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Thank you, Ed. Really means a lot your response, it is very helpful! :)


I composed basically everything there are only some gaps composed by the producer which were the bass. Most of the drum tracks are ai the logical drummer track. Throwing away the key I had a lot of my input in the drum track it is probably noticeable hehe. I am really proud of the bass I did in "all alone".  Only in the song "All alone" I did do all the bass.  I could do it for all tracks but I did it to save time as studio sessions were limited. For the song all alone, I was listening to a lot of jazz I actually think I put a post here asking how do you learn to like jazz. I think I was listening to very experimental jazz, smooth jazz is actually nice. So when I started to make all alone with the piano chords I tried to make them sound more "ugly" I am really proud of that piano part. The only song I was trying to sound like somebody else was "Stay close to me" I tried to sound like Bryan Adams's heaven... Because I watched a lot of Rick Beato I didn't use auto-tune, only some flex pitch.  I plan to do another album ironically following John Mayers advice on how he created sob rock as he said he wanted to create something unique and not heard of before like a niche not thought of. I only started to listen to John Mayer sob rock after I had completed the album. For Stay close to me I did all the effects and panning etc of the instrumentation with waves plugins etc. My producer adjusted only the volume levels and he did the vocals processing.  I did do other track effects mixing too such as "throwing away the key" the orchestral sounds.