Awesome.
Songs have to be good all the way threw, out of 10, it keep me interested to about a 9, so good job!
Reviews for "A Grave Intensity"
Good song
Was decent compared to most I'd also like to say.
AXTTXA[Below me] GET A LIFE THAT REVIEW MUST HAVE TAKEN YOU 2 HOURS!
Sick as the sickest!
Copying stuff from NG greats? Hum... dunno xD I don't listen to that many NG songs on an average basis, only occasionally. I think I get what you mean. People aspire to be like their idol NG artist, but they often end up becoming them and not themself as their own composer. Perhaps that's not what you meant? Eh maybe, maybe you meant like rhythm patterns and maybe bassline styles (I make techno so that's all i really know xD) haha. I think most of the good reviewers on NG, and the listeners too, understand what you mean though.
Personally, I believe that that sort of "drive" you had, or perhaps still have, to make something "unheard of" really pushed this song into what it is. I've never heard of anything like it. At first it was just piano, then those long low notes, keeping the song going. Then you introduce a nice snare, where you even change the pitch of? Or that's the other drum thingy/snare/kick/i-really-don't-know -since-i-don't-play-drums. Nice kick too; I like how it sounded sort of like footsteps and had a lot of echoed repetitions of the initial kick. The violin part, mixed with the long low notes (i'm guessing bass? xD) create nice contrasts. Good panning choice too ;P. If an ensemble plays this they know the setup now, at least partially. Those like arpeggios on the piano; nice. They're sort of like the whipped cream on a cake. Not the main thing, but what makes the cake, the cake, hence, the song, the song ;P. I don't know what to say about the notes and the melodies. They all sounded nice with each other, like harmonies if that's the word. Nice mmm... arpeggiator in the beginning around :30 or :40. lol maybe it's a sequencer, or an arpeggiator not arpeggiating. I like that part around 1:20 where the main drum beat kicks literally into a drum solo, but then transitions into being a primary accompanist almost, to the piano, which doesn't even happen to have that much going on as a melody since it has just those arpeggios. Ah whatever maybe that didn't make sense. What I'm really saying is that the song was cool. :D
So you want to know how to improve? Hm.... Dunno really. This song's got a nice balance of instrument variety and note pattern variety (like your drums). I've only got suggestions for you to try, possibly in future songs. I suggest trying out some key changes, or at least trying out altering your base line. Not sure if you did do a key change or alter the base line around the end, but oh well. Those two can definitely easily add a spark back into your song if you want to make a trance song or a really long song, something like that. The base line also helps make the listener unable to say "oh it's a repeating baseline" if you make the base line prevalent enough in the length it's played for. Another idea, try variating the piano, as that "drum solo" first begins. Maybe just change the end note of each measure of that slow pattern the piano's playing (talking about 0:53 ish). Also, based on that idea, you could use more octaves on the piano. Right now I'm hearing something like a note sequence of 1 2 3 - | 1 3 2 - | 1 4 3 - | 1 4 5- | or so. instead you can try and make that last rest of each measure be like an octave lower, or maybe a major/minor third lower, or even an octave lower and then major/minor third lower (i call it octave +2. guess it's octave -2).
Maybe add in more panning variety too? Your panning already makes the song different then... I dare to say about 50% of NG songs at least (lol maybe not a substantial percentage). A nice trick you could try with the panning would be to change the sides of panning each measure, and though doing that only, sounds chopped up, you could make the 4th beat of a measure and the 1st beat of the next have a panning going from say Left to Center to Right.
Dunno if you're using FL Studio, but you could also perhaps add some more reverb to the piano, or use automation clips for filter effects (maybe on the bass since it's got the longest notes).
Yeah, that's all I really got to say. Just saw you've got a lot of potential, and the song's real good too
dietsnapple135 responds:
Wow, quite a long review, I like those :D. I'm glad you liked how it turned out, the song really doesn't follow any normal song setup, it pretty much constantly changes. When I meant most people are trying to be like the NG greats, if you look at the best people on NG's, they have their own, distinct sounds, that make them stand out, people trying be like them, often aren't going to find this sound, or get enough personal confidence to develop their own.
I do use FL Studio, but the FL reverb is way too forward, loud, and cheesy. The Piano actually has a shit load of reverb on it, but the reverb is pretty subtle compared to what FL users are used to. I think people flood their songs with bad reverb all too often.
So, thanks for the detailed review, and awesome :D
intense
awesome track dude, listened to it over and over as i was playing a game of league of legends (rts ish game like dota) it rocked.
very nice dude
i like the combination of violin+piano+electric piano during the down beat
at half way.
if u where making any more "DnB" music in the future
i would recommend having more bass sorces
but this song is pretty good