New piano ballad! I attempt to sing again, but this time I absoultely F'in nailed it!
So last night I release the new version of "Song One Alt", also known as "Love is Lost". I released the latter song about a year and a half ago, it was a rap song with fast paced lyrics, which I wrote about falling out with my best friend and lover. It didn'rt really go down that well, A.) It was pretty explicit, one of the most prominent things I learned about when I did my music production course at Uni (which included a lot about music writing, composition,writing lyrics, arranging, mixing and mastering (as well as the full business aspect of how to actually make money or even stand a chance in the music industry...), I did a survey which found out what the most major turn offs were, when people listen to popular music. One of the most major things, why people are most likely to dislike and skip a partcular track...is swearing, general nastiness and explicit nature.
If you guys ever listened to that track, you would know it was quite explicit, over all it went down like a lead balloon, I got quite a bit of flack over it (people thought my rap vocals where actually quite good, but most people didn't like the fact that I was singling out someone which I had fell out with, was to be honest pretty nasty and there was at least over a dozen usages of a selection of pretty nasty swear words). But even though it, plus another track which I produced at the same time and released here called "Relationship Issues", wasn't recieved well on Newgrounds very well, it was released on a four track album, which as it stands, I have sold roughly, over six hundred copies, and according to iTunes and my old labels analytics, "Love is lost is the most popular song on that specific release? Weird I know, but I guess this was not the website to release that kind of music on (but I know before that release, the majority of my music on here was Electronica and most faccets of EDM styled instrumental tracks.
"Song One Alt" was the name of the piano piece which I used to rap over and the finished piece was the mentioned song "Love is Lost". I really like that particular piano piece and had being wanting to make a song which would be better recieved. So I made a new song in a Pop Ballad style, mainly usign Piano and string sounds. I went through about three different backing tracks including the original track. I made quite well thought out lyrics, which I re-wrote a few times and practiced singing the song myself, which playing piano chords and having a play around with the timing. The practice song was at about 128 BPM, The final track was just under 90 BPM.
"I Love Everything you do" is the new track, which I put quite a lot of emotion into the vocals, were practiced repeatedly and has taken, many takes to record to anywhere near how I wanted it ot sound, without even slightly being embrassed when I happened to listen back to the vocal takes, several days later.
I hope people like this rendition of this song, like my vocal attempt. I hope to intergrate this kind of style into some of my future works, possibly into a short album and maybe even go for doing this kind of song (either this or something like it) in a live setup.
If you do like it please tell me what you think as this really took me quite a while to produce to this level.
Anyway until next time, see ya around.....