Reviews for Afternoon Blues (Improv)

[e21li]

lovely just lovely

BlazingDragon responds:

Thank you. :)

[qwertysam]

This made my day. It's so beautiful and peaceful :) I am left speechless, and I don't know what else to say. The ending is in need of a little work, but it's definitely what I'm looking for. Keep it up! :D

BlazingDragon responds:

And you made my day! Thanks sqertysam. :)

[bassfiddlejones]

I really like the chordal structure you have going on here. Reminds me a lot of Gershwin, which is awesome. I feel like the drums detract from this a lot. If it were me, I would either cut them out completely or move them to half time. They sound far too busy compared to the rest of the piece. Also, they seem a little one dimensional to me.

Other than that, I really like this! You're a talented pianist. Keep it up!

BlazingDragon responds:

Unfortunately, my drum palette is limited to EZDrummer, and I don't have the jazz add-on. I would love to use brushes and do more subtle work on the snare. Drums are admittedly a weakness for me though. :-/

Thank you for the constructive criticism! It was helpful.

[johnfn]

This is really nice. So chill and carefree.

I really have to know, though: when you improv this, did you really do the whole song in one go? Aside from quantization, did you change the result at all?

Cuz if not, I really need to practice piano more D: D:

Thanks for the lovely song though.

BlazingDragon responds:

I really did the whole thing in one go (and then heavily quantized my terrible timings! XD). I also might have deleted a note or two that I accidentally bumped.

I used to practice improving very slowly with a metronome, making sure not to stutter or stop for mistakes. Now, I've got an array of go to chord progressions that I don't have to think about, so it is easy to improvise over the top. If I was doing something more harmonically daring, I'd have a lot more mistakes. But this progression is one that I know my way around quite well. :)

Thanks for the review!

(Edit: The above was referring to the piano part. The bass took a couple of tries, as did the strings)

(Edit 2: Forgot to mention something important. While I did record this in one take, I spent probably 15 minutes playing around with ideas before hitting record. I like to warm up and get in the groove of a progression before recording an improv, so it wasn't done completely cold)