This is what I like to hear when it comes to jazz. It's not groundbreaking, but it mixes it up and it has something somewhat new to offer.
The composition is great, it has a proper built up track with nice transitions. Though the drum samples aren't the best, that really doesn't matter too much. The melody is really great, and I do like the rhythmics. A nice intro that builds up to the track properly, but I don't like that the outro is fade-out.
Maybe do some more work with dynamics, I heard some, but not a lot.
I'm glad you enjoyed, and BTW, I know my drum samples suck arse, it plagues me, and there isn't much I can do about it, since Reason doesn't allow VST's...
Also, I felt the progression was quite appropriate to end in fade-out, though mybe that was laziness, lol.
Again, really glad you enjoyed, and thanks again for the review!
Of course it's annoying to get 0-bombed, but all aspiring musicians on NG will be 0-bombed sometime. I find it weak for you to give in and leave, even though I might understand. Scores aren't everything, broseph.
On to the track: Intro is really promising. You've used really good synths and I really like the beats in this piece, drum samples are pretty damn perfect, and there is some variation in the drums.
Main issue for me is the repetitive nature of the track. Though there are buildups and transitions, I wouldn't say it's a very original track. That is, the melody itself is, the track just seem to repeat itself. Not something I look for in a track.
Again, sorry about the 0-bombers, but don't let them get to you. Your score is already better.
Feeling the Industrial influence on this track, gotta say I'm liking it.
My one issue is that the composition isn't too good, there's really no proper structure to the song, and at times it just feels entirely random. Now; I'm guessing you want for this messy feel to the track, but you can still have some more structure to it. Listen to Eskmo, for example, messy and glitchy with a pretty clear structure.
I do like the addition of what sounds like some sort of trumpet at times, as well as the piano. It's just the whooshing synths got a bit too much and really took over the entire track at times.
None too shabby at all, but it gets highly repetitive rather soon, due to the melodic line being a simple loop that is played over and over with chord progression.
The rhythmics are quite good, though they do feel bland after a while. They're not really too loud compared to the melody, but you could easily have changed them up a bit.
I appreciate the multiple layers at certain parts in the track, makes it feel less shallow with just the melodic synth. Synths are fine, like the buzzed sound of it. The backing synth is also quite good, though it can get a bit loud compared to the melodic synth.
Really nicely looped, and in general a pretty good track with some nice samples.
My biggest issue is that I can't find anything to hold onto, and I kept waiting for the track to give me something of that sort. There's not much in the way of structure, though the composition itself isn't very bad. And as I said, samples are really good, the drums are simple, providing support for the strings alongside the midi bass. Then again, I'm not too sure about the midi bass, I don't feel it fits too good with the main melody being played by strings.
I'm trying to keep with the spirit of the original metroid, which used a bass as kind of the action of the whole thing, with the long synths producing the melody and harmony. I'm not sure what else I could throw at it and still make it sound good, yet similar to the original.
I've never played that game, so I've got nothing to work with here.
The midi sounds are not bad, everything is quite clear, and I really like the strings here, really a vital part of the track. The backing piano is quite good as well, makes it feel a bit fleshed out, and the rhythmics help drive the track forward. I'd still like to see some more pure bassline. I'm not sure how well that'd work in this track, but I'd still like to see you try to add it.
The composition is really good, but that's not of your work, as far as I can see, as it's taken from a video game? Either way, your rendition is really well done of it, you've picked nice synths, and given the track a really adventurous and cheery feel.
I feel something common with all your tracks is that the composition is very well written. That, and the track always feels grand, royal or something like so.
I'm not a huge fan of your drum samples, nor the midi-like melodic line, nor the electric guitar sound which is a tad cheesy. I'd really like to see you go out and get some really good sample packs, because they could lift your compositions to a whole nother level.
That said, the composition of your track really makes all that negative stuff I just said void. It's all put together so well, the bass, the rhythmics, the melodic lines, you have multiple layers of synths to flesh it out, which I'm a big fan off. It does sound a bit off-key at times, and I'm no fan of fade-outs at the end.
The reason it's /generally/ compositionally well-written is because I've studied music and composition for over six years with one of the best teachers in the state, and in several other states nearby - so that /could/ have something to do with it.
I also like making songs full, deep, and have a feeling of "this is a strong song", not just the ones that, while cool, have no real depth. Admittedly, I also like a feeling of "grand-ness" in my songs. Especially songs like this.
