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He doesn’t have the TIM.
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Wasn’t there a bunch all left after a disagreement about 5-6 years ago?
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What a fantastic bunch of songs. Gonna struggle to choose just 3. I need another listed.
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Your singer sounds very much like David Byrne (Talking Heads). 😎
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Plug-in alliance are doing this again 🤩
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It's not as finished as I wanted & the Mrs wanted to redo her vocal (she hates her voice, but I love it). I'm fairly happy with what we've done so far & hope to get her singing more songs for me. Edited as I felt the vocal was slightly on top of the song (rather than part of it). Bass is a mix of synth and real, I played both parts. Here's the update... https://soundcloud.com/feintmotions/doomsday-cover
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Keep up the good work, it's a fantastic site. Merry Christmas
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The Mrs has asked if we could cover Doomsday by Lizzie McAlpine. proper bluesey song with an interesting progression.
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Get a good sound from your bass to start with is a good starting ground. Something I’ve recently discovered is to add a send buss on your bass track & send it to a reverb, increase the send until you can hear the reverb, then take it back a very slight amount. It works wonders. But I’m following this, as I want to get a more pro quality sound too.
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If the bassline itself is good, but doesn't fit with the song, save it for another song.
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Same as LukeFRC. I use the MX-Q app for mixing the in ears (works with eh Behringer M-32 mixer) & the Bible app.
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That's every week at my church. It's usually towards the end of the sermon that the worship pastor or a worship leader will send a WhatsApp saying "We'll do this song" & sometimes it's accompanied by a chord chart. 1/2 the time it's a song I've never heard before, so it's made up on the spot. Thankfully I only play about once a month.
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Native Instruments are running a competition on Metapop to write score for a new instrument video, so I thought I'd give it a try. I never thought writing soundtrack score could be so much fun. That moment when you get the sound you want for something (like footsteps) is a good feeling. I don't expect to win, as there's some fantastic entries, but it's a good learning experience. If anyone else fancies trying it, they give you the video & a dialogue track. https://metapop.com/pages/promos/the-solos-native-instruments-ashlight?p=1&status=live&type=all I did this over the weekend...
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Difference is, the secular stuff more often has interesting music. The thing is, Church has some good & interesting vocal melodies (okay, the lyrics can be a bit "church buzzword diarrhoea"), but most decent secular songs have far better musicianship. Look at Gospel music. Great musicianship and very singable songs.
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Just got NI Glaze for £22. It's well worth it. Some gorgeous vocal pads in there. Sale is until 6 December.
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Our church uses ChurchSuite too. It's a pretty good app. Hearing on here how most churches are similar to mine, I can understand why the vast majority of worship songs are musically very lame. No one gets a decent practice, so the simpler, the better. It saddens me how this poor music culture has created this. I've been playing instruments since as far back as I can remember & been in quite a few bands, but I've only been playing in a church band for a few years. I think church musicians & worship leaders should join some secular bands to learn how to organise.
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Yup, the song pickers at church don't seem to take into account that it can be hard to get time to look at the songs if you already have a busy week. I got a 1/2 hour look at last Sunday's songs on the Thursday & another short look on Saturday before I went to bed.
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Similar theme here regarding punctuality. We're supposed to arrive for 8:30, get set up, do sound check & run over the songs, then get off stage before 9:45. I know from experience 8:30 never happens, so turned up at 8:45. I was the only musician there until 9:10. Sound check was a train crash & then went into the first song. Rhythm guitar not coming through (it was there at sound check), then me & Keys 1 had in ear issues. So us 3 never played the first song. We jammed a wee bit of the other songs & then we were out of time. Oh, & closing song was still undecided. I found out just as we're going up after the sermon what song it was. But... The in ears sounded good & the bass playing was dope.
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Just got around to watching this. They're spot on & I'd love to show my church this video, but how do you approach a worship pastor at a church with no rehearsals without it coming across as criticism (they seem to not take criticism too well, even if it's constructive)? We did a Songwriting workshop a couple of years ago with Matt Hooper. He suggested that the singers spend some money on lessons to make them better singers, he did it in a good & positive way too. The singers took offence at it & never bothered. They have "Team Night" on the last Thursday of the month (except December), where about 1/2 the creative team (at most) meet from 7:30-9:00. They'll use it to listen to a new song & then play it over twice as a band, usually in 2 different keys (neither being the original key). Each play through they'll try & switch musicians, but that's usually only a drummer & a bassist that changes, as like I say, there's only about 7-8 musicians that turn up (and about the same in singists). The majority of that evening has nothing to do with the song though. They spend about an hour or more doing some "fun game" or farting about, so U can understand why not many musicians turn up.
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The Mrs hates singing when our church changes key, as it's for squeaky voices (all the worship leaders & the worship pastor are female). They seem to choose what they can sing rather than the congregation. I remember watching a worship video a while ago (IIRC, Chris Tomlin). He said that he writes songs so that the congregation can sing them & should only need changed by a semitone to suit the lead vocal. Our church still go with "capo on the 7th".
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I don't mind changing key on bass, but I find songs sound totally different when they move them a 5th & usually not for the better. I might not bother playing synth bass in church. As much as I like playing, I just keep losing the will to be bothered.
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A few weeks ago, Church asked me if I could splice Hymn of Joy with Adore Him, putting them bith in Bb & at the same tempo. So me & my Mrs recorded a version of Hymn of Joy in Bb at 70.5 bpm & I did the needful. So we're playing this song on Sunday & I'ts synth bass that's in it. So I've set up my keys with zones so I can play bells in parts & add an orchestral stab. This morning, the worship leader who's singing this sunday said "Let's add O come let us adore him into it, we can do it in E". So rather than all the other musicians relearining the song & me changing all my set up in the new key, I suggested doing the new addition in Eb, as that would work with the current arrangement. I don't mind changing key, but to do it late on like this is not fair on the new musicians that are playing this sunday.
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My church put together recording sessions for online church. So a selection of musicians & singists would go in & record about 15 songs & they'd get used over a few month's worth of services. They still managed to send the list out less than a week before the recording & when the online church was played, they still managed to mess up some of the visual lyrics. 😂 We also did a spot of songwriting for the church, but it's turned out to be harder than it needs to be. Not the songwriting, but the "getting it played in church" stage. Out of about 12 folk, there's only 3 left that can be bothered, & at the rate it's going, it'll soon be 2 (I'm a very patient person, but this is taking the peepee).
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Cheers. I do try to group instruments & have busses set up. I have sends for reverb, delay etc & then put all the drums to a drum bus to glue them all together, but I'll try playing about with the snare like you say, changing velocity & try a gated reverb on it too. I might be a bit shy with some of the panning. So I'll play about with that too. But to me, the overall sound isn't coherent like a released song is. It's working out how to get that sound.
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