Score: 9

"Techincal Fault - please stand by"

submission: ==(Drifting)==

date: December 6, 2009

This is the sort of tune that you would expect to hear when someone makes a mistake in the booth on a TV show, then everything seems to stop working. It's like a case of the following:

"Go to commercial!"
"But wee can't, the button doesn't work"
"Well, we've got one option left *opens case for red button* Let's put the jazz on."

Of course, this piece of music would have to be calming, because if you played heavy metal for something like that, the viewer would be likely to throw the TV out of the window, or something similar. I love the way that you've captured the light and airy feel of what this sort of piece requires.

I love the bass guitar in this, as it's the defining piece of the track, as you can hear how it carries the track into the synths nicely, but it seems to me to be the constant force throughout. Perhaps you could increase the volume of that bass slightly, but other than that, it's a great part.

[Review Request Club]

Score: 9

"Nice rhythm"

submission: Alien Relations (Freestyle Mx)

date: December 5, 2009

I think that this is a nice new mix of your previous tracks that I've reviewed. You've clearly got the talent to take it further. Good use of the vocal samples and the melody / counter melody combination working well together there.

Perhaps I'd have suggested a more pumping beat, to add some depth to the piece overall, but the way that it currently sits, there's a nice sound, that can't really be improved upon much more.

The other thing I'd suggest is that you give the piece a more dynamic switch in the middle - possibly introduce a different instrument and just take it elsewhere for a short while, as this will allow you to draw out the track longer and give it more to work with, before it becomes potentially off-putting

With regards to your comment about '0-bombers', there isn't really much you can do, save for encouraging more people to vote for your submissions, as that will make such an impact upon your score less of one.

[Review Request Club]

Score: 9

"Calm and lyrical"

submission: Slapfish

date: December 5, 2009

I like this track - it kind of reminds me of some of the tracks that you get courtesy of Nirvana, when they were in their acoustic moods.

I certainly think that if you go to build on this track any further, the first port of call is that you could use some lyrics. You've got a good sound going there and now it needs to have something to compliment the music, which logically is lyrics.

Possibly, you could use a little additional mastering, possibly the use of a bass guitar in the middle there, just to give a little more of an impression upon the track.

[Review Request Club]

Score: 9

"Popular and well received"

submission: March_To_Eternity [Box-Killa]

date: December 5, 2009

I can see that this piece has gained quite a status since its release. The piano work compliments the sound of the drums, strings and horns perfectly, allowing the piece to sound like an epic movie piece, where the forces march towards the battlefield, giving rise to the sounds of a fast-approaching conflict.

I think that you've certainly developed this track well and I'd absolutely love to see someone's take on how to illustrate this piece in Flash. The author, even if rather accomplished, would certainly have to work hard to do a piece like this justice.

Are you perhaps attempting to personify the sense of fear and foreboding that comes along with the march?

[Review Request Club]

Score: 8

"Interesting circular"

submission: Percolating Prevarication

date: December 5, 2009

Not a bad rendition, but it does suffer from the hallmarks of repetition and lack of overall variation. I think that you could have gone some way to dealing with this, by giving more of a prominent arena to the piano, which would have gone some way to assisting with this track, but it's all down to choice.

A good beat and a well formed foundation to the track, culminating in a well devised piece that does have a good drive from the beat, a decent melody and the piano does feature as a nice counter melody - not sure about the scales though, you could do so much more, rather than just top to bottom and bottom to top.

It has potential, but it's not quite there, in my opinion. I couldn't listen to this all day, but with a few more minor changes, I possibly could.

[Review Request Club]

Score: 10

"Excellent"

submission: Whispers of the Wind 3

date: December 5, 2009

Another triumph, this piece comes to the forefront of being mournful, pensive and mysterious. I think that the use of the harp in this piece just seems to add that certain depth of emotion to the presentation, while the strings carry the main flow.

I was impressed by how the whole tune comes together, though I could see opportunities for flutes, or other members of the woodwind section to get in on the act and add to the piece. Perhaps that's what I've come to expect as a portrayal of the wind, as that section of the orchestra could call that it's own speciality.

[Review Request Club]

Score: 8

"Very Nirvana"

submission: She's in Love Again

date: December 1, 2009

Yeah, I can here a more prominent sound coming through from this piece - it sounds more well rounded and the bass gives another dimension to the track.

I think that you could probably stand to add another verse to this piece, as it's up there as one of the better tracks that you've made. Either that, or a kick-ass guitar solo, just to express yourself a little more.

It's a nice track that just does conjure up imagery of Cobain in the glory days of early 90s Nirvana, making a rather tidy living through his own suffering, expressed in song and tune.

[Review Request Club]

Score: 8

"Definately needs bass"

submission: If I Could Choose

date: December 1, 2009

Good writing - the lyrics are nice and the guitar is, though it sounds on that massive solo that the drummer doesn't always strike another drum with the cymbals - this always produces a poorer quality sound. Perhaps adding something else to those and you'll get a much better quality sound from that area.

Perhaps a second cymbal, instead would do the trick. It sounds like you're playing the cymbals on a keyboard and the note keeps cutting itself out as you press it again. Playing two of them would make the notes sound better and less fragmented.

Getting a bassist would certainly help, as at the moment, there's a higher pitched whine to it, which would be cut down by the addition of some lower octaves in there.

[Review Request Club]

Score: 9

"Mellow, uplifting"

submission: Distant Texture

date: December 1, 2009

I love the way that everything just seems to come together with this track - all of the component parts just sing as they should, the piano seems to guide them through the transitions and it's a lovely tune all around.

I didn't give you a 10. Pout for me :P

I think that the reasoning behind the above statement is that there was a quieter part of the track at about 3-4 minutes and it could have used the occasional chord from the piano, just to add a little more attachment to the earlier parts of the track - you almost transitioned to a completely different track with it, so trying to keep the whole piece together is a much better production in the end.

[Review Request Club]

Score: 2

"Even the tempo up"

submission: canon's theme

date: December 1, 2009

The start was almost perfect, then you started messing with the tempo and it fell apart for me - it's just a sample piece, which struggles to really represent a tune of any discernible value.

The speed that things move from the really slow and laborious to the ultra-fast is obscene. Messing with tempo should be done subtly and slowly, so that people don't realise what's going on. Yours is far too great an increase or decrease in tempo to cut it.

Basically, what I'd recommend is heading back to the drawing board and getting back to the intro, which worked well and just tweak it slightly, so that the really annoying higher notes of there cut out there sooner, giving you a decent start. Don't ratchet up the tempo and come up wit a decent bass beat as the basics, then move on and develop the melody.

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