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This is an odd piece.

It started out as a description of myself. I saw myself as a bloodstained phoenix: I'd been killed and reborn so many times that the blood just wouldn't seem to wash away. And that's how I started this song.

I stopped writing 5 or 6 months ago at about 1:47 into the song because I didn't know how to finish it. I wanted it to have an uplifting ending, but since it was a description of myself... I couldn't finish it at the time, all because I just hadn't gotten that far in my life yet.

But recently, that last chapter opened up to me, and I finished it at last.

This would be why the end sounds so much better - I've gotten that much better since when I first began writing this. I decided not to change the original part, because I like how it shows who I was then, versus who I am now. Perhaps you'll find that just as interesting as I do.

Comments are greatly appreciated!

Enjoy.

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Average Score: 10.0 / 10

Score: 10

"I know that what you sent me 5/6 months ago :P"

by: mjattie

date: November 4, 2009

I didn't know what to do, because it's YOUR piece and now you finished I'm happy that I didn't help you with it. You surely did a nice thing! I must say, that I like the beginning the most of all, but that's just a matter of taste.

Good things:
I really like the piano melody (in beginning especially), violin, cymbals, high pitched background synths, drum highpassing, drum fills.

Tips: Buy a (Midi) keyboard and really let yourself going with real played notes: you'll certainly hear difference! Though, I still don't know how the hell you do it now; let it sound this realistic without a keyboard...
I'd delete the last note of this piece xD I like the semi out of tune note and when you "play" the last note, the C, it feels... argh... don't know how to say, just not really right.

Drums: I think they sound too plain, or it's just the fact that I (and you) have used them too often: the "reason rock kits". You could try to pick a electronic kit, but that's totally up to you (off course)

These "tips" are just nitpicking and I think you really did a nice job!

5/5, 10/10,

MWA (Mjattie)

November 16, 2009

Author's Response:

lol yeah, I remember when I sent this to you for help. I thought for a while that it would end up sitting on my computer and never being released, but here it is.

XD I thought that last note would kill you inside. It does that to me a little bit, too. It's a little too easily resolved that way... which, unfortunately, is the symbolism I was aiming for. Sorry, bud. The note of ear-death must stay.

Yeah, I'm really hoping I can let loose with an actual keyboard one of these days. Still don't have the cash, though. As for how I do it without one... let's just say it takes a crapload of time, and I'm really, really picky. Just wait till you hear BTS, which is done with the exception of an effect that requires me to take a recording of a very busy friend. I've never been so picky with the sound before.

lol I hate the drums a bit, too. Maybe I should have gone with glitch or something... Meh, it's done now, and I probably won't end up fixing it (unless someone commissions a redux of it). I'll keep it in mind for next time.

Thanks a lot, bud - I always do appreciate your reviews!

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Score: 10

"man this song make me so alive"

by: AchmedBryan

date: September 24, 2009

when i listen to this song it make me feel like iam on top of the world at the same time in trance that would dance forever

September 24, 2009

Author's Response:

Great stuff, I'm glad to hear it. Thanks for your review, AchmedBryan.

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Score: 10

"Stunning :D"

by: Duchednier

date: September 21, 2009

I downloaded it when you submitted and then realized now "Hey! I didn't write a review yet!"

So..here's my epic review ;)

Im lovin the piano dude! I'm bad with reviewing stuff but yeah, it definetly has a feel to it like all of your music! You put your soul and emotion into your work rather than just spamming some crappy offbeat techno!

And that there was my epic review!

September 21, 2009

Author's Response:

Yes! This review is of epic proportions, truely!

lol, thanks for your review. I appreciate it, and I'm glad you enjoyed the piece, Duchednier.

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Score: 10

"strongest work i've heard"

by: kulg

date: September 16, 2009

dude i know the stuff you're writing about, and i think it's awsome that you would put it together so nicely. none of your work before this was near as emotionaly powerful. it was easy to tell it was about something very close to you even without reading the description.
it's easy to imagin a wounded bird or something of the like at the begining with the slow start and the violens taking the melody then fading as the drums (which i know are something you love dramaticly) enter into a flawless integration of percussion and piano. i loved the wind picking up the tempo at about 1:30. it seemed like the wind had saved the wounded bird from the beginning to help it sore to it's beautiful potential.

the one question i have to ask is with it being a pheonix, should there really be an ending at all?

October 4, 2009

Author's Response:

Great to read your interpretation of the song.

XD "should there really be an ending at all"? I think that the ending implies the infinite, but having the song last for that long would be a little hard for me to pull off. This wouldn't work as a loop (It's a story, not an atmosphere), and I don't feel like sitting at my compy for the rest of infinity trying to write a song that lasts for eternity. That just creates a hopeless paradox. Instead, just find forever in the ending. lol

Thanks for the review, kulg.