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I listened again and said one word-wow. lkb
I am flattered that a man with your experience in music thinks so highly of the one song I have posted here. For me I think the best way to appreciate it is to listen to the classical piece 'O Fortuna', then listen to my piece and realize they are the same song, I just translated it. The difference between what I did and other translations is that I took the time to translate it by poetic meaning and added the whole lyrical intro to give it context. It took years to get that translation right. And the music wasn't much easier, I couldn't just transcribe notes from sheet music, I had to rework a couple things and add a couple things and kind of strip it down to get it where it is. I am not sure if it is my 100% best effort, I know there are things I could have done better, but it was a complete effort and in a way I like that it is only 95% as good as I could get it, makes it more human. Thanks for the review and your appreciation for what I did.
oh, and I went back and listened to it again for the first time in a long time since I finished, and I totally agree that my lyrics were too low and the backup was too high in the mix. Not sure if that means I will go back and rework it, but you were spot on with that advice.
O Fortuna: The gravely old voice is an incredible contrast to the silky instrumental and vocal background. Yet it blends wonderfully.
Thanks so much. It took me a long time to get that right.
Hi there, I hope you are well and staying safe. Thanks for adding Niamh to your playlist. Best wishes, Daniel (bluecountry1976)
Thanks so much for your playlist add of "Tell Me What You Bring". Jay
I love your art! Thank you for reaching out and I am so glad that you find some of my art (music) appealing as well. =] Much love and support!
Thanks, its all old stuff, but I figured this was a good place for it. Don't do enough art anymore since I spend so much time on my scientific work. Like what you have going on, if you ever need an opinion or help with anything feel free to reach out.
Thank you for the five star rating and adding I hate to hear my baby's cry to your song list I'm honored!
and once again I had no idea it was you, so you know its an honest review. Do you ever record anything the same way twice? lol
It depends on the genre and even then I don't always sing it the same way twice!
Thank you for using our song"Lowdown Heartbroke Blues"in your playlist. Welcome to the club!
I liked the song. I really would like trying to remix that for you. I think it could sound so much better.
please do would love to hear it thanks Buddy
Well, do you still have the individual tracks that you can send me as .wav files? That is what I would need to work on it. I could give you an email address to send the files too. but if it is just one file of the finished track it would not let me have the flexibility to do what needs to be done so there would not be much point unless you have the tracks.
Ill see what l do
Thanks for your reviews of Samhain & Cheers. Samhain was listed as ambient because I honestly don' know what genre it is! It was written with Acoustic Guitar; my late husbands' work. The sound effects are all me with my Ensonique TS12. I wanted to 'catch' the sound of the two souls re-connecting. I'd be happy to do an acoustic version, you game? Now for "Cheers". It is a fun song but not one of the songs I've written that suits my voice! I'll work on it more, though. The sound you are referring to is a keyboard 'harmonica' & I'm not fond of it either, but I don't record the music, my co-writer does. After the holidays I'm sure we will find an alternative instrument. Happy Holidays! (I'm a Grinch, actually)
I could be convinced to mix something for you, but I do not play an instrument anymore, best I can do is add midi to something. That can pose some challenges when the recorded piece is done first since it can be tough to match tempos. As far as making "Samhain and Cheers" goes, you probably have enough there to remix it as acoustic. Do you still have all the individual tracks or do you only have the final mix?
All I have of Samhain is the backing track and I can't change it. I'll talk to Luciano my co-writer and see if he can't find a better sound for cheers after the holidays if not I happen to know a couple of banjo players or at least I know of their existence around here I wanted violin but that didn't work very well but a real harmonica would work too. Do you think it would sound better with a male vocal?
Oh. and you're accusing me of ripping someone off? Read the description the song. I have 3 versions of the song which is an original work. 'Promises' 'Promises2Funk Acoustic' what you just heard and 'Promises2Funk" full version with the guitar, piano, bass and keyboard & drums. Seriously, what kind of meds are you on?
