by

Knut Arild Soulman
(Soulman)

Now this is one of the most creative songs I've heard so far. Not too much I can say wrong about this one. The folk guitar sounded real, and so did the rest of the instuments. Good technuique, especially in this style of music. It could have been more enjoyable though, and the ending could have used some work. One thing you might wan't consider, is that the bass part usually synchronizes with the kick drum. Other than that, it was good. I didn't hear much of a main idea, I guess the guitar kind of carried on as the main instrument, which is not always a good idea in most music. Just listen to other peoples stuff, and listen to ALL styles of music, even the ones you hate. Learn more about music theory, and practice composing A LOT. Just some other notes... guitars are really hard to "synthesise", even if they are sampled. You could have had multiple guitar sound samples, and mabey even a "fret slide" sound. I belive that would have made the song a really "fantastic peice of tracks".

A very good song. Nice guitar work. It reminds me of some classic Nobuo Uematsu and Hiroki Kikuta songs. I can't really think of any suggestions for improvement as it's great in its current form.

Please centralise the bass!! Panning the bass off to one side only works if there is another bass sound to mirror it. This was very annoying. Overall, it was a nice, bouncy, fun song. There were good, strong, defined chord progressions; it was easy to follow; and wasn't offensive in any way (except for that off-centre bass). The only real problem (which was a -HUGE- one), is that you didn't do anything with the song. You developed the initial chord progression, the bassline, and the percussion, which was all fine and dandy except it gets a tad boring after two minutes. You need to add some interest, get a real groove going or something and then lighten off and add a bunch of high-end harmony or something to make the mood more somber. That's just one suggestion. It seemed like you were just trying to drag this on as long as you could, which gives the same sensation to the listener -- the he/she is just being dragged along. I lost interest in the song very quickly.

very original, different. really liked it until the saxophone came in, get rid of that. :) clean sounding and no clashing melodies (you'd be surprised :) really like the strings with the plinky things. needs more balance frequency-wise, not enough bass to balance out.

Cute... Nice to hear a style that's not tracked too often. Good technical work. Would have been nice to have more variation on the main theme like you do at the end, make it sounds more improv-y and less forced. (Disclaimer: Emergency Vote!)