by

David HMS
(HMS)

The transitions between parts are too abrupt. The melody is too simple, and a grating high pitched vocal is used over and over and over again.

First of all, I really dislike to see an orgy of samples (having 16 bits samples along with 8 bits). The song is way too repetitive and simple. I've graspt it on the first order. What's with the bass in order #10 ? You need to work on your progression. First, The old and really boring G-A-F-G, and then it's the turn of the piano with its B-C-E-B. Be more creative if you want your song to be truely enjoyed and remembered. Finally, the song lacks a good structure. Have a debut, a development and an end. Just as everything in this world.

This song sounds very good, but it has some minor troubles. Wearing headphones at the start of the song is almost painful because of pan slides. It sounds better on speakers anyway, but toning pan slides down would help listener feel less seasick :). The string parts are cool. It follows the same chord progression throughout the whole song, which is the style. Upbeat yet engmatic. One specific: In pattern eight, the piano sounds a little behind the rest of the action until the drum beat re-enters. Drum beats are handled superbly. The technique is very good. The song is within it's dance mix style and tracked to show this style well. The samples are clear and in tune. Overall, this song sounds as if it was well thought out ahead of time, and much good work went into it.

Violins, chellos, drums, a voice, and a piano... I can't describe this song any more than that ;-)... I totally and completly love the first 2 orders, and I love the violin. Only problem is that the same melody of the two of them keeps throughout the entire song. Now when the deep base came in at order 10, I was ready to jump literaly, but then the piano came in... well... the piano goes at some times, but mostly it's out of whack with the rest of the song. It needs to be if slightly retuned, but more importantly needs to be quieter. and LESS repetative. And before I could blink, the melody from the beginning started up, yet again, and the song was over. Unfortunately too short for it's own good, otherwise the song was terrific. I feel that the song could have started something bigger and better at Order 4, but it didn't. Actually it didn't have a climax anywhere in it - really, it needed one somewhere, if not in more than one place. The samples were of good quality and very small, and although they were quite common, they were used in a very influencing way. Unfortunately, this song lacks the usage of IT's INSTRUMENTS mode, along with it's NNAs. Maybe if the strings were set to note fade 24 or so it would sound a cut above the rest. Try NNAs sometime, they are great! Otherwise, I think I would like to hear more of your songs, that is once they've been a little more polished than this one. Good overall job though!

The basic rhythm/tune of this song was a very good -start-. What you need to do is build on this more: fill it out progressivly with more accompaniament; change the chord progression at dramatic points in the song (this takes a lot of practice, especially if you don't have much music theory knowledge); put some relief now and then to change the mood (meaning take out an instrument for a while, then slowly bring it back in. this is especially effective with sustained back-up instruments such as the bass or pads/strings); or do anything else that seems appropriate to you. The important thing is that you keep changing the music and consequently changing the mood of the listener. Putting some relief in, to make it more of a somber mood, not only adds some variety but it gives you a chance to put in a really nice emotional crescendo (maybe done through a drumroll slowly building volume). Don't quit thinking once you have a nice rhythm going! Oh yes and the panning is awful, be absolutely sure you know what you're doing if you put in extreme panning (going from absolute left to absolute right and back is about as extreme as you can get).