I did not accuse you of ripping someone off, I was pointing out that I had heard that song before and did not know what the deal was. Further how can I read the description of a song before I know what the song is? That is not how random reviews work and you know that. In fairness to you I went back and looked at the two reviews I just did for you. The first being "a Spiritual Journey". I don't know what review you read but I complimented the composition. I said the problem was all the instruments had the same tone. I stand by that statement, I double down on that statement. That song desperately needs a greater range in tones. Secondly "Promises2funk" I reread the review and stand by everything I said, most of which was I have heard this song before. Please give me advice on how I can give you great marks on originality if I have heard the song before and do not know whether it was your work I heard before or not? The biggest complaint I had with that song was I thought your guitar work was sloppy. I stand by that statement. You clearly can play the guitar. YOu can clearly play the guitar well. That was clearly not up to the standards you should set for yourself and I called you on it. Why? To make you better. I do not get any benefit from making you a better more careful musician who puts more effort into his recordings. Further, grow up and act like an adult. Not everyone who listens to your music is going to tell you its the greatest thing they ever heard. Grow up. When someone reviews your music, they are not part of some sinister plan to destroy your dreams, they are offering constructive criticism based on what they hear. Whether you choose to learn from a review or not learn from a review is up to you, but to throw a temper tantrum at someone who you do not know because you can't handle it is counterproductive. You need a little thicker skin. To put it into perspective for you. There are 7 billion people on the planet. If 1 million of those people really like your music and choose to buy your music that is considered a benchmark of success. So before you predetermine what people should think about your music before they hear your music, you should keep those numbers in mind and readjust what your ego is telling you. You have talent and I sincerely wish you all the best in your work, please use this as a learning experience.
Hey Good Advise. Take your reviews and go somewhere else. What qualifies you to review anything anyway? You have no songs posted so as far as I'm concerned you have 0 qualifications to do this and your opinion is worthless. Have nice day!
I have ears and am not tone deaf so that qualifies me to determine what I think and feel about a song. What qualifications I have are listed on my profile if you cared. You must have looked at it hoping there would be a song there that you could rate poorly, but you clearly what was written on it. Further I am working on a song currently and will post it soon. It will not be the greatest song in the world, nor will it be the worst. But if you would like to keep checking back on my profile to see when I post it and then give it a poor rating out of spite, feel free you are welcome to do it, because after all I assume that is why you went to my profile since you did not read my profile.
Are you on Facebook?
Nope, I avoid facebook. Too intrusive.
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Is this artwork yours? I do abstract, nudes & 'Bubble People' too!
yes all the pics on this site are my original work. I don't have much time for it now though, most of my drawing time goes towards making the science presentations on my website. www.VioGenesis.com
I'll check that out!
Thanks for the review of 'Rain'. It's an introspective song filled with parables. It is meant to be somewhat lethargic & relaxing.
I've uploaded a new version of Hungry Child. Would you please listen & give feedback? Thank You!
I reread that review before listening to the new recording. Given what I said in that review, this was a gigantic improvement. The recording actually had a real good balance to it, the song came through pretty crisp and clean. Only two things that I did not like so much, but I did like the overall composition. First was that the electric guitar was very feedback heavy and gave you a background static that was almost always there. It didn't ruin the song by any means, but it did muddy the guitar a little. The second thing was a thought you over used the "echo effect" on the vocals, and at least once or twice you sang the echo effect without the need to overdub or add it in. You probably overused that a little, but it didn't ruin the song, it just started to lose its poignancy as it was occurring too many times too close together. Overall I liked it though, and you are definitely getting better at putting your mixes together without a doubt. especially if you could clean that one up so quickly. On a side note, now that I have heard about 6 or 7 songs from you at this pointI'd liek to point something out to you now that you seem to have a handle on your mixes. Stylistically you are kind of all over the place. You don't really have a genre or soudn that is your own yet. I mean I have heard just your vocals come across three or four different ways so far. In fact when your songs come up for review, most of the time I do not know its you. For most people I hear them once, and I can pick out their work most times going forward if I hear them again. So I would say your most pressing need right now, is you and your music making partners need to figure out what is your sound. Go through your stuff, see which stuff you think makes you all sound best, which stuff makes you all the happiest to play and perfrom and then try to stay inside that more narrow scope going forward. That way you can begin to create a true identity for yourselves.
