We had my youngest grandson, 8yr old William,last week for two days, and he sang me lyrics to a song he had written while playing his drums. He had about 80% of the lyrics, and I added the guitars, bass & arranged the drums. He didn't play drums, just the vocal track, which he did in one take. The song was recorded and mixed on my BOSS BR-800 by me.

http://youtu.be/MZ1GWTeno0s

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Tony Houston

Very cool I bet that was a blast to work on with your grandson.

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That was absolutely wonderful!!! You are one cool Grandpa and he will remember that forever!! Thank you for sharing

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Mona
"Music is What Feelings Sound like"

Man he's a natural, and your guitar part was great too

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"Yesterday is history, tomorrow is a mystery, but today is a gift. That is why it is called the present."

oogway, kungfu panda 2008

Guys, thanks for your kind words. We really did have fun working on the song. I just wished that I had videoed him singing that take. Of course he did several practice runs before we recorded, but he did that vocal track in one take (Thundercats was coming on the Cartoon Network and he wanted to see it).

The song is in 'C', and I tuned his guitar to 'Open C' so that he could play slide, but that was taking too long, and his mom was coming to pick him soon.

We also had mapped out a storyboard for a video that we'll create for the song using MovieStarPlanet http://www.moviestarplanet.com/, he's doing that at home.

Plus, I sent him the stem tracks, he's going to add drums, he has a set of Roland HD-3 V-Drums. I'm not sure when all this will happen becuase school started today for him.

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Tony Houston