Ready or not
By Jim
01/23/2006
Jackson Browne's Ready or Not seemed like a good place to start - it's a fairly simple set of chords to play on a piano, and it would give me a chance to add a fiddle!
I ended up doing only the first half of the song, because I was anxious to see how it would sound and the second half is really just a duplicate of the first half (mostly). I went crazy and added a banjo, but since I usually don't play a banjo, the plucking sounds don't always hit the mark. The violin voice that comes out of my sound card doesn't sound like a violin when mixed with other tracks - it sounds like an organ - and the same problem happens if I switch to the fiddle voice. So I used a cello, and I mixed it in a little too loud.
I didn't know how to give my voice some depth, then I tried copying the track and then moving it slightly out of time.
Too many tracks on this song - since Cakewalk lets you have unlimited midi tracks, I worked without restraint. Oh, well.
Instruments: Piano, Tuba, Cello, Guitar, Banjo, Fiddle, Drums
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