by

Chris Cheech The Sneech
(Cheech The Sneech)

Heavy. Bigtime chord work. I liked the snare drum at the beginning (why no more?), and the clock-tower-bell adds a REALLY nice touch, but has no noticeable percussion other than that. The chord-work carries it through well despite, and the tune is clear and easy to follow. I especially like the third sub-song (high-pitched music-box sounding part). Overall, I like.

-immediatley sets the mood and stays true to it -poor looping of initial string sample -nice picking patterns, all elements of the song blend nicely together -order 13...?!? What happened? why did you stop? I was getting into it! -order 23!!, again? why the quick fade out? even if I liked the idea of the fade it was too fast -piano samples were nicely tracked butthe quality was low -sections were very well composed but NO CONTINUITY!! I was not able to really get into the tune because it kept changing abruptly.. transitions??

Your NNAs need some work (they're too short). This song gets too crowded too quickyl... Pattern 1 is too chaotic. Each of the individual pieces are nice, but the whole is messy. It cleans itself up nicely in the next few patterns (though you could loose that pitch bend in the guitar, sounds fake)... The pause in pattern 11 is -way- too long. Cut it in quarters. Now let's talk samples. The guitar/clavinet (whatever) is a nice set of samples. The piano (pattern 22+) is -very- hissy. The orchestration needs some serious equalizing... They're not rich enough. The snare is nice, but it's not used often. :) The crash cymbal -really- needs to be better... There's no clarity in the high end of the spectrum. Anyway. Flow: this song makes awkward transitions (long pauses, harsh changes), and repeats thematic material unecessarily. With a little more time and a little more attention to details, this would have been a much better orchestration. Of course, I'm only picking on you because you entered Vet. :) This is good material for Interemediate...

I think Skaven was a big inspiration for this one, nothing new there, but still it has a very crisp and good sounding acoustic guitar. Watch out for the slide, it kinda "scraps" the guitar feeling there! :) The 2nd part of the song is better, but I feel like we're getting nowhere...

Pretty good track. 3 things that come to mind after listening to it: the piano sample badly needs to be replaced with a better one, it's got way too much hiss (low quality sampling?). I'll grant that you are near the 1mb size limit, but you could have found a better one to use. And the string you use to start the track loops a bit too badly imo. And as last point, I think you should fade out the strings more slowly and smoothly between the parts in the track, you do it too quickly for my taste :)

Was this an intro to a movie? Or a tracker trying to make music which doesn't sound like it was tracked? I am not sure, but I do know the song is still playing in the back of my mind as I write this, even made me shiver at times! But a few, small, pesky details kept this song from topping the charts. For example, the horribly looped sample #1. The reason I am using the word "horribly" is because you can hear the obvious "CLICK" when the sample ping-pong's. I don't think this was the desired effect, as the "CLICK" doesn't even go with the beat, it actually threw me off at the beginning as I thought it was a quiet drum until I looked at it closer. I think one of the places where I got shivers was the great transition at Order 9. Maybe great isn't a good way of describing it, but I simply love it. Great going! I really like the fact that there are NO DRUMS whatsoever in this song, except for the drumrolls. One thing which got quite irritating was the 4-second long silence at Order 13. Maybe a slower fadeout would have made this more effective, and maybe a small distant drumroll, or a faint guitar starting up. Either way, 4-seconds of complete silence really didn't fit here. Nor did it fit at Order 23. Same thing, again a long silence, about 3 seconds this time. I must add that the piano section which followed Order 23 was trully fantastic, unfortunatly it lacked a good piano sample. The sample used (sample #8) had a LOT of hiss and noise in it. Maybe a better quality sample would have worked towards the "quality" of the song. The ending is the typical fadeout unfortunately. I hoped it would end a bit differently, maybe with a big bang of violins and strings and such? Again the "CLICK" of sample #1 returns at the end during the fadeout, more so than it is heard during the rest of the song... Overall, two thumbs up, plus a foot. I'd raise my other foot as well, but the song did lack a few things ;-).... besides, I'd fall. I wish more songs had as much melody and originality as this one had. When i figure out who you are, I'll probably go hunting for some of your music...;-)

Again guitar. Good guitar. That's not good to return again to piano lead. Maybe something new could give to song higher rate. But there is not bad idea with song break. Good.