Score: 8
"Dance-tastic. Interesting rhythms. Fun."
date: June 22, 2008
Not as high a tempo or as much energy in here compared to the previous one. Still persuaded me to get up and dance while the song played once through though!
There's a large variety of melodies and moods here, though at points they don't flow so much as switching, sometimes abruptly.
The fast notes from 44s-1:03 sound pretty cool and though the switch
The switch at 1:40 sound slightly disrupting - seems to me you could have done a better switch and not lost the momentum you do by having that pause/cymbal switch.
After 1:40, the music becomes a lot happier, shifting into a major key and that progression works well. You keep enough themes going on that it does sound connected.
You obviously have a big thing with stopping/starting with a cymbal/reverse-cymbal-type noise. Listening to parts 1-3 after one another (having downloaded and lined them up) I think you may have overused the technique.
There's a lot of cool sounds and this is honestly a brilliant tune for dancing to when it's moving along - really interesting rhythms and som uplifting moments at the end - but I'd recommend you try and have your next tune flow more, maybe changing the layers a few at a time rather than trying to do it all at once and ending with an abrupt switch and a moment of silence like you so often have here.
July 1, 2008
Author's Response:
Sorry for respoding so late
Yes, I realize this song is jam packed with rev cymbals, and I'm going to fix that in later songs. The transitions in the song ARE very rough, but I didn't mean for the song to be too coherent.
Thanks for the review!