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[GBT-Just Another Story]

Please...

Please get some voice lessons or a new lead singer... you are NOT singing. Also the music is sooooooooo plain and unoriginal. I'm sitting here thinking "really?"

There is nothing new or exciting about your music. Try to do something cutting edge. I could hear something better in a college dorm talent contest. The guitar is almost not noticeable. It's so emotionless. Is it even a real person? It sounds lifeless.

Same with your bass. What are you playing on.... drive guitars? The drums are sooooo weak too. Your whole band needs to clean everything up and step it up. Everything has already been done. It's a simple beat with simple chords and a simple rhythym. That's set up for failure already.

The only thing that could save you is good lead guitar and singing which is probably even worse. I understand that this all may seem very harsh and unnesecary but by putting your stuff up on NG your opening up to all kinds of criticism.

I'm just brutally honest. I suppose some people like it, but if you ever want to improve or get anywhere with your band take my advice. I guarantee that not many people enjoy this and those who do are either very young or have no musical knowledge or taste whatsoever.

giftedbuttwisted responds:

And you're just an asshole

[Belit's Gallows]

Good job

You did a good job achieve everything you said that you wanted in your commentary. Although, to be honest I think this is definately more of an uplifting piece then a depressing one. Great choice of instrumentation - it sort of reminded me of the soundtrack to "Little Miss Sunshine" in the beginning.

Although the guitars were good and they were better then most synthesized guitars - I felt like they had no emotion. This is most likely only me however due to my love for the guitar and my belief that guitars should always be brimming with emotion. I'm sure no one else will have criticism with them =)

Good melodies and chord progressions. Everything flowed quite nicely and had a place to go.

You have some beautiful harmonies happening all throughout the song. If you had lyrics and a powerful voice to sing them I think this song could be very powerful.

Good job, and good luck.

SWiTCH responds:

Well the theme was "sad" not depressing. I think something can be uplifting and sad at the same time!
Like... A funeral which is a somber occasion, but also a celebration of the persons life.
That's the feeling I get from this song anyway.
Thanks for the critique. :)

Also the guitars weren't synthesized if that's what you meant.

[Mac8 - Forgotten]

Nice Guitar!

This was a beautiful solo. It reminded me a bit of the solo to "Don't Cry" by Slash. I know that you may not seem the similarities... but if you really think about them both there are some.

The strings, vocals, and guitar, all complemented eachother wonderfully. My only suggestion would be to lengthen this piece and have it build up later on. Have the guitar solo act as the everlasting melody or "river" of the piece and have all the other instruments follow it.

Bring in drums after the build up and in the climax have tons of dissonance as the depression and sadness has reached his limits.

This is kind of what I tried to do with "Memories" so if you don't get what i'm saying just listen to that again.

Great piece, once again the solo was beautiful.

Bad-Man-Incorporated responds:

I get ya. My problem here is, two fold. I would have loved to extend this in ALL the ways you mention, but...

I don't have a midi keyboard, and just don't have the patience to draw ALL the notes out like that. haha.
I HAD very slow internet last week. 56k. (yes by choice, but that has been rectified) haha. So I made it short.

But some excellent ideas, and probably the direction I would most likely go, if I had the equipment/patience. haha.

Thanks for the review, man. \m/

[[TMM43] Breathe]

Solid

I like the dissonance of this piece, it also has a very smooth sort of feeling. (mainly in the beginning)

I never heard the original song that you remixed but I enjoyed this one.

Overall, this was a really good 'n' solid piece with little room for criticism. If anything maybe bring in some high harmonies? Like around 2:12? I think that would have added some more variety and would have been a cool change.

You kind of toy with that idea but you don't do anything dramatic with it. I think it would sound extremely cool if reinforced.

Overall, a very nice track.

[Abstract Excursions]

Cool

Ok - after torturing you for who knows how long over IM it's time to review!

My favorite part is the first 40 seconds. You're classical side shows beautifully in this techno piece and what I like about it is that it's not like every other techno song. It sticks out uniquely as it's own work.

You didn't have the "techno cliches" that all techno songs usually have but you still pulled it off wonderfully.

I liked how you ended this piece. It was very unexpected and like "wow!"

However, if you didn't end it like that you could of looped it ;o

Of course if you don't like loops, this ending was pretty awesome =)

MusicalRocky responds:

hahah.

I like that part too! Thought I don't really have a favorite part per se lol.
I'm not surprised my classical side shows, since I've been writing it for 3 years :P
I wasn't aware of any clichés lol. Glad I didn't have any though.
Cool, I liked the end too :D
Yeah, I didn't want it to loop hahah. Not that I don't like loops, I just like endings.

Thanks for the review!

-Rocky

[/|\Piano Medley 2/|\]

Nice

0:20 - 0:21 is an excellent chord progession. You opened up in a very beautiful, delicate way which was excellent. Some would disagree with me, but I would have had some high harmony going with that delicate introduction on the piano. I'm not sure why, but to me parts of this piece didn't seem as "real" as your first piano medley.

I like how it loops.

A very good job for experimenting with stuff you haven't done before. Keep it up, and you'll be the maestro of piano in no time!

[/|\Buried and Forgotten/|\]

Very Dissonant

I read your post about your librarys. I found it very interesting! Anyways, i'd love to help you out (I feel like i'm the opposite of you - Orchestrals are SO hard for me) if you think I am worthy.

Your piece was VERY dissonant! I'm pretty sure it was done on purpose but to be honest I feel you had a bit too much dissonance so it kind of came out sloppy to me. I know that the dissonance helps set the mood as well, I just really feel like there was too much! I thought the voices for harmony was a very nice choice.

However, one thing you did was you made the piano your own. I know that you used a synthesized piano but still, every musician has his or her own feel to certain instruments. Or, at least every good musician does. Some of them copy what their idea of "good" is and it's not their own. Compare this piece to Winterwind, or Me (I don't have any piano pieces up right now... so ya >_>) or anyone else and yours will have it's own unique print. Excellent job with that. I'm sure most people who came to your realization of "not knowing instruments well enough" would have gone and listened to the greatest and just tried to copy them... but you made an original and unique piece with your style bleeding out of it.

I said a little in alot of ways in this review. I apologize for that. =.=