Stuff by Anthony: New piece--"Light and Magic"

Notessimo Maestro
#101

like me

#102

Congrats, DD, you got the 100th post in my thread.

#103

That’s what I’m doing right now
 exams -.- Tomorrow(friday) at 11am
 marks the beginning of my summer vacation!

And by the way, love the new song Anthony!

#104

Thanks Kd! (hlisten)

#105

Nobody likes my new song

#106

I liked it
 :mrgreen:. I thought it was cool. (hlisten)

#107

New song
nobody gives a shit, but whatever.

#108

FIND YOUR OWN WAAAAAAAAAAAAY
Find your own waaaaay

#109

I thought it was Go Your Own Way? (If you’re thinking of that Fleetwood Mac song lol)
Anyways, nice song Anthony. You should tell me how you make these, I could use help with original songs.

#110

BUMP

Crush Grape is the best soda evar.
Oh, and new song.

#111

This post is made to inform you that roastmasters approves of your new song. He finds Autumn light
 above average for a song lacking geetar.

#112

Autumn Light is a pretty nice loop. (rock)

#113

Thanks guys for the kind comments.

Right now, I’m working on a song and again, I jammed too many instruments in. Bad habit of mine.

#114

BUMP

#115

GOD DAMN SO THATS WHAT YOU’VE BEEN DOING THIS WHOLE TIME?!?! TIME WELL SPENT. This song is without a doubt one of the best songs on the site, seriously, I’m not even a fan of the genre and am able to appreciate its greatness. The song is flawless, 98% flawless, no you don’t understand how great that was. Seriously, i’m considering just removing my sig so i don’t have to deal with crap like this anymore. Now, for a child my age to be up from 5:30 this morning to 1AM at night is unnatural and I really want to get to my damn bed so I’ll wrap this up and maybe give some constructive criticism (moar liek constructive compliments) tommorow. This is the 2nd song I have ever given a 5/5 too.

#116

Quite an honor receiving a 5/5 from you, Roast. Thanks so much. Oh, and I only spent 5 hours composing the piece. My inactivity was due to a frustrating period of writer’s block. So
TIME NOT WELL SPENT

#117

First song I’ve ever come online to compliment.

I thought it was great actually. The sections all worked well. None of the instruments were overpowering, and you didn’t make the mistake of loading the sheet up with instruments and not realising that it doesn’t harmonise at all (seriously, work on that. Unless you’re past that, in which case, well done).

I think if I was going to give it a rating out of 5, I’d have to give it a 4. I think the main problem is that some people on this forum, when composing a song, tend to stick to the same chords for the whole song. For example, you basically copied sheet 0 on to every sheet, then built the song around that. Don’t be afraid to mix it up a little. Throw in a chorus, interlude, solo, whatever, but make sure it’s somehow different to anything you’ve previously done.

What I like to do is to make one phrase, and make it a verse, take another completely different phrase, and make it a chorus, and challenge myself to join it up somehow. Actually, one time I came up with two pretty crap riffs, joined it up, and ended up loving the transition! The point is, if you come up with different sounding sections, people will get less bored because of the variety. Say, you listen to a song that goes C D E | C D E | C D E, people will get tired of the C D E section a lot quicker than if it’s mixed with a song that goes, say, C D E | C D A | A F G (btw, they’re just random notes, I don’t actually know what that sounds like : P). So, say, if a section becomes boring after three listens (it doesn’t really, but that’s another longer, more boring theory), people would listen to the first song once, but the second song three times. I hope that makes sense.

No offense or anything, but after listening to that song, I thought to myself, “did I just listen to the same thing over and over?” The different instrument riffs keep the song interesting, but you could up your game a little if you added different sections with different scales, rhythms, etc.

I’m going to assume you didn’t bother to read that (I probably wouldn’t) and give you a TL;DR version: 4/5, mix up the scales/sections in your songs a little, I’m a boring music nazi doucheface.

#118

I hate writer’s block.

I did like your song you put together, but as DC said, it is sort of the same over and over. I think I also became a victim of “same riff-itis” when I composed Fish’s Song, but it’s all good. The violin thingy was cool, but I still don’t know how it worked (I even paused it to see what you did to the volume and panning, but I still didn’t see it). I liked that one thing that came in (it was on sheet 1 most of the time), possibly some sort of keyboard.

Overall: 4.8/5. Almost a 5, but not quite there.

#119

Dude, I just heard The Ocean
probably the best song here. I don’t even think I can compose any more.

#120

Confidence problems returning?

goddamnit