12-21-2020, 04:11 PM
(This post was last modified: 12-22-2020, 09:57 AM by LucentTear.)
I already sent this to Liam earlier. Just retyping it from the lost post.
my overall rating would be at a B. i'm actually rather surprised that you have a bit of music-making experience, so that already puts you at an advantage
i'd place my biggest compliment on the percussion. percussion is easier for me to rank because i can objectively tell if the execution fits with the song or not.
it's very easy for me to be subjective about composition—and i don't want to rank low just because i'm not amazed at your chord choices. however one can look for good percussion regardless of it being complicated or not. when ranking percussion, i look for how well it blends with the song as well as variety.
knowing these two criteria, i'd rate your percussion at an A+ because you seem familiar with ekit/808/cultural percussion and you do use them very cleanly. with regular acoustic percussion (such as in equilibreak) i really like the kinds of drum fills you use per section as well as ride alteration.
i also like the percussion in pentatropic because it's a mix of 808 and higher samples of ekit. i'm putting extra points here because these are fun to play with, and even i have trouble trying to diversify which percussion samples i use.
my suggestion for percussion is to use 2013 kit as a complement to the ekit. ekit doesn't do well in the snare department and that 2013 REALLY brings them out more. it's like adding salt—salt makes things great and flavorful but don't overdo it
as for the melodies and general note choices, i think they're pretty sound and there's nothing jarring (albeit the voicings are shallow to personal taste). i think your music is really relaxing to listen to, but i can't analyze anything on a deep level. while it's good, that's basically the only opinion i have
there were some weird sound design choices from time-to-time, but the most noticeable one was using reduced high EQ on the ekit of equilibreak. since percussion is important, not having enough texture on the hats just made a great song much blurrier than it needed to be. i don't know, you might be into muffled hats but i think that was my greatest criticism on the song
i like your music, but it's not something i'd replay often. it's isn't as grandiose as other people—but it's really straight to the point which i like. i just really like equilibreak ok
(12-19-2020, 09:26 AM)Liam Wrote: How's my music?
my overall rating would be at a B. i'm actually rather surprised that you have a bit of music-making experience, so that already puts you at an advantage
i'd place my biggest compliment on the percussion. percussion is easier for me to rank because i can objectively tell if the execution fits with the song or not.
it's very easy for me to be subjective about composition—and i don't want to rank low just because i'm not amazed at your chord choices. however one can look for good percussion regardless of it being complicated or not. when ranking percussion, i look for how well it blends with the song as well as variety.
knowing these two criteria, i'd rate your percussion at an A+ because you seem familiar with ekit/808/cultural percussion and you do use them very cleanly. with regular acoustic percussion (such as in equilibreak) i really like the kinds of drum fills you use per section as well as ride alteration.
i also like the percussion in pentatropic because it's a mix of 808 and higher samples of ekit. i'm putting extra points here because these are fun to play with, and even i have trouble trying to diversify which percussion samples i use.
my suggestion for percussion is to use 2013 kit as a complement to the ekit. ekit doesn't do well in the snare department and that 2013 REALLY brings them out more. it's like adding salt—salt makes things great and flavorful but don't overdo it
as for the melodies and general note choices, i think they're pretty sound and there's nothing jarring (albeit the voicings are shallow to personal taste). i think your music is really relaxing to listen to, but i can't analyze anything on a deep level. while it's good, that's basically the only opinion i have
there were some weird sound design choices from time-to-time, but the most noticeable one was using reduced high EQ on the ekit of equilibreak. since percussion is important, not having enough texture on the hats just made a great song much blurrier than it needed to be. i don't know, you might be into muffled hats but i think that was my greatest criticism on the song
i like your music, but it's not something i'd replay often. it's isn't as grandiose as other people—but it's really straight to the point which i like. i just really like equilibreak ok