I used to be cool

[Gorman, Declan]

Thanks for the reply Jay.  Scaling back the vocal is definitely
something to be considered as it can become over powering in parts.

I started the track with two things in mind, the vocal and kick drum
were to continue throughout the track and without a break.  Perhaps the
way forward for the track is to ditch the original plan.

I really like your idea for the "We learned in school" vocal.

I would also consider vocals in other languages too.

-----Original Message-----
From: music-bar-bounces at lists.music-bar.org
[mailto:music-bar-bounces at lists.music-bar.org] On Behalf Of Jay Vaughan
Sent: 29 May 2009 09:07
To: Music-bar
Subject: Re: I used to be cool

>   I used to be cool is a track that I am currently working on.  Have  
> a listen and let me know if you can help me out.  The vocal is very  
> repetitive but that's the way I want it so in order to vary the  
> vocal I am looking for some male and other female variations of the  
> same vocal.


Its just too 'vocal heavy'.  I really like the line, and the message,  
but its over-loaded a bit.  By the time you get to the 'second arp',  
the vocals have just driven my interest away, but if you scale it back  
a bit, and maybe add one more line/message (my suggestion: "what you  
think that we think is cool .. WE LEARNED IN SCHOOL") i think it'd be  
really, really groovy, and quite fancy.

I'd encourage you to develop the dance groove a little, turn the vocal  
knob down from 11 to .. about .. 6 .. and push some really big groovy  
break mid-way.

And of course, its dying for a male vocal to take the song over a bit ..

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Jay Vaughan