Jostein Chr. Andersen wrote: > onsdag mars 10 2010 12.44.58 skrev Gerald Mwangi: >> Hi Guys, >> At last I've managed to put my music online. >> Check out http://www.jamendo.com/de/album/62900. >> 'Let it go' is my first Linux only production, and now I have fully >> converted to Linux. Jack-Apps just rock! >> Please send me your impressions. > > Congrats Gerald, really, really excellent melodies! It's not often I hear so > many great songs in one place this days, and that woman's voice is just great! > > But excellent melodies like this deserves much more. Your music belongs to the > absolute top division and have to be measured from that point of view - let me > mention some things that leaves room for improvements first and end with the > praises: > > When we talks about the sound and feeling, the whole thing sounds just like a > sound font demo (with some guitar work processed thru plugins). That don't > have to be a bad thing, but your melodies - which are much more demanding than > they sounds like - needs to be played live by groovy people with good skills > on their instruments. It is very easy to hear what you want, but your uploads > sounds just like some boxed half finished versions of your ideas. And the > disted guitars sounds really bad. > > You are confusing me :-) , the arrangements goes from very under arranged and > demoished to excellent arranged in parts. Some songs have some beginner > skilled guitar playing (and is also is out of tune in some places) and can > also contain excellent playing and sounds (like your wah-wah work which is > really good). I will say that the same songs very clearly contains both > amateur work as well as professional work. And in one hand, it sounds like a > sound font party and on the other hand the instruments separates excellent in > the mix. To me, you sounds sometime like a beginner and sometimes like a pro. > Very confusing. > > It's very clear that you are an unusual talent when it comes to composing and > making good melodies - you have without doubt a great potential of making a > living of it! And the songs do have great arrangement and composing details > here and there that makes me listen to this over and over. > > Please, do this stuff over again, make some more songs, get some decent > samples (drums and brass), buy a POD for the guitars on ebay. Maybe see if other folk on the list with skills in other instruments might be willing to contribute tracks?