NB NB

base was good and the drums were decent,altough the intro was a bit lame
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Well

-It's hard to judge trance since it tends to have a continuous melody overall. I liked how you incorporated cymbals at key points in the song. It's an underused instrument that only can help add more of a dynamic kick to everything else that you are doing.

-I'd still like to point out that it is very repetitive in the melody. Try changing it up. It will only make the song more memorable if it has twists and turns that nobody expects. Undertones maybe (I personally like this sort of touch). It's subtle but it can dramatically change how a song can play through your mind.

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Not bad..

Nice work at giving Supersteph54 all the credit he deserves (which admittedly isn't much :P). The melody isnt bad, but it does get a bit annoying after a while, and the lack of background depth throughout didnt help much.

Drumz arent bad, with a nice touch of variety every now and then, and a decent build up. Id suggest morphing into some new melodies and put in new drums and rolls and stuff which ultimately makes ur song better.

Intro was decent, as was the outro, although that was slightly a bit abrupt. Other then that id suggest adding more depth everywhere with pads, basses and strings and stuff.

Sorry for the half assed review but im really tired...

Darklight17
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I didn't mind the melody being the same throughout. Through my /severely/ limited knowledge of this kind of genre, I've heard songs which generally have the same melody throughout. To use perhaps the only example I know by name, Sandstorm, by Darude? Used pretty much the exact same 4-bar melody throughout the entire 4-minutes version of that track...but it's what happens to it, and what's behind and around it that makes it not cross the line from memorable into repetitive. While I get they're not exactly the same genre (or they could be, I have no idea), I think this is what this track is lacking' the variation needed to make this melody stick it out for three minutes without sounding repetitive.

I didn't even mind the melody just playing itself out until we got to about the 1:08 mark, where I started feeling like something else needed to be done, like another melody, or just another more prominent countermelody being added in...piano is an incredibly versatile instrument, you can make it seem varied simply by shifting it up an octave, or even reversing the sounds, or giving the melody to another track. Or perhaps the most effective; cut it out completely for portions of the track. Because it gives you a greater opportunity to build BACK into the main theme, not just over it. The bass/drum line you have going from about 1:35ish had me thinking for its entire time that with a bit of work it would have made a kickass buildup. Cause you had no piano, you just had the drum and bass all on their own, and so the entire track is toned down a little. So while you did use it to just slowly wind the track down, I think it could have easily been used to wind it all the way back up again into some big kind of final climax, which is what I was almost expecting. Even if you didn't do any of that, just having a few more synths supporting the piano here and there would help you a lot; it gives the listener something else to focus on if they find the piano too repetitive.

It's got a lot of potential, but I think you liked that melody a little too much and it got a bit overused and overexposed. There is such a deal as too much of a good thing; tone it down a little, maybe take it out totally for a few bars...give your listeners something more to anticipate.

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Moar credit!! xD

You just say 'LOADS of help with the melody and a lot of construcive critisiscm'. I MADE the melody, not to mention the bass and the sweep too xD. I deserve more credit than that xP.
But apart from all jokes, this is a decent song. I'll have to be brutally honest, it's not one of your best, but heck, it's still a great song, and I can hear a lot of creativity in it. Basically, from all of the problems that this song has, yours31f mentioned the "big'uns", but I'll mention ALL of the problems, since a critic's got to do what a critic's got to do, and that is, be an asshole - err... sorry, review songs XD.

The melody sounds amazing, how in the world did you make it so catchy?? Alright, enough complimenting myself xD. I liked the fact that you chose to make the melody in the minor, really beats the usual happy/upbeat dance songs you find so frequently nowadays. What I don't really like is the fact that you didn't use that many melodies. You just stuck with the melody I gave you for the whole song except the parts where the bass was playing and the part at 0:54 which is similar to my melody anyway. Yours31f is right, this does get rather repetitive. Add some sub-melodies and alternate melodies, since a full song should never be based on one melody only. Also, I don't agree with making the bass part at the end so long. 8 bars is already quite long, let alone 16 bars. Still, the part at 0:54 was spot-on and I enjoyed it quite a bit, so good job on that.

The instruments on the whole are fine. Piano sounded great and the bass was excellent (I should know, I made it xD). My issue with this song is not that the instruments sound bad, but the variety of instruments is lacking. You just had a piano as the main instrument, and the bass a little at the end, which is why yours31f is right again by saying that this sounds plain. For starters, this has no pads, making it sound really empty. Secondly, there are no melodic synths other than the bass: just a piano. This can really benefit with some epic multisaws, maybe arps too. Anything to fill up the lack of background depth that this song has. Still, effects were pretty good, especially the sweep in the middle of the song.

The song's transitions are great. That cool reverse cymbal effect that you had made great transitions (although I think it could some reverb to it to give it a bit more of a ring than just a plain reverse cymbal) and no transition was off. You seem to be really good at transitions =D. New instruments were introduced well, and the buildups in this song were great, although at 0:40 I expected the bass to come in, and then after the sweep part in the middle you introduce a new element to the song. What I mean is, introduce the bass earlier so for the part at 1:08 you can reserve something a bit more epic.

The structure is alright. The first 3/4 of the song had a very good structure, but then the bass part really didn't fit with the structure. Maybe you should continue the song a little more and end it somewhere at 3:00 with some epic final note. The intro was pretty good, and I liked that you gradually introduced new elements to the song: it helped the song's progression a lot. Unfortunately I don't really like your ending. I know you were going for the "sudden lights turning off" or some creepy ending like that, but I don't think it worked too well. Either you end it with an epic final note, or a fade out where the final note is held back a little and really really soft.

The percussion at the beginning was unimpressive, but as it built up it was pretty good. Still, I wasn't impressed by your cymbals: the hat line was almost a hip-hop hat line at first and you didn't use any open cymbals, which made the drums sound bland and dry. Still, decent percussion :).

Overall, this is a really awesome song. I'm noticing that you're rapidly getting better at music making, and although this isn't your best, it still sounds great. Keep up the awesome work, and I hope you enjoyed my overly harsh review :P.
8/10
5/5 - Because of 0-bombers...

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