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Posted: Sat Aug 23, 2008 12:49 pm
Updated, two new songs, "Hope Found" and "The Depth"
working on two songs now, "This Might be a Dream" and "Break in at the Red Roof Hotel"
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Posted: Mon Sep 29, 2008 2:11 pm
AWesome.
Track 9, though?
I can see the drums having a way bassier sound to them and having a big stadium reverb on them.
At 0:34, instead of the piano going back to that starting chord, I can hear it jumping to an even higher chord otherwise I feel the tension build-up is wasted.
The piano needs a bigger sound. Needs to be louder. Do you get what I'm trying to say there?
I can see a bass guitar doing some sort of harmony with the piano starting at 2:05 and maybe an electric six string doing a lightly distorted higher harmony at 2:12 and transitioning into the synth with a second guitar doing a second harmony that's even higher the last time that verse repeats - and I still think it'd be in the guitar's range, but my musical ear isn't terribly well developed as I've only been playing an instrument seriously for the past 3 years.
It ends poorly, though you might be planning to immediately transition that last note into another piece, but I can see the synth dragging that out for another few seconds, then finishing on a huge-sounding chord that brings finality that could be in sync with your own personal realization of your blind spot.
Track 4:
To be blunt with you, the guitar sounds weak as hell. The tone... I can see the tone being more of a David Gilmour thing going on with a very gentle quality to it and some very light, wet-sounding echo. I love the backing piece and the last minute is cool, but the rest of it you should throw out and just remake from scratch. Actually write down on paper what you're playing as you go and then record it over the track and then make changes where you might think, "this could be better" by playing the whole thing over again and doing things differently in little ways where you don't like it.
Track 3:
I can't hear what the guitar is doing. Halfway through the intro, add like a chunky-sounding distorted guitar playing heavily muted power chords to add to the build-up that the drums pounding gets you. If that wasn't a bass that I heard in the very beginning in the build-up, add one and see what sound that gets you. It'll probably sound more badass.
Otherwise, I like it.
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Posted: Mon Sep 29, 2008 2:30 pm
Also, on track 9, I can see some ascending power chords syncing with that drum beat starting at :33 to 1:10.
I wish I had the musical ear to transcribe what I'm hearing in my head because I can see it making the songs infinitely more badass, but damnit, I'm not there yet. =(
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