Thats good grit

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#1

Hi troops, following on from the likes of surviving rabies, gut and meat waves, I thought I’d share another wee tune

thats good grit
Credits;
Everything - me

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Excuse the missing plugins - for the screenshots, I opened the project on my laptop which doesn’t have a lot of the plugins used for mixing, which I do on a desktop in the study.

Anyway the idea behind this tune was that I wanted to do a really simple upbeat pop song featuring that simple Secret Machines drum beat and a meaty riff and some melodic vocals for a change, which I’m not very good at.

The lyrics were only half-written - at the breakdown and in the last section of the tune, I just went rogue and improvised some words and melody during vocal recording. Completely off script.

I plan on putting a 9 song album together and releasing it once I recover from this summer cold virus thing.

Cheers :slightly_smiling_face:

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#2

Good Grit indeed! I love the drums. Reminiscent of the video overture to Michael Jackson’s “Black Or White”, the ONLY tune of his that I like and NO offence meant! I always loved the part when the kid shouts: “No I wanna listen to it, it’s the best part!” while playing Luftguitar… happy days.

You certainly succeeded!

Well I do disagree, you know that, but have it your way. For what it’s worth, your other work shows that this is far from “for a change”.

That improvised part at the end is FAB.