I know, I know, my samples aren't good. I've only been using the defaults. I should probably get more, but they don't sound overly bad... to me, they sound like drums. Having custom samples doesn't necessarily make a song better, it may make the drum samples unique, but so what? I'll try to get some better samples to make you happy though (especially since I'm sure a lot more people will be happier because of that too).
The midi-like melodic line... That was a soundfont violin, I'll probably use a violin sample from Reason with my next song that features a violin, as they're higher quality. The FLS strings were less fitting than the violin in the soundfont. I admit that the electric guitar sound wasn't the best either, but it was better than the default in FLS, again... I also note that this was intended to be a tribute to KH, and the soundtracks for that were also almost all midi for the first few games (if I remember right).
I try to make all the bits of my songs fit. I also don't try to make every single part in the same key, because the parts that aren't in the same key can still sound good. Depends on whether there is (A) a transition, or (B) whether it's not in another KIND of key. There's more than just classical major/minor keys, but jazz keys as well that sound quite good while putting in tritones.
I do use quite a few instruments and layer them all together, partially because having many things like that going at once lets people focus on different things each time they listen, and not listen to the same thing as much, or listen repeatedly to the same thing because there always seems to be more.
Aaaaand, the final thing. This fades out because it is a loop track, I have the beginning of the loop start at about 0:23, halfway through that second. it plays from there again at about 2:32. I have it fade out because I wasn't intending it to have an ending - it's probably going to be in a game I'm doing the soundtrack for (not the one for the RRC, sorry :P).
Thanks for the review! (Yay for making replies about four times larger than the review, too!)
I love hip-hop with classical influences, there's just something about the combination of something new and something old that mainly represents completely different cultures that really works out.
There seems to be some chopping when the loop restarts, the mozart track, that is. Maybe do some more with the cutting of that.
The bass is really neat, though I don't really feel it is necessary, if you get vocals into the mix. Vocals would definitely bring this to an entirely new level. Right now it's more house-oriented with that bass and the beats, including the rhythmics.
Really neat track. Expected something a bit more grand from the ending, though.
Thanks for the review! Yes, I did quite a terrible job on the sample, but I don't think I could've done any better really (bad excuse). I definitely agree that vocals would've made this better, but I really have no way of finding a vocalist or even being able to record them.
I didn't realise it sounded too much like House, but I'm honestly not surprised, my whole musicality has been embedded with House, it was bound to sneak in somewhere. Thanks!
Not a bad track, but a bit too high-pitched for me.
I get that the track is supposed to be cheerful and just like this, high-pitched, and it's not bad. However, it could do with some heavier bass, as right now the bass is somewhat superficial, it's not deep or heavy-hitting.
Other than that the synths are really nice, love the backing synths, always nice to have a couple layers in a track so it never feels shallow. It was however, extremely repetitive. More variety is a must, both the melody and the rhythmics were just repeating themselves throughout.
I got rid of a lot of the bass because it made it sound muddy. Too much is in this song which just distorted the lower ends of the track. I think it was around the 40-50hz range, but I had to do a cut moreso for the lower ranges because of the muddyness. I wanted to have the melody itself pop out which did it's job.
Yeah, it is repetitive, but I tweaked the synth itself a bit to make it not that repetitive. If you listen more carefully to how the synth fluctuates, it doesn't stay the same throughout the song. It changed a lot which is what I loved about it so I kept it. However the main melody to itself did stay the same, but I wasn't intending this to be a full length track, more just something people could listen to and enjoy.
I'm trying to find the right kinda simplicity with overall melodic enjoyment. :P I'm still pokin' at what I can do, but so far this was moreso a test to see if it works. And it seems it does to a degree, which is what I was hoping for. The next thing I come out with will be different than this though no doubt.
Really not a bad fast-paced track, but it feels a bit messy at times.
The synths are good, and I think the rhythmics are good, though they might be a bit too loud and take over the track a tad at times. My biggest issue is that the track feels a bit messy at ttimes, when you sped it up all the way in the beginning, it went somewhat off-beat, and this also happened later.
Also, the loud drums are really an issue, they really do out-play the synths, which you rarely want to do. I'd love to hear more layers to the song, I do hear some ambient synths and a bass synth, but even more layering could be real good to the track.
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