Again a tune, this time with singing

[Tuomas]

Go easy on me, please. So I tried recording voice this time with my mic. Before that I made a track with my guitar, so basically it's a guitar-singer-song, since it's lacking the flute I was planning. It's quite long also, but bear with me

http://upload2.net/page/download/t2xlahPOE6OR1c3/sailor.mp3.html
http://www.sonsofgaia.net/AGS/sailor.mp3 (Thanking Peder for the second link, a better one)

Not rapidshare this time, and it's 18kb/s... I'm not really fond of my singing, but I think I did well enough for you to catch a melody and the words. It's a bitch singing home alone, it's completely different when you have an audience. nevertheless, I thought I'd provide lyrics too, so here they are:

AmÃ,  Ã,  Ã,  Ã,  Ã,  Ã,  Ã,  Ã,  Ã,  Ã,  Ã,  Ã,  Ã,  Ã,  Ã, EmÃ,  Ã,  G
We sailed in the night to the harbour.
AmÃ,  Ã,  Ã,  Ã,  Ã,  EmÃ,  Ã,  Ã,  Ã,  Ã,  Ã,  GÃ,  Ã,  Ã,  Ã,  Ã,  AmÃ,  Ã,  Ã,  Ã, Em
It's us, the raiders of the sea, did you miss us.
AmÃ,  Ã,  Ã,  Ã,  Ã,  Ã,  Ã,  Ã,  Ã, EmÃ,  G
We set sail months ago.
AmÃ,  Ã,  Ã,  Ã,  Ã,  Ã, CÃ,  Ã,  Ã,  Ã,  Ã,  Ã,  Ã, EmÃ,  Ã,  Ã,  Ã,  Ã, G
travelled lengths beyond imagination.

CÃ,  Ã,  Ã,  Ã,  Ã,  Ã,  Ã,  Ã,  Ã,  Ã,  Ã,  Ã,  Ã,  Ã,  Ã, Am
It's so good to be home again,
FÃ,  Ã,  Ã,  Ã,  Ã,  Ã,  Ã,  Ã,  Ã,  Ã,  Ã,  Ã,  Ã,  Ã,  Ã,  Ã,  Ã,  Ã,  Ã,  Ã,  Ã,  Ã,  Ã,  Ã,  Ã,  Ã, G7
the echo on the streets it fills my ears
CÃ,  Ã,  Ã,  Ã,  Ã,  Ã,  Ã,  Ã,  Ã,  Ã,  Ã,  Ã,  Ã,  Ã,  Ã,  Ã,  Ã, Am
the scent of the trees, and plants
FÃ,  Ã,  Ã,  Ã,  Ã,  Ã,  Ã,  Ã,  Ã,  Ã,  Ã,  Ã,  Ã,  Ã,  Ã,  Ã,  Ã,  Ã,  Ã,  Ã,  Ã,  Ã,  Ã,  G
and the waiting dinner at home again.
Bm7Ã,  Ã,  Ã,  Ã,  Ã,  Ã,  Ã,  Ã,  Ã,  Ã,  Ã, F#7Ã,  Ã,  Ã,  AmÃ,  Ã,  Ã,  Ã,  Ã,  Ã,  Ã,  Ã,  Ã,  Ã,  Ã,  Ã,  Em
Oh I've been so lonely, dark nights on the open water
AmÃ,  Ã,  Ã,  Ã,  Ã,  EmÃ,  Ã,  Ã,  Ã,  GÃ,  Ã, AmÃ,  Ã,  Ã,  Ã, EmÃ,  Ã,  G
nothing to dream of, no-one to meet.

Yet soon again we're off.
Hard bound sailors, we can't live without the sea.
Soon we'll ride to adventures
And only then can we be free.

The soul of a sailor is a peculiar thing.
You try to understand your man, but you never will.
They sail from harbour to harbour.
Some for their love, some for money.

chorus 2x

Rest your eyes on this, a glorious sight.
We set sail again, in peace, during the night.
I wave my hand, women on the dock yell to their men.
But you can't hold a free heart.

The soul of a sailor is a peculiar thing.
You try to understand your man, but you never will.
They sail from harbour to harbour.
Some for their love, some for money

chorus x2 I think.

[Nikolas]

Tuomas...

First of all: What ever happened to the previous tune? The one that you never reposted? The one that you never looked up maybe? The one that you didn't try to fix up anything? This?

