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Song of the Month Club - December 2016
What is the Song of the Month Club?
It's a place where musicians come to give and receive feedback on their work. Anyone is welcome, whatever their level of ability.
The spirit of the club is to contribute: if you submit a song for others to comment on, you should also have the courtesy to listen to everyone else's contributions and give as much feedback as possible. Posting a track and not listening and commenting on others is not cool.
The purpose of feedback is to be honest. Essentially you should give your truthful impressions of the song, whether good or bad. Negative feedback, if done in the right spirit and with courtesy, can be the most useful and can help the artist to grow and improve and correct their mistakes.
All submissions are welcome, don't hesitate if you want to contribute. Instrumentals are fine, but songs with vocals are even better. A bad vocal is better than no vocal, so if you are thinking of experimenting with vocals this is a good place to get started.
We ask that you only post one song per month in this thread - if you're lucky enough to be able to produce more, then please just submit your strongest material
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First off the mark.
'Iskra'
Korg Gadget (as per usual), spent quite a lot of time on this, trying to get some 'flow' into it. I also did a 'Wavestation version' .
Lots of nice bits here Mister @Igneous1. I found the start a bit sudden, but then it really did settle down. Very much a good flow. Kept expecting Neil Arthur (Blancmange) to start singing and wouldn't have been at all surprised if he had, which is a compliment in my book.
was playing around with my vocals. ended jp liking ut
Ugh....hate, hate, HATE my vocals...lol. JamUp for guitars, BM2 custom piano patch, very early version Drum Session, GarageBand synth, bass & strings, guitarism acoustic. Mixed in Auria with their effects... vocals recorded in my care with iPad on the dash looking like an idiot...hahaha!!!
https://soundcloud.com/buddemeyer72/lost-for-words_derek
Had a crack at a disco tune. The lyrics are somewhat cheesy but hopefully the main riff makes up for it. Drums from cubasis, everything else via amplitube.
Vocal are from some old Time & Space CD's. (Going thru my Hard Drives, & I thought, "Ah, I'll use them in this track!"....... Enjoy guys.
At this special time of the year, I think that it is only right that we remember all those important people that work so hard behind the scenes so that we can enjoy the festive period. It is to them that I dedicate this song. The lament of the lonely turkey plucker - Turkey Plucking Xmas.
Running out of steam in iOS land, so maybe a share here will give me the kick in the rear I need.
Impressionistic Space Surf (Howabout that for a sub-genre?)
Framus Jaguar knockoff from the 60s and Hofner Beatlebass running into Flying Haggis + Alchemy +AUFX: Space recorded in Tonestack's 8track recorder.
Thanks for listening!
i've missed the past 2-3 months for SOTMC - was suffering a little writers block.... here's my latest for December:
It's a little groovy, a little funky, a little bit soul. Song started off in Blocs Wave with a beat and a bass loop I cut up and re-played/rearranged there. I added a few synth bits through AUM linked up to Blocs Wave and recorded. Then brought everything into Garageband where I arranged and added a GB drummer track. Then I added a little bit of the new Garageband Chinese instruments starting around 1:05 min. Also added a little vocal sample I had laying around for a while in Audioshare. Finally, I did some Geo-Shredding which comes in around 2:54... Song ended up a little on the long side, could probably shorten it by minute or so.
felt like a scene from an 80's movie to me... i liked the latter half after the breakdown a bit better than beginning section. Bassline was pretty strong - i like that. I do get a sense of your 'flow' you were going for here... I might suggest another synth line come in the 2nd half with a bit more bite and maybe a stronger melody line.
your track has a certain energy about it the way it plods along. While the vocals aren't my cup of tea, kudos to you for what you've done.
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Now this is top '80's movie stuff'...
@Igneous1 definitely a little easier to follow and less bewildering than some of your previous entries, and the bass line is quite hooky and grooves along. I think more recurring melodic themes would help some, as well as more space in the melodies themselves on occasion, your melodies are often very dense, your music in general tends to be very dense and tightly-packed together, sometimes a little space between the notes, or contrast between phrases (some sparse and spacious, some dense and full) would help.
Also a lot of the melodic cadences could do with more tension/release, to my admittedly untrained ears it sounds like quite often the runs are on the 3rd/5th/root type melodic progression, which sounds overly happy and a little obvious. Using less harmonically friendly notes can create more tension, a darker feel, and more subtle and intriguing melodies IMO. My favourite notes to lead back to the root tend to be 2nds, 4ths, or 7ths because of the tension they bring, although sometimes ending a phrase on a 7th (or other non-tonic note) can also be effective, especially if eventually you do resolve to the tonic.
@trackedout this one feels like more of a sketch than a finished tack, it could do with being more fleshed out and having more changes of pace and dynamics. Quirky and strange and loose, but not really compelling because it feels a little too one-dimensional to me.
Cheers for the feedback Richard !
I agree with you regarding trying to add more 'space' into' things, it's a fair point and it's something I'm going to bear in mind in future stuffs.
I'm not so sure about the other point, this track actually shifts around a fair bit harmonically, as it is.
You're right about the intro, it's a bit too full on straight in. Not sure about the blancmange though
Just to be 100% clear, it was the melodic cadences I was talking about, not the chord progressions. Of course feel free to ignore my opinion, but I get a real sense when listening to that track that all the melodies are using notes that always are in the underlying chords, which gives them a certain sound. I might be wrong of course.
My new song, "Vizinhança". The name means "neighborhood" in Portuguese. Enjoy, and have a great weekend!
Dimitri.
Enjoyable slice of 80s electropop. Vocals would have made it feel more complete but enjoyable nonetheless
At first I though what is this? Then it became quite enjoyable in its own unique way!
As usual, well crafted, well played and produced track. Sure I have heard this before somewhere
Some great work up in here this month! Excellent clean productions...something I so badly want to learn how to do. In the mean time....
Thanks to everyone who listens and comments! I've been listening to other people's songs and a lot of awesome stuff gets put up here.
I love integrating NodeBeat to MIDI and combining sounds. This one is three tracks from Gadget: Kamata, Darwin and Helsinki. It also uses the NodeBeat Classic scale which I love.
There is a Wilson's Field and there was a dead bird in it. No mistake that the letters 'O' and 'D' are blacked out.
(Backing vox courtesy of Hazel)
It's getting on, not so very late, but nearly, and I was tangled up from the day and ready to call it a night, but started listening to this with half an ear and ended up with both fully tuned in. Very mellow which is exactly what was required, so thanks for that. Also good to hear something that boasts Kamata as that's the one Gadget I haven't bought believing it to be filthy when it obviously doesn't have to be so at all....good work.
Might have been influenced by The India/England cricket match I was watching from Chennai, but this felt like a fine mixture of the sub-continent and San Francisco. It's not entirely my packet of peanuts but I admire the complexity of this piece and can't imagine attempting (letting alone pulling off) such a complicated fully-realized bit of work. I like things that I might not typically choose to listen to but which get my attention.
I'm late for a ship so only a quick listen. This will be the first track on that supermarket set list. Haz to make the tacos. Your dirtiest sounding music and vox yet. Move over you young guns. Move..... now.