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Just the first half the chorus, but went through and did some studies. Added a bit of explanation via narration. Hope it's useful. Disclaimer is this is just my thought process and my approach so it's definitely not the end all.

cool thanks Ill check it out next studio time

Dude, that's a pretty cool groove you got going there. Enough to inspire me to remix sometime.

Only problem is I cant hear your voice-over with the background mixed to that level. Maybe send the voiceover as a separate stem or mix it higher ?

I guess this could be an R&B remix. I can already key Neo-Keys Rhodes on it w/ Jaco bass.

I reckon you got a good voice too would like to hear you on a lead vocal sometime.

sure, I'll record it again or something. I didn't have my mic pre set up so just used notebook mics and it sucked a little too much. I'm not saying too much. It's hard with these things because a lot can be said about a very short phrase..

I can lay vocals.. I'm not bad, but not a horribly good lead. I've done a lot of chorus work tho. A lot of times I'll do lead and chorus and hand it over to the vocalist so it's definitely a skill I picked up out of necessity. The vocalist usually nails the lead, but some just aren't good at chorus, and so I just use mine to fill in parts they couldn't get right in time. It's a good backup plan for when things get ugly. Of course, it totally sucks when it's a female lead... then I can't use mine, and have to find an emergency backup vocalist to do chorus.. So with females I usually don't work with female vocalists who's chorus I can't save with melodyne.

Anyway I like the groove, so intend doing a remix with it, so you'll be on the credits.

Heres sorta what I had in mind, what u think with the Neokeys and Jaco bassline dubbed on your mix ?

I kinda like the walking bass riff instead off the off-beat dance bass - its maybe a bit funkier.

https://soundcloud.com/hitfoundry/kenhaveasugaro

ah, I see. I like this progression too. Bass groove is sort of there, I think it can be stronger with more contrast of when you're on beat and when you're not. The progression also needs to be edited a bit to accommodate the melody variation on the 2nd repeat. (because the melody goes over an avoid note on the F on A) But anyway, it's just good to think twice about these things. There's what works, and then there's what's best.

Coolness. I will work on it. Post a MIDI of yours so I can pick out the progression a bit more accurately if you like.

gotcha.

Meanwhile I played w/ bassline, putting more offbeat. http://soundcloud.com/hitfoundry/kenhaveasugaro

Sometimes it matches your melody accents, sometimes not. I couldn't quite make out exact position of your bass accents, so will wait for a MIDI