Ron, you've transposed the music a minor third down, but Matthew's vocals remained in key of E. A bit weird. But Pedro's violin melody was there. Despite the unmatching keys I got the feeling that the violin suits well the second half of the first verse.

And Matthew, your lousy mic sounds very interesting. It might be quite ok for the final recordings. I guess you had a small timing error there in the first place. A time shift in the tracks. Sometimes I have to manually adjust one track by time shifting, when recording new tracks in Audacity. Anyway these are not the final recordings.

I didn't transpose it (at least I think I didn't)... The track with the vocals in it was just Matt's mp3 mixed in with my version of the mixed down audio... I think the combination of the two was what sounded off... Argg you're right.. How did that happen.

OK... I've got the transposition thing figured out... All I need to know is what the original instrument numbers are.. Does anyone know this?

Ok, here's one full length song (still proposal). It got the following parts:

• intro

• verse 1

• chorus

• verse 2

• chorus

• solo

• chorus

• chorus

The solo part is like the verse parts, there's time for two instruments. After that, two choruses without any outro.

Matthew's lyrics fit into verse 1. The last chorus could be filled with instruments like how that guitar of Paul's sounds above Matthew's singing in the second half.

In the chorus you hear trumpets play what the chorus should sing: "Allegro cee cee... Allegro cee cee..." and a trombone marking something that the soloist could sing between the chorus phrases.

Whatever anyone added may be added to this, too, this just shows something that could be the total structure and length of the song.

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What sounds fairly good on one computer sounds terrible on another. Got to adjust something here.

Hang on Matt... I've got the sound under control here... Just a minuet

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Here it is... Let me know what you think of the mix

Do it... I could make a mix without those instruments if you want it...

Here you go: Piccolo.

I'll check it out later.

Matthew... Its probably a good thing that your microphone sucks. It just adds to your natural voice

[edit]... I laughed.. It was good....

Well it was funny... So I had to say something...

I can give it a try(just for fun). Matt can you post the lyrics you wrote?

Oh, I was referring about the first song.

Here's the full length song. The times are:

/*
intro    0:00
verse 1    0:05 Pedro's violin 0:23
chorus    0:38
verse 2    0:54
chorus    1:25
solo    1:42, second 1:58
chorus    2:14
chorus    2:30
*/

I just copied Matthew's first verse into the 2nd verse to make the whole structure complete. The solo part has nothing except backgrounds. The last chorus at 2:30 could do with the add on solos. Verse 2 should have new lyrics, if not, it should be left out as well as the following chorus. Even the choruses could have varying text, or a completely different approach to text/melody. My suggestion is that Matthew sing the chorus, too. In the final recording. And my falsetto chorus is no good. The drums i had to use for the mp3 had a really mute ride cymbal, but I didn't spend more time on changing it.

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Oh yes, Pedro's violin could be inserted in the second verse, too, and in the solo part.