Amazing!
Great potential as a musician, the rain kinda suited the song, and near the 3 and a half minute margin where you couldn't hear the rain as much and the song sounded a bit more cheerful really caught me.
Reviews for "Falling Rain"
A song that tells a story
First time listen, this will cure any bad mood.
In my head, it tells a story.
From the start, it says "It's raining... Again...", continuing with nothing you really can do about that. This gets more obvious at 01:25 when the tapping starts.
It changes to a lighter tone at 01:55 giving a feeling of being able to enjoy a grey rainy day.
If a person is sad, the beat change at 03:30 will sure help the person get in a better mood. It felt sort of like "So what... Just enjoy the day!"
Any song which can tell a story is a great song in my book.
I am going to give it 9/10. The subtraction is only due to the parts SFaPiL2 commented which felt a little "off".
Keep up the great job!
Since you've got so much potential...
...I think I'll be a bit more of a critic today. Don't get me wrong, I'm doing it just to be helpful. If I made a mistake, diss me all you like ^o^.
Ok, here goes:
I wasn't too sure whether that static-sound in the background was rainfall or not, but it didn't sound too good (it wasn't well defined). It also seems to pan alot, which made me a bit distracted from 0:05-0:58.
The note at 0:49 didn't sound too well (it seems as if you "stumbled" at that point).
The pause at 1:04 is one second off. It starts three beats after the previous melody ends. It almost seems as if you decided to play a different song.
It seems like you stumbled again from 1:17-1:19. I might be terribly wrong, though.
From 2:58-3:00 there's something strange going on after one of the ghost notes. Perhaps you missed a ghost note?
3:08-3:11 didn't sound too perfect.
...I think that's it for the -ve criticism.
The praises ^__^:
The overall song is fantastic (not a surprise). The "autumn-mood" you cast in your songs is always there, but this time it's more of an "end-of-summer-rain". Very nice.
3:29 was perfectly on-beat
4:14 had some amazing arpeggios.
The mood is very solitary and gloomy and is similar to a Goo Goo Dolls style song from 3:30-end (reminds me a bit of "Iris" and "Name" combined), which I love ^_^.
All those little arpeggios, slides and string bends were some really good ear-candy for me. Kudos.
Thanks once more with your contributions. They're much appreciated.
Cheers.
4/5
8/10 <------------ saving the 9's and 10's for your future submittions ^__^
Boux responds:
Well on the stumbles you mentionned, it all depends on who you ask, my tunes are all played live so you wont get a perfect studio quality, i think the fact its not perfect adds to the fact that it can be played by a human being and not a damn machines :D
On that, its still a freakin awesome review, you really took the time and you're honest about it wich is great.
Thanks again!, ill keep you updated.
peace.