MC6 Round 1 Results - Unmatched Courage

 
"Unmatched Courage"
(m6r-umcg.zip)

by

Corey Scope
(Scope)


This song competed in the rookie division of Music Contest 6, where it ranked in block 5.

Judge: Fredricks ,Fred

Great ideas! I understand some people have a hard time getting samples, but these need upgrading pretty badly. Percussion was a bit overdone and quite choppy, what happened to using nna's? Panning! More panning! Melody need to be fleshed out quite a bit. Good ideas on the melody, roll with it a little more and it'd be much better. Good chord progression, needs a bit of an overhaul and you've got yourself a good piece.

Judge: Brink ,Ola

Strange tune. It starts out pretty alright, but then gets more and more messy for a while as the composer adds more and more elements without really knowing what he or she is doing, or at least so it seems. But then it gets better again, and manage to stay that way until the end of the song. The technique is a bit sloppy, but not to bad. The samples arenīt that great sounding. Perhaps a bit over average on originality. No particulary interesting melodies or ideas shown, the main theme is all right but used way too much.

Judge: Weinstein ,Jacob

Not bad at all for a rookie. Nice little synth groove. The percussion could use a little work, perhaps some variation, but it's not that bad. This song could have really used a nice wild lead. It actually sounds like it's missing something because it doesn't have at least one solo. Needs panning too!

Judge: Reed ,Ben

First impressions, starting off with the drums is probably a bad idea, unless you can fill them out a little more. Very 80's-sounding, which isn't necessarily a bad thing (ahh... nostalgia... ), but nothing really spectacular here, either. Shows some promise with some of the buildups, but it's kind of muddy overall, and the ending was way too abrupt.

Judge: Steele ,Matthew

The trouble with good songs is that you can't say a lot about them. They're hard to pick apart. This song is really cool, nice and spacey ^_^. It follows a chord progression of a major and minor key back and forth, back and forth. That's okay for this song though. The drumming is very good. I like the Sample 13 effects, going 51 00 51 00 etc. The tracker's technique is first rate, leaving me little to point out :). The ending builds and builds, then finishes. It has little time for resolution, but it is handled well none the less. The samples are of great quality. Some of them sound a little out of tune, but it is for effect, methinks. Overall, it is a very good piece of music.