Song #21 of 26 – Only You

Initial BIAB Style – _CPOPNGS – Country Pop w/ Nylon Guitar And Synth

Track #1 – MIDI Acoustic Guitar using Kontakt VSTi (Indiginus Acoustic Collection Remix)
Track #2 – MIDI Nylon Guitar using Halion Sonic VSTi
Track #3 – RealGuitar 1681: Guitar, 12-String Acoustic, Fingerpicking
Track #4 – RealStrings 691: Guitar, Acoustic, Strumming, AcRockBright
Track #5 – RealPiano 1278: Synth Pad, PopUplift Ev 120
Track #6 – MIDI Acoustic Piano using TruePianos VSTi (Diamond)
Track #7 – MIDI Drums Track using Halion Sonic VSTi
Track #8 – MIDI Electric Bass using Kontakt VSTi (Scarbee MM-Bass)
Track #9 – MIDI Electric Piano using Lounge Lizard Session VSTi
Track #10 – MIDI Handclaps using Halion VSTi
Track #11 – MIDI Handclaps using TTS-1 DXi
Track #12 – MIDI Strings using Orchestral Companion Strings (Ens Strings Espressivo)

John sings lead vocal and the background/harmony vocal parts, which were all run through Melodyne 4 to pull it a little better in tune, with slight reverb using Anwida Soft Reverb Light VST.


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Only You
By Chris Werle and John Ford
Copyright 1999 by Chris Werle and John Ford

1 Who can lift me up when I'm feeling down, comfort me from on high.
Who can turn a bad day all around, make the rain pass me by.
And who can melt my frozen heart away, like the sun does the snow.
Who can keep my silent fears at bay,
Oh, Lord I just want You to know: [to CHORUS]

CHORUS
Only You. (Only You, my Lord.) Only You. (Only You, my Lord.)

2 Who can turn the darkness into day with the sun on the rise.
Who can almost take my breath away, with a glorious sky.
And who can almost still my beating heart, with a song's sweet refrain.
Who can stop my fear before it starts,
Bring me peace with a soft summer rain: [to CHORUS]

BRIDGE
Only You can hear my silent call, cast my cares, sustain me before I fall.
Only You can reach the deepest part of my soul.

3 Who can cast a good light over bad, lead the world from despair.
Who can bring us joy when we are sad, faith beyond compare.
And who can calm the cry of a mourning dove, with a wave of His hand.
Who can show us all redeeming love,
Oh Lord, we are at Your command: [to CHORUS]

[Repeat CHORUS 3x]


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Since I’ve been teleworking since March 2020 (as a result of the Coronavirus pandemic), that has afforded me time at home to work on all the original songs my buddy Chris Werle and I (John Ford) have written. Chris wrote the lyrics, chords, and melody. I then transcribe it into notation, since Chris doesn’t read music. I then write the harmonies, most of the instrumental solos and/or counter melodies, arrange all the instruments, and put everything together.

All songs started in Band-in-a-Box (and some of them are over 20 years old). Then they were worked up in either PowerTracks Pro or RealBand. Since Chris and I live in different states now, I had to rely on previously recorded vocals and his guitar playing from old PowerTracks or RealBand .SEQ files. Because of limitations in RealBand with some VSTi’s, I did have to export the some of the MIDI tracks out of RealBand and render them to audio in Cakewalk (for those that RealBand didn’t render properly), after which I would bring the audio back into RealBand. But most of the songs and the final mix were exclusively rendered from RealBand.

My goal here is to post one song each day until all 26 of the songs have been posted. Some have been posted previously, but I have gone back and reworked all of them, so they are all new mixes and are different from what was originally posted.

Most of the songs are Christian in nature, so if that’s not your thing, that’s fine. But it’s our thing. So without further ado, here is the music.

John

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