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[Forest_Density [Box-Killa]]

Good job :D

I usually hate calm and ambient songs like this, but good job on this one, I enjoyed it quite a bit.

The melodies of that piano are just fantastic. All of the other instruments that you used were perfect as well, and they all fit the name perfectly, especially the harp. The snare sounds a little off, I'd suggest some booming bass drum instead.

Beginning was great, I have nothing to complain over there. It's the ending which was a little bad. It ended with too quick a note and it sounded a little wrong. Instead of ending it with the note you ended it with, repeat the note before it again, but making it a chord, a little longer longer and end it with that instead, and maybe some wind chymes too.

Apart from those small problems, I have nothing else to complain about, so great job on it!
9/10
5/5

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Box-Killa responds:

Oh sweet, i got a review club review :D!! wooh glad you like those melodies! Yeah the ending wasn't great. I really couldnt think of anything else to end it at the time. Your idea sounds good. :D Thanks for the review much appreciated !

[Musings in Bm -WIP-]

Very good job!

I don't usually enjoy classical pieces, but this impressed me quite a bit. So far, you're doing an awesome job on it ;).

The melodies are fine and I have nothing to complain about them. I wish I could see more piano though, since when the other instruments came in, I could barely hear the piano notes. The brass instrument at 1:07 was very good, which I could hear more of that too.

The piano intro in the beginning was very good, with great notes. It was the ending which bothered me a little, since it ended way too suddenly. The transitions and overall structure isn't perfect, but I'm sure you'll get that better when you finish this WiP.

Good job on it so far. I'm sure this'll turn out to be an awesome piece, so good luck on it.
9/10
5/5 - Man this song is so 0-bombed. It shows how much Newgrounds appreciates this kind of stuff -.-

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loansindi responds:

Thanks for the review!

The piano will ultimately carry through more, this one was mostly an experiment in orchestration.

The end does come suddenly because my key change wasn't working quite like I wanted to so I called this version 'done' for the time being. I'm just waiting on some motivation to get this shiz done, you know?

[Sugar, Milk and Paisley G]

Repetitive...

But cool ^^. It's a really good song, just very repetitive. Well, it's a long song, so it's gonna be hard to review, but here goes...

The melodies themselves are very catchy. Need a few more guitar chords, in my opinion, but they had awesome notes. As I said, the melodies repeated themselves quite a lot so you should work on that. Oh and I loved that guitar solo at the end XD.

The transitions were very good, and every melody seemed to get the listener ready for the next, which was cool. The ending was great for a loop, so you should shorten the last note, or end it with a proper note.

The drums were pretty repetitive too, and kinda simple as well, but the samples used were excellent so you should make more drum beats with those samples.

A repetitive song, but the tunes themselves are perfect and I've not much to complain about them. You should make this better, it rocks XD. Keep up the great work :).
8/10
5/5 - since it's really 0-bombed...

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Sawdust responds:

Thanks, I'll try and cater to this then. I can see that the problems I have here are very very prominent, so then I'll improve it.

Thanks!

[Change is in the Air]

Cool :)

Not such a bad idea to a song. I quite enjoyed it. Still, it has some problems in it.

I'll start with the drums. The beat is pretty good, but it plays for too long in the song, is way too loud, and overpowers the main melody too much. I only heard about 3 or so drum samples used, so try and vary those too.

The main tune repeated itself quite a lot throughout the song. It's relaxing, and the instruments you chose are perfect, but it got a little boring to hear after repeating itself so much.

The ending sounds like it would make a good loop, but there was some silence after which made it a song. I think as a loop, it would sound better, or at least give it a good note to end with if you really want a song instead.

Transitions were done very well, and I didn't find even one transition which felt off. Also, the song fit very well with the name, so good choice of the name.

There are some defects in this song, especially the fact that it's very repetitive, but the melodies themselves are very good, so keep up the good work :).
7/10
5/5 - since this really got 0-bombed O_o.

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Sawdust responds:

Alright, thanks for the feedback. The drums were probably off because I EQed them and tailored to them on some very shit headphones, you probably have some rapetastic speakers going on, which must've changed the intended sound I was going for.

As for the boring part, It was probably there because well, I composed this mainly for school purposes, there was a project and I had to write something, so I just had to put really bassy drums and weak melodies, because this was supposed to be sung to. Well, it wasn't used for the project in the end, so here I am, stuck with this, too lazy to tailor it to NG standards.

Yeah, it is a very relaxing song, the subject matter it was supposed to have was about the life and times of this saint :P

And the name, well 'change' was part of the life of this saint, so me being cheesy and original, stuck with that title.

Yeah, thanks!

[Game Over Guitar Theme]

Really good!

One of the most useful loops I've ever seen. Fits the name perfectly, and I enjoyed listening to it quite a bit.

The melody was pefect for the feel of the song, and didn't repeat itself too much, plus the instrument that plays it was perfect. I'd suggest a piano playing some high notes that might make it better.

