Happy Halloween Felice! Glad you enjoyed the mini horror flick. Char produced it.

PT, hope you are feeling a little better and glad that you are able to hit the keys with your other hand. Just be careful. You gave us all a scare but I am sure you will be on the mend real soon. I miss your delicious vocals. And Frank, Penny and Jesse thanks for that wonderful Halloween treat. You guys are the best. Sending you all lots of yummy thoughts on this Eve of All Saints. To Mags,Liz,Penny, Stacey and Char we should conjure up some tricks and treats for our male counterparts here in the Seventh Can…..!

Dear Peter, what a beautiful piece of prose you graced us with hear in the land of the Blogosphere on a rainy Halloween Night in my town of New Jersey. Your’s was the sweetest treat and I am sure we will all cherish your words. We have come to know you well oh “enfant terrible” for your impetuous good nature and abundence of wonderful music and verse. May I take this time to wish you all the luck in the world and thank you for your loyal friendship. Hope we all do meet some day…..

thank you Penny, for all your good thoughts

as I jump from the frying pan
and back into the fire, please
allow me to share with you
something I re-learned
just this very day

the description of happiness
only requires a sentence, or two
living it requires a lifetime of faith

goodnight. here’s wishing you
and all our clan, such grand dreams

as always, pgo. . .

Very happy to be knowing you Peter, you are a precious person and an inspiration..xoxoxox

and, as Joshua and Jenny so lovingly proclaimed. . .

“what a quarrelsome bunch” and all the more richer in our lives for those unfettered exchanges. hey, at least we pay attention to each other.

Damn and with you having broken fingers and all and you still managed to survive through a piece of music playing in a key signature and all in time too and with a melody and lyrics without words like F**k in them every 3 seconds. Must have been a real shock to the system to hear lyrics about real life and must have been upsetting to the ears! Welcome to the real world of music where your average musician knows where the quantise function is and uses words folk can understand!
Oh well. ( note to self) must try harder.
Next time next time you’ll see. lol

TRICK or TREAT. . .

I have known both in my life and wish to acknowledge to the clan that I have been a most fortunate man throughout. In fact, many would proclaim I am one lucky SOB. You see, I have a tendency to jump out of airplanes without a parachute and yet somehow I manage land without seeming damage and always escaping death.

Lots of scratches, though. . . many bumps, bruises and some well-earned scars. Truth be told, some of those scars have not yet healed. Or, maybe I’m the one that keeps opening them.

As some of you already know, my life this year has been the hardest for me to understand, let alone accept. Way too many failures for such a (self) proclaimed genius of creation and LUCK! Yeah, luck of the Irish (and, the name Olach isn’t even Irish.)

Shame on Me - for the first time in my life, I truly began to believe I was alone, unreachable and beyond repair, beyond forgiveness, and well beyond redemption.

Then I met you guys and gals. Thru a world others might consider disconnected and surreal, I was adopted by a digital family of creators, administrators, musicians, founders, listeners, artists and now some of my dearest friends.

To the good Mayor, Roy and Musical Company: Broadjam shall always have my loving support and participation as I spread the story to the unenlightened. Thank You!

To my fellow Seventh Can Mates – David Davis, John Visconti, Johnny UK. To those most lovely and talented ladies – Felice, Penny and Margaret. To my troubled and brilliant brother from another palnet, Nathaniel and all your late night calls. So Many Heartfelt Thanks!

And, to our British Star (and winemaker) who would not take no for an answer by reminding me that failure is never acceptable.

Mr. Ian Kenney. Thank You! Let’s both win the lottery so we may build your 7th Can Hotel.

To each and everyone of you, I hope and believe, one day we will meet in the flesh so I can personally deliver onehelluva hug.
Meanwhile, as always, your friend in music - PGO

Can 6; ok, time signatures like 2/4 and 4/4 I suppose are easy enough to lay down - they’re both multiples of 4 beats to the bar and 2/4 can be considered as 4/4 double-timed so on your DAW snap-to-grid is easy. Likewise with funky 5/4 and 4/4 mixes. But what about 3/4 and 4/4? Even with drum samples, they won’t just drag-and-drop into the right place, even if you cut them just right. Most DAW’s don’t allow for multiple time signature settings within one song. I use Logic, Garageband and Ableton Live 8 and none of them do. I thought I’d share something with you I found out by trial and error that may encourage more entries into the 6th can. If you’re doing verse chorus 3/4 to 4/4 or 6/8 to 4/4 or 7/8 to 12/8 (God forbid!) set yourself up for the verse timing, be it 4/4 or 3/4 or whatever. This will get you off to a steady, snap-to-grid start. If your 3/4 time is “swung” then this will help a lot. The chorus, being say 4/4, will have a more familiar beat to play along to and the chorus will therefore be more easily recorded due to familiarity with a steady rhythm. Keep your 3/4 and 4/4, say, recordings on separate tracks. This is essential. The 4/4 section will have to be pulled-in manually to join with the rest of the song. However, you then may not have a snap-to-grid starting point for the next verse, but if you choose your bpm’s carefully, then you might mitigate the amount of manual adjusting of tracks you have to do on your DAW. 80bpm in 3/4 time roughly equates to 120bpm in 4/4 in terms of your DAW grid. A wise choice of the bpm for each ‘non-linear’ time signature will help greatly. If you’re going to do more than two time signatures, do the math and sketch out your whole song in bars before recording it - and good luck! If you’re really ambitious, check out Apocalyse Cow’s zappa-esque “…summer job” (can’t remember the full title). God alone knows how they managed to pull that one off! Hope this helps.

Penny:

you’re cracking me up.

Johnny:

Awesome LOOPS!!!!! Rarrrrharhar!!!

Although… apparently hell may have frozen over… Cause there I was in Rarified. Minding my own business… and out come Ean McGreggor or some crap singing about god being in various members of his family and stuff.

I wasnt huge on the hook… But those timbres sounded great and the performance was tolerable (even if it made me want to gag someplace deep inside.)

Easy 3… You even beat out two other artist i’m more fond of with that Disney infected showtune. Exceptional work… keep it up.

… but dont think this means i like u or anything.

Heres a song that made the semi finals of the UK songwriting contest recently which is perfect for halloween.
Johnny

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vhh3hb7hXgA

Happy Halloween from Frank Farbehind

A little scary treat below

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SxfzrwldcZY

Bullet is one of my favorites of yours.It really grabbed me and it had a life of it’s own, still does

Im just shocked Bullet is rounding the top 20 to be honest…

Its one of my best tracks but I thought for sure it would have been voted off the island much like Sunshine got smeared. “Argh!!!! Loops!!! Damn u Protilius!!!”

23rd place gives me hope though. Maybe i can manage a little more leadeboard security if im fortunate in the coming weeks.

In the meantime im just doing my best to vote non-biasly and with an open mind. I keep forgetting other people are as passionate about they’re music as I am… and reviewing is a very personal choice to many artist, myself included.

I guess we all just need to keep things real and it should all work out fine… hopefully… lol

Wish you didn’t have to go to work too, just be as careful and asprotective of your hand as possible..Can 6 is a big challenge to write for AND as you say to review….