you are handsome
I can give advice, try to always make the music as varied as possible, and keep looping one melody for too long.
I like you more in this regard than DJVI
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Made for the NGUAC 2019 knock-out round.
Anyway, I hope you enjoy!
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Please don't forget to comment on the song and tell me what could be better or what you liked, so that you would help me to improve at music making. I will take any advice I can get.
Thank you
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you are handsome
I can give advice, try to always make the music as varied as possible, and keep looping one melody for too long.
I like you more in this regard than DJVI
I like the rich texture at the beginning, although the instruments are a bit cheesy and inauthentic. There’s a nice sense of climax into :20, but I think the gritty pads there are both dry and clunky. I think you use chords with the notes spaced too close together there - going for a more open sound, especially towards the beginning of the piece like that - probably would help you fill out the texture more. That said, I like the energetic drums and loud mix. The ghostly synth riff at 1:03 is fun, but I don’t think you took the piece in a very promising direction by 1:23 - it’s the same generic chord progression as the beginning. My main complaint here is the lack of harmonic variety, in fact. You do have some structural variety - like the breakdown at 2:24 - but besides that the melodies are very repetitive, and the chord progression is the same throughout as well. Despite the clear mix, the texture sounds pretty thin at times, although I liked the transition into 3:48. Overall, strong work with the production, sound design, and transitions. Elements of the harmonies and sound design could use some more innovation, though. Keep at it, BioHexagon! :)
Mixing, mastering, and balance
1.75/2
Structure, transitions, phrasing, and variety
1/1.5
Melody, tonality, harmony, and texture
1.5/2
Instrumentation and sound design
.75/1
Emotion, atmosphere, and catchiness
1.25/1.5
Originality and uniqueness
.25/1
Overall (how do the elements above interact?)
.5/1
Composite score
7/10
Strings at the start with the bass are great. Nice beat! Nice bass. Nice drops. I like the chord progression. I wasn't sure about the 1 minute mark but you made it work very well. I can see this in a video game soundtrack. I can't help but think that the second half is just the first half repeated. Not that it's bad but it could have changed during that middle drop. That last build up was killer. But again, a little more variety in the 3rd act could do wonders for this. It ends the way it should.
Yeah, I'm probably going to update this track after the end of NGUAC's Knock-out round, since it is not allowed to update tracks it when the judging phase is happening.
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