Score: 10

"Agreeing with rocky about everything..."

submission: Later Mosaic

date: June 25, 2008

Except you probably should write sober. Writing under the influence generally means that the music is an effect of the substance, not an effect of your own brilliance, and you are quite brilliant.

Still great man. You should try writing some more fully romantic stuff, you'd be great at that.

10 stars from me.

Score: 8

"Instrumentation."

submission: Temple of the Seductress

date: June 19, 2008

Agreed. I don't believe many jungles would have strings or brass. The gong was a far cry as well. Sounds a little asian, and it sounds more desertish than jungle-ish, mainly because of the various strummed/plucked instruments, that would have evolved in areas like india. It's a nice ethnic piece, but the instrumentation is stretched over many different areas of the world, it would seem.

Score: 9

"Very nice."

submission: Judgement at Heaven Gate

date: June 19, 2008

The harmonies and everything are great, the orchestration is good. At times things can be a little cluttered. It doesn't have the tension I would expect for a piece about final judgement, until about the 3 minute mark. The little snippets of songs work together really well together, but i feel you could have broken this up and developed it into many different songs. Together, it tends to seem as though the piece lacks any overall direction or purpose. The couple chord movements at about 4:20 (haha, great number) are brilliant. Also loving the pizzicato and the xylophones.

You should take some advanced theory classes, you seem to be very good already, but some organization and direction can do a ton of good for any piece.

9/10, 5/5

Score: 3

"Seems completely random."

submission: esneuv

date: June 14, 2008

The song simply has no coherence, no direction, no feeling. I get the feeling you played random keys on a midi keyboard. It would do you some good to take theory or something. At the very least, listen to things before you submit them. Do you honestly think this sounds good?

If you keep trying, you could probably get somewhere, but this looks like a complete blob of nonsensical randomness to me.

Score: 10

"Def. a 5."

submission: {-^MP^-} Backroom Poker!

date: June 13, 2008

listening to it, the lead guitar sounds a bit like bon jovi's in dead or alive. But it's really an overall "groovy" piece, definitely something that would get me dancing, so cheers.

Score: 0

"It really kindof pisses me off..."

submission: @ndrea - What Hurts The Most

date: June 10, 2008

That someone who steals copyrighted music, edits it a little, and puts a fake profile pic up claiming to be a girl can get so much more popularity than an honest person who writes actual music.

Score: 10

"Not going to comment much on the writing."

submission: Minimalist Piece (for Peter)

date: June 6, 2008

I loved it, so 10/10. I'm no expert with minimalism, but there's a great book if you really enjoy this genre, it's a comprehensive textbook/workbook called "Composing Music: A New Approach" by William Russo.

Anyway, it's great. You should check it out.

Score: 10

"Sick."

submission: »§« Coming Home

date: June 6, 2008

The only downside is the sound of a brilliant opera singer singing heavy metal.

Generally, you want to have a raspy voice for this kind of genre, and you and I are both trained to sing through the diaphragm, so achieving that effect is all but impossible through singing with your throat.

This would be great screamo music, if you had a good screamer.

And don't take my comments to mean iI don't like your voice, it's brilliant, BUT, people like us who are trained in opera and stuff generally can't sing these genres as effectively as someone who's been around this type of music forever.

Score: 10

"This one."

submission: Trio No.2, in G Minor, Mvt.III

date: May 22, 2008

Listening to both, I think you should keep this ending and save the second for when you write in hollywood. :P I love the harmonies. Such beautiful melodies also, weaving in and out. i feel the ostinato in the bass became a little repetitive, and i don't think many romanticists or classicists would have written an ostinato continuing through the entire song. As to why i prefer this ending (god, i'm so A.D.D.), it just seems to remain more consistent with the mood of the piece. The piece has a rather consonant feel to it, and to throw such a dissonant ending at the listener is like saying to a little kid, "here, it's a lovely kitten, ok, well, now that you've seen it, i'm going to run it over." Although i don't think the other ending sounds bad, it doesn't quite fit.

Anyway, great job with this one. I'll have to work on getting some more reviews for you, and hopefully I can get some in return.

Score: 5

"I have to agree with the other reviewer's score."

submission: Through the Fire&Flames(Piano)

date: May 21, 2008

It takes very little talent to transcribe. At the very least, write something original. The weekly top 5 is no place for remixes.

Anyway, form an actually musical perspective, it was okay, but there are a few things that stick out very badly. The strings are very poorly written. What kind of strings player would consent to sit for 7 and a half minute of nearly constant whole notes? It may be a piano songs, but even in piano concerti, where the piano is the focus, the composer throws the orchestra a bone here and there too. Also, I couldn't hear the clarinet. I play clarinet, and I hear nothing that sounds moderately like it anywhere. I suppose maybe you could claim the thing at the end is a clarinet, but it plays for like 8 measures and then just dies.

Thirdly, do you actually play piano? Because in my experience, this doesn't sound too realistically written. And as for those of you who think this is classical music, it's not. It's rock music that happens to feature classical instruments. Most of the chord movements in this piece are very anti-classical.

But anyway, you did a good job transcribing, although transcription could be done very easily, and i have no guarantee this isn't a midi rip that you sequenced through a piano.

5/10, 3/5