19 Jul
2005
19 Jul
'05
1:02 p.m.
Hi, I've just joined the list.
This track is beautiful. I can't stop listening to it.
I understand the critics on the drum part. But I have to disagree. The
drum pattern - but also the piano - is a bit naif, it's ingenuous.
Therefore it is beautiful. Working on it would be going in the direction
of a more commercial (some might say alternative) production, which
would be silly.
We don't need expensive software (and hardware) to make music anymore,
we don't need a publisher anymore. So we don't need to adhere to some
silly commercial cliches anymore.
Cesare Marilungo
Thorsten Wilms wrote:
On Tue, Jul 19, 2005 at 12:30:38AM +0200, Wolfgang
Woehl wrote:
David, the piano theme makes me think of children smiling, of age, of a
tree's beauty. To me it is very, very moving. I think part of that is
that the "piano" is deeply anchored in our acoustic and social world,
like you hear a century when you hear a piano. And part of it is the
beauty of simple things, like a child that smiles at you. Like the
movement of your theme. I'm listening over and over.
No children or trees here, but it's sure nice. Allthough I would
shorten the track a bit.
Another thing, bluntly put: The drums suck so very
hard that they manage
to make me cry after all. Know what I think? That drum-sequencers are
just wrong. They do strange things to people. They did to the 80s.
I like obviously sequenced drums in many cases. But here the drums
have an entirely different feel from the piano. A bit slow for that, but
kick an claps still say "party" to me. That doesn't make the fact
they're
sequenced the problem, since drums can be programmed to match any kind
of feel.
David: my advice would be to listen to some ballads, maybe older stuff
from Mariah Carey and to analyze the drums regarding sound and rhythmic
characteristics.
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Thorsten Wilms