[Rock] Secret Life [mp3]

[Asharin]

Just finished this today after redoing the vocals for the 20th time, finally happy with the sound..well enough that it's good enough for me hehe.
As usual made with modplug. Using the following plugins: Revitar2, guitar rig2, SR202, Kjaehus classic EQ and compresser.

http://z0mg.myzen.co.uk/mp3/SecretLife.mp3

Lyrics are:

You go about your day, you go about your life
Say goodbye to the family, go to work your nine to five
You stop on the way to work, and wonder is this all there is?
You could be much more than this
You could make your dreams come true

You wanna live your secret life for real
You gotta open your mind
If you wanna know how it feels
to escape from the daily grind
You gotta live your secret life for real
While you still have time

You could be in the airforce, fly an F16
You could be in the navy, In a submarine
Tinker tailer soldier sailor, you could have it all
If you don't catch yourself before you fall
You'll never make your dreams come true.

You wanna live your secret life for real
You gotta open your mind
If you wanna know how it feels
to escape from the daily grind
You gotta live your secret life for real
While you still have time

Could you prosecute a murderer, in a court of law?
You never know until you give it a try, you could be so much more
So when you go home to your family, have a word with your wife
Let her know you wanna change your life
It's time to make your dreams come true

You wanna live your secret life for real
You gotta open your mind
If you wanna know how it feels
to escape from the daily grind
You gotta live your secret life for real
While you still have time
You wanna live your secret life for real
You gotta open your mind
If you wanna know how it feels
to escape from the daily grind
You gotta live your secret life for real
While you still have time

[Sam_Zen]

A cool piece. I got the impression of some hidden double tempo in it.
I was waiting for a guitar solo though, to be honest. In the break from 2:03 for example.

[Asharin]

Well spotted, it was made at 300bpm, the pattern length is 256 Well except the first drum part, that's a 128 length pattern. I would have done a guitar solo, but after about 10 tries of making a convincing sounding one I gave up

[Sam_Zen]

So I would have preferred to listen to a non-convincing one included. A fixed piece and a solo always are some contradictio.
Because a solo is supposed to be different every time. So the only thing a fixed song can do is to pre-create a certain room for a solo in which it could happen. A simple solution for this is e.g. to repeat a certain basic pattern inside a song a number of times.
As soon as the tracker-composer writes a solo in a piece, the notes could have been different per definition anyway.