Your songs aren’t crap. You just haven’t unleashed your full potential yet.
I don’t know … as I said before my song writing is all chords and intervals and stuff…I really admire someone like Star whose music just comes naturally to him.
This review is after a first listen, without having the song to reference anything by. The more in-depth review will be in QVX’s thread.
Okay so I hope you weren’t getting too worked up by this because I have to say, this song has quite a few downsides. Sure, it’s a fast-paced orchestral-rock piece and that can be a great base genre here at Notessimo for an epic song, such as DD12’s Enigma. But first and foremost, I see QVX in the title and felt no presence from the drums. I’m sure they were incredible, but I just couldn’t hear them. Which is the most pressing issue with the song, the balance of volumes was completely off. When I get back to listen to it again, I want to be able to hear the other aspects of the song that add to the overall atmosphere, and I’m not so sure that will be possible. I want to talk more to Muse in this review (I’ll get to QVX in the other review). It seems that is a major flaw in your writing, as can be shown in your collab with Sandalman3000. Near the end the fender in that song just overrides everything, it’s just too distracting. Even if the riff is excellent, it makes it seem as if you are tooting your own horn about making such an excellent riff and the background gets left behind.
Granted, there were quite a few parts where the sound was correctly balanced. Which brings me to my second point. The song was completely random with it’s instrument choice, which meant that I never knew what was coming. Again, the balance between structure and order vs spontaneity and interesting change was off. If you’re going to introduce an instrument into the song, at least keep it in there or show it again later. That, along with the tempo changes and the surprise reintroduction of the intro left me having a hard time remembering all the various parts of the song. While we stress the need of less repetition here, I think that it’s safe to say that no repetition can be bad too. That’s not to say there was no repetition. I think there were so many changes that that alone was repetitious. The fact that there was so much change throughout made me expect something new around every bend, and at least that was predictable. When a song changes so much that the listener expects the song to only change, it needs to be a little more repetitive. And the most annoying part is that the song is over 4 minutes long (I think, remember I am not looking at the song like I normally do). While it felt short, there were a lot of parts were the song just repeated itself, kinda like placing two sheets right next to each other.
Overall, it was NOT a bad song. Again, I’ll re-review it after I’ve listened to it again and maybe my opinion will change on some things but for my first listen, I was dissatisfied that this song seemed more to be written for the communities’ arguements on what makes a good song and not for the fun of it, which in my opinion makes for a better song and an easier time when it comes to writing the song itself.
3.9/5, although I’ll add everything up into a ?/10 rating in the next review.
Thanks for writing out that lengthly review! It means a lot to me.
Now that I listen again the song is pretty random. I guess I thought the more instruments and the more minutes the better the song. There must be like a thousand parts.
Well … I wasn’t really thinking about anything while I was writing it. Maybe subconsciously though.
I’ll make sure my riffs aren’t too loud in the future. Also what were the volume/tempo issues?