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Jazz - That's Life

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100% Original...1st attempt at Jazz..with piano strings, drums..owning Jazz =P

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Aww man that was great

Hey dawg, you can make one down right funky beat that a bad mutha can sharpen an axe to.

Loved it.

Big jazz fan and I loved this piece. Keep up the good work!

preffertobedead responds:

Thanks for the feedback friend...

Cheers.

Hmm, jazz drums? pishaw!

"Well it appears no one took the time out of their busy little schedules to review this song... so hear I am. Those sons of bitches."

Haha. We're all just a bunch of losers :P

This song has some cool melodies and stuff going on here, but as a drummer, I was really dissapointed with the drums. You need more SWING man. Throw some e's and a's into that stale hi hat rythem. Heck, make that hi hat a soft ride cymbal, trust me. Add a kick and a snare as well! Snare, snare snare! Kick kick kick. Really, the straight rythem had me practicly asleep. Though, like I said, the melodies were nice. (oh, for added sexyness, try putting in some drum fills on a third measure here or there, then drop the rythem completly for a measure of straight tonal instrumental for some jazz mix.) purrr, I gave you a four because really, I hated the drum rythem. Other than that, this was really good. Be proud of your work!

preffertobedead responds:

YES YES YES!...i made the drums on my own...but i just sticked to the rules...i used the Jazz Drums...i believe some ppl will think they are bothering...and they are right...but...well...is my 1st Jazz attempt..so...my failures will go fixing along with the time...=)

next time...i'l put some breaks with the drums...it wouldn't sound bad...^^

Thanks Quarl..=)

Awesome Buildup - A good intro/outro credit song.

Well it appears no one took the time out of their busy little schedules to review this song... so hear I am. Those sons of bitches.

First off, I hope by 100% original you mean you produced it all because this is a very common jazz progression.

But never mind that, the song is great. Its best quality is definitely in the piano solos. Some of the best piano work I've heard on NG in a long time, include that preprogrammed nonsense (unless you somehow slipped it by me and this wasn't performed =X).

Another think I liked about this track is the scale change to C minor. The surprise was good and you kept it flowing perfectly. I really don't know how you did it without hurting my ears, let alone whilst making it sound good.

The drums were nothing special, I'll admit, but who care in a song driven by such awesome piano work.

The strings also caught my attention towards the end of the piece. A nice little touch that definitely help build it up during and after the scale change. In addition the side-kick/clap sound was great at the end when it was getting all chaotic.

I wish you had kept it up and then just ended on a bang in all the glory of the buildup, but I can't complain about how you did end it, which was fine. Thats one thing about the chord progression you used, it just builds up constantly and you balanced and supported it well throughout. There is some undeniable musical ability expressed in this song and I would encourage you to write more like it. Haven't looked at enough of your others to say any differently.

This song aught to be used in a flash by now. The flash artists somehow skim over great songs like this and I don't know why, but hopefully someone will see it eventually. Despite being a relatively long, it would work great as an credit song - opening or ending.

One problem with this one is the sound quality. Low bit rate, too much reverb, lack of compression or poor equalization, I can't honestly tell but I'm sure you know what I mean. It generally just does not sound perfectly mastered. That can be a bitch, believe me I know, and it doesn't hurt the song too much, but keep looking into it and hopefully your songs will improve.

This is about the longest review I've ever written and I can't wait to get it over with, but I had to tell you I whipped out my guitar and played along to this song for quite a while. Well, basically what I'm saying is a song that can inspire me to do that definitely deserves a 5 and a download ;).

Keep it up and I hope this review made some sense cause I wrote a lot and I'm not about to read over it to check for typos and grammar =$ - HybrisHybrid

preffertobedead responds:

w00t!!! i read all the review was a hell of a review O_O...damned...well..yes this is my 1st Jazz attempt =D an ur ear must be awesome cuz...how tha hell did u know it i change the scale to C minor O_O...i mean ..anybody can tell that the scale changed but pretty good ear at finding the scale...xD...ur review can't be more correct..i didn't use almost anything of re-masterization cuz i was damn tired of working on the song =D..a great review from a great person thanks a lot HybrisHinrid!! ^^.

PS: don't play my songs at the guitar or u will become famous and millionaire with my stuffs!!! >:(...bleh..jk =P..

Credits & Info


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2,105
Faves:
4
Downloads
265
Votes
5
Score
4.83 / 5.00

Uploaded
Mar 15, 2007
3:08 PM EDT
Genre
Jazz
File Info
Song
2.5 MB
3 min 8 sec

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