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Juha Tourach
(Tourach)

Very good drums, that's what I found as the first... then your excellent technique. Very good transitions... immediate but smooth, many veterans could learn from You. The instrumentation is suitable, clean sounding samples and some simple but nice piano melodies these were the positives. When I listened Your song first time and reached the end, I just tried to remember the motives, the main line, but I couldn't. And I also tell You why. Because the build-up is not the best one... You did not follow one main line, You put many changes there. This is not bad. But this way there is missing the compactness from Your song. Please try to create a more powerful arrangement the next time, anyway I liked it very much, thanks. Hoping to meet You in the second round.

Skilled musician beyond this piece of good music. The initial piano theme is amazing, altough I would have prefered it to be reintroduced with a different instrument. Patterns from 6 to 10 are lovable and music is enough variable to enjoy its listening in fullness. Interesting and well organized the sample set, separated by cathegory: this ease up mantaining/adjusting the samples while tracking. The quality of samples is very good.

WOW!!! This is great stuff! The piano section is progessional, there are not many flaws I found in this song. Didn't go over 31 channels, good form, one thing i think you could have done, is a CONTINUE NNA for some of the percussion. The need for that really stood out on one part in the drums, where the snare was hitting 16th notes. I tryed using Continue NNAs for the Kick and Snare, and it seemed to work out just fine. I really like what you did at Order 35. However, dispite how professional this song was, I was expecting a little bit more from the ending. To me, it just slowed down and went silent. If you closed the song a little bit better, that might have improved it. But still, this is the BEST song I have heard in round 1. Fantastic job! Best of luck in the final round!

Very good music. Especially orders 15-17 and 39-41. But sometimes some patterns looks not good connected with other. Well it's enjoable music. Sorry, but only 75.

Wow that piano theme is great; the bass is very strong as well and the percussion is done very well. In fact, there is very little for me to complain about in this song... maybe it changes TOO much; just when it seems to get into a nice groove the song changes. However, the intricate construction of the song is wonderful, the instruments work together flawlessly, the tracking is very good, and the melodies are fresh and appealing. Very nice work!

The samples are all 8bit, but still clean and crisp. Good job! The fact that they are slightly mistuned is distracting when you play them in the sample screen, but even adds a bit of chorus, especially to the piano. A bit too much at times, so that the whole piano tends to go honky tonk. It's quite cool, anyway. Doesn't sound like a real piano player though, there's not enough volume changes for a realistic feel. The chorus is catchy and sticks to mind, the transitions are good, although one or two of the transition chords sound a bit out-of-tune. The bass is supporting, and nothing more. The drums are very well tracked, but a bit too playful at times. Very nice melodies, but the style of the tune is a bit 'overtracked'. Good technique, the author used the advanced features IT provides very well. Nice oriental interlude, there is quite some music theory behind this tune.