Sorry, but this has to be one of your worst...
I've heard much better work from you; this has to be one of your worst. I think you should work a lot more on this.
Melodies aren't too special. The one at the beginning was very generic, and from then on the melodies were rather bland. Some melodies weren't bad (1:32), but overall, the melodies didn't have that hook... they weren't really that catchy. You should invent more alternate melodies too, since 4 melodies playing blandly one after the other for 2 and a half minutes makes the song start getting repetitive. Also, what I didn't like was that the melodies had nothing at all to do with each other. This is more of a collection of melodies than a song, with no noticeable similarities between the melodies.
Instruments, if I heard correctly, were presets. You should make your own instruments with Sytrus or some other synthesizer, or buy VST's. If buying is not an option, you could get free soundfonts. They aren't even close to as good as VST's, but are good enough to start with. Some good free soundfonts are the SGM, FluidR3 GM, Unison and Squidfont Orchestral if you want to compose classical. Also, the instrument at the beginning was really annoying. That sound effect at 0:41 was pretty cool though.
I didn't like the transitions you did. 1:32 was weird since the melody just stopped abruptly, the new melody at 2:01 seemed to come out of nowhere, at 2:07, the drums finished suddenly, and that's only a little of the rough transitions around the song. Experiment with different fade-ins and fade-outs, giving drum rolls where necessary to introduce the drums, and add some stuff like reverse cymbals and reverbed kicks to fill in some rough transitions.
The structure is quite bad too. As I said before, this resembles a collection of melodies with rough transitions inbetween. A simple way of doing it is choosing a chorus for the song where all the instruments play together, with a catchy melody, and repeat that a few times in the song, with some good alternate melodies inbetween and decent transitions from one melody to another.
Variety is something that needs to be worked on as well. As I said before, this needs many more alternate melodies. Either that, or shorten the song, and think of other ways to stop this from becoming repetitive. Take my Power of the Piano as an example. It's almost three minutes long, doesn't get too repetitive and only uses around four to five melodies. What this song needs is progressive buildups, better transitions, more variety of background instruments, a fixed chorus and some more variety of effects. Trust me, even though they make your song sound better, they'll even do wonders to the variety.
Intro was nothing that special. I liked the drum buildup after, but other than that, I think the intro would be better if it progressed more gradually. As for the ending, not too good either. A good ending is another one of the many reasons that this song needs a chorus that plays a few times throughout the song. Then, you could make the last melody the chorus, and end the song with a proper ending note right after the chorus. Either that, or end the song the way you started it with the last note being the same as the first one you started with.
Ugh, FL Studio default drum presets -.-. That's the first thing that came to mind when I heard the drums. They were varied, but maybe a little too varied, and they felt quite random throughout the song. What I suggest for fixing the drums is firstly getting better samples instead of using FL presets, and then making around 6 drum beats for the song; some simple and some complex, which you can use in the song, instead of making them so random. Also, some drum beats were very annoying, namely the drum beat where the snare kept playing non-stop.
I've heard a lot better from you, and although this has a good effect, and a good drum buildup, it needs a lot of work concerning the randomness of the drums, structure, transitions, variety, beats, melodies, instruments and ending. Sorry for the harsh review :\......
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