by

Seb tricky
(tricky)

Good intro until the whistle starts. I’m not sure what it is but the whistle just doesn’t sound right. The song sorta builds for a while but then never really goes anywhere. The harmony between parts is acceptable but the overall image is muddy. An average song with a nice intro.

I don't mind you using 16 bits samples since your song' size is well under the 720k barrier. But there no reason to use high quality samples to reproduce instruments such as drums and such. The progression of the violins in order #1 is so boring and un-creative that I would have erased the song immediately if this wasn't MC6. Another bad remark, I don't have to be a genius to see that you know how to use the cut-&-paste tool in Fast Tracker, as it is clearly shown in your drum sequence. The drum is as important as the rest of the instruments. It is the one in charge of keeping the pace and rythmn of the song. Another thing that bothers me is that every instruments are simply a repetion of the others. It's interesting to have to listen to a song more than one in order to hear its every instruments. Radiohead' success is based on that matter. You have a good ability to control the pannel. I'm sure it'll all come with practice and time. Don't give up, your song is great.

Interesting effects you put on the drums. I sorta like the echoes you add. I think those drums make a bit more sense for some reason after those chords come in. Nice chord progression.. Nice panning on the chords, too.. Drums could use some though. Weird little sine melody. Cool vibrato though. They blend in well with the vibraphone sounding instrument you come in with. This song gets a little muddy after you come in with those pianos though. Nice break to just the strings+pianos. You come back in with the original percussion; I think you should change that percussion a bit more to vary it some more. (Other than replacing the rimshot with the clap). Nice melody you come in with later on. Interesting panning too. Those vox you throw in are a bit odd the way you volume stutter them. . Maybe you should just do a panning envelope to make it sound like you're cutting it and it's reverbing. This song is interesting, to say the least. It's pretty original, these samples are pretty nice too. I think you do a decent job of mixing it, other than when it gets muddy in a few certain parts. One thing I can't get out of my mind is the fact that you never added a bassline.. I think a nice little groovy bassline would've done this song good. Oh well. I don't get bored of this song too quickly (I made it through the end without my mind wandering, at least). Some parts of this song sound a bit odd when you mix the piano and that sine synth sample together. Musically this song is decent. Nice job..

Slow tune, melodic and smooth, yet uninteresting and forgettable. A really nothing-special tune.

In this song the artist did pay attention to their chord progression and created what I felt to be a relaxing and mellow tune. There were a few key things though that the artist was missing in their song. One thing was the lack of change. The chord progression once it got going kept going and going until the song was over. Perhaps the artist should try a transition or insert a bridge at some point to make sure their listener is still interested in what they are hearing. Two the song lacked a solid theme. If I didn't know better, there were like 6 to 7 different instruments that came and went throughout the whole song trying to fill in as the lead without any of them being defined as the lead and not just a background melody to support a true lead. At one point during the last 6 or so patterns one lead did rise above the rest and presented what sounded like a nice lead but as quickly as it came in it was gone again and before you knew what was going on the song was over. Another factor this song tended to do was repeat. It's bad to repeat without changing a few things.. Example: the piano playing was nice but your changes were so small that one had to seriously pay attention just to the piano to pick them out. Be more aggressive. This is a song that you are composing, take it somewhere and don't fall into the trap of "cut and paste" Good luck.

The echo on the drums was too heavy. The volume should have decreased more on the echos, making the drum sections not sound as "cluttered". The strings where OK, but something was just a little off-pitch. Starting at Order 2, I was expecting the lead to sound a little more interesting. Bringing in the Pianos was a good idea. The Chord progression was actually quite good. I didn't get bored of the song. But, pay more attention on the pitch tuning. Something (I think it was the strings), was just a tad off-pitch, but that was enough to make the song sound less professional. The "voices" at the last parts of the song should not have been doubled, or cut-off (the volume drop was too high). I think it would have sounded better if one track was on full volume, and the second track used as an echo track. Other than that, the song was enjoyable, and it was quite good for it's category.