erickrlee

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Hey there, This a 4-5 minute solo piano piece I wrote this morning--I just made a quick recording on a Zoom H2. I'm not the greatest piano player, but you should be able to get the idea! http://drop.io/hidden/wvwzrbxhgrwfdm/asset/c3VuLXNob3dlcg== Enjoy! Any suggestions?

Hey! Really some good stuff! Just watched a couple of your videos on youtube--you have an excellent knack for sync and hit points. Definitely Hisaishi influenced, which is perfect for the anime stuff you're doing. Are those vienna samples? They sound very good.

yeah i agree with the variation comment. sounded like it needed to break into some big chorus with more vocals and what not. the mix sounds a little imbalanced frequency wise. and i don't know how i feel about the sequenced drums sitting on top of everything. not a bad song at all though. pretty good.

This is nice. Real violin sounds so good.

Sounds very good--what samples/sampler do you use?

Thanks! I really appreciate your complement! I don't release on labels, though that would be nice. I did the song by myself in my room at college. I actually just graduated today and now I'm off to try and make something of myself (musically).

thanks for the comments! pliorius - thanks. i might have liked it shorter too, but it was for a project and had to be 6-8 minutes long. sys65 - thanks for advice on the pad, i see what you mean. What do you mean about the scales? They're already panned hard R and L with one slightly delayed.

very interesting--in a good way. nice transition into the more musical part in the middle. also, i thought you dealt with atonality well - it made a nice contrast when you came in with the functional harmony. this would be great with real players--the samples undid it for me a little. Erick

agreed--i would've loved to hear more. great use of the abstract without over-abstracting--this piece still felt like music.

Helloo. Here's a song I just finished: Bucket drop.io Comments and criticism appreciated. Enjoy! Erick

I like these ideas a lot--reminds me a little of New Order. Production quality could be better though--as SYS65 said there is a lack of low frequencies. To my ears, this would be much better with some solid bass and kick. Also, you should bus everything to a reverb (on individual sends)--that would really pull things together, even if the reverb is almost undetectable it will make your mix gel. Erick

hmm i don't think the problem is reverb--it sounds like there's a serious slap back delay on the master bus!

I'm a jazz guy, so I love these scales--interesting use of them outside of the normal functional context. You said that you didn't want to concern yourself with harmony--but for me the low strings (cello? bass?) are constantly dictating some harmonic context, and are downplaying what is going on above. Perhaps this piece would benefit from dropping the lower register all together and focusing on counter melodies, thereby dropping the harmonic rigidness the upper lines are constrained to due to the bass. Erick

Hey, Great job making a basic progression sound interesting. Great production too--definitely hear you on the oboe though--it sounds great once its sort of backgrounded by the whole mix, but when it first comes in it sounds distinctly like a sample. I was just waiting to hear that lydian 4 on the IV chord though but it never came--that's just me though, and you may have purposely been trying to avoid that sound which could be portrayed as a bit cliche in this context. Really enjoyed it though--good exercise to constrain yourself to simple harmony. Erick