by

Artur Garlick
(Garlick)

Good intro...watch piano samples. Use different samples for different parts of the scale/octaves (low notes sound bad...but high notes sound clean). Gor most part, good samples and well matched. Song could use more moods...transitions.

A nice ballad, but far too repetitive. The chord progression is not very original and is repeated over and over again. On the other hand I really like the piano line in the background (I can't get it out of my head would be more precise). But I would have preferred one or two sections without this line, because you can get enough of even the best things if you hear them too often. Samples are okay, but a bit too much standard for this kind of music. I have to admit that I'm not much of a friend of sampled electric guitars (to be honest I don't like electric guitars much at all - sampled or not), and I think there are too much 'acoustic' sounds in this song - I would have preferred some more electronic sounds. But that's really just a matter of taste (but isn't music always a matter of taste?). All in all it is a good track but IMO a bit too repetitive and 'acoustic'.

Reasonable piano intro, but a very clichéd chord progression. Piano out of tune with the strings. Good drums however. Porta effects and volume cutoffs on the lead render it simply too odd to be truly memorable. The bass throughout the piece really need to sound more lively. Introducing a new set of chords wouldn't hurt either. Most samples seem to be from Necros. You have good percussion, but tone down the lead and keep it more simple, make the bass more interesting, TAKE the song somewhere but introducing new chords (that fit), and keep all the samples tuned. Oops, you already entered it :).

It seems that the piano tried to put tou in an specific emotional state, but that is broken by the drums: they are too loud. When you are choosing your samples, remember the kind of song you're tracking. In this kind of music, the main thing the listener mus attend is the melody: please don't disturb them with drums, they're not he main character here. The most interesting part of this song is the one with the piano arpeggios, at the beginning. That doesn't say anything good about this entry. It doesn't change too much, so it seems longer than it really is.

panning on chords could have been used better to increase the depth of the tune. the tune sounds a bit boring after one minute; the drums line is always the same, and that's probably one of main reason why that tune gets boring. but that tune is anyway quite interesting to listen to!

Interesting use of dual leads. It's like a korg/flute ;). The piano gets repetative and annoying after a while, same with the strings :P. Try and pay more attention to the background as well as the leads ;)