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Been A Tough Year For Me

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Submitted by Tahooey on Sat, 2008-01-19 21:25.
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hope i didn't do an injustice

Submitted by Tahooey on Sat, 2008-01-19 21:32.

to your concept, Laszlo - it was fun - prolly needs some real percussion beyond just me slapping the guitar, and another hundred takes to get it good... anyway, here it is

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Lazlo Toth's picture

Hey Tahooey,

Submitted by Lazlo Toth on Sat, 2008-01-19 22:52.

absolutely no apologies needed that was fucking awesome and highly impressive. Add the bottom with drums and bass, and that is a punched up song. I didn't even finish writing all the lyrics when I threw it up on the blog. And, yeah your voice and guitar work is really good. Existential pathos in the voice. Now I need to finish the lyrics. Thanks T. Later...

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Tahooey's picture

glad you like what i did

Submitted by Tahooey on Sun, 2008-01-20 02:50.

thanks man! i know i can do better when i have more time, especially the vocals, probably should do them as a separate track from the acoustic next time. anyway if you want to round out the words i can try to tighten it up for next time i have some peace and quiet in a week or 2

& thanks P45 and gretavo! - i also recorded a dylan number earlier, sort of a response to gretavo's delving into cover material, but then i was afraid it was a little ugly sounding for public consumption, since i like to play it as fast as humanly possible and the song becomes a challenging tongue & finger twister. eh, could def use some work but maybe i'll throw it up later since you guys didn't seem to puke at this one :)

first i gotta get out of the paperwork tornado i am in! ttys

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P45's picture

Alright Tahooey!

Submitted by P45 on Sat, 2008-01-19 23:02.

Very Neil Young, and impressive!

Cool

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gretavo's picture

NICE!!!

Submitted by gretavo on Sat, 2008-01-19 23:14.

i bow to those who know how to actually play guitar well! would love to see this one developed!

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bruce1337's picture

Bravo!

Submitted by bruce1337 on Sun, 2008-01-20 11:10.

Really nice playing, T. Could you upload a higher res version somewhere?

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Tahooey's picture

thanks - how higher res?

Submitted by Tahooey on Sun, 2008-01-20 21:01.

i recorded it in cakewalk, 2 tracks  - i'm not sure where those actual tracks are (since the "cakewalk project file" is only 27K) but i can probably figure it out if that's what you'd want.  Or I can export as an mp3 with the highest possible settings?

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bruce1337's picture

I mean higher bitrate

Submitted by bruce1337 on Mon, 2008-01-21 12:04.

As it stands, it's only 780kB for a couple of minutes, which puts its bitrate to approximately 32kbps -- or only 1/4 that of "regular" mp3. That's as if you'd record via walkie-talkie and subsequently process through wired tin cans for good measure :-(

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Tahooey's picture

LOL i tried the defaults

Submitted by Tahooey on Mon, 2008-01-21 16:27.

in cakewalk > export mp3, but the resulting file was about 4MB and the server/ site limit was 2MB so i figured 32k would be enough to get me under the limit and retain enough data to be heard...

but i could upload the default to a different server; ok got it! here's the default resolution version;

http://www.3zzz.net/tahooey/atoughyearforme.mp3

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gretavo's picture

cakewalk audio files

Submitted by gretavo on Mon, 2008-01-21 16:21.

you can see wher ecakewalk puts them under OPTIONS:AUDIO or OPTIONS:GLOBAL...

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Tahooey's picture

re: cakewalk audio files

Submitted by Tahooey on Mon, 2008-01-21 16:58.

ok i see the folder where it puts them but they all have names like "RC1qzfz4w" with no obvious way to associate them with the project file... hmm.

well i uploaded the default res version to a server, lemme see if i can find it thru the web... posted it up above, http://www.3zzz.net/tahooey/atoughyearforme.mp3

i've had the song in my head now, really want to do a few more takes and get it better, but afraid it won't be able to happen for a week or 2

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