A lot of these songs are songs I wrote a long time ago and I'm just now getting them recorded my niche lately seems to have taken a turn towards rock rap and I'm enjoying that pocket;
Not saying I'm a rapper but it's more of a Debbie Harry melodic talking which I enjoy!
Thanks again for another review! This time it was Oh Father.The song is focused on the feelings of a victim of cleric abuse. Locket & pocket...The lyric refers to loss of the dreams & innocence of the victim. Where are they? Did the priest put them in his pocket or a sacrificial locket? The word 'master' is monster. in truth who is the Father when the monster takes his place. I added that part as a bridge of sorts.
ah, that makes a little more sense then. Maybe my problem was I never made the clergy connection. Wondering what swapping out father to pastor might do to the song. And Monster definitely sounded like master to me, monster would definitely had made more sense.
Thanks for the reply! If I changed it to pastor it would exclude all those actually abused by their fathers. I've tried since the early 90's to get a good version of this song that didn't go all out 'exorcist'. I like Luciano's production. It does need a good thrash guitar solo in the instrumental...know anyone who might be able to pull it off?
Thank you for an informed fair review! I've been an entertainer all my life and I have a thick skin. If I can't take a review that doesn't say I'm a Goddess, I shouldn't be here!I'm here to learn, grow and hopefully place a few songs here & there. I co write with Luciano Martella & a few others, but Luciano is in Rome, Italy & sometime what I feel a song needs gets lost in translation. I'll keep on keeping on & maybe I'll get a 5 star from you yet!!
G A, I see you got another one of my songs..Bluestone Mountain...well you got the Bluegrass version, well my version anyway....seeing I am not a bluegrass singer I had fun believing it was Bluegrass...I like what I did but I have a contep version as well if you care to give a listen...and you are right it is closer too folk...yours musically Delta
Thank you so much for adding " Rockin' And A Railin'" to your playlist . John Carey
Your welcome. Whenever I find a good song whether it is my type of music or not, I always add it to my playlists.
Hi, you just gave a laughable review on my song "My Darkest Hour" You might wanna update your equipment that you're listening to music on, because this song has won several awards has been professionally recorded, it has been played on several radio stations around the world and was also selected for a movie soundtrack. Also has held the #1 spots on the Broadjam Top 10 Earth, Rock, Hard Rock and Rock-Progressive. All with raving reviews. But there is always a sour apple in the bunch, so what ever, but of course you're entitle not your warped opinion...lol. Thanks for the laugh!
I was surprised to hear your comment, so I went back and re-listened and re-read the review I gave you. Since yours was the very last review I did I remembered what I heard pretty well. After checking I can honestly say I do not know what happened, but I can say what I heard this morning was not the same as I heard yesterday morning. I am listening with the same equipment so I do not know if it is an equipment issue or if there was a playback issue because of broadjam or the internet. I stand by what I said about it starting too abruptly and that the drums would benefit from more attention to them, and that I did not particularly like the ending, but I never viewed those things as glaring flaws to begin with. What I said about the lyrics doesn't hold up though. What I heard today and what I heard yesterday is not the same. I am not sure I can explain it, my equipment seems to be working fine. I can only think of two possibilities, either it was a playback issue with broadjam, or it was an internet connection issue with my neighborhood. While I live in the city, my little section of the city can get bombarded by internet traffic at times when everyone is on at the same time, and that can hurt and hamper the quality of my connection. Think everyone wanting to check their fantasy football team, every child wanting to play online gaming, and everyone else connected all at once bogging everyone down. I really don't know what to tell you, I can only give you a review based on what I hear. All I know for sure is the sound quality this morning is certainly different then yesterday morning. I had been considering getting new headphones, but again, they seem to be in fine working order right now. I am sorry if you thought I was just some random guy being an asshole for no reason. I can only go by what I hear when I hear it. I can say that I liked the song much more now that I can hear the lyrics and would have given you better marks for sure. I can tell you that I take complaints about a review very seriously and that you were right. What would you like me to do about? Does it matter that much to you for me to contact broadjam and tell them to take down the review because I clearly had some technical issue that biased the review? Let me know I'd be glad to do it.
