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My Eyes, My Heart

by gtrman4040 (Support gtrman4040)

This is the first finished song for FAWM.

My Eyes, My Heart

Trust is broken.
the pieces fall will I ever find a way
to put it together again?
Will my eyes see what my heart once felt?

Hold on, wait up,
what is going on?
bleakness takes me
my heart knows sorrow.

emotion takes over every day
and it's killing me.
Love takes a back seat how could it be?
This thing is in motion and it seems there's no stopping it now.

Hearts are broken.
Bitterness prevails, and the feelings we had wither start to die.
We've turned a full circle, we're dealing out the hurt we feel.

Hold on, wait up,
what is going on?
bleakness takes me.

I need your heart to be true to me now.
I need you to see me as the man I am.
Forget about the past move on.
This won't go on for long.
I can't hold on
forever.

my_eyes_my_heart.mp3

Credits:

Music Jerry Collins

Lyrics and Vocals Lukas Adro


FAWM 2010

by gtrman4040 (Support gtrman4040)

Every February there is a songwriting challenge called FAWM (February Album Writing Month).  While there is no physical prize for this challenge, the contest reaches a fairly big audience.  The goal of this songwriting challenge is 14 original songs in the month of February.

This year Luke, Jimmy, Mark, and myself will be working tracks all month.  I will post them into the blog.  This is a good time to subscribe to the blog with your RSS news feeder.  Every time we finish a song it will be posted to the blog

That said, all v-band members are welcome to collaborate with us if you'd like to.  This is challenge is going to be a pretty fast pace though, so you know in advance.  I need to close these projects as fast as I can so I can get on to the next song.

Further, any collaborations in the v-band forum by any of us who are signed up with FAWM are illegible too.  In other words, if I or we are working project in the v-band forum it will most likely show up in the blog as part of this FAWM challenge.  It will show up in the FAWM forum too.  As long as the collaborators agree that the project is done...of course.

Enough said...I'm going to post the first song now

 


Yaru

by chayag (Support chayag)

The Music Project: New age andean music

I woul like to start a new New age andean music project.

I am looking for a keyboard player, guitar, bass, drums and special effects.

I will record the ethnic instruments. The song that I am posting is a project that I participated in Spain last year. The songs that I will include are songs that will be included in a new Cd.

If any of you out there is interested in participating in this project plase let me know soon.

chayag2@yahoo.com

www.andeanmusic.org

Thank you


Fixing the Mixing

by SuckerDJ (Support SuckerDJ)

I would enjoy the opportunity to say the quality of music here at V-Band is excellent. And not just because of the talented playing and the inspiring sounds, but more so for the structure.

As a singer, you guys make it so easy for me to produce work, because your songs are intelligently formed, they have coherence, in that they start, they middle, and they end - and often lots more in-between.

Sounds like a simple theory doesn't it? But I could give you endless examples of good music that is impossible to work with, because it lacks structure. It becomes good music wasted because it cannot be worked.

I am blessed to have found people naturaly smart enough to know this.

And then comes the mixing...

And then I wonder how such intelligent people can make such fundamental errors.

We have all listened to a million and one songs in our lives, we are all well aware of what a mix is, and I don't mean a classic mix, or an outstandingly unique idealistic mix, I am talking a basic mix.

I never thought mixing was an art form, I thought it was pretty damn obvious.

How would you define a 'basic mix'?

Well, you would assume that a basic mix would mean you can hear EVERY instrument balanced to all the others in the fashion desired to provoke maximum listening pleasure.

Logic says if you cannot hear an instrument in a mix - then what is it there for?

I am dissapointed with some of the mixes I hear on V-Band.

I often hear vocals way too loud, to the point where I cannot hear the backing at all. I hear guitar solo's killing the rest of the track, screeching out, not sitting in the mix at all - needlessly too loud.

I don't understand the problem.

When you listen to your favorite band, does the vocal blast out the music? No.

Does the lead break dominate the entire song and shred your speakers? No.

So why does it continue happening here?

In music, as in theatre, or novels, or movies, there is scene setting.

