No you're not wasting your time Father Goose everything we do is a work in progress and we learn from every experience, if you don't try things out you don't learn it's good to record things and to get people to listen, you've had some great feedback above and it's all helpful. to be honest if the guys that wrote tone sucks and mutilation didn't go on to elaborate and explain why they felt that and give some advice on how to improve then they're about as useful as a chocolate fireguard.
The comments from Dewy, Bubba and allthumbs are much more constructive and helpful which is the way a critique should be, any idiot can give abuse, good on you for doing it and carry on, your doing well
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