I wrote this little song called "The Rush Closes In" and posted the acoustic guitar and lead vocal track here a little while back. I really liked the song but was worried it might be a bit boring since it was verse, chorus, verse, chorus, verse, chorus format. Well shortly after I posted it people started jumping in and adding tracks. These people included Pascal, Bjorn, David (Fuzz), Billy and I invited Rab into it. Well things sped along pretty fast and withing a few weeks we came up with what I think is a pretty good song. I don't think it is completely finalized yet, but I am so excited about it that I entered it into competition at Ourstage. Check it out when you get a chance and let me know what you think.

Derek

I just posted a track on Ourstage. It wasn't recorded here. It was a collaboration with some friends from Songramp. It came out awesome. Here is the link.

http://www.ourstage.com/music/channel/17-rock/HCXWXYAZHHAX-your-personality-split

I have been a member of Kompoz for quite a while now but honestly I haven't participated that much. I had a couple songs posted and both got a couple tracks posted to them, but never went too far. I think part of that was me not staying on top of them. Well recently I posted another song. One I really like and it's been getting some attention. Bjorn jumped in and added a bass line, Billy has been playing around with strings and some lead riffs, Pascaloubien has added a beautiful piano part. I asked Rab to give a listen and he has kinda donned the Producer hat and has been giving great suggestions. It has been really cool watching it develop the way it has in the past week. It makes you realize how amazing this community is. I am a guitar player myself. I can kinda program drums and bass via my keyboard and fake it to a certain extent on keys, but to be able to come to a place like this and meet up with people that really know how to play those instruments can make a huge difference in how the song will sound when finished. And having more than one person with different mind sets can take a song places that you yourself would never have been able to imagine.

Anyway, just some thoughts I had going through my head today. Just wanted to share.

I love Kompoz. Hope it stays around a very long time.

Derek

A friend of mine sent me this link and I thought I would share it with you guys. This is pretty awesome.

 http://www.celemony.com/cms/index.php?id=dna