I liked the ending quiet a bit, where you were playing the melody with the guitar, and then it suddenly switched to the main instrument. It fit the loop perfectly.

The only flaws I found was that the accompanying guitar in the background didn't change at all during the song, and it got a little monotonous to listen to. Also, I think this needs a little soft percussion to it. Some percussive hits like a soft kick and crash cymbal in a few parts, and a really soft drum beat playing in the background might add to the awesomeness of this song.

In general, it's a very well performed loop. Very few problems, great melodies, choice of instruments, so great song, I guess :).
9/10
5/5

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sarias responds:

that has to be the best review ive ever gotten :) thank you for that i never conciderrd adding more to this i might have to now though as for the other guitar i was thinking it felt very similar the whole time maby i will have to arrange it for a bigger ensemble because for this particular one i feel its where it should be but arranging it might give artists more options

[Asphyxia AAAAA]

Kinda cool.

Not such a bad song. Has quite a few good parts, and some parts are pretty catchy.

Most of the melodies were done very well. I liked the one at 0:41 and the one at 1:00. Those were really catchy. The solo was quite cool too, but I'd suggest some drums since I couldn't keep up with it and lost the rythm of the song completely.

Almost all the transitions were done very well. It's just the one which started the solo was a little off and made me lose track of it as I said before. All the other ones were fine though, and switched from melody to melody perfectly.

The beginning was really amazing. Needs a little more buildup to the main melody, since it started too suddenly, but for an intro, it was really good. I'd suggest playing it again at 1:44 and then it builds up gradually to the solo. The ending was a little too sudden, but was OK.

In general, a pretty cool song. Keep it up :).
8/10
4/5

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[-rT- WiP : Digital Extacy]

Wow, not bad!

Very good start. Seems like it's going to turn out to quite a great song. :)

Loved the intro; a little blurry, but the notes were great. I expected a new instrument to come in at around 0:55, not stay piano. The drums seemed to overpower the piano, so maybe you could use some saw synth and a high plucked instrument in the background, plus some bass?

The drums overall were very good, and varied pretty well too. they were built up quite well. Some more variety of drum samples would fit pretty well, but it's still not bad as it is.

I enjoyed this quite a bit. An excellent start, I'm sure it'll become an awesome song. Good luck XD.
8/10
4/5

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ReaperTechno responds:

Ive rebalanced the piano and drums, so that should be fixed, thanks for the luck, and the review!

[Swerve - Rip]

Quite Cool :D

Not such a bad song. I'm not really into house music though, but I quite enjoyed this. I noticed a few things which bothered me though.

I'll start with the drums. Very well executed, and varied pretty well, but more variety of the drum samples would help, as Denn-C said. Still, quite awesome. The scraping sounds in it were quite strange, though.

The transitions were quite well done, like the one at around 1:19. Still, the sraping sound ruined it a little.

The intro was quite cool, and the buildups were OK. I liked the ending quite a bit, and I understand how hard it is to make an ending with drums only, so good job on that ;).

Overall, needs some work on it, but compare to some other house songs I heard, this one's quite good. Keep up the good work ;).
7/10
4/5

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[In vitro Space Jesus]

Ow, my ears...

This is really strange. I'm definitely not into noise music, so I don't really have much to say...

The noise is loud and has really low quality, plus it hurts your ears very quickly, and I definitely won't want to hear it for more than a few seconds. Plus, it's only that noise. There's no other sound to accompany it.

It's really hard to follow, and I couldn't listen to more than a few seconds of it. A lot of it comes in too suddenly, so you could at least try and build the noise up gradually.

Still, it's pretty long, and varied, so I guess you put some effort in it...
4/10
2/5

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[Rondoesque]

Yuck, MIDI... :P

Apart from the fact that the qualtiy is MIDI, this is out of this world! A very complicated piece, well varied, and it looks like you put heaps of work into it.

That piano is extraordinary. Harmonized perfectly with the saxophone, and really varied but still not feeling random. I liked the part at around 1:02 and at 1:37.

The saxophone's notes were very well done too. Good job with the crescendos, and the fast notes when it was getting to the end were fantastic.

The beginning and ending were both really good. It's just the ending that felt a little off, since the last note wasn't held long enough, and it ended slightly suddenly.

Very good piece, I enjoyed it quite a lot, especially the piano. Keep up the great work!
10/10
5/5
Sorry, no download. Classical isn't really my style... :\.

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sarias responds:

ok i know i said the last one was my best review ever but this is prolly better im kinda reviewing your review but your really good at it :) the ending is just this recording (theres actually a fermata at the end) i actually have a sax player lined up (i could do it but hes better then me :)) but i still need to find a piano player but it is soon to come thanks again for the review and its ok if classical aint your style :) I hate classical and baroque but its what you need to do to get into music school lol im more of a romantic on kinda guy on which i dont consider classical (compair clair de lune to mozart piano sonata compleatly different) lol im also a film music kind of guy but you gotta listen to all music to do that i mean john williams is basically a Stravinsky impersonator anyways thanks again for the review