was left was my doing. It’s also to be mentioned that GP provided the full accompaniment – so I just laid the vocal tracks and thought up the harmonies as I went along.

A nice piece of trivia about this song was when I first heard it, it was just the chorus, and it sounded really funny – and I didn’t give it much thought after that. But one day GP had me listen to the background music in its entirety, it actually had a hook to it which is why I ended up working on it as well.

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