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Kevin Winkel
over 30 days ago to Pete Hansen

Pete, I appreciate your continued offering of stars! I hope you realize I truly value other musicians opinions and when expressed I take notice. Thanks again! - Kevin

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Pete Hansen
over 30 days ago

A song that we enjoy doesn't happen by accident. There are many years of work and passion that lead up to that creation, as well as all other bodies of work. That is just a small part of my deeper understanding and appreciation of a song as a life long musician. If I take the time to listen and select a star, I might as well select all of them. On the surface, I would give your songs 5 stars any way because what I've heard is very professional and the emotion comes through. We all could use encouragement. Besides, a 5 star rating of a song in a hard earned top 10 chart helps create a buzz and more attention and then who knows what. We might as well get what we can out of being in a top 10 category, have fun with it while it's there and help others along the way.
Regards and Happy Holidays!!!
Pete



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Kevin Winkel
over 30 days ago to Pete Hansen

Thanks for the stars Pete! I always appreciate when people take time to listen. Your name "Ben'Jamin" is genius by the way.

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Pete Hansen
over 30 days ago

Hi Mr. Kevin Winkel. The time I take to hear someone bare their heart and soul through their songs and music is always well spent. The healing effect is something many people don't realize but it is indeed healing!!!
Love your music
Pete.
PS. May I add you to my friends list?

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Kevin Winkel
over 30 days ago

Absolutely . . .

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Pete Hansen
over 30 days ago

Thank you!



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John Walradt
over 30 days ago to Pete Hansen

Pete, thank you for dropping by my page and for your enjoyment of "Just Another Weekend." I listened to a few of yours. You have beautiful melodies with unexpected chord progressions that are wonderful to listen to. "A Dream of You" is wistful and "Float" is peaceful. It's a welcome thing to come upon your songs amid the chaos that's out there these days. John

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Pete Hansen
over 30 days ago

Hi Mr. John Walradt. Thank you for taking the time to listen to some of my music and thank you for the kind comments.There certainly is a lot of chaos out there. I follow a simple method for side stepping it all. "engaged detachment". I am fully aware of the chaos but I manage to disconnect from it and stay in my peaceful "still point" where I am able to focus on music and the things that are most important to me, my wife and puppy.
PS. Love your music. May I add to you to my friends list?
Pete Hansen

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John Walradt
over 30 days ago

The rest of the world gets on hold when I sink into my music or paintings, and being with my wife and our kitty. I'd be glad to be on your list!
John



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Emmett North Jr.
over 30 days ago to Pete Hansen

I love your 'Key 2 Trilogy',what a beautiful song and guitar playing and arrangement,nice melody,much success,Emmett North Jr.

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Pete Hansen
over 30 days ago

Dear Mr. Emmett North Jr.. Thank you for your comment on our song Key To Trilogy. It seems these days many songs that are created by passionate artists go unheard or unnoticed. But it's all good. We do what we do because we have to because we want to. I am impressed with your history in the music world. In my humble but accurate opinion our music and all other good music is the saving grace of the world.
Your friend always!
Pete Hansen



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Warren Hein
over 30 days ago to Pete Hansen

hi Pete, hell man, i didn't know they'd post my ridiculous comment (in retrospect--it's just the reverb i think now for sure, i only listen once) but this is a great piece of work. all the best, Warren



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David Michael Walsh
over 30 days ago to Pete Hansen

Pete, Thank you for the review of Autumn Afternoo, from my Castle of Dreams Acoustic Solo Piano CD. As a self taught musician I have always enjoyed playing the piano from the point of creating my own music. Thanks again



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Benjamin Stone
over 30 days ago to Pete Hansen

Greetings Pete-

Thank you for your kind review. To answer your question, those were all samples (not a synthesizer). All of them act as plug-ins in my recording application, pro-tools.

I use a dual quad Pc, (not mac) with 24 gigs of ram. pro-tools is my studio platform for arranging and recording. I do all the arranging in pro-tools, which will produce a score from a midi arrangement, or a midi arrangement from a score.

I use the symphonic cube (sample library) on a mac and it is dedicated only to running the cube. It is clocked when recording to my other machine for recording, and mixing with other sample libraries. I also use East/West products and I am a huge fan of "Play" ( their sample engine which acts as a plug-in). "Chris Heins Horns" is great too. Sonokinetic and several others.

But in some composition productions I use hybrid recording. This is a mix of Live instruments and samples. I frequently use college students as it is more expensive to hire card carrying union members for session recording. My song "TEARS" is such an example.

Here are a few links to check out sample libraries that will fit any budget:

http://www.soundsonline.com/ 1

http://www.vsl.co.at/en/65/71/84/1349.vsl 2

http://www.bestservice.de/ 3

http://www.sonokinetic.net/ 4

Be forewarned that some of them have heavy systems requirements.

If you are using a keyboard workstation, I encourage you to change that and evolve. There are a myriad of great products out there and they totally surpass anything a Korg Oasis could do(best all in one keyboard I know of). At this point the only thing Korgs totally kick ass for are midi interface keyboards. Their weighted keyboards still have great action. (I use a Triton Pro-x as my main controller). However sample based audio is higher quality, cheaper, more accessible and the current industry standard.

Hope this helps. please feal free to shoot me a line if you have qurstions.

-Benjamin



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Kate Carpenter
over 30 days ago to Pete Hansen

Hey Pete, I just listened to My Last Prayer. I thought it was a nice tribute to your mother in law, and I am sure it really ministered to those who came to her funeral to celebrate her life. As far as critiquing it, I would say that the melody needs some more variation. The verses are long and there's not a whole lot to break them up. Makes it more like a stream of consciousness song, which may be what you were trying to achieve. Since the production is basic (piano, voice), it gets almost too predictable, and the chorus is so much like the melody. So if you think you ever want to revisit this song to work on it a bit, those are my thoughts. I did like the way you doubled the vocal at the end of the verses. That was a nice touch! Do you do all your own production?



