Score: 9

"Very spoooooooky! Kinda ;)"

by: Darklight17

date: November 9, 2009

Well, the bell set off the mood well and the slightly discordant piano really put up the picture of a haunted mansion. It definetely looks like u put a lot f thought into this even if it did tend to get slightly repetitive in some parts particularly as u didn't add a lot of alternate melodies especially with the piano.

I lik,ed the outro and intro even if the outro didn't exaclty smoothly blend into the itnro which is what's necessary in a loop.

Overall, its a good piece of music, very spooky and great concept. I can already imagine this in a deep underground level of a game with skeletons and other of the usual spooky stuff roaming around. Keep upt he good work!

Darklight17
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Score: 9

"Nice chilling demeanour"

by: Coop83

date: November 7, 2009

I like the way that this makes the hairs on the back of my neck stand on end, as if I am running from something. The sound of the piano is a little rough around the edges, but with a little remastering, you could clear the static off a few notes here and there, just to tidy the piece up.

A great string backing and the accompaniment from the piano just seems to heighten the mood even more. It's not a bad loop and the only real method for improvement I could suggest is that you make the suspense 'tap' and drain at the end of the track. Work up to a crescendo and then hit us with something high pitched and heavy, like in Psycho, or something.

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Score: 9

"Nice build up"

by: Haggard

date: November 6, 2009

I think there's no one here who isn't reminded of either: The Undertaker's entrance theme or "For Whom The Bell Tolls" by Metallica. ^^
Anyway, the bell at the beginning is still a nice way to start a song. You even made use of it throughout the song which was a pretty good move as it adds a lot to the atmosphere.

Sometimes some tones sound a bit dissonant, but on the other hand this just intensifies the "haunted house" atmosphere this song has and the melodies are pretty nice.

However, the loop isn't that great as the end is too distinguishable from the beginning, as suddendly all instruments stop when the loop starts over.
Instead looping this you should try to build up on what you already have and turn this into a full song rather than a loop.

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Score: 9

"Creepy XD"

by: Supersteph54

date: November 5, 2009

It'd definitely do perfect as BG music to a haunted house part in a video game. Wish I knew Flash; I'd definitely use this if I wanted to go for something spooky :(. Anyway, good job overall, I enjoyed it!

Melodies are very nice, especially the ones with the piano. They gave that tension that's always needed in a haunted house game. I liked the part at 1:36, it was well done, and then when all of the melodies started playing together, it was fantastic. That sort of spooky harpsichord (?) sound in the background had some very cool melodies as well, and served as excellent acompaniment to this song.

The instruments were great, including that harpsichord, and the strings added a lot of depth to the song. Piano was OK quality. What could be a nice addition over here is the use of an organ; I'd love to hear a fast paced organ solo somewhere towards the middle, or close to the end of the song. I'm not sure if you used choir voices in here or not (I'm deaf from one ear so I can never be sure :'[ ), but if you didn't, then you should add some, since they always sound well with scary songs. If you did, then, excellent job, just turn 'em up a little ^^.

What I think would be cool is if you added some sound effects to the song. A lot of large soundfonts come with spooky sound effects like heart beats, screams, doors creaking/shutting, etc. (you can PM me if you want any). Maybe you could try and make a beat out of those sound effects to accompany the main melody :P. OK, so that's just a crazy experiment and chances are it'll come out horribly :\, but still, try and add a few sound effects here and there.

Transitions fit perfectly with the feel you were going for in this song. They were all relatively smooth, without anything feeling too sudden. Sometimes, new instruments were introduced rather suddenly, namely the piano, but that was probably intentional, since it sounds better in the song like that than with a smooth transition. Structure was all over the place, which is what made this song so unique, creepy and awesome. Variety here was perfect too; the song never got boring.

Lol, the first part reminds me a little of the Undertaker's entrance theme :P. Well, it was definitely a good intro, and the strings smoothly fading in were a nice touch. As a loop though, it wasn't that impressive. It's a little awkward to make good intro's with loops, because with loops, intro's usually start immediately with the main melody without any gradual progressions, and since you have such a good intro, I think this would be better off as a full song. Either that, or you try and end it as you started it, with a bell every 4 beats. Make it slowly fade down to just the bell at the end, and you should have a smooth loop.

I really liked your use of the bell, it was creative and gave a 'graveyard' feel to the song, if you get what I mean. I think it could use a little more reverb to it, you know, giving it that booming feel. Also, apart from the bell, there was no noticeable percussion. You could add some delayed and reverbed reverse cymbals and maybe a few heavily reverbed kicks. Shakers do wonders in songs like these too. Or you could try my crazy idea of making a beat out of sound effects XP.

As I said before, this'd make a superb background soundtrack to a haunted house. Needs a bit of work regarding the lack of percussion, rough loop, and lack of sound effects, but this is still a really good song. Keep up the great work!
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Score: 10

"Awesome Job!"

by: Joshsouza

date: October 31, 2009

First I thought it was a halloween song at the beginning but when it got farther in, I noticed that Halloween Genre wasn't a good choice. I liked how clear it was when I heard it.

Why don't you make it a flash game if you inspiring for a game unless you don't have flash. It made a good haunted house tune. I liked how you used the instruments in it.

I still can't believe that no one has reviewed on this yet. This is a good song. I really enjoyed it. I think it would be cool if someone downloaded this and somehow got it to a big stereo set and play it outside a house tonight because it's one of the things you usually hear when you are about to enter a house transformed into a haunted house.

Other than that I have nothing else to say.
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