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[Buyj3llo] - 8(s)

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made this over Christmas holiday. I feel like I'm making tangible progress in music.

leave me a review and I'll do the same for you.

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Some great ideas here

You have some really nice ideas here. I love the ambient effects you have scattered throughout!

Around the 3:00 my interest was lost. I think you could try expermenting with adding new instruments or a new melody to keep things interesting. The recap at 3:12 was nice, but maybe you could add some more to it.

Great work, keep it up!

5/5

If you have a moment I'd love your opinion of my latest track, -Orr- Colony!

buyj3llo responds:

more/ better melody. I really need to work on that.

Thanks for the review. I'll check out your track, I'm sure it'll sound great.

This song feels stretched

First, I'd like to say hello again, and thanks for adding me to your favorites! I'd also like to notice that you seem to span multiple genres, thus far I think I've reviewed tunes of yours that were Dance, Trance, Industrial, DnB, and now House.

Anyhow, about the track. The beginning of the track seems overly repetitive. Now, obviously, that's an element of house music, but I feel like you could have been more creative with it. Every couple of measures, a new beat drops in up until 1:02. That's nice, and a standby of the genre, but not ENOUGH changes. By the time you got finished adding instruments, the mix was a bit crowded with notes, and it seemed like there wasn't enough space to hold all the percussion you were using.

Maybe instead of just adding more drums, you could switch things up a bit. At the end of a four measure phrase, maybe get a little snare solo, or a chopped up beat. Maybe instead of adding new drums, you could change the beat one of them is playing- perhaps the kick even, and you'd get a whole different sound coming out of that segment than the one you had coming in.

From there until about 2:06 you only make minor changes- and they're all in the percussion! Maybe something in the mid range could come in and help out, something melodic, or even a bassline. Just suggestions.

Although it doesn't sound quite finished, this song has some REALLY good ideas, and I get a super chill feeling when I listen to what you've got. It sounds like amazing material to remix or use as a DJ. It's got just enough to keep a beat, and that it does very well.

I would listen to more House if I were you- one of my favorites is Daft Punk. Harder Better Faster Stronger, Superheroes and Around the World are all great examples of House that keeps its repetitive, groovy structure, but if you listen, they change just enough throughout the song to keep the listener engaged, as well as just being TOTALLY AWESOME with what they do write- the arpeggio break in Superheroes gives me absolute chills every time I listen to it.

If you could do something really creative with this- I almost want to say drastic- it could be something seriously amazing.

Also, do something about that high-pitched scraping noise around 2:20. It doesn't add much in my opinion, and would only irritate the average listener.

Then the strings or whatever- I'm guessing it's a sample- comes in, and sounds REALLY good.

buyj3llo responds:

Wow, thanks for the super in depth review. You really took the time to listen to the song and think about what needed to be fix or changed. It really means a lot to me that you put in so much effort into a review just to help me out with my music, thanks man. I really appreciate it.

You gave me a lot of food for thought here. The main thing that I take away from this is that I need to add more variety, and not just in terms of percussion. Ideally, what I should do is plop down the money and buy a midi controller and dedicate myself to crafting some sort of real melodies. It would be much better if I actually gained some sort of keyboard skills as apposed to just fiddling around with the piano roll. You've helped me realize this more than ever.

I'll dig up some of my old daft punk albums and listen to the tracks you recommended. I'm that will inspire me or whatever.

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Uploaded
Dec 28, 2009
8:15 PM EST
Genre
House
File Info
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7.3 MB
4 min 33 sec

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