In a song, some music starts, typicaly drum and bass, then a guitar, for 16 bars or so, to set the mood of the song. Once the mood is set, the singer can come in. Because the listeners ear has had the mood set and knows (gently) how the bass/drum/guitar goes, they can now concentrate on the lyric.

After the lyric, a synth, a lead break, something new happens (gently), the listener absorbs this and adds that to their own personal take on the feel of the song.

More lyrics - yep this is fine.

Then all hell breaks loose, drums crash, synths scream, guitars and bass rumble and burst. The singer goes wild.

It's ok.

Why? Because the scene has been set, the listener knows how this song goes, they have heard every instrument involved, they know what it does and why. Now the artist can afford to go crazy as much as they like without losing the listener.

In theatre this would be lighting, music, characters introduced one by one, storyline eeked out, until finaly the madcap drama. And the watcher is still watching, because they understand the characters, they understand the situation, the plot, the relationships. The writer can now go crazy.

It's ok.

What's not ok is a song that has a 4 bar intro, then spends the rest of its life drowned out by vocal, so no-one ever knows how the music goes, where the bass comes in, where the drummer uses his crash and why! Listener cannot relate, can't get the plot- meaning lost - the listener switches off.

What's not ok is a song where quarter through the lead guitar takes over everything, new instruments arrive but can't be heard, the listener can't take it all in, doesn't understand what or why the new instruments (characters) arrived - meaning lost - the listener switches off.

Ask yourself - if your favorite band produced this - would you buy it?

Go back and listen again - there is time and place for all things, but not before the scene is set.

When mixing, think as the listener, not the artist. It's not your job to hear yourself, it's your job to present a decent play.

When you playback your mix, blank your mind, imagine you are a listener hearing this for the first time. From the first note to the first verse, first chorus, first break - think about what they are thinking - is the song making sense?

Can they hear it?




Provozieren

by crazyALEX (Support crazyALEX)


The Guitar Rig Mobile is gone!

by crazyalex (Support crazyalex)

Marco de Boer, one of our members, won the Guitar Rig Mobile Device for free!

Congratulations, I hope you'll enjoy it!


Installing the iPhone SDK so (part 1)

by panzerfaustnl (Support panzerfaustnl)

I have some time for a chat. You guys notice that some of the more involved people on the board are not involved anymore? Ok, that's what they call 'something natural', because people change, not everything they did in the past is as important now as it should be, or there are other things that are far more insteresting.

But I noticed that there are a lot of people just registred and not involved in any project what so ever. That is also a pitty, we need more genres to be involved. We are strongly rock orientated, and although I like rock and metal music, it's inspiring to look and listen to people (and te be involved) wo are creating R&B and other so called ' urban '  music styles.

What can we do to get those people interested in this collaboration site. Advertisment? Sending mail to everyone registred? Getting people re-interested who stopped collaborating on this site? I don't know, but what I know is:

- be honest, if it's good it's good and tell that it is good, but:

  • not everything is good, there is always room for improvement, share that too, you feel that it is not for everyone? Send him/her a pm,
  • if it is not good, tell it too, but not everything is not good, tell that too,
  • it would be nice that if you listened to a track to react, you react, not communicating about the hard labour from someone is asocial, I myself have to blame myself too and I will do this different in the near future.

This is it for now, the installation is finished, there will be a part 2.


Free Weekly Music Industry Learning Seminar

by v-band.de (Support v-band.de)

Hollywood, CA (PRWEB) October 1, 2009 -- Song Placements is proud to announce the launch of its FREE, weekly teleconference seminar. Each teleconference, hosted by motivational speaker/singer Anthony Carroll, will focus on new and different methods that independent artists can utilize to achieve success in today's music industry.

The 30-minute seminars will take place every Thursday at 1 p.m. Pacific time and will be open to all who wish to attend regardless of their membership status with Song Placements. Each seminar will focus on a topic designed to educate musicians on how to successfully navigate the industry in order to have a successful career. 

