Let It Go

Mike_S · May 25, 2023, 01:58:53 AM

This one took a good bit of time... playing the guitar parts right took time and then daughter is home for good from uni which means I don't have a recording space to myself all the time - small house.

Been meaning to do a song about social anxiety for a while but never had any lyrics. A few words came on a walk (as usual), recorded the basic idea in iphone and then started putting it together.

A good bit going on

3 x rhythm guitar parts - strat
1 bass part - HB Bass
drums - garageband
1 vocal
guitar solo - strat going through Boss SY-200
weird rhythm pulse effect - strat going through Boss SY-200

These feelings keep coming
Can't stop em but you tried
Well watcha gonna do
Gonna stay inside?

There's a hole in your mind
That you can't hide
You can't get out
Cause it's 2 miles deep and 2 miles wide

You gotta let it go

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These thoughts keep on coming
But you can't keep them at bay
You can't do... you can't do anything
It's just another day

And there's a break in the clouds
But you can't get through
You say you just need time
But then you stick to the path
Like you always do

You gotta let it go

You gotta let it go

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Break

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There's a hole in your mind
That you can't hide
You can't get out
Cause it's 2 miles deep and 2 miles wide

You gotta let it go

You gotta let it go

You gotta let it go

SE · May 25, 2023, 02:39:44 AM

That's cool Mike really enjoyed the vibe, excellent lyrics, vocal and guitar, cool effects on the solo sounded almost in reverse at one point, Beatles sound.
Great stuff 👏

Ron D Bowes · May 25, 2023, 04:44:05 AM

Cool vibe with a darkness to it (Very dark lead solo). Big wide sound too. Vocal delivery suits the track well. Nicely done!

StephenM · May 25, 2023, 05:59:51 AM

I suppose your music could sometimes be dark, but for me it never is... like pretty much all your music this rocks to the moon and back... I never noticed this before but your guitar work reminds me a bit of Chrissie Hynde's Pretenders stuff... and I really love that... there is very little music I ever heard that sounds like you Mike.... to be original is hard to do...

but you have a way of phrasing the lyrics into the vocals that I really love... and the way you put together the beat...it's heavy as heck but great.

chapperz66 · May 25, 2023, 07:03:43 AM

So cool, Mike. Love that guitar solo. Vocal to die for.

Paul

Ted · May 25, 2023, 07:06:26 AM

So thick and so clear!

I love the way the verse teases like it's going to go into a chorus – a modulation, a B section, or some kind of release – but that throbbing one-chord groove is like a powerful current that pulls you back in.

Farrell Jackson · May 25, 2023, 09:10:59 AM

I dig the layering of the guitars! Excellent words and vocals Mike...it's reminiscent of Diesel Saloon's work, cool! The guitar solo is out of this world...nice work!

Ray Brookes · May 25, 2023, 03:26:47 PM

So much cool stuff going on in this track. Those layered guitars and the overall sinister vibe of the production. Then that weird solo that seems to grab you by the throat along with the driving beat of the rhythm section. Love it.