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good song has a great beat but i agree with stargroup100 lots of bass otherwise this is a great song keep up the good work it has real texture and would be great for a storyline game i like how the beggining collides with the bass 9/10 4/5

Harmony needs work, too much bass.

The strings harmonies don't fit very well with the piano melody. I suggest learning/working on counterpoint more. The strings either match the piano, making the song feel empty at such a low register, and there are a few points where the harmony doesn't match, and I'm not talking about nonharmonic tones. Follow your own chord structures.

And the other issue is that there is quite a lot of bass in this song, which means you're gonna need more of even lower bass to act as a foundation. In this case, a lot of melodic stuff is found in lower registers, so you have to be careful. Some parts of the song got dangerously close to being fuzzy sounding because there wasn't enough lower bass. An alternative is to focus on more chord work in the higher registers and keep the melody low.

Also, I know that you have your own intentions for each piece, but I find the piano very disappointing in this song, because all you do is use a single melody line. Pianos are very powerful and flexible, full, and unique because of how it's played. You have the potential for lots of accompaniment, chords, runs, counterpoints, etc, so use them and take advantage of them. For most songs, the piano parts themselves could almost act as a whole piece.

Piece does improve a bit when upper strings come in near the end, since it makes the piece feel more full and gives a solid foundation.

Though I do have to say, like most amateur works, this does have a lot of emotional effort put into it. For orchestral works with a lot of emotion, I do recommend suspended cymbals. They work wonders, with or without crashes at the end of them.

I would also recommend improving the chord progression by adding more variation and spicing it up a bit. Unfortunately, there's really no good way to describe this without going into a decent amount of music theory (not hard to learn though). I would at least recommend trying new things, especially outside of the box stuff.

For extra techniques to add flair, try ornaments, modulations (key changes, these are powerful), a few melodic fills, and slightly changing certain things in the piece as they repeat (this one is hard to describe, just experiment to see if you can improve on the original melody with more tension and just stick it on the end).

Hope this helps!
- stargroup100

I SENSE A TRAINING MONTAGE :D

You know what this song reminds me of? Like in movies where there are those training montages where the main character trains to fight the antagonist. Like in rocky, or karate kid, or those 80's sports movies.

I actually think the song would sound better without drums. Those cymbals where quite annoying during the first 10 seconds. I change my mind. The snare and kicks are good, but the hihats and cymbals brought your score down one star. They were just annoying.

for the first 30 seconds or so, I thought you could have used a different instrument than piano. I think somekind of woodwind would work better. Same notes, different instrument. But after that, it seemed to go well with the music!
Also, make the piano notes a little quieter.

The end was great, but it could have been better. I just think you should have added a violin that played notes an octave or two higher than the cello and base. It seemed a little empty without the high notes to accompany the low notes.

I still loved it!

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It's a great track! I loved it. There are just a few things I'd like to say...

The first is in response to b.a.b.s review. What panning your instruments does is it emulates live acoustics. I didn't realize that for a while and I just panned shit like crazy with full blown automatons. The equivalent to that would have been someone running around the stage with an amp and a synthesizer just kind of rocking out... not necessarily a bad thing. But different speakers work in different ways. I noticed with some speakers that when things get panned baaaack and fooorth they lost their amplitude. The mastering process is a bitch. Panning is always a good thing but be careful with it. One more thang, a lot of people tend to keep the bass towards the middle. It creates a base... get it? Bass/base? It was a pun... I hate the internet.

Greater dynamics... there might have been some because when I listen for them I might be hearing them because I expect them... but who knows. Live musicians change the amplitude of their instruments over time to create tension. Play with those note velocities a bit more to really make things pop... dunno... like I said, maybe you did :P

One more thing. Play with those piano melodies more. One note at a time? That happens sometimes with the bass clef in classical music but unless your trying to drive your piano player crazy, give him a little extra. Make some chords out of those melodies. Use what you already have as the root of the melody and add some higher pitches. Make it as if he was using his second hand to add some counter melodies.

Oh! I just realized it might sound cool if you throw some reverb on those drums! Or lose them completely... dunno... play :P

Ar! You have a great song. The first two things I said were really professional tips, so I don't expect you to chase after them. After that the review gets subjective. One persons opinions will always be different than the next's, so you can throw out whatever I said. Just keep on keeping on ^_^

That's how I usually know I've made a good song...

When I can listen to it for an hour straight and not be tired of it at that point, I know that the song will turn out excellent when it's finished. It was like that for the last 2 projects that I have done.

I like the expression on the instruments, it contributes to this beautiful feeling, not happiness, but determination and impending triumph.

One thing you could have done is pan some of the instruments away from each other so that each instrument sounds clearer. Many of the instruments are sitting in the middle of the stereo field, causing them to blend with each other a bit too much.

Excellent job, 9.3/10