awesome
haha really enjoyed it, great instrumentation, and brilliant use of counterpoint. reminds me a lot of the cantina band music from starwars.
The piece is very fluid and moves a long nicely. doesnt get tiresome either. and yeah your right to be proud of the piano solo, it works well.
as has been said before th instruments dont sound very realistic, but honestly i dont think thats really a problem.
keep up the good work
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Thanks alot for the quick response!
Lol, I guess it does kind of sound like it, I hadn't really noticed until now!
Thanks for the praise, You've pinpointed the good elements of the song, so I'll be able to move forward with these!
Cheers,
Samuel Hébert
lovely stuff.
wow what a brilliant piece.
in terms of composition i cant fault this piece. the chord progressions are brilliant, the strings back up the piano flawlessly. and its well structured. a truly beautiful piece.
the recording side is fine, but i think you shouldn't have gone quite so overboard with the reverd, it works in most places but theres a few moments when it could be reined in a bit.
all in all a lovely piece of music, kinda reminds me of coldplay (no offence intended). i think some vocals could set this piece alight, if you get some good soft breathy female vocals (something kinda like isobel campbell) it would work brilliantly. keep up the good work.
nice
the modal chords worked really well, and it has been instrumented very well. it make me think of the game for the mega drive where you were riding a motorbike and it was kinda 3d, cant remember the name of it.
only thing id really say is that it doesn't really sound turkish, id say a turkish song would probably use more of a gypsy scale or somethig similar.
but still great work, im enjoying your stuff.
Thanks for the review!
Don't know that game, I should maybe check it out...
The turkish name actually reffers to the time signature, wich is in 7/8.
Anyways, glad you enjoyed!
Cheers,
Samuel Hébert
very good..
well structured, and some very nice synth sounds used. as said before, very chilled out. would work very well in a game of some kind.
would have been nice to hear some variety in the drums tho, i foud that they got a bit repetitive, but other than that a very nice track.
Ty for the review.
Im not sure about the drum part since i couldnt think of making them less repetitive, they are just meant to keep the track flowing but not to be the thing you are paying much attention to imo...
musicaly good.
the backing music was brilliant, it had agreat beat, and each part worked very well together. the music flowed along nicely with no nasty disruptions. ad the whole thing was very nicely balanced, it did't feel as though anything was out of place or any thing was being overshadowed. and you have a very fitting voice for this type of song.
But however i felt that some of the lyrics in the verses just made me unable to take the song seriosly. but i think that is more of an opinion, and there isn't really anything I can say to make them any better. but the lyrics in the main chorus were good and catchy.
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Haha, we agree that the lyrics are a bit funny. But the 'banana split' part was a cheeky line in response to comments we got on our very first song, which hasn't been uploaded onto NGs, so the joke was lost, lol.
We appreciate the review and your time.
awesome...
....i want more. when i read that this track was unfinished i was expectig to hear a really rough recording, but the production on this is clear as a bell, i really cat fault the sound quality at all.
the melodys perfects, though mabey the main synth has a bit of a cliche sound, but i wouldn't want you ruin the track by changing it. the piano parts are aswesome, perfectly suited. the change of speed was great and well executed.
i cant really find anything to criticise here, really looking forward to the completed verion.
it was ok...
you had chosen some good synth sounds that worked well together. and the piece was well structured, the break downs and builds happened in the right places at the right time, ad were well executed.
but in general i felt that if it had't have been for the constant hi-hat i would not have been able to get a feel for the beat to this at all. i think the highter synth sound that first comes in at 0:58 just sounded like static, i couldn't really make out what it was doing.
though i think these are mabey just problems that could easily be fixed with a bit of level altering, and mabey some EQ.
sorry if this seems harsh, but thats just what i think.
thanks for the honesty mate. and I think I know what the beat problem is. see, when I compressed the bass it sorta had an after effect which is propally that little buzz you hear which sorta makes it sound delayed. it's not really a problem in computer speakers but it is more noticable if you have it over say a p.a or something. it was a good catch to, shows that you have an ear for things. if I re-edit this I will be sure to take that into consideration. and once again thanks for the review mate.
very good.
very good. this was a very well constructed piece.
The polyphony that you have going at the end was superb , i loved the way the parts weaved in and out of each other, though you may wanna go through that section again with a fine toothed comb as i think there is the occasional dissonance on some of the passing notes, but there nothing to serious to disrupt the flow.
wasn't really a fan of the military drums at aroud 0:15, they seemed to be a bit out of place with the sitar sound you had going. you may wanna reasearch into tabla rhythms and things like that.
over all though its a solid piece and i really enjoyed listening to it.
Thanks for the review!
That would actually be called counterpoints, but I won't douche out about it, lol. I'll have to check out those dissonances, thought they may be made by the quality of the instruments (bad, that is...)
For the drums, it was intended to be for added drama, but I'll think about changing them, as you're not the first person to point it out...
Thanks again for the review!
Cheers,
Samuel Hébert
not bad,
the reggae style section sounded good, works well as a loop. the only thing id say is that the horn section seemed a little overpowering in comparisso to the backing track, and i think as a loop in a game or something it would become very annoying
it also felt very sequenced, and the instrument sounds were very midi based. a good tip is to look for a recording programme that you can import parts into, then when you have imported each part into there individualy eq the parts and use some subtle effects to help make them feel a bit more realistic.
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Thanks for the review!
I gues you ARE right, maybe they are a bit overpowering, especially near the end.
For the sequencing, I can't realy seehow it could possibly be, since I compose everything I make and don't even use a sequencing program... The reason why they sound so MIDI is for the same reasons, so I can't do much with the imported sounds!
Thanks anyways, glad you partially enjoyed!
Cheers
very good..
i really enjoyed this track
i loved the orchestral sounds, they fitted very well with the beats you used, im not usually a huge fan of hip hop but i really enjoyed this. i also ejoyed the little low-fi build up in the second verse.
my only problem was the little guitar riffs in the verses, musically they fitted, but i think that mabey if they had a different tone and if they were pehaps a bit quieter in the mix.
but apart from that it was a smashing track.
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