Castles on the Riverbank

Oldrottenhead · May 17, 2010, 05:37:14 PM

FMGWABP

braw dave

Gnasty · May 17, 2010, 09:02:49 PM

That`s Blueautiful Dude.

You put alot of time and thought into your tunes.

This one is stellar!!

Ferryman_1957 · May 17, 2010, 11:22:58 PM

Great stuff Dave, I really enjoyed the way this changes, the "section" approach works very well. Truly epic, there's a whole lot of thought and inspiration gone in to this and it shows. I particularly liked the sections after "the time to go home" and the final section after "he is seen no more". It's very well put together also, the keys are a good complement to all the guitar work and never get in the way. The drums are excellent as well, they really add a level of depth to this - all done on the BR? Over all, a fabulous song.

Rather worryingly, I appear to be heading into the last verse.......better get some music done before it's too late.

Cheers,

Nigel

launched · May 18, 2010, 12:48:20 PM

Oh yeah, Dave I really love this one. Great story with lots of cool music and lyrics. You are turning into the master of prog!

PiePod for sure - Sweeeeeeeeeeeeeet!

A high quality arrangement. I always look forward to what you come up with!

Mark

Bluesberry · May 18, 2010, 12:56:35 PM

Thanks very much for listening and commenting my friends. As I was commenting on another thread, normally when I start a song I have almost no idea where it will go, I usually have a few chords in mind and a vauge idea. This one was the same way. I turned on my BR-1200 and recorded some guitar fingerpicky stuff with my electric and that was the start. To come out 3 weeks later with a song like this that seems to resonate with you good folks, well that is amazing to me. I wasn't sure right up to the end, It felt like it could end up real cheezy, and I wasn't sure how this would be recieved. I strugled with how much to put in. At one point I had much more lead guitar all over the place, during some sections, but I took it all out and only left the one guitar solo. It felt like it was distracting from the words and I was feeling excited about how the lyrics shaped up. I really apreciate the comments. Its all the little choices that get made along the way that add up to the finished song, I find that part so facinating and addicitve, the thrill of something good emerging from randomness and vauge ideas and sounds.

To answer a few questions: This was recorded on my BR-1200. Drums are from the BR-1200 built in drum machine. To give the drums some depth I ran them out to my microBR and then re-recorded them played through my "Space echo" guitar pedal. Then I blended the "space echo" drums with the original drums during a bouncedown. It seems to really add another dimension to the drums. The drums came out good on this one it seems.