Re: [LAU] [Music] Spring Theme

On Sun, 8 Apr 2018 11:38:48 +1000
Roger <gurusonic@gmail.com> wrote:

> https://soundcloud.com/nominal6/spring-theme

> Pleasant track but I agree with Yassin's comments, not your best. I
> still love Jam12.
> The synth solo from 2:04 I don't like at all soundwise. I'd prefer
> more acoustic lead there instead similar to the later section. And
> imagine replacing the electric piano with a beautiful grand piano.
> Mmmm! Your mixing has improved markedly since you started, really
> nice balance and tones with warmth and everything in it's place
> without masking other parts. I'm a huge Mixbus fan as well.

I agree with all comments so far. It's certainly not the best. I got
into that one as a mixing exercise. It took a long time to finish. It
started out as jam196 and was at the mixing stage for a long time.
Things were removed, things were added. The guitar at the end part was
added recently.

As a musical creation it does not have the inviting groove, the warm
tones, or even the strangeness; it does not have what it takes to make
an artistic statement of some sort, to bridge to the listener. It rides
on the surface. I do like the way it ends, though. I also like the
grittiness of some theme synths before the solo. However as a mixing
project it's something else. Lots of technical details, it was a good
experience to learn some more.

jam12 has become mystifying for me. As if somebody else made it. How
can I take the time today to have so much space in the groove, so much
leeway between the notes while still retaining the essence ?
Everything seems so much more compressed. OTOH I do have a lot of
sketches that can be developed and some of them do have a bit of the
same feeling of space.

Hopefully I will not do too many of those pieces in which there's so
much work and not enough play :)

Thanks again for the comments,

Cheers.
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Received on Mon Jun 18 21:51:38 2018