It doesn’t really count cause there’s a three week gap.
YAH~!!! Im Almost fineshed with it. But it sounds pretty cool to me
Also. Could ANYONE Tell me what i should do with this song? I can’t figure out what to do at the end.
Haha. That was cool!
Alright, It’s the last (hopefully) version of Stratoblaster. Cleaned up sheet seven and changed sheet 8.
NICE
(This comment is short cause i recently commented in the unfinished songs thread about this song)
I loved that. Some things I didn’t like were a few notes in measure 88 and the transition into sheet 9 but still this is one of my favourite rock songs on this site. Well done.
Here’s my next rock song, and it is bridge-less, but it has some parts that feel pretty good. This has actually been completed for a while; I just haven’t gotten to post it due to the sharing problem. The drum beat is really unoriginal in it however, for the most part. I might up the snare volume, and you will see why. The title of it has no meaning at all.
That was epic. The second half of the solo was weird but still epic in its own right.
5-starred it.
My only complaint was that the drums were:
A) as you said unoriginal, and lacked the intensity that the rest of the song had, but nonetheless, it still worked
UP THE SNARE NAO! It definatly needs to be up
P.S. Sheet 5 = Orgasm
Added snare volume where I felt it was needed. Also added some little extra bass drum stuff in sheet 10 and upped the volume of the little drum fill type thing in the last measure of sheets 6 and 11.
Good job!
This isn’t exactly rock (more pop-rock), but it’s close enough as far as I’m concerned.
You’d be a perfect song-writer.
'nuff said XD
what do you mean “be”? He is a song writer.
Sheet 7 was amazing.
Why is sheet 1 not in the song? That sound really cool.
Just so you guys know, I featured this (also, when did we decide that the maximum was 6 on the front page?). Literally the first song I’ve insta-featured just off the first listen.
So let’s delve into this song. The intro was fine, nothing special. At first I questioned the choice of instrument in the electric piano (which is what gives the song that sparkly, pop-ish sound), but as I think about it, there aren’t too many other choices that would change the genre over-much. And despite the heavy snare being used, the drumming is certainly pop. While genre doesn’t matter much when it comes to quality, I only mention this because you stated yourself that you were going for a heavier sound. Still fits firmly in this thread.
The male vox was an interesting choice. I would have used the female one, it would probably fit this lighter sound better. Either way, it sounds great and makes me believe there were real lyrics, rather than it just being an instrument. Good job there. In reality, there were only two glaring issues I saw with the song, and one isn’t even your fault. The first is the frequent pausing in the song. This technique can be good for giving the listener a rest and if done correctly, can make the following music sound that much better as a result. However, in this song, they are just too frequent, and although the drumming fill certainly changes almost every time (if not every time), which shows you put effort into each one, the constant loss in power becomes repetitive quick. The second problem is more of a problem with notessimo, the bass you used doesn’t loop itself, so on some of the higher notes it cuts off completely, which is rather detrimental to the overall sound. This could have been avoided by placing eighth notes instead of whole notes, but on the whole I can see why that would be annoying, and I would blame notessimo for that.
Those two qualms pale before the plus points of the song. The solo was absolutely incredible, it’s actually the reason I featured the song, because it pushes the song from average to extraordinary. But in my opinion, my favorite part about this song is it’s rough simplicity. It sounds like a song you had fun creating, and I place that above technical skill. When a song if fun to make, it is fun to listen to, and that is what this song has got. On top of that, the fact that so few instruments were used give the song a more…eh…“noobish” feel, and while that may sound like an insult, it’s actually a compliment. You managed to make a song that sounds professional and non-professional at the same time, quite a feat, because that makes the song nostalgic, at least for me.
Overall this song is incredible, and I will happily give it a 4.1/5 rating (realize, of course, that my max rating is 4.5, not 5, so this rating is actually quite high by my standards). All-in-all, great job, and I can’t wait to hear future contributions from you.
I was hoping someone would feature it
And muse made 6 songs be the limit.
Thanks for the long review (and the feature) StarWars!
The electric piano part was originally written for piano, but when I put it into Notessimo, I changed it because “Grand Piano #1” is out of tune. I really didn’t want an out-of-tune instrument providing the backbone of the song.
I originally used “Female Vox #1,” but it was too quiet, even at 300% volume. Then I added “Male Vox #1” in unison at about 150% volume, but then the melody was too loud compared to the rest of the song, especially the solo. In theory, I could have doubled the Female Vox, but using Male Vox exclusively was easier, and sounded well enough to me. (And in case anybody asks me, no, there aren’t any lyrics, but you can make up your own!)
Yeah, I overdid it a little with the transitions. There’s a fine line between changing too fast/much, and being repetitive. And yes, some fills repeat (e.g. the fill from the verse into the chorus is the same both times).
Yes, the bass not lasting long enough was a problem in some areas. I forgot to go back and change the bass at sheet 14, measure 15 (measure 31 in the song). It should have been an octave lower. I tried different versions of the bass in previous drafts of the verses, but if I used eighth notes in the bass, then the chorus and verses usually wouldn’t fit together. I do wish the bass had a little more sustain, though.
I must say StarWars, you and THEFinalBoss really are good critics.
I meant more of a professional one.
No no no I have nothing to do with featuring, you can change it if you want.
Nothing to do with featuring? Why is around 30 missing then?
Nothing to do with featuring anymore.