"This is a great opportunity for all artists," says Song Placements owner David Hitt. "The industry has undergone a number of changes in the last few years alone and independent artists need to stay abreast with all the latest developments in order to have a fighting chance at success."

These weekly teleconferences are strategically designed to further the company's large contribution movement that seeks to educate the international, independent artist population towards more growth and success with their careers.

For information on how to attend the next teleconference, simply call Customer Services at (323) 230-5647 or send an e-mail to info (at) songplacements.com with the subject line "weekly seminar."

http://www.songplacements.com


Electronic Test-Track

by crazyALEX (Support crazyALEX)

Today I recreated a song called "Life is Hard" and moved it to the electronic version "Life is Strange"

life_is_strange_2.mp3


V-BAND.DE OTHERS WILL FOLLOW...

by chipsngravy (Support chipsngravy)

Music collaboration web sites have opened up a new frontier in music creation and video editing for everyone.  From seasoned professionals to the basement, garage musician.   Everybody gets the chance to explore their creativity.

If you live in an isolated area where fellow musicians are lacking, are disabled, over the hill :-)  or just too shy to join a local band,  v-band.de is the place for you.

You can place your face to a name or remain anonymous.   It really doesn't matter who you are.  It's the music that counts.  As an art form, virtually realised music transends all boundaries of age, race,disabilities, wealth and geographical location.   It's a truely human way of experiencing and sharing your creative impulses.

Virtual music is a universal creative platform...

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 


Guitar Rig Mobile Winning Game

by v-band.de (Support v-band.de)

Last reminder to win the GuitarRig Mobile Package.

We'll choose the winner in a few days!

How to win this? Create a Blog entry right here and collaborate online!

Go! Go! Go!


It's a kind of music

by panzerfaustnl (Support panzerfaustnl)

My dear friends,

What is a blog? In a blog you describe what makes you do the things you do, or how you feel about things and how you feel about some other things and how you feel about the feelings that some other feelings makes you feel, do you feel?

There are moments that I feel a little sad, and those moments are my best for writing music. Don't ask me to write a happy song, not that I can create a happy song, but it will be a song where the sun shines but you see the clouds already comming and you know that in a few minutes the streets are blanc.

The best songs are songs with a down feeling for an example

Marianne from The Sisters of Mercy

The Cure with A Forest,

 

Very beautifull music. But with a sad feeling. Music you close your eyes too and dance and dance and move different.

Another example Joy Division with Love will tear us apart

 

And there are too many to show here, but my message is clear I think, being sad is a good ground for creating music.

It makes me happy.


Hello

by jordanthebamf (Support jordanthebamf)

I just joined v-band and I'm really liking it.

I produce at home with Pro Tools and Reason.

If anyone wants to work on a new project, I'm very open-minded.

Especially anything blues.

Collaboration is so important when making new music and I want to make something new!

 

- Jordan Mills

jordanthebamf@yahoo.com


Acidize Test Post

by gtrman4040 (Support gtrman4040)

Hi guys...this is a test.  In theory you click the link and it will happen...lol.

Note that file size is pretty small (3.552 KBswf).

http://www.fileden.com/files/2009/2/7/2311624/acidize_loop.swf


Dark side of the sun

by panzerfaustnl (Support panzerfaustnl)

Half the Sun.mp3

My latest creation based on lyrics from edbucks. At last I have a song I wanted so badly. A song that urges you to get a rope and hang yourself. So dark and depressed. At least that something I think, maybe you think it is funny dance music.

In the 80's and the 90's and in fact also in these days, I listen a lot to music called New Wave. Mostly British and some American based groups. But the most I listened to Britisch groups like: Clan of Xymox (although that is a Dutch group), Talk Talk, Joy Division, The Sisters of Mercy, The Cure, Depeche Mode, Echo and the Bunnymen, Siouxsie and the Banshees, New Order

Now I created my own song that could easily have been created in the 80's. I am glad! Although it is not comparable to the quality of a song like ' Love will tear us apart'  from Joy Division, but that is explainable, Ian Curtis killed himself at 23 and I am still alive.