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: 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

Score: 10

"Brilliant!"

submission: A Young Mind

date: May 3, 2008

From a listener's perspective, it's flawless, but from a critic's perspective, I'd like to make a few suggestions. Namely, is the realism. I'm not terribly concerned about this, as it doesn't effect the sound of the song at all, but if you ever wanted this played live, it would be fatal. Bell ensembles usually stick to a few notes, yet there are quite a few key changes, and this could lead to the need of an unrealistically large ensemble. Also, in terms of parts, i feel the harp may feel a little left out. The harp is stuck playing arpeggios for the entire piece, and I thing a harpist would appreciate something that resembles the beautiful melody you've created. Also, towards the end, I hate the fadeout! It needs a solid ending! This song is far too well-structured to end with a fadeout! I personally think the F that the higher strings are holding should resolve to an Eb at the very last couple measures, and then you should end on a F major chord.

I don't meant to write it for you, because this is beyond my level of compositional prowess, but those are just a couple things i had to mention in hopes you could work on it.

Regards,
MJTTOMB

Score: 6

"Really crappy sound quality."

submission: LastStand

date: April 20, 2008

Your instruments, to put it bluntly, absolutely suck. They sound like cats dying in different keys. If you get some better instruments, it my sound better.

I don't know who in their right mind would use this in a project.

I mean, it's actually pretty decent, but the dissonance coming in at 0:40 sounds really bad. A general rule of thumb for classical music in terms of chord movements is up by seconds, fourths, and fifths, and down by thirds.

Anyway, just get some better instruments and it'll sound a lot less painful on the ears.

Score: 10

"Good lord, man."

submission: Tremble

date: April 16, 2008

This piece is divine. I'm so grateful that you're back, I only wish I'd come across this a week ago.

The duduk was absolutely outstanding. I loved it. I feel there are sections where you could have made use of what i showed you about arpeggios to good effect, but it's your piece, not mine.

The piano was a little too sparse for my liking, but I still love it. It could have used more left hand.

Dude, starting at 3:17, I can hear a really sweet almost-triplet arpeggio. But yeah. I'll have to show you that. If i can manage to get the tempo down, i may just add my little edits and send it to you sometime.

Anyways, brilliant work.

5/10

Score: 10

"Nice."

submission: Mechabloby's Orchestral Theme

date: April 3, 2008

5, 10. But I've still got some complaints. Note that I'm not saying there's anything wrong with the song, only areas where the song can be improved.

First and foremost: Parallel octaves- At points, you had all of the voices doing the exact same thing in octaves. This is a highly avoided practice in classical, because it tends to be boring for the ears. It's sometimes accepted in the piano, if it's just 1 octave, but normally just avoid it.

Second, lol, pirates of the caribbean chord progression. Not a bad thing, but to others it may be looked down on.

Just a suggestion, but at 1:09, you could fill out the trumpets more, i like it, but i thing you could have it be A-Bb (both whole notes) and then a dotted half on F, and then G-A (eight notes) Half note G, then quarter note F, E leading down to D

But yeah, no other suggestions. Great job.

Score: 10

"Amazed."

submission: Ode to Dm

date: March 29, 2008

Lol. The intro sounds like some really screwed up form of disco, but it's still really amazing as an intro. You did a very professional job with the mastering, and the playing was also seemingly flawless. The first few measures of the actual song sound kinda irish in nature, actually. The drums are amazing, though. My only suggestion would be to add a hookline (short little melody) that gives the listener something to get attached to. I know you've got a bunch of lines, but none of them really function as standalone melodies that you could imagine yourself humming as you walked down the street. You've got great work here. 10/5/dl/fave song/fav artist

Score: 10

"Really great."

submission: >: The Waltz of spring :<

date: March 22, 2008

It's spelled waltz, you may want to fix that however. In case you don't know how to fix it, just go to My Account> Audio Submissions, and click Edit.

On for my review of the music, it was great, being my main impression. Sounds almost exactly like a song from a pokemon game, if only you had it in 8-bit sound. :P The harmonics really are great. The only downside is that it feels like a theme and variations piece. The mood never really changes, and that could be bringing down the piece. In classical music, there's generally a B theme that contrasts with the A theme by being in a different key and being in a different mood. Normally when I write in a major key, I tend to write the B section in minor. That way it is like a good novel. It can't be happy the entire way through. There's got to be a "bad guy", or some problematic situation at some point so that the lead character can overcome it.At the end you should probably re-enter the A section, with the original melody in the original key, and that's pretty much all my suggestions.

The orchestration is absolutely ingenious, so I can't really give all too much information on that.

Great job. I'd be honored if you came to my page and checked out some of my stuff.

Regards, MJTTOMB

Score: 9

"Congrats, mate."

submission: Prelude No.3 in Bb Minor

date: March 19, 2008

I hope to see you getting a surge of fans.

btw, when you finish a full version, edit this one, and do it quickly, before there are too many views to edit it. Great work, mate. Honored that you based it on my music.

And it's still better than mine, you canadian fool. Argue and die... "eh"?

xD

But still, gret job my good friend.

Score: 9

"Nice."

submission: (::Surfing On Color::) GWC

date: March 17, 2008

I'm noticing it gets a little boring after about 2 minutes or so. A little change would be good. The beat's nice, a little ghetto for a white boy like myself. It picks up and gets a little interesting after about another minute. It's a good ambient track. It could use a melody, but for ambient, apparently your specialty, it's pretty good. 9/10, 5/5. Above average work, mate.