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[Rainbow Road remix]

fill-ins and mixing

im gonna focus on talking about the drums, two things.
1. you should use fill-ins to tansision from one drum beat to another, for example, you could have done descending notes on the toms from 0:28 to 0:31 to make it smoother (people should be able to predict what your gonna do, if it surprises them with an abrupt change its generally not good)
2. the drums (especially the snare drum) did not seem to fit the genre (sounded like a rock-style preset), they could use more distorsion/reverb (everything should sound like it was recorded live if its not a clearly digital set)
3. also the drums covered up the melody at some parts, remember that just by nature short notes (in this case drums/percussion) stick out on top of long notes (in this case the melody)
take this into consideration and it could greatly improve the song imho

krazyfro2 responds:

thanks, that will realy helpe me in the future. i look forward to advice like this.

[Fat Man Chubbs]

you can improve it by having more than just one

its the same melody over and over, you kept it interesting by adding new instruments, but in order for it to be "good music" you gotta have, id say, at least two distinct ideas in it, each with chords and harmony and such, and go back and forth between the two, like an ABA format (one being A and one being B), and in a loop, try to keep the percussion about the same throughout to make it flow

EllieG826 responds:

Thank You this is by far the most helpful review i have ever received!

[Chess Board]

I usually dont like rap

but this is pretty great! got some nice music in it that actually makes sence, chord progression and stuff. better than D-lo imho. the lyics seem pretty generic, tho (money, high, my life is hard, etc) expect for the chess board reference :P

Bleek989 responds:

yeah the raps was pretty simple, well at least my verse. but i was just playin round with this song. i am workin on some REAL projects, and they will be more lyrically, but its gonna take some time. thanks tho man

[Adrenaline Break]

Could have been better...

the bass line was obsured by the drums, thats bad mixing, my friend
other than that the melody writing and dynamics were great, but being drum and bass, the drums should work with the bass, not try to fight each other for dominance over the lower frequencies, if that makes sence

PearlDrummer516 responds:

I think the bass and drums are good volumes, then again my speaker settings are probably very different from others' settings. Thank you for the compliments on melody writing. This was one of my first projects, so to see that my melodies were good then gives me a lot of confidence on my melodies now. I have since come a long way since then. Keep an eye out for my newer stuff.

- Arron -

[boredness(dont mind the intro]

People say boredom makes people do stupid things

i dont buy it
tiny problems: at 01:00 some of the notes are dissonant, could easily fix that, and what was the end about? just a long silence for no reason? could also used some deeper sounds, just feels like its lacking bass

ezthunder123 responds:

i dont know what happend at the end...

thanks though

[Jam Song]

Melody is good for a videogame

A few ways you could make it better: the guitar sounds nasty, high pitched and gritty, i would try to give it a more full-bodied sound, and if that covers up the bass line (which it probably will) drop the bass guitar an octave or mix that too. The second guitar part is about right, you only need to drop the lower one. The cymbal crashes are high pitched, and dont fit in completely, so put those through a low-pass filter and (last thing) cut off those few seconds of silence at the end, itlle make it loop better

Connmann1015 responds:

ah man thanks so much for the advice. i couldnt figure out why it didnt sound balanced. as for the looping i cant figure out why it keeps putting an empty space at the end. pm me if u know how. im using fl studio 7.

[*-_Lookin' Like A Dick]

Lookin like a mutherfugin penis

id laugh really hard if someone made a $3 bill with a picture of a dick instead of a president

JonH2O responds:

Oh.

[Runescape - Spirit]

almost perfect

except for a few dissonant notes in the high-note chords on the piano, didnt really fit the the rest of the music, but the rest was perfect

JakesFable responds:

Hmm.. not sure where thats at, Thanks alot for the review ;)

[[ lovesick ambulance ]]

very nice track

the only prob is that the guitar gets a little repeditive, maby a guitar solo would help, other than that its a great song!

Kingbastard responds:

ta like

[Teen Advisory (original mix)]

Great mastering, very entertaining

what version of Reason did you use? i have reason 4 but i suck at it so i stick to Garbage Band cause i know how to use it, anyways, great job! 5/5 10/10 +0.29 lol

SEAC99 responds:

Yo mate! I actually use reason 3. Much easier then the set up in reason 4.
I thought the exact same, reason is absolutely amazing tho once you learn how to use it :) you just have to take the time to respect the program.