Score: 8
"Sorry to break the 10 avarage :("
date: July 22, 2008
I find this to be a relaxing track. Flowing piano arpeggios on a beautiful chord progression, a laid back bass, and pretty melody. It is very good mood music and easy to listen to.
There is a big issue, however. The song is far too repetitive. The chord progression repeats indefinitely, and the bass guitar never breaks away from the same 4 note pattern. A new intrument comes in for the melody at one point, but that is about the only variation there is. Due to this, it becomes a bit boring and monotonous. It is nice to have in the background when you are thinking, but it really doesn't grab any attention.
Luckily, this is very easy to fix. Just add something to make it different! :)
A new section with different chords and a new melody would be an example. Less obvious choices would be to tweak the volume more to create interest. The piano would sound much more human if you tweaked the volume of each note a bit. The same goes for every instrument. No human plays that mechanically. To be fair, I did like the fade out at the end.
This isn't a particularly bad track, but it could use some work. Add more variety and dynamics and you'll be set! Hope that helps. :)
~Blaze
July 23, 2008
Author's Response:
I'm well aware that this song could use some work...but this song basically came from the heart and there's really no possible way that I could change it. What I could do is tweak this song a lil...but I won't change how the melody is. And yes, I know...the chord progression is extremely repeative...I wish I knew chord progressions. I'll try to make my next piano song better (as far as chord progressions goes). But thx for the review and I believe it will help. ^_^v