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t-willy wrote:24. Andreas – chamber – nice violins and is that a harp? This is a nice classical piece. Now throw some heavy guitars in and you have a hit – lol. Oh, like the part at 1 minute. Like how the violins play fast then hold out a long note – really nice.
Sepheritoh wrote:Andreas Erhardt - Chamber
Great composition. The sound balance between the solo violins and the electric piano is a bit wrong. Good strings orchestration. It would be great if you would use alternative small chamber ensembles like viola, cello and some wooswind solo (oboe or flute) to round off the chamber orchestration.
Miro wrote:AndreasEhrhardt - I preferred the more melodic second half to the first. Nicely programmed!
A little too rambling to stick in my mind, but that's just me being crap with unusual time signatures.
:hail: :oops: Thank you very much t-willy, Sepheritoh and Miro for your nice comments and for having reviewed all the songs (much work to do this). 8)

t-willy, it´s really a harp. :)
Andreas (I presume my forefathers were apes)

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Whoops! Sorry I mixed up the orders. Let's see, this table gets rock with side of jazz in a separate dish and this table gets the marmite. What a doofus I am! I need to learn to keep my mouth shut!

OK, I'm not submitting songs or posting comments to make anyone feel bad about what they're doing. I'm not a nice guy either! Ask anyone who knows me! I'll tell you the truth whether you want it or not. You make me take the take the time to download your song and you'll get my response. I keep everything I download and I compare. I think it's fun.

That said, I don't doubt that wilkoryte had some bad experiences. I never went to music school. I did go to art school but I can't imagine getting turned off to a whole genre because some stupid f**k-offs insulted me. I still enjoy tequila even though every time I drink it I barf! :lol: Jazz isn't about all that crap you mentioned - it's about expression. Anyone who over-analyzes it obviously hasn't got anything to say themselves. All I do is play out-of-tune and probably even in simple stupid chords or whatever you musicians call those things. But as I said earlier, it not about attitude. No one here has heard enough music to even safely go off half-cocked over what's intellectual or not.

There a lot of people reading these words (and far more who won't) who will dismiss my song or any number of others for the same reasons you mentioned. I don't care. There were far more in my formative years who said they hated electronic music, blues, punk, classical, jazz, rock, new wave, house, disco, ambient, dub, glitch, prog or any other phony category you wish to name. I'm guilty too. I wont admit to liking whatever passes for pop music these days, but if you corner me on a song, I'll probably relent and find something I can respect in it - even if it's just the fact that the song was efficiently focus-group tested and engineered to be just edgy enough and yet maintain that pristine shimmer of radio-friendliness. Like windchillfactor's songs ;).

One of my favorite things to read are manifestos because they are such a load of crap - but every movement seems to have one - unsaid or otherwise. I reserve the right to evaluate everything that I'm exposed to on a case-by-case basis as objectively as I can. And I hope everyone here will at least be that honest. otherwise, why enter this beauty contest in the first place?

PS: The chorus to my song is, uh, "I hope I get lucky before I die." The music has a chorus even though I skip the vocal first time around. I repeat it in the coda but I deliberately avoided it between the first and second verse so that I could cram more new stuff in less than two minutes. I was trying to break the formula.

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wilkoryte wrote:MARC JX8P Remembering

I miss a theme :)
So it should be perfect for a competition without a theme, shouldn't it? :)

On a more serious note, I understand what you're saying in that the song does not contain a strong recognizable theme - the chord patterns and the solo sounds were more meant to flow gently along without dominating too much.

Maybe this is the after effect of a project I did recently where I did music for the maps in a Quake III mod called 'Painkeep Arena' where I had to do pieces that were less than a minute on average and had to be looped... let me tell you, if you have a recognizable theme that loops over and over you tend to go nuts so you learn to avoid them... :)

A longer song of mine is published in this thread:

PKA Hub theme thread
"...Everything we see or seem is but a dream, within a dream."
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Thanks for the reviews::
Sepheritoh wrote: Duncan Parsons - InDecision
Great song. The percussion becomes a bit robotic. Maybe the overpowering snare sound. Great variation in the song all around, but does not sound like it actually reaches some conclusion.
..when I'm going through a patch of indecision, usually I have 2 or 3 ideas, and can never settle of one inparticular.. In the end it's a mash of all the ideas and never quite ends... QED.
Miro wrote: Duncan Parsons - Not too keen on the untreated strings, I have to say.
I found the fills a bit cheesy. Really liked the structure and the descending chord sequence.
Glad you like the riff.. think that's my favourite part too! I might use it as the basis for something else (probably behind a vocal line).
Oh, and I never treat my strings, not unless they've been really good, then I take them to the park.
wilkoryte wrote: DUNCANPARSONS InDecision

good piano riff
a bit repetitive
I am a bit repetitive. I am a bit repetitive. I am a bit repetitive. I am a bit repetitive. Man what a great joke, I could keep this going...I am a bit repetitive. I am a bit repetitive. Better quit while I'm behind...

