Score: 7
"MIDI rock!"
date: October 25, 2004
Okay, I'll admit it - I was prepared to hate this from the first mock-guitar midi'd note. However, on further listening... this isn't really too bad.
Everything is sort of what I'd expect from a rock song... the drums, the melodies... oh, and a cool solo at :23, that's neat...
So, this is kind of short (less than a minute)... you could take what you've got and expand it out to a couple minutes easily... there's some pretty neat themes that would benefit from some further exploration.
The ending feels a little... abrupt, I guess, but it doesn't really seriously detract from the song. This is cooler than I expected, and impressive considering it's using MIDI. So, I'm gonna' go with a seven.
Author's Response:
Thank you for the helpful review. The song is only around a minute long because this demo converter I have to convert .midis into .mp3s will only let me convert a file it it's a minute or less. There's actually another guitar solo, different chords progressions, and another riff that follow what you heard. Yeah the ending sort of sucked, when I submitted this I wasn't done with the song, so I just did that to keep it under a minute. I've been wanting to record songs like this, but haven't found any decent recording equipment yet. Thanks, Hans.