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Al Kerr
over 30 days ago to Pete Hansen

thks pete ...check out my song just uploaded today ...just to teach you...cheers

al reed



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Kate Carpenter
over 30 days ago to Pete Hansen

Hey there Pete in Tucson. thanks for reviewing Armor of God. Glad you liked it. God bless you and have a great day. Mrs. Kate in Florida



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English Mike
over 30 days ago to Pete Hansen

Thanks Pete for the review of my piece 'Angelina' glad you liked it. I also have a solo piano version of the same piece on my page.
Regards. Mike.



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SongwriterTill
over 30 days ago to Pete Hansen

Love the song 'When I' - wonderful to listen to - nice vocals!!
regards,
Till

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Pete Hansen
over 30 days ago

Thanks Till, for your coment on "When I"
Respectfully
Pete



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Craig Higgins
over 30 days ago to Pete Hansen

Pete, many thanks for your kind review of my song, "Edge Of Nowhere". I very much appreciate the constructive comments on the lyrical aspects. I think you and many others have correctly pointed out that the lyrics could be hard to follow and dense. I have come to agree. I think sometimes simple is better and I may have been too introverted in the concept of this song. Definitely food for thought for my future writings! Cheers! (by the way, I am honored you compared me to Yes or Chicage, two faves of mine!)



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PappaPhil
over 30 days ago to Pete Hansen

thanks for the review..will look at yr suggestions



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Warren Boutros
over 30 days ago to Pete Hansen

Thanks for the review of "Everything Has A Time" ! no , it wasn't about my own personal experience, but it was influenced by life experiences.



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Rose Jay
over 30 days ago to Pete Hansen

Hey Pete. Thank you for listening to my songs. I just started poking around on this site for the first time last night. Have you or anyone you know personally had any placements through the licensing opportunities?

P.S. I had no idea the people I review would know the names of the people that reviewed them.



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Pete Hansen
over 30 days ago to Pete Hansen

Thanks Liam !
Pete



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Liam
over 30 days ago to Pete Hansen

Pete, melia's Christmas is a knockout!!!! Nice everything ! Keep up the good tunes....Liam



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Faye Davis
over 30 days ago to Pete Hansen

Thanks for the very generous and thorough review of my song "Do It"! I appreciate each and every thumbs-up that comes along! Best wishes to you, Faye Davis



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Kate Carpenter
over 30 days ago to Pete Hansen

Hey Pete, Thanks for taking the time to review "Sitting on a Hillside". After wasting a few years as a sinful hippie in the 70's, Jesus got ahold of me. I trashed all my old songs and journals and took for the hills. Sitting on a Hillside was the first song I ever wrote after I began to follow Jesus. So it will always be special to me. The recording is vintage, but the love is still there. Thanks again! Mrs. Kate in Florida www.MrsKate.com www.broadjam.com/mrskate



Thanks alot, Pete for your recent review of "I'll Hold You Again In Heaven". Such nice marks for an obvious demo. I've got a couple of songs that were recorded by some friends- real high end budget and recorded at some real nice places, 2s and 3s for scores, even where the sound quality was concerned. People, like you, need to start critiqueing songs for what they are first- SONGS. I'm very appreciative for how you view this song of mine. Thanks alot!! BB/NPM.



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JULIA FOLEY
over 30 days ago to Pete Hansen

Listened to FREE...good stuff...great soundtrack stuff...good luck!



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Margaret McClure
over 30 days ago to Pete Hansen

hey pete thanks for the kind review of our song "if it was you" good luck with everything



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Todd McKinney
over 30 days ago to Pete Hansen

Pete, thanks very much for your great review of Night Train. Your points are well taken. It's a song I recorded and self-produced a number of years ago. For me it's a steep learning curve just getting a decent recording in my home project studio. If I can dig it out of my archives, I'll go back and do another mix. And, as Nashville Joe's words of encouragement were to you, so yours are to me. Thanks again, Todd



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Voices Around The World
over 30 days ago to Pete Hansen

Hi Pete
Thanks for taking the time to listen to my song. Good constructive comments thanks.
Laurie Lewin



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Pete Hansen
over 30 days ago to Pete Hansen

Dear Nashville Joe,
First of all thank you very much for the top score on your review of my song Six Pack. It took me 2 grueling days but I just had a hankering to write one for the contest. I did 2 versions because on the first one I forgot to mention Broadjam. Everytime I hear the Eagles songs I feel like I missed my boat, being in Tucson instead of Winslow, and yes, I've stood on a corner in Winslow, AZ.
PS. Your comments and encouragement are like a breath of fresh air!
Respectfully
Pete



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NashvilleJoe
over 30 days ago to Pete Hansen

hey pete/you ever stand on the corner of winslow arizona-just passing time away?well-have you?--great 6 pack song-peace-joe.



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Mario V. Ricci
over 30 days ago to Pete Hansen

Hi Pete,

Thanks for taking the time to listen to my song,,,your time is really appreciated..
Thanks again..Mario



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Faye Davis
over 30 days ago to Pete Hansen

Hi, Pete -- thanks fot the generous review of my song "Try" (can you hear me...). I appreciate your praise as well as suggestions. Cheers! Faye



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Tony Edwards
over 30 days ago to Pete Hansen

Hi Pete,
Tony from NZ here again,
thanks for the review of my song hide and seek and for your kind and constructive comments again.Much appreciated,
Regards,
Tony from NZ



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