Let Love Rule

[Bluesberry]

An acoustic ballad, a love song, and a bit of year-end angst all rolled into one here. I worked on this over the holidays whenever I could steal away for an hour or two.  Finished it up tonight.  It started out as a real simple acoustic song...a few things got added along the way.

Let Love Rule

w/m Dave Berry
Seagull acoustic, Godin xtSA, bass, E-piano, synth
recorded on Boss BR-1200 (drums from 1200)

[Redler]

I loved the dreamy mood on this ballad! Fine finger picking here - perfect sound on guitar! You really can write songs, Dave! "Let love rule...." Very catchy... Loved also the proggy part around 3.20...

Kari

[Geir]

Acoustic prog-ballad love song with a touch of the blues. Now that's a Berry-song for sure !!

Great song Dave, and a mighty fine performance.  

that is a fine acoustic sound from that guitar

[Speed Demon]

Killer tune, Dave!
The melody has a haunting quality about it. It takes me back in time to when I listened to a lot of
music by Simon and Garfunkel.

Excellent work.

Gene

[AndyR]

Sounds like I'm not the only one that was hit by a strange compelling feeling of "spouse-appreciation" over the holidays

Lovely stuff. The prog bit was a bit of a surprise when it hit, but it's just so right.

And as for the acoustic sounds - woo, fantastic. How do you do them? Are they mic'd or has the Seagull got a pickup in it? Sounds like the former to me, and VERY well done... but none of my acoustics have them so I'm not sure how good pickups can be nowadays.

[Bluesberry]

Thanks guys, the acoustic guitar was recorded on my BR-1200. One track was through the guitar lead via piezos, the second track was through a Sure SM58 mic into the BR, the Sure Mic was facing between the soundhole and the 12th fret more or less.  I really like the way it came out.  If I press Guitar and Vocal buttons at the same time it sets this up, "simul" it is called, most of these machines have this feature, each input to its own separate track, recorded at the same time.  I then panned these two tracks hard L&R, for the wide feel.  I was experimenting really, first time I have recorded my acoustic this way.  That was one of my goals with this song, to get the best acoustic sound I could get.  That is how this song came to life, I was just playing around trying to record my acoustic and I liked the sound of the stuff I was playing so I kept going with it.

[Satchwood]

Great acoustic sound you captured there Dave !!   Nice ballad and sentiment ~ i too dig that prog break there, and your synth & piano adds a nice touch!

[Oldrottenhead]

piepod for bound loving those harmonies dave.

[Jim1970]

Awesome Ballad Dave!!
Hamonies and acoustic sound fantastic with a touch of Lovely synth!

Hope you had a GREAT NEWYEAR!!!

JIM

[Ferryman_1957]

Lovely Dave, just lovely. That acoustic sound is awesome and it really fills the mix in a great way - really good production technique there. I love the chord changes in the chorus, and the proggy change in the middle is a real unexpected pleasure. And what a lovely sentiment in the lyrics, I hope your wife liked it!

I can see this developed into a multi-layered piece while you were puttinmg it together and it worked very well. It hangs together beautifully and all sounds really tight. Verey nice vocals as well. All in all another great Bluesberry mini-epic!

Cheers,

Nigel