I have one verse already. Thank you Helena (Old Doll).

By the way I deliberately asked for the verses to be sent direct to me and not posted here so that one person's idea would not influence another to give the song diversity.

Roger

Reading your contribution I am not the only one

Thank you Russ.

To everyone else,

This song is coming on nicely so please don't be shy if you have something to offer.

Roger

More lyrics this morning arrived, this time from Deedee (Jamie), so a big thank you to you.

I probably have enough material now but I will leave it till the weekend before putting it all together, just in case.

Roger

Right I now have chords for this song and I am working on the melody and finalising the lyrics to fir. I have given it a title "Wrapped in Happiness" but I am open to suggestions. I have also put the lyrics in Chopro so they can be printed.

{t:Wrapped in Happiness}
{st:by as many Chordians as I can involve}
{c:A slow waltz - 80 bpm}

Intro:
[G]    [D4]     [G]    [D]

Verse 1:
[G]    [Em]    [C]    [D]
[C]    [Em]    [Am]    [D]
[G]    [Em]    [C]    [D]
[C]    [D]    [G]    [D]

Verse 2:
[G]    [Em]    [C]    [D]
[C]    [Em]    [Am]    [D]
[G]    [Em]    [C]    [D]
[C]    [D]    [G]    [D]

Chorus:
[C]    [D]    [G]    [Em] 
[F]    [G]    [A]    [A4]
[C]    [D]    [G]    [Em]
[C]    [D4]    [G]    [D]

Verse 3:
[G]    [Em]    [C]    [D]
[C]    [Em]    [Am]    [D]
[G]    [Em]    [C]    [D]
[C]    [D]    [G]    [D]

Instrumental:
[C]    [D]    [G]    [Em] 
[F]    [G]    [A]    [A4]
[C]    [D]    [G]    [Em]
[C]    [D4]    [G]    [D]

Verse 4:
[G]    [Em]    [C]    [D]
[C]    [Em]    [Am]    [D]
[G]    [Em]    [C]    [D]
[C]    [D]    [G]    [D]

Chorus:
[C]    [D]    [G]    [Em] 
[F]    [G]    [A]    [A4]
[C]    [D]    [G]    [Em]
[C]    [D4]    [G]    [G]

I will be in touch shortly asking for help with parts of the recording.

Roger

***I have had to remove the Chopro formatting for this I am afraid.*****

Roger I tried printing this but a message said I have to enable Java script what happend to change this I used to be able to print the chopro formated songs without any problems this is a new wrinkle please advise russ

Roger I downloaded the music and I will see what I can contribute to them i also have the message for processing on audacity its been a week since I used audacity but its like riding a bicycle something you dont forget how to do let you know more when Ive had a chance to work with the song,one question is that D4 a Dsus4?

well that clears it up, I will have some time this weekend to work on this and phil sent me some lyrics and challanged me to come up with some music so I will have my hands full.Phil also mentioned that on his myspace page the number of songs allowed is only 5 is that the same for your part of the world? just curious

Hi Jeff,

Thanks but the without yours, and the others contributions, there would not be a song. It will take a little while to get the recording as I am trying to get several contributions for that too.

Roger

Wow Scott (Fatstrings) is on the ball. This morning I recieved a 'trial run' recording from him and then had great fun playing along with a 'real live' bass player again, it has been a while. Thank you Scott and I am looking forward to your finalised piece.

This in no way means that I am pushing anyone to get their part completed. Take your time and be happy with your contribution. If you are happy with it I am sure that I will be. The final recording will be ready when it is and not before.

In some instances I have asked more than one performer to record a certain part and some to record on their second choice instrument in an effort to include as many as I can but everyone who contributes will be included in the final mix.

I think that everyone who contributed to the lyrics did a wonderful job. In spite of 4 different people writing the verses completely independantly, with only the chorus as a reference, there is a flow to them and it is not obvious that there are five different writers involved. There has only been minor tweaking by me to get the rhyming continuity and line length right to fit the melody. Thank you.

Most of the correspondence for this project has been through private e-mail apart from my initally asking for lyrics. For the recordings I have put together two synthesised backing tracks, one with vocals and one without, and sent them to the performers asking them to record their part alongside the track (to keep the tempo uniform and to give an idea of the style). I have asked for the backing track to be deleted after recording so I will recieve just their part and then I will mix them together. Although everyone will be working independently by using the backing track I think it will all blend in together nicely.

I am quite exited about this, I am more than happy with the the lyrics I was offered and also the intitial response from the performers as this is something I have been wanting to try for the past couple of years. The new Recording section has made it possible.

Roger

Thanks Roger, so far it's been a lot fun working (hard to call it "work" when you enjoy it so much) on this project. I, like others, am quite anxious to hear how it all comes together. It's amazing how we're able to send our individual styles of instruments, lyrics, and rhythms all over the world and compile it to one complete song. Music is truly the universal language.

Well thats good to hear Roger as were all waiting with baited breath to hear the results of your project

So hows the knee today? lifting wheel barrels full of bricks is not conducive to picking guitar and I sure wouldn't want your gig but its easy for me to say I'm retired and the heaviest lifting I have to do is take out the garbage but I can sympathise with you and I hope this is not a regular full time career Im tired just thinking of hard work