gowans - interlude

gowans · Post by **gowans** » Sun Sep 16, 2007 7:49 pm

hi, just made a track its my first proper track ive worked on so i could do with some feedback

its called interlude on my myspace page. http://www.myspace.com/davidgowansmusic

thanks.

Ruso · Post by **Ruso** » Sun Sep 16, 2007 11:36 pm

beginning intro: first thing I notice is the odd kick, but the song can get away with it because the kick works with the rest of the drums...

the song has progression so far(I'm listening as I type) I like the ambience. It was good progression up until about 3:00 but now it's been a little repetitive, you should change the theme a bit.... ya it's been the exact same thing for a 1:20 now which is too long for something not to change at all. you should either fade out and finish the song at arround 5 minutes or change the theme a lot after 5 minutes...

that's really the only problem with the song and is the hardest thing to learn in making music, making progression and theme changes....

gowans · Post by **gowans** » Mon Sep 17, 2007 12:37 am

cheers mate, arrangement i find is the hardest thing, i need some other effects in there and changes in it as i agree its way too repetitive, not sure what u meant by the kick! thanks for the feedback, i always get stuck like this on a song its annoying!

ksandvik · Post by **ksandvik** » Mon Sep 17, 2007 12:43 am

gowans wrote:cheers mate, arrangement i find is the hardest thing, i need some other effects in there and changes in it as i agree its way too repetitive, not sure what u meant by the kick! thanks for the feedback, i always get stuck like this on a song its annoying!

One way is to load in tracks from artists that you like, into your DAW, and analyze how they do the arrangements and variation, even take notes. You don't need to copy their ideas, but you get the general feeling how it works. Arrangement work is so open-ended, there's really no limit of how someone could re-arrange music, hence all the remixes.

My next to last advice is to be wild and experiment. My last is that to always work, it takes hours and hours of work to get up to a comfortable level concerning arranging tracks. --Kent

Ruso · Post by **Ruso** » Mon Sep 17, 2007 1:54 am

what I ment by the kick is that it's too complicated for this track, I'd go with a simple compressed 808 kick something to that extent.. it doesn't sound bad it just seems a little bit out of place. I guess it has too much definition in the track.

victorgonzales · Post by **victorgonzales** » Mon Sep 17, 2007 6:58 am

I like it alot but it does get repetitive. Just some subtle changes. Maybe take that pad down after a bit and have a new element come in then bring the pad back later in the track.

Mick · Post by **Mick** » Wed Sep 19, 2007 2:00 am

the pads sound lush, maybe work on varying them a bit and having them pan around the head?

sounds cool