Re: SONGWRITING COMPETITION - SWC064 December 2022 - Voting until 03-JAN-2022 23:59 UTC+1/CET
Posted: Sun Jan 01, 2023 16:29 CET
”You're furthermore asked to please reflect on your experience this month (2-3 paragraphs max), what you have learned, what you would like to do different in the future, etc.”
OK: My experience this (/the previous) month is that some gaslighting occurred. Luckily it doesn't happen very often. Apart from that: I (almost) always try to find chord progressions, musical arrangements, melodies and lyrics/words/phrases that distinguishes the song I'm working with from other songs, to make it a potential hit song, for the charts. (For people like me born in the 60s.) This is (almost) always my main effort, and this means I would never waste any energy, when the song is finished (if it ever gets finished), on listening in various different speakers https://drive.google.com/file/d/1PeUCuV ... share_link , afterwards. I simply don't see it as my job, I don't have enough energy, and there is also a limit as to how many times I can listen to my own pieces of music. I don't want to listen to any of my songs so many times that I begin to hate it. This is a song writing competition, after all.
I have been told, though, that maybe I should try to develop, as composer, and write something more modern / up to date. And I often say the same thing to myself. This month's competition, where it will almost be necessary to use synths, could be on option to do that. In this context: I've been creating dozens of wavetables. Especially the sound from the electric drill I provided was fun to use. I have at least 10 Wts from it; the shape of their wave forms varies very much. A very easy way to get use of them, is to simply use the Surge synth's presets, and change/switch/swap the WT originally used and use one of my own, instead. Ideally, of course, I'd like to “construct” patches of my own, and I'll try to to that. But it's a matter of time, and as far as I can see it should be in accordance with the rules to just change/switch/swap WT (?).
That's all (three paragraphs).
Feedback and voting:
KukoBass: Well, like you have pointed out yourself, your singing skills are not fully developed yet. Despite of this I liked your song. It has got potential. I liked the entire instrumentation / mix and the way the different parts succeed each other.
colorado weeks: I think I would have eq:d the funky guitar a little bit brighter. It sounds a bit … I don't know what word to use … hollow? Vox seems to be perfect, in that respect. You (/I) immediately like this track. Good idea with the 3:12 (synth-) strings. Maybe after the sax solo, you could have ended there. The final “my plans are out the window”, sung in the same way as before, feels like one time too much.
Arelem: A moving / atmospheric piece of music. Variation, even in terms of dynamics. The deep firm bass that comes in at 0:21 is well balanced. But I wonder one thing: that hand clap? It sounds exactly the same throughout the whole song. Why? I think it would be very interesting to listen to a version where you simply have removed the synthetic, totally “dead”, hand clap. It's fully possible everyone would say (even me) that something is missing. But we don't know that yet.
OK: My experience this (/the previous) month is that some gaslighting occurred. Luckily it doesn't happen very often. Apart from that: I (almost) always try to find chord progressions, musical arrangements, melodies and lyrics/words/phrases that distinguishes the song I'm working with from other songs, to make it a potential hit song, for the charts. (For people like me born in the 60s.) This is (almost) always my main effort, and this means I would never waste any energy, when the song is finished (if it ever gets finished), on listening in various different speakers https://drive.google.com/file/d/1PeUCuV ... share_link , afterwards. I simply don't see it as my job, I don't have enough energy, and there is also a limit as to how many times I can listen to my own pieces of music. I don't want to listen to any of my songs so many times that I begin to hate it. This is a song writing competition, after all.
I have been told, though, that maybe I should try to develop, as composer, and write something more modern / up to date. And I often say the same thing to myself. This month's competition, where it will almost be necessary to use synths, could be on option to do that. In this context: I've been creating dozens of wavetables. Especially the sound from the electric drill I provided was fun to use. I have at least 10 Wts from it; the shape of their wave forms varies very much. A very easy way to get use of them, is to simply use the Surge synth's presets, and change/switch/swap the WT originally used and use one of my own, instead. Ideally, of course, I'd like to “construct” patches of my own, and I'll try to to that. But it's a matter of time, and as far as I can see it should be in accordance with the rules to just change/switch/swap WT (?).
That's all (three paragraphs).
Feedback and voting:
KukoBass: Well, like you have pointed out yourself, your singing skills are not fully developed yet. Despite of this I liked your song. It has got potential. I liked the entire instrumentation / mix and the way the different parts succeed each other.
colorado weeks: I think I would have eq:d the funky guitar a little bit brighter. It sounds a bit … I don't know what word to use … hollow? Vox seems to be perfect, in that respect. You (/I) immediately like this track. Good idea with the 3:12 (synth-) strings. Maybe after the sax solo, you could have ended there. The final “my plans are out the window”, sung in the same way as before, feels like one time too much.
Arelem: A moving / atmospheric piece of music. Variation, even in terms of dynamics. The deep firm bass that comes in at 0:21 is well balanced. But I wonder one thing: that hand clap? It sounds exactly the same throughout the whole song. Why? I think it would be very interesting to listen to a version where you simply have removed the synthetic, totally “dead”, hand clap. It's fully possible everyone would say (even me) that something is missing. But we don't know that yet.
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