Now on this:

Your voice has a nice timbre, but it is off tune quite a lot... The guitar and the chords sound... ok. PRobably it is an issue of practising a little before recording is my guess... Dunno thhough...

Could use drums, bass and... flute Depends on what you want to do with it.

Also depends on how you're recording your stuff. Cause your voice could go rather a lot upwards volume/gain wise. A tiny bit of reverb wouldn't hurt either (voice AND guitar). Especially the Bm/F#m/Am is quite lovely!

It can take quite a lot of fixing up, but again depends on what you're after with this song...

The composition is nice, the lyrics as well. Your accent sounds just a tad weird, but no weirder than mine so no problems here The chord progression is really really nice as well and the

[Dualnames]

The singing is not bad....reminds me a bit of bruce dickinson
Put down that stone.
in my opinion it rocks. But you should when the second chorus arrives make your guitar distorted. I played you song , like you did then added distortion to my guitar and anger to my voice and well the result rocks.

please post that tune my way please. i 'd love to here the way it sounds.
Well that's it.

[Tuomas]

What ever happened to the previous tune? The one that you never reposted? The one that you never looked up maybe? The one that you didn't try to fix up anything? This?

Yeah, I'm working on it. I just wanted to do something else for now, when I finally got this one together.

Could use drums, bass and... flute Depends on what you want to do with it.

Also depends on how you're recording your stuff. Cause your voice could go rather a lot upwards volume/gain wise. A tiny bit of reverb wouldn't hurt either (voice AND guitar). Especially the Bm/F#m/Am is quite lovely!

What a great idea, I'll go tomorrow and buy a 3000 euro drumset, set it up in my small room and wire it with microphones and break my sound card. Oh, and I tried adding volume, but the sound would break, so I turned the line in more quiet and sung louder.

Your accent sounds just a tad weird, but no weirder than mine so no problems here The chord progression is really really nice as well and the

The?  Anyway, I'm a Finn, who has English relatives... That's where my accent comes from. And yes, it's different when I speak.

in my opinion it rocks. But you should when the second chorus arrives make your guitar distorted.

why don't you just come here and rape me while you're at it?


No really, it's just me and my guitar and a computer, nothing in between, no fancy programs, no money, no silly samplegames. If I make music I want to do it by myself, not with a machine.

[Nikolas]

Yeah, I'm working on it. I just wanted to do something else for now, when I finally got this one together.

Brilliant! Glad to hear it!

What a great idea, I'll go tomorrow and buy a 3000 euro drumset, set it up in my small room and wire it with microphones and break my sound card. Oh, and I tried adding volume, but the sound would break, so I turned the line in more quiet and sung louder.

Instead of buying 3000 euro drumset (although there are very many cheaper ones actually), you could research a little and find out how to get FREE sfz of drums, which actually are not bad at all. As for bass if you don't have, you could maybe buy something for 20$ (and help Geoffkhan while you're at it), or find FREE sfz again.

Instead of adding volume then you could find a way to make the voice a little clearer. EQ will help...

The?  Anyway, I'm a Finn, who has English relatives... That's where my accent comes from. And yes, it's different when I speak.

No problem, no problem at all, I just mentioned it nothing else. You have english relatives? Cool! I have none! (English ones)

No really, it's just me and my guitar and a computer, nothing in between, no fancy programs, no money, no silly samplegames. If I make music I want to do it by myself, not with a machine.

Ok, got my answer (what you're using). I didn't say go spend money. Audacity has free VST, free EW, free normaliser. No need for samples at all!

Anyways, if I have offended you (although I can't see any way of having done that), I do apologise!

[Tuomas]

Anyways, if I have offended you (although I can't see any way of having done that), I do apologise!

Where did that come from :o

[ManicMatt]

It was the drum 3000 sarcasm, I think. 

[SmootH]

Tuomas,  I just finished listening to your tune.  I like the music and the lyrics sound pretty decent but I'm no expert - I can barely play the guitar and singing forget about it.

Though there was one thing about the composition of the song that was kind of weird.  It seemed that some of the lyrics weren't synched up with the music like in the first line the progression from the Am to the Em the lyrics seemed to come out too slowly. 

I'm sorry for being so vague but it's more of a "flow" thing rather than something technical.  At any rate, you've got a great song.  Keep up the good work.