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We started on a new track today, called “Money, Money”, it will be the fifth track for the new album.  So far, we have a basic structure of the song with bass, drums and guitar all in place.  Next we will be working on and adding a basic vocal.  Then we can develop it further from there.

This is it!  The best rock track I’ve ever written!  With a massive sing-a-long chorus, together with an equally massive synth-pad hook.  Today, we finally mastered “Behind Closed Doors”.

Sounding really big and fat, it now goes back on the shelf awaiting to be released on the new album for 2024.  At last, the second track that I wrote back in 1995 is now complete!  To hear it come to life was a bit emotional.  Also today, we worked out a chord structure for the next track - “Money, Money”.  the album will be a rock album.

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“Behind Closed Doors” has now been mixed and is sounding excellent, we will master it in the next session. I feel that this is the best track I’ve ever written. The music for the song was composed way back in 1995 and it was just left on the shelf as the style of the song, which is a rock ballad, didn’t fit in with what I was doing at the time, plus I wasn’t singing back then, either. The lyrics were written a year or so later.

Today, electric guitar parts were added to “Behind Closed Doors”.  first of all, some ad lib guitar riffs were sprinkled throughout the song and then the guitar solo was added to the playout section.  Some of the audio was trimmed down, to eliminate some mistakes and unwanted noise, and a dummy mix was done.  My vocal is sounding really good now and along with the guitar solo this track is sounding excellent.  We want this track to sound good as it is another rock ballad that oozes with emotion.

2023 - 19th February news from Duncan J. White Productions.

As mentioned last week, the track - “Behind Closed Doors” is coming along nicely and is nearly ready to mix.

Today, we recorded some ad lib vocals to to the playout section of the song plus a general check over of the track before the guitar solo is added both in the section before the third verse and the playout section.  Next session, we’ll be working on creating a guitar solo and possibly a couple of other things here and there.

The track - “Behind Closed Doors” is coming along nicely and is nearly ready to mix.

Today was spent working on the intro of the track - as mentioned, a nice classical sounding intro consisting of piano, strings and timpani drum roll that lead into the main body of the song.  It is now sounding great.  Next session, we’ll be working on some more backing vocal ideas, adding effects to the main vocal, creating a guitar solo and possibly a couple of other things.

Today, work was done on the beginning of the track - “Behind Closed Doors”.  On the original instrumental demo, there was a nice classical sounding intro consisting of piano, strings and timpani drum roll that lead into the main body of the song.  The original demo  was on tape but was recorded into Cubase and used as a reference to reconstruct the song. Also, we copied some parts to digital audio and got rid of some of the midi information.

So, this is the first day back recording for 2023. Work continues on the production of “Behind Closed Doors”.  In todays session, listening back to the original version of the track for reference, the drums were replaced with a more suitable rock drumkit, a bassline, along with a lead guitar part was added using real bass and lead guitars.  Lastly, a big silky sounding synth pad layered with a synth brass pad were also added for the chorus and playout section.

This is another track that was recorded back in 1995 and recorded as an instrumental - the lyrics were added later.