Good God, that melody.
This whole song is built off that one melody. And wow, what a melody.
When I first started listening, I felt that it was kinda weak, but I kept listening, and it kept on growing on me. Until somewhere in the 3rd or 4th listen I realized that this is really amazing stuff. It kinda just snuck up on me.
The piano outro is probably unnecessary. It's okay though.
Very cool melody.
This song oozes originality. Really good stuff.
Nice and chill.
That synth around 1:10 (and continued through the rest of the track seems a little off tempo to me.
Other than that, this is a nice chill piece. It doesn't do much, and it doesn't intend to. Good work.
Some thoughts
Even early on, I can tell that you really cared about making this song right.
The chord progression is a good one, but maybe switching it up every now and then would be good.
Around 2:30 the beat comes in with the pads and gated stuff and it really makes my ears confused (it keeps pulsing). That seems to be typical of technoey ravey music though, so maybe it's what you were going for, I dunno. I wont dock you.
It's really a shame that stuff like this gets nuked by 0 voters.
The lead is a great instrument, but maybe you should have worked on that melody a little more. I felt like it could have been more interesting. That was what was holding me back from really enjoying this song, I think. Maybe a build up would have been a good idea - it's kind of hard to keep a techno song interesting without changing something, be it dynamics, chord progression, etc.
My strategy (I'm not any sort of authority, though, my songs all suck) is that whenever I get a new idea I'll try to integrate it, even if it messes with my whole song structure. It kind of plays to my ADD tendencies ;)
Voted 5.
I agree about the melody, it sounds empty. I was planning on releasing a version 2 for this song, including a piano interlude, with some background tie-in melodies.
I like the progression the way it is, but the dynamics was indeed faulty, and admittedly monotonous.
lol, i also like you, like to mess with songs "on the fly". Thats how i got the idea for the super saw, as well as the tec'ish square, which was inspired by Sonic and Knuckles boss battles.
I will work harder for dynamics though.
Ty for your input ^_^ !
Really good.
The instrumentation is so beautiful and so well rendered. You have truly mastered your craft, especially in comparison with the old version. And that melody, wow. At first I thought it was only decent, but the way that the second half compliments the first half, just excellent. And it stays very close to the center note (about an octave), which is technically impressive too...
The only criticism I can think of is that you used the I-IV-V chord progression, which is kind of tired by this point, but I don't even care.
Liking it.
The ambient voices that faded in somewhere near the 2m mark were a great touch, nice job. I felt like the piano melody in the first half had a lot of emotion to it that wasn't quite captured by the strings in the second half.
I would like to hear the rest of this song.
Yea i feel ya dude, this whole song was just a little experiment for me, i think its pretty dandy i made it all with free soundfonts. Heh this is the intro for the an epic ambient and trace track thatll be around twenty minutes ^.^, should be done in max two weeks probably one. Apreciate the review dude :)
Interesting.
This sounds pretty imaginative, but you seem restricted by production. A lot of the instruments should have wanted to burst through my headphones, but instead came off muted. I can tell that you have good ideas, though, which I appreciate. Work a bit on the melodies. I want your song to reach out and grab me.
Thank you very much, I appreciate the advice!
Ha.
I'm just going to mark this with a 10 so people know this is how all techno songs should be.
Hmm...
You definitely have some smart melodies cropping up around 3:00 onwards, and the underlying chord progression is pretty smart as well. On the other hand, the song isn't really whacking me over the head and saying "I am an awesome song, RESPECT!". But maybe I'm just thinking that to be contrary? :) Oh well.
I thought that the melodies up until 3, on both the warbly high synth and the lower thing that sounds a little like a steel guitar, were kind of typical up until the 3 minute mark, as if at that point you suddenly had divine inspiration at that point about how to write good melodies. Heh, it's ok. You have like 6k listens, you must be doing something right :)
On second listen, divine inspiration occurs right at 2:55. That's when you get really smart melodically. Well hey, I enjoy it. So, nice job.
Thanks for the review! It seems like different people like different parts of this song. Some prefer the beginning, some the end!
I will review as I listen.
Melody at :12. What the heck, this sounds nothing like christmas at all. Haha. Melody not very interesting, ok, maybe it's a 4/10 on the interest-o-meter. Dum de doo, it's :40 and nothing happened. Ok, bellish instrument at :50, but it's not very interesting either, it seems to be mimicing melody #1. Oh sweet banjo at 1:15, which then instantly died as apparently I scare off interesting sounding melodies and ideas. Aw :< No, it's ok. Hm.
Alright, 1:40 and I see what the idea is here. Not bad. Subtle and crap. My interest on the interest meter maybe improved a point. However I want to hear more ideas.
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