Thumbprints: Kara Square, SackJo22, Speck, unreal_dm
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**I'd love to submit this track into Workshop. 1) Requesting Kara clean the vox with her special software; 2) Overall mix balance and mastering tips from anyone willing...!
I voice texted this dream into the notes on my phone before I'd fully come into consciousness. Today I revisited the note and felt the pain that was living down inside my shadow. Writing this song, with thanks to my dream, I acknowledge my ache and it feels just a little lighter.
Special thanks to Kara for a beautiful guitar part that made this process flow.
My Heart Aches
by Madam Snowflake
In the dream I travel back in time
To an old apartment
Where our girls lived when they were nearly half mine, half mine
Bicycles with training wheels block the door
Beach towels sway in the wind flung over tasseled handlebars
Their bedroom is unchanged
Crayon drawings taped to the wall
Their summer dresses look so small
With grade school headshots hung in frames
I’m flooded with pain, we’re not the same
Oh, and my heart aches
In the kitchen I break down held by my husband
He is no stranger to this shape of grief
We both have carved out spaces where our hearts should be
Where our hearts should be
Empty
Our current day young roommates
Point to the window
The sun is painting colors
That fill the room with a warm glow
Still I turn to go
Still I turn to go
Down the hall
Where their bedroom is unchanged
Crayon drawings taped to the wall
Their summer dresses look so small
With grade school headshots hung in frames
I’m flooded with pain, we’re not the same
Oh, and my heart aches
My heart aches
My heart aches
My downstairs neighbor is knocking loudly
She says could hear loud weeping through the floor
I’m smiling as I give her a tour of our old apartment
But then the hollowness returns once more
The hollowness returns once more
In the hall
Where I see their bedroom is unchanged
Crayon drawings taped to the wall
Their summer dresses look so small
With grade school headshots hung in frames
I’m flooded with pain, we’re not the same
Oh, and my heart aches
Oh, my heart aches
My heart aches
My heart aches
...More
GC: Snowflake, Kara Square
'My Heart Aches' is a remix of : acoustic guitar from When the Bones Are Dry by Kara Square
Heartrending montage of tragedy, the tokens you chose easily imagined, I was instantly in that space.
I did a preliminary analysis and noticed some occasional frequency resonance around 275 hz( +/-30) in your vocals.
When I did a full parametric it kind of helped -- I think it might gel with the guitar's frequency more.
I've recently been developing an editing technique where I find parts of a recording that look higher than average and softly level them (as opposed to a compression process). It takes about a minute for each part depending on the area's size, so from what I quickly scanned, it would take about 50 minutes or so to kind of soften the peaks. If you're interested, I could give it a run and see what you think.
Apoxode
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2024-05-22 13:23:06
Amazing. Your words and delivery are heart-rending. Your mix feels so live... in such a beautiful way. And something I find personally amazing is how very different your sung melody is from my original. I love that. Thank you so much for putting my guitar part to such great use.
Regarding your workshop request... Cool! Do you happen to have the dry pell without the spaces between lyrics removed (or a clip of at least 5 seconds of the room sound)? When I can have the background room noise isolated by itself, it's easier to remove it from the vocal.
For vocal cleanup/repair, I charge $45/hour. It will likely take between 1/2 hour and 1 hour to complete. Does that sound reasonable?
Kara Square
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2024-05-20 09:00:17
A beautiful piece. Great feels match between guitar and vocals. Heartache so well conveyed.
Speck
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2024-05-14 06:29:29
Thank you for understanding Speck. Your words always means so much. Kara‘s guitar was so natural to write and sing to, I can imagine us on stage together. The heartache is real, just part of life I guess.
Snowflake2024-05-14 09:39:50
Most touching. It sounds as if you found some cathartic relief. All I can offer is my compassion and sympathy.
Zenboy1955
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2024-05-15 07:29:40
thank you my friend. it is truly beautiful, how music is a cathartic salve for our wounds. your kindness means so much.
Snowflake2024-05-15 13:37:13