by

Aki BasB
(BasB)

I like the happy opening melody... but it doesn't have to be in ALL of the patterns. The songs gets to be repetitive. Try to mess around with the volume some more to make it more interesting.

A little variation on the main theme would have been nice... also, it tende to drown out the other instruments that you brought in, quite often I could only hear the basic main theme and not the extra stuff, which was probably the much more interesting stuff. Blind copy -> paste -> paste -> paste is not the way to go if you want your song to sound interesting, especially a song in this genre. For example, look at m6v-cexp (if you dare)... the main them in that varies, leaving the listener more interested. If you're going to write more songs like this one, then do that. The instrument that you use in orders 22-23 in channels 18-20 doesn't mesh right with the main theme, it hits some bad notes. Also, the repeated high-low-high-low them you have going in 20-28 lasts way to long, it might have been nice for a pattern or two but it gets rather annoying when you play it for so long. Again, copy -> paste -> paste -> paste is not a good thing. The hidden part is really bad, but since it's not part of your actual song, I can't and won't count it against you.

sample 1 is a bit choppy great use of bari-sax sample transition in 28 isn't very good some harmonic variety and changes in chord structure could really add to the quality of the song good song

The composer really should have worked harder on this song. It sounded as if, save the single dropout/change near the end, s/he took one basic pattern for most of the song, copied it, and just put a different lead track on each new pattern. The snare rolls were insanely too thick, and along with the poor use of volume controls, made the whole song sound cluttered. The song never changed it's chord progression, so it sounded as if I was listening to the same thing over and over. The "dueling leads" (flute and sax, I believe) was a good idea, but poorly executed. Switching back and forth from one to the other sounded kind of cool, but at order 20 that repeating overlap of the 2 leads got way overused. The chords were played without dynamics of any kind - the composer should have used different volume and note delay commands to "humanize" the chord attacks.

Just a quick note: when you finish a song, cut the samples to their loop ends. The mix is too busy and not too well managed. Solos sound haphazard and the chord progressions are worn out from hard use. Hardly anything can be heard of the durmbeat but hihats, snare fills and crashes. Your modeling of bass is horrible - there is more to playing bass guitar than slapping with your thumb. Some technical bonus for the interplay between baritone sax and some unidentifiable instrument you use for leads. After a while, the background starts to sound like blurry noise with the leads in the forefront. You should absolutely try to get some variance into this song. One ancient chord progression and directionless leads don't get you far. You have some attitude, you just need more practice.