soundhound

Thanks TG. Enjoyed your review, and your reply to my comment

Take care

Bob

thank you! and i was just playing around with sounds i got..but might be familiar from somewhere though..let me know lol

Regards. I sell on pond5.com these days if you have interest - Dan

Hi TG, yes the bass!! Always forget about it somehow...going to try to add some and sort it out.
There is a "guitar"(synth plug-in) in there but it doesn't talk enough I guess, it had nothing much to say. Maybe adding some more of that too.

Thanks for pointing these things out!

Peace right back at you =) / SJ

Thank you so much TG. That was a sweet comment!

Peace :)

-EB

Thanks allot, TG. Always a pleasure to get your take on our tracks.

Ciao,
M.

Thanx for the fine review TG!

Always the pleasure when you take a try on my tracks, this time too...:-)

Will see what's gonna happening!

Handshake, Danke

Hey TG,

Really appreciate you checking in and leaving your kind words. So glad you like my track.

Cheers,
Scott

Thanks.

Thanks!

i appreciate your review a lot. i am trying to think what I might do to clarify the feeling - perhaps lower the drum beat an octave - more reverb on it. it is striving for mystery, some sense of loss perhaps. thanks very much. Dan

Thanks for the listen. Your friend in music PDMuzak

thank you. I mostly agree with what you're saying. These are 2 separated tracks - first one has very classic and simple instrumentation: lead guitar, Rhodes bass, main Rhodes and drums. Second one is much more experimental, I couldn't find vocals that will fit better in here, at some point they are sounding ok for me. Just some experimental track of mine. The guitar loop I used was too short so I started throwing more layers to keep it interesting. Also my laptop crashed and I ran out of memory when doing this one so I couldn't add the synth or epiano solo...
Thanks for listening to my music and some interesting thoughts! Alex

I guess that's my mind.

Oh sure, I agree not everyone is going to like every section of the long stuff I do. That's why I just do it to please myself. I do try hard to only include the sections/parts that I think deserve to be included.

"most would have chopped this down to 4:00 put
a fade on it and been done with it"

Yes but I'm not most people ie I don't go for conventional music making or just one or two genres. I do longform, evolving stuff and some people get that and appreciate all the different directions. I'm not exactly making commercial music and only ever expect a small audience for what I do.

Yes, I could make 2 tracks out of it. Or 10, whatever, as I could stretch out lots of these sections.

But I like to think the sections flow somewhat logically and fit together comfortably enough.

I actually also do a lot of splitting tracks into sub-divisions rather than going with one massive thing. In composing this, it also turned into jazz and then metal and I've removed those parts and am turning them into a separate track. Basically, I have a lot of musical ideas and find it quite easy to generate more and more material. The difficulty then is trying to choose what goes with what and it's impossible to know if I always (or ever) get it right.

Musically, I quite like the idea of a left turn into a brick wall, as long as its done tastefully. I like tracks to take me different and interesting places though I also have no problem with one straight genre if it's done really well. I don't think this track has that many surprising twists and turns. I've tried to keep it all in the same sort of mood, using the same collection of sounds that I hink work together.

OK, I don't know why the violin part at 8:23 doesn't work for you. It's just a return to an earlier theme (and drum loop), now explored a bit more. It's my favourite section so I'll keep it.

I still have no idea what "Clid" is but it doesn't matter. It that is a word, it's not one I've heard before.

Anyway, good that you liked some of it. Not a problem that didn't extend to all of it.

Hi. Thanks for the praise ("Over all this has class") though I'm not quite sure what you're saying at times. Let me try to work it out.

"Tried that slide guitar in there, it worked but I don't know
where the end came from, a left turn Clid... :-)

I have no idea what "Clid" means or if it's just a typo. And then something about not knowing where the end came from. Don't know what you mean. If you mean 8:21-9:40, that's a reprise (return) of the string melody on 4:10 though I do more with it this time. That's my favourite section (the end 90 secs).

"I find it a little to light after all that funk, it's like your rolling
down the Cross Bronx Express way...Blink and you end up in
the Smokie Mountains somewhere..."

I don't know where the Cross Bronx Express way is. For a start, I don't live in the US.

I think the rest means something like you didn't think going into the slide solo was a good idea after the delicate funk middle. A little too light? Well, when the slide enters, that's also where a heavier drum kit enters so I don't think it's light. If anything, a bit heavier as things get a bit more epic and upfront after all the groove chilling.

I had a whole bunch of other guitar parts (funk, metal, blues, rock etc) I was planning to use in the breakout section beginning 5:45 but I'm trying hard not to make tracks that are too long these days so decided just to go with the slide solo. It seems to be enough. I don't mind if you don't like it (or don't think if fits this track) and will try to work out what's perhaps wrong with it.

Thanks.

Soundhound, Thanks for the feedback and the compliment I will give it a try and see how it sounds.

thanks!

thanks man :)
i was starting to fall away from this project a bit, in favour of other tracks but these comments have inspired me :D haha
Ill defiantly be updating it.

Thanks SoundHound!

Glad you like it I may update it in the future so is at least 3 min of song

Thanx