That was my main thing.
I believe a different sample is used above 150%. I sometimes put it at 140, but putting it at 150 makes it sound much better.
Tempo does change that…you can tell in “Drowning” i noticed that when creating it and i was like…huh that’s weird…
I think panning helps, and higher tempo. Also probably other things like note lengths and volumes and instruments and stuff.
Because you kept pestering me on chatzy to comment, here it is.
EDIT: Because you wanted criticism, here it is.
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It was nice, hope you finish it.
I haven’t tried critiquing something for a while so ill try with this song. coming into the intro, its very standard and bland, introducing part of the chord progression and the melody line, yawn. It would be better if you make the intro special and unique from all the other parts of the song, and yet have it fit in with the rest of the song (that was pretty dang hypocritical for me to say). The other thing I have to say about your intro is that measure 7 is really bad, the vocals and the rhodes don’t collide but they still sound awful when they are put one note away from each other. Sheet 2 is ok in the fact that it introduces more instruments. The low strat is perfect for those chords but it also slightly overshadows the rhodes. the bass is pretty typical and common as it is just going along with the chord progression (im not against it being common but I like it when people do stuff that’s rarely done in music). sheet 3 is basically the same. The drums in sheet 4-5 are ok, but it would be better if you don’t just repeat the same drum beat every measure. . You should be changing things constantly. I also don’t like the cut of crash cymbal. I really like the strats in sheets 4,5,8, and 9, They fit really well. I noticed that the vocal melody actually changed from the intro which I am both happy and sad about. The reason that im glad is that the beginnings much more unique than I though, and the disappointment is because you don’t use the melody again in the song, you always want to hold on to your ideas. I want to talk about the bass a bit because the bass is TO QUIET. One thing I don’t like about sheet 8 is that you just introduced the melody in the previous one, or two phrases, then you just make sheet 8 blank and empty with just background… it needs a melody. I don’t like how sheet 9 just plunges back into a melody for about 3 measures then its off to a solo about a minute into the song (which is fine… just compared to other songs it seems quite fast).
The solo was pretty short, I was expecting a minute long solo to drown out the repetitiveness, and I was disappointed when you started the solo with the same exact chord progression, drum beat, guitar riff, and bassline. The solo also lasted only 10 seconds. I also really thought it could’ve ended on a higher note (literally), because the last note of the solo didn’t sound good to me (here is the digital representation of what I meant if you don’t understand what I meant ?id=64678 ). Coming out of the solo you start off again with the same chord progression, DRUM LINE, and bass as earlier, I was really expecting a break of some sort after the solo to ease up on the repetitiveness and add more length the song. And to top that off the end of sheet 13 it sounds like your going to start back into the same melody and continue the song from there (which I would be fine with if you had a part to relieve the repetitiveness). To summarize what I said, the song is too repetitive, try adding breaks, changing the chord progression, and change the drums to help lighten the repetitiveness.
Teddy, you think I’m gonna read all of that?!
I read some of it. That wasn’t a solo, I just thought the song sucked so I put that in. xD
Also, Kaveman gave me ideas through PM and he said it was fine, so I’m going with what he said.
… I know who’s songs im not gonna review anymore.
Dude, how does someone want to sit here and write something so long?! o.o
And no offense Teddy. I will read your review later, I’m just really tired right now from playing Pokemon all night. ._. Sorry.
I read all of it, and it’s not even for me…
The power of panning and volume.
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this songs much shorter than dino’s but im sure I can squeeze in a good 4 sentences. Starting with the chord progression, its a pretty weird chord progression, as it goes up by a half step (or one sharp for people not knowing theory) for three notes then it goes down 2 notes, which sounds very odd and strange. Kam I think you should use this more http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Circl … luxe_4.svg (although I might be wrong and you just chose a chromatic scale). as for the drums I really like them even though they are kinda basic the bass drum atleast changes every measure, I also like the sound quality of that snare hit. The rest of the stuff (the piano and bass) is good by my book and as of now the song is to short for me to say anything more.
Key really doesn’t matter to me at all. The “progression” seems perfectly normal considering how it sounds as of now.
It never goes quite to plan, does it?
Reading both of those reviews has really humbled me. Makes me wish I knew a little more about music theory.
Still, I’m now spurred on to review songs that I have left un-reviewed, be back soon.
+1 
hehe this reminds me of our collab… we constantly think the opposite of what sounds good or bad. I thought it sounded good but very strange and odd at the same time.
I totally agree with teddy. From measure 3 I was even slightly cringing. It sounded nice and minor at first, but then the going up by a sharp just didn’t fit in, and measures 7 and 8 especially didn’t fit in because they were major and didn’t sound “scary” like the rest of the song.
I have been listening to Grant kirkhope a lot more recently and have decided to try and make a song similar to his, with instruments constantly changing (except for a few background instruments), using a lot less instruments then I normally have in my songs, and a simpler drum beat.
Kudos :3 Nuse won’t like it as much though…he prefers sad songs XD
Only problem i had is that the beat isn’t transitioned the best between 7 and 2…it seems as though it could use a crash or something…it just seems empty at the start of the new beat.
…the beat also seemed a little off the first time i listened to it (but it was fine after that)
It is quite a good impression of Grant Kirkhope though