I appreciate that you went back and took another listen. Technical issues are always a possibility and no I dont want to go to broadjam to retract the review. I'm not worried about it making the charts again. It's an old song and it had its day in the sun. I respect people's opinions and the fact that you took more time to hear it, is a great picture of your integrity. That's more than most people will do. So thank you!
Well I am glad there are no hard feelings, and the frustration you expressed in your original comment was more then understandable so don't sweat it at all. I am going to go out and get new headphones, probably do it today now because of you, so thank you. It could have been something as stupid as my jack not being all the way seated, but I don't want to take that chance. Especially since I am working on a song (my first in ten years) and I would hate to get the mix wrong cause my phones might have an issue. I originally only wanted to replace them cause the foam was a little wore out and my ears are sensitive to the touch because I was a high school wrestler. As for taking the time to go back and re-listen to your song, I do that for anyone who complains. The way I see it if I am going to do reviews then I should be more then willing to double check my work if they disagree. This was a first for me, you weren't complaining because you were delusional or hypersensitive, you had a legit gripe. I'm glad it all worked out in the end, and I'll try to make a point of going and checking out some of your new work since you said this was an old song anyone. Have a great one!
Thanks so much for the critique of my tune Goodbye Yesterday - appreciate it! Best wishes.
Your welcome, you made my job reviewing it easy, it was a very complete effort by you.
Hi GA. Just a line of thanks for adding 'Spanish Lullaby to your playlist. David
That's why I am here, to find good music. I got disgusted with the crap that commercial music puts out so I went indie and came back here. I find a good song I add it to my playlists. After spending some time here reviewing songs again I realized I missed doing reviews and more importantly I missed producing music. It inspired me to start making music again. I hope to be able to publish my first new work in a week or two. I am already a month in on the song, to give you an idea of how much time I put into a recording.
Comment | Connect Collapse Marie Jarreau posted 12 hours ago Hi William, thank you so much for your very careful review of Maybe It's Just Moonbeams. While I don't have the expertise to speak to the production/mix of my original song, I believe your thorough critique will give us somethings to look at carefully. As vocalist on the song I'll certainly take your notes to heart and attempt to use the technique you've suggested. Good Wishes to you in your own music endeavors. Marie
I'm glad you appreciated the review. Some people don't want to hear anything but praise and can't handle constructive criticism and some will never take good advice. I am glad that the effort I put into the review was not wasted
On the contrary, I think that constructive criticism is really important to any artist. Sometimes I may not agree with every critical point offered but I think its vital to listen to others's opinions and ideas about my music and your points here are very well taken. So I'm happy to give them a try to see if they work for me to improve what I'm doing. If I'm not willing to listen to advice and try to improve then I'm a stagnant-artist! Thats no good! LOL!
Hello again GA. Thank you for your review of 'Spanish Lullaby. I appreciate your detailed analysis. I wanted the song to have two sections to provide light and shade. Hence the reflective first part followed by the frenzied ending, but I take on board thoroughly the points you've made. At some point I'd like to make a fully Spanish language version of the song, but the logistics of doing a full translation, and finding a singer of Spanish who could do the job as well as Alex is daunting. One day maybe. Regards. David
Marie. Have you added your message to the wrong thread? I received your message but it is addressed to William. Regards. David
David, THANK YOU! Still learning to manuever in BroadJam LOL!
Hi. Thank you for your review of 'Ideal World'. I think your comments are very fair. The guitar track was sampled from my demo, so that might explain the shortcomings in that department. And percussion; that seems to be an ongoing issue for me, although the percussion palette was designed to replicate this successful song https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KMP jX_3snfM I'm glad you liked the song overall. Many thanks. David
I am glad you found the comments helpful.
Hello GA, Thanks for the review of Pow Pow Pow. Mrs. Kate
Hey there...a couple of points *thanks for the honest, direct reviews *I suggest that you checkout the Billboard Alternative Charts to see what alternative rock means today (Portugal The Man, lovelytheband, et al). *If Katy Perry wants to sing one of our songs, like we say in Colombia..."a la orden" *Keep up the good work!
