Original "Many Times"

[mattinbeloit]

Just a warning, this song is really fucking long, almost 8 minutes long. Anyway, I have been playing with this song for a week or so now and finally finished it somewhat and set up a vocal and guitar mic and just played it through once. Another funny thing, towards the end of the song when I do a little jam riff that is dave-esque, I heard a door slam really hard and got pissed off and thought the last 7 minutes of playing where runied so I started scatting for shits and giggles because I have never done it so it's kind of funny so I hope you get a kick out of it. When I listened to the recording I could not hear the door slamming so I decided to keep the take and added some reverb on both the guitar and voice... Anyway, enjoy.

http://www.sendspace.com/file/7oa5eu

yuk I hate mp3s....

[mangold]

the vocals start out like your other stuff, weak and whispery, but they quickly improve, then when you get to the second many times theyre weak again. make the many times and the lines that follow them as strong as the rest of the vocals.

this is really good work, especially in the vocals, alot of improvement. the guitar is solid but obviously not too difficult to play, so i expect it to be solid. as this goes i think its more and more one of the best originals ive heard on here.

i would mix the vocals a little louder, the guitar is a SMIDGE overpowering in a few spots.

the way you transfer into the breakdown is a little fragmented, and it makes it sound seperate from the rest of the song, because you strum the exact same way the whole song until the breakdown, so its a little random. i think you should start the song in the same style as the first little breakdown.

the second breakdown while it sounds fun doesnt really fit at all, you have a nice building progressive ballad-esque song that randomly goes into fast strumming and amateur scatting. im gonna say eliminate it.

all around damn good work. keep the originals coming.

[mattinbeloit]

thanks man. Definitly will get rid of the scatting, that was not planned at all, lol and it sounds like shit... It's funny, I'm starting to notice too that I almost always start out soft and gradually build up when I record something where I play and sing at the same time. As for the end jam thing, I'm glad you thought it was out of place because that was the point. The song is about if I should tell a certain someone something even though I know it will not cahnge anything, and even if I do tell her it will most likley destroy anything we do have and just fuck things up. The first pause at the end of the song is a calm rythm that is symbolic of the good that might come out of it (I can get it off my mind) and the end jam is symbolic of kind of the bad side of it, which is what I want this song to say more then anything. I'm stuck in the middle of something and either way it's going to suck. So I tried to do it through words and the musical atmosphere. I like it, but maybe I should just work on making the transition a little better. It's an idea I had all along and I felt bad at first for somewhat ruining the nice little ballad feal of it, but the more I messed with it the more I liked the idea of changing it.

[mangold]

thanks man. Definitly will get rid of the scatting, that was not planned at all, lol and it sounds like shit... It's funny, I'm starting to notice too that I almost always start out soft and gradually build up when I record something where I play and sing at the same time. As for the end jam thing, I'm glad you thought it was out of place because that was the point. The song is about if I should tell a certain someone something even though I know it will not cahnge anything, and even if I do tell her it will most likley destroy anything we do have and just fuck things up. The first pause at the end of the song is a calm rythm that is symbolic of the good that might come out of it (I can get it off my mind) and the end jam is symbolic of kind of the bad side of it, which is what I want this song to say more then anything. I'm stuck in the middle of something and either way it's going to suck. So I tried to do it through words and the musical atmosphere. I like it, but maybe I should just work on making the transition a little better. It's an idea I had all along and I felt bad at first for somewhat ruining the nice little ballad feal of it, but the more I messed with it the more I liked the idea of changing it.

well thats pretty cool how the song has connections like that, but i think for the bad side you should just slide into the same thing played in overdriven electric. that would give it more attitude with out disconnecting it i think...

its your call tho man music is all personal


MORE PEOPLE LISTEN TO THIS BITCHES

[eliot1171]

You weren't kidding on the length. I've been at work for 18.7 hours strait and this made me want to sleep which does not meen it was boring it was just relaxing. Great quality again.

lap bap baddaaaa....beedop bop adoo

[mattinbeloit]

You weren't kidding on the length. I've been at work for 18.7 hours strait and this made me want to sleep which does not meen it was boring it was just relaxing. Great quality again.

lap bap baddaaaa....beedop bop adoo

lol... I tried and failed .