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"How am i gonna take it away in this winter wind?
You found me on a summer breeze.
How am i gonna run away when the autumn breaks,
now that you found me in the spring?"
-Mat Kearney
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 PartySan (various) |
20 Jan. 2007 |
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 You have a new review!
- melodies
- arrangement
- feeling
- click in the background
Comments
Back from a pretty creepy and disturbing horror film, time for reviewing.
First of all, I'd like to say the comment about Yasunori Mitsuda is very accurate in this case 
With that said, back to the track.
The track opens straight away with a calm guitar melody and some backing strings. The guitar melodies show off some ambient influences, but the flute is definitely anchored in fantasy. The flute is a welcome addition in my opinion, completing the mood the backing instrumental aimed at.
Everytime the song changes keys, I just get this feeling that it took days to write them. They're all placed so well, and flow great.
So far, the song makes me think of a montage. Specifically, a montage of a man and his girlfriend, the kind you find in many Hollywood movies 
At 1.37, the arrangement changes. A rhodes and a small choir in the background pick up the original arrangement. Then, the guitar comes back in, and the rhodes plays the flute melody more or less. I don't know why but this part is very effective.
2.18 - the guitar "drops" a few notes down and a new arrangement comes in. Again, the melodies are nothing short of awesome. Though, I keep hearing a sort of click in the background. Is it a percussion instrument or from the soundfont?
The song ends without much fanfare, the instruments simply fading away. In my view, this is good. The opposite, say, a huge pseudo-"majestic" orchestral "freak-out" would've spoiled the song's atmosphere (which has been consistent thoughout).
The final analysis
arrangement 10/10 - a simple, stark but effective arrangement. "Stripped-down" is a word that I would use to describe it.
bass 8.5/10 - I didn't like the bass playing at some high notes for some reason.
beat - what beat?
creativity 9.5/10 - a particularly memorable RPG-sounding track, given that there are many RPG-like tracks "out there".
drums - just a click or something.
feeling 10/10 - This song is full of good vibrations
melody 10/10 - again, very memorable and excellent.
samples 9/10 - great use of samples, though I didn't like the short reverb on the ProTrax guitar.
skills 10/10 - this is FL Studio we're talking about. He knows a lot.
sound 9/10 - good mixing and mastering. I don't know why but I kept hearing the flute as being louder than the guitar and strings.
structure 9/10 - a bit of a "standard" structure, but that's not a bad thing here at all.
quality 10/10
How I would improve
1. remove the click
Highly recommended track |
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Extra Info: |
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Genre: |
Fantasy, RPG |
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Length: |
3 min 22 sec |
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Release year: |
July 2006 |
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Made using: |
FL Studio 6 |
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File location: |
www.suspenlute.com |
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Added: |
15 Jul. 2006 |
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Download Options: |
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File size: |
4857 kB |
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File type: |
[MP3] |
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Link: |
  (save as) |
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Alternative: |
not avaliable |
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Song Stats: |
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Overall rating: |
9.5 |
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Total downloads: |
335 |
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This week downloads: |
0 |
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Current chart´s position: |
Not on charts. |
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Best chart´s position: |
19th |
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Favorite song of 0 users |
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Comments (9): |
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 rz [7th. January 17:25] ![[112.210.225.117]](pics/ip.gif)
| It's a truly wonderful piece! I was browsing through the net looking for great fantasy songs and I never expected to hear something as marvelous as this. Reminds me of my childhood, when I used to play RPG from my PS1. Great job! |
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nepsus [27th. December 20:15]
| For the record, there is a "click" in the ProTrax guitar but I think I've gotten pretty good at masking it. You're probably hearing the clave, which I'll eventually replace with a much lower-pitched instrument to avoid the clickyness. |
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PartySan [20th. January 22:19]
I've listened to the track some more and found a complaint. Is that a bad thing?  |
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PartySan [20th. January 20:15]
| Okay. I'll write (or at least try to) something in-depth and not embarassing to read tomorrow. Right now I want to watch a Japanese horror film. |
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Silent Protagonist [20th. January 16:46]
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PartySan [20th. January 7:57]
| SP: I'm lazy as shite But I can leave a review... and I may try. But you'll owe me one back |
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Silent Protagonist [19th. January 20:06]
Why oh why must you keep leaving me 10/10 comments instead of 10/10 reviews? </sarcasm> Thanks in any case, I'm very happy to know you enjoy my music.
And yeah it's ProTrax, although I think my tune "Third Dawn" makes much better use of it than this one. |
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PartySan [19th. January 16:02]
Great arrangement. No complaints. Straight 10.
The guitar sounds like a soundfont I used once too.
Is it the ProTrax Classical? |
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Richard Durand [15th. July 23:28]
| Good work. It sounds like a very happy song, I like it. |
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