Score: 4

"Substandard"

by: nubbins1

date: April 14, 2008

I guess I agree with your comments - in that I'm surprised it's good enough to be an all time top scoring song. It's not abysmal or even bad, it's just too basic and plain sounding. Do note that the peanut gallery's taste in music is usually terrible, and not all raters know anything about theory. So I'm not saying it's bad, but rating often means little.

But here's what I think...

You should stick with a genre and use instruments that fit the style. Seems like you were trying to do a rock like piece so the drums need to be featured more, and the guitar needs to have the lead - NOT the keyboard. The piano lead works better in Jazzy songs, as well as DnB, but for rock like songs the guitar works much better.

Also ended it at the wrong time. If you want a big finish I wouldn't use a fade, unless the theme you're fading has been used before as a climax. I'd suggest ending with a mellow lead solo.

Might also want to look at using a bass as a pad. Strings are nice fluff but a bass guitar or synth would pad the lead a lot better.

To get rid of the plain MIDI synth sound, throw in a couple of effects. A slight echo with the lead works OK and some sort of overdrive in the climatic variation might sound nice.

Feels a little short. I've always found that using a keychange to double up the song (along with maybe another insturment to intensify the piece) can make it longer, as long as it's varied enough to not just sound like repetitive filler.

Music Tech is hard, I know, and that's why all my music sucks. But I do know that effects and choice of insturments can make a piece sound really good.

Score: 7

"Curious composition."

by: JakeHoshgothen

date: April 12, 2008

The hell! It's impossible to classify this thing, damn it! You throw in electric guitar, wierd drums, and a whole bunch of other stuff. How it came together to produce THIS is beyond me. For all intensive purposes, it should have fallen flat on it's face for just being so damn random and impossible to keep track of. I sit here attempting to write this review, whilist listening to your material, and hear 5 distict changes that made me go back and rewrite the entire thing. A pain in the ass to review stuff like this.

You should have ended it at 1:19 or 1:18. NEVER bring back in a full on ensemble, only to have it fade out less than 5 seconds later. You can get away with doing it in the middle or begining, but never the end.

You get a 7 for three distinct reasons.
-1 I HATE having to rewrite a review. I become enraged when I have to rewrite it 5 times. Not impressed.
-1 The ending problem that I mentioned.
-1 Your piano is to front and centre. I think you should have taken some of the emphasis off it.

There. 30 minutes to write this thing... Never again...

Score: 6

"Where"

by: DeN00b

date: April 10, 2008

Was the micro hiding when you made this song?
The loudness of the instruments was so weird, it was weird how weird it was.

Score: 7

"Flame, flame flame!"

by: Oddler

date: April 9, 2008

It sounds pretty good actually. There is an interesting quality in it I can't place my finger on and wish I could verbalize but it's pretty good with a margin of room to improve on.

Score: 8

"hmm..not bad.."

by: donman92

date: April 9, 2008

I like it,

what program do you use?