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[The Beating of My Heart]

Good.

This piece was good, it had a nice sense of feeling, which, in my opinion, is one of the most important parts of music. There were some little niggles however:

You had good feeling, but you could have spent a little more time on this, remember, the silences can speak as loudly as words, considering the title it could have been a little more broken up, like the beating of a heart.

Otherwise, great sense of melody and feeling. Keep it up!
Krayon

Jabicho responds:

Thanks man, your help is always great, I take all your suggestions to improve, so it means a lot. Thanks again!

[A Breeze Of Reminiscence]

Hmmm

I like it. It's really nicely played and has a good melody, but I would suggest you apply more feeling and dynamic to your songs. Also, try to get in more depth and erm... forgotten the technical term, noise levels, so go quieter and louder at the right times to really pull us listeners in and carry accross feeling. Also, silence can speak as loudly as a note can. Or the finishing of a note as it dies away.
Otherwise great song.

Jabicho responds:

Thanks for that, your help means a lot, I'll take all your advice to improve my friend! thanks again!

[Tasteless Classical Music]

Aaaiiee

Aaah, my ears! My goodness, ach! Urghh!
That was the most horrible sound I've ever heard. I was almost literally sickened by it. It not only perfectly fits the theme but covers everything you have there.
After listening through, I notice that you did do a good job at making one of the most horrible disharmonies and off key sounding pieces I have ever heard.
Kudos.

Stickserious responds:

...indeed :)

[Animated Youth]

Welcome

Good job for your first piece. I believe that Lacrioso or someone similar will probably address the technical issues, however I will address the sound.
First of all, make sure that you name the song correctly, it's one of those things that people like me get antsy about. This was much more suited to "Childhood" or something like that.
You created a enjoyable theme and carried it through nicely, however it does get just a touch repetitive sometimes. Try to minimise repetitiveness, since it tends to jar on the ear and get annoying.
Get a decent orchestration program and intstruments and expand this one. It would go well with some sweeping strings and brass. On that note, you could really bring a bit more of the dramatic, powerful feel to this song. Bring more depth and backing, some bass melodies to tie off the higher melodies would have been great.

Kriegless responds:

Thank you very much for your review. Do you have any suggestions for an orchestration program? Right now i just basically recorded it manually (really annoying), and i edited it with "Adobe Soundbooth". Thank you again for your review and I hope to produce more music very soon!

I changed the name i hope you like it.

[Heart of Melodies (v1.1)]

Beautiful

Beautiful. An excellent piece. I really liked it and the feeling behind it was really strong. You carried volumes of meaning in this piece, and that's what I think every musician should inevitably be trying to do.
It's nice to see a fellow believer here.
Again, beautiful piece.

SatoDraygonFist2 responds:

Thank you so much. :-) Really and truly. Your time in listening, and your review just makes me glow. Like, really. I've got this awesome golden aura right now and its cool.

[Civil War]

Hmmm

This is a good peace. It fits the theme, which is good, but it does suffer quite a bit from monotony, simply put, you really need a lot more variation in pitch, that main strings? section was the same the whole way through, and, while in some songs that works, in this case, it killed the song. You really needed more variation in both instruments and in pitch, depth and texture to carry the feel of the song.
You had some nice riffs, but that was all they were, riffs repeated over and over and then stopped, carry out the melody, play it out, lengthen it, test different sections, expand others.
You had some drums, but there was a definite lack of drums in this, add a few more, use different ones to establish a beat and then carry it on. Along those lines, this type of song generally needs a strong beat, with those strings and other instruments doing sweeping 'plains music' it didn't quite carry the whole idea. More articulation and stronger emphasis on certain beats, eg the fourth would have improved it a lot.
The starting, strange harp? section really did not fit. At all. That should have been scrapped.
Otherwise it was not too bad.

DatBoiNC responds:

tl;dr

[Rise of a new King]

Good

Very good. I'd say everything that nintesu said, however, it's the little niggles that'll get a ten out of me these days. Good stuff, hope to hear more.

DukeLukeProd responds:

Totally agreed, for a 10/10 a song has to be perfect, this submission is far from it. Thanks!

[Mysterious Roots]

Definitely very good!

I just checked out the program you used... expensive... What deal did you manage to get? I'm very interested. Excellent job, considering its capabilities your musics gonna go a long way. Good luck! Looking forward to hearing more!

race1 responds:

They had a deal some time ago where you could get three libraries for 795 dollars or so. Alone each one was about 400 each. So taht was a nice deal.

I think they got rid of all thair Native Instruments powered stuff and are switching to this thing called the PLAY engine. They don't have Ra in PLAY yet but hmm... I like the NI powered stuff as it seems to run quite well.

Save up some money... and get an extra hard drive... they have sales that are pretty good. Buy one get one free type sales.

If you're looking for an orchestral library, PLAY SILVER is pretty good for a start. I'd check that out.