Glad to know you appreciate the reviews. You might be right about revisiting what alt rock means now. I grew up in the days of Nirvana and the Seattle sound, so my idea of alt rock is probably not up to date. Thanks for the good advice!
a su orden, mijo
Good Advice thank you much for the well received review of my song Set Me Free. That is an old song I wrote back in 1991or2 i believe and it was my 5 or 6th song that I ever wrote and produced on my own so I was still trying to hone in my productions skills. Green ass the grass in my garden I was. I hear what you are saying completely and I agree. It's not perfect and I should and probably will revisit the track in the near future and give it a much needed face lift now that you have mentioned a few things to me that slipped by before just because the track has a few years on it. But I do like the song a lot and I think me and the boys and guest singer girl gave a good performance. But the production could have a little more dynamics and flavor. It would most definitely make it shine a little more. Good review man. Thank you Ante
Glad to hear I was able to point out a thing or two that you missed. Sometimes when you record a song and do the mixing you just hear it so many times that you don't hear it the same way other people hear it cause you know every detail. Happy to hear you are considering going back and tweaking things, I really did like the song.
Hi, I read your review of my song Enola Tremula. Thank you for your effort. But I am afraid you did miss the point of the whole song and the experiment behind it. No harm. But I hope that in the future you try to listen to music with a more open mind. You are confinin yourself in a small cage. But thanks anyway for the effort. Best.
Well I would politely disagree with the notion that I do not have an open mind to music and confine myself to a "small cage" I re-read the review, and I remember the song well, and I stand 100% behind what I said. However if you somehow think I missed the "point" or the "experiment" of the song, please feel free to try to explain it to me. Honestly, it bothers me a little bit that you would claim that I am somehow not enlightened enough to enjoy or understand your song, that you tell me I do not understand the deeper point or meaning, but you make no attempt to explain what that point or deeper meaning is. So I went to your page and looked at what you had written there about the song, and it makes less sense to me. Your written description of the song has almost no correlation to the song in my opinion.
It has been awhile but I want to thank you for the reviews you did on "Farewell to Nova Scotia" and Erie Canal"....When I first was on BJ I was in the Celtic World, the Celtic cd I made included that song.The words Nova Scotia is latin for New Scotland, a land in Canada where many Scots immigrated too. So I guess that is why I included that song. If someone asked me what do you sing I tell them I am A folk story teller. Scot, Irish, English, and American folk music...Many think I am classically trained, but I am not, I just love to sing.... Your review for my "Erie Canal" was interesting... The ending you didn't care for has a story behind it..I was to first learn this song when I was in the 4th grade some where around 1954 or there about and the girls had a harmony part to the boys chorus...so I chose to use part of that harmony for the end as if I was walking on down the towpath....I grew up near the Canal and my children walked the towpath many times in their youth...I thank you again for your kind reviews and hope you get me again....I am a friend in music
Thanks for writing, I had to go back and look at what I wrote in those reviews. It had been awhile. Sorry I did not have more concrete advice to give you, but I am glad that I at least inspired you to think about why you made the decisions you made with those songs. And I certainly wouldn't be upset hearing more of your songs in my review cue.
Thanks for taking the time to write fairly detailed reviews of both "Happy" and "Rise Above the Blues". Much appreciated. It's all Good Advice. Thanks.
Glad you find what I say useful.
Hey thanks for the review I can appreciate an independent ear when it comes to my music. The track was done in 2001 and the vocals were done in 2011 it's a pretty rough cut compared to my other stuff. The artist took the track as a whole and just rhymed over it I don't even think he thought to make it a full song. He basically gave it back to me this way. I wanted to get his vocal and use it as a reference for when I mix and master it but we never got the chance he had a mental breakdown but before he did he wrote this song. I posted it because even with the imperfections it still knocks hard and everyone seems to like it but to your last critique about the N word I wouldn't have went that route either but I didn't write it. Thanks again for your review people don't usually go into detail when critiquing so it's appreciated. âœ"ðŸ¿ðŸ’¯
hey, I am glad you appreciated it, I am actually glad you wrote me because now the things I didn't like make more sense. Also I was a little confused when I went to your page and everything I played was a beat track. Now it all makes sense. I do like the beats I heard, have you ever considered trying your hand at vocals?
https://www.reverbnation.com/solagr emusicproductions/song/11906434-les -whatever-may-come-ft-chandon