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Minneapolis Musician

I wrote this and recorded it in my studio, using the Broadway style on the PA4x.

I could imagine and write the song, but I could never pull off this happy Broadway arrangement without my trusty PA4X !

What a great tool to have as a songwriter!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O4jysyCM6Zk
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Synth song of mine: https://www.reverbnation.com/glenngalen/song/21469847-searching-and-believing-synth-beat

PA4x harmonies, Beach Boys song: https://youtu.be/3drsnU6j8Po?t=3m25s

All songs: http://www.reverbnation.com/GlennGalen

pa4x_user · Posted: Mon Dec 03, 2018 7:14 pm Post subject:

Loved it
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kbrkr · Posted: Mon Dec 03, 2018 11:11 pm Post subject:

Awesome Job....Thanks for sharing and Merry Christmas.
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QuiRobinez · Posted: Mon Dec 03, 2018 11:18 pm Post subject:

great song!

Minneapolis Musician · Posted: Mon Dec 03, 2018 11:39 pm Post subject:

Thank you for the kind compliments!

And Merry Christmas, and a happy Hanukkah to you all!
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Synth song of mine: https://www.reverbnation.com/glenngalen/song/21469847-searching-and-believing-synth-beat

PA4x harmonies, Beach Boys song: https://youtu.be/3drsnU6j8Po?t=3m25s

All songs: http://www.reverbnation.com/GlennGalen

Fransman · Posted: Tue Dec 04, 2018 5:47 pm Post subject:

Hi Glenn,

You've created a very nice sounding and optimistic Christmas tune!
Well done & I think you have a pleasant voice also!
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Minneapolis Musician · Posted: Tue Dec 04, 2018 6:20 pm Post subject:

Thank you, Fransman! Very kind of you to tell me. Makes me happy and motivated. Smile

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Synth song of mine: https://www.reverbnation.com/glenngalen/song/21469847-searching-and-believing-synth-beat

PA4x harmonies, Beach Boys song: https://youtu.be/3drsnU6j8Po?t=3m25s

All songs: http://www.reverbnation.com/GlennGalen

chelsea4023 · Posted: Tue Dec 04, 2018 10:12 pm Post subject:

Hi Glenn,

Super rendition.
I had to smile when I heard the style, as it's one I really like on the Korg, and it seems like it's been around for ages. Could it have been on the PA1X ?
Whenever it came out, it's great anyway.

Chris

Minneapolis Musician · Posted: Wed Dec 05, 2018 1:34 am Post subject:

Chris,

I don't know about the earlier arrangers and their quality of the Broadway style, but this one just as such great samples and production. Work so well for a classic Christmas song doesn't it? It's got that upbeat feel it works so well for a happy song.

I'm so glad I got the pa4x as my arranger. Although I've had synthesizers since 1985, for a professional songwriter there's nothing like the pa4x arranger. I used to have to play all the parts myself. And I was limited of course because I don't know how to do every style. And it was so tedious.

The pa4x allows me to concentrate strictly on the song I am writing.

I hope the next Korg arranger that comes out and has a pc-based editor for backing sequences so you could put the whole song together, perhaps have style changes and easily adjust variations and fills, and tempo changes instead of that tedious Backing Track Step Sequencer it has now. That would be so useful in the studio.

--- Glenn
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Synth song of mine: https://www.reverbnation.com/glenngalen/song/21469847-searching-and-believing-synth-beat

PA4x harmonies, Beach Boys song: https://youtu.be/3drsnU6j8Po?t=3m25s

All songs: http://www.reverbnation.com/GlennGalen

Giner · Posted: Wed Dec 05, 2018 6:15 am Post subject:

+10 to all the above comments. Good stuff again, Glenn.

As Chelsea mentioned, 'Broadway' has been around a while. It was in my old i30, I think.
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keith-helen · Posted: Wed Dec 05, 2018 4:23 pm Post subject:

I left a message on your web site as follows :- Well done , What are you producing for Easter? again well done.

Best wishes

Keith Lawton
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Minneapolis Musician · Posted: Wed Dec 05, 2018 8:39 pm Post subject:

keith-helen,

Thank you for the compliments. I am glad you enjoyed my upbeat Christmas song. I think you were gently wondering about the religious true meaning of Christmas, if I catch your meaning.

To answer that, I say religious holidays have at their core, a deep religious origin, as well as a more secular, general meaning.

In my "Christmas Gifts" song posted here, I am cheerfully dealing with the general, more secular side that affects the general population, the cheer, good will, and gift giving. Popular Christmas music, not reverent hymns.

If I were to do an Easter song, I would again stick to the more general holiday Easter dinner and family rather than a religious hymn about original sin and the proposed need for punishment, and resurrection.

Easter family dinners and Easter egg hunts. Smile

Here is a more "religious" Christmas tune I also did the same year as the tune posted above.

https://youtu.be/KewnsEZ6xto

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Synth song of mine: https://www.reverbnation.com/glenngalen/song/21469847-searching-and-believing-synth-beat

PA4x harmonies, Beach Boys song: https://youtu.be/3drsnU6j8Po?t=3m25s

All songs: http://www.reverbnation.com/GlennGalen