BTW, any call on how next month's theme is to be decided? You there Rob?

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duncanparsons wrote: BTW, any call on how next month's theme is to be decided? You there Rob?

DSP
AFAIK the winner decides the theme for next month.

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Armadillo wrote:
duncanparsons wrote: BTW, any call on how next month's theme is to be decided? You there Rob?

DSP
AFAIK the winner decides the theme for next month.
I only asked since Rob choose this months theme.. I wondered if the winner thing had been abandoned.

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Plus the theme shouldn't be reveiled now anyway :)

It would give you more time to make your entry :wink:
Play it by ear

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duncanparsons wrote:I only asked since Rob choose this months theme.. I wondered if the winner thing had been abandoned.
It was only abandoned this month because plunge won two months in a row. Besides, we have to do a free-for-all every once in a while or people start to complain! :roll:

- m
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Complain? At KvR??? :o


:D Tom

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Beardedone wrote:
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BEARDEDONE Solaz

I hate jazz otherwise I would probably find it great



That's cool. Jazz a broad category of music to dismiss. I certainly don't expect you to like my meanderings in the vein. It

is ironic since a computer generated track is strickly speaking not Jazz as there is no interplay between living musicians.

But I think it's is a shame that you dismiss an entire body of music though.

Can you tell me why you hate Jazz? If it is the extended harmonys, I might see why. This aspect may be an acquired taste. I

would be surprised, though if it were the rhythymic elements - since most modern music including uses much of the drum

styles developed in Jazz from way back to beginning. Jazz is huge and there may be some of it you'd enjoy. I can't recall

where you preferences lie but I might be able to refer you to some "Jazz" that would surprise you. Then I would have

fulfilled part of my duty as a "Musiciam"

Best,
Gordon


hello

this sentence is a bit provocative but I do not like in jazz:
- over-complicated chords (even with no root note )
- the science intellectual choice of mode/scale for soloing on a chord
- the bad habbit for many to play out of tune (or in a tune known by ...them?)
_ the feeling for jazz musicians that blues/rock musicians are ignoramus, do not play well...(I had experiences )

I was in a music school for months I even played some diana krall(deed I do) and some david sanchez
but preferred to play megadeth and lucky peterson

here is my only try to play a jazzy chorus in a stray cats style song:

nojazz


ps:I like brian setzer orchestra
I did not know your academic background. So my apologies for being preachy and coming accross like the pedantic old fart that I can be sometimes. I have the same objection with the kind of playing you are referring. Hey if you like Brian Setzer, then you do like Jazz because Setzer is Jazz to me I love his playing too.

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wilkoryte wrote:I was in a music school for months I even played some diana krall(deed I do) and some david sanchez but preferred to play megadeth and lucky peterson
Well I studied jazz at university, and I must say that I find it hard to believe that anyone would like Diana Krall over Megadeth! :lol: Honestly, I can't understand what the hype over her is based on (besides her album covers)... :roll:

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Jazz? It's all widdling innit? For tossers with ants in their pants who can't hold down a chord for more than 0.5 seconds. :-o :lol: :oops:

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a lot of testaments stuff was jazzy,i saw them play with megadeth :D when i say jazzy i mean in a metal kind of way,but they wore hats at jaunty angles 8)
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wilkoryte wrote: SASON le klee vst

it sounds retro(for me) but enjoyable
great bass playing
And it is intended to be retro :D
Thanks for noticing the bass! I don't actually play it that much, rather fiddeling around with it, but in the end, sounds satisfying :)
You™ wrote: "KvR" Sason Le Klee
Your track is really slick and funky. It a freakin' kick-ass jam. I'm not sure if you're talking about the same KvR I am though. It's so slick it sounds almost like you're singing over a demo off one of those fancy Yamaha Workstations. Now some may say that is an insult, but I (who can't seem to make a clean mix no matter what I do) think it's excellent.
Glad you like it!
Insult?!?! Not likely :) I like to think I'm writing music for a great company as Yamaha :D :)

Cheers!
In the begining was nothing...
Which exploded...
http://free-zd.htnet.hr/jazzy_sale/

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Well I studied jazz at university, and I must say that I find it hard to believe that anyone would like Diana Krall over Megadeth! Honestly, I can't understand what the hype over her is based on (besides her album covers)...

- m
I kind of agree but I as I am older and I missed out on the Megadeath thingy - way to heavy for me - I would still rather see Dianna Krall. I find her a little Saccharine but having seen her live a few times I must say that she is capable of some sublimely understated vocals and tasty piano. But very tame and unadventuaous musically nonetheless. She does nothing that has't been done a thousand times already - same goes for Wynton - nice but been done before.

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