Snowflake

[MarioD]

JonD came over about a month or so and stated the snow will be here soon.  We came up with this chord progression and called it Snowflake.

Band-in-a-Box is playing the drums, bass and piano.  I am playing everything else using my MIDI keyboard controller, guitar controller, and/or my guitar controller.  I did some editing and writing of some parts.

What do you think?

https://soundcloud.com/mario_guitar/snowflake

[folderol]

Good tune and collab. Only thing I'm not so keen on is the horn sound. The playing is fine, just the sound itself seems a bit too dull.

[MarioD]

Thanx Will for listening and your observations. I will check into the dull sound.

[bvdp]

Maybe it's just the way music is created these days ... but it sounds like it's all about the background/chords and not the melody.

If I were doing this, I'd put the melody parts out front more. And, like foldero said, the horn sounds are "dull".

And, while I'm going on and on ... I would suggest that you stick with a limited number of melody voicings. I find it jumps back and forth between various horn and strings sounds a bit too much. More like a synth ad than a lovely piece of music.

But, I do have to say "WELL DONE". It's a nice piece and easy to listen to. Thanks for sharing.

[MarioD]

Maybe it's just the way music is created these days ... but it sounds like it's all about the background/chords and not the melody.

If I were doing this, I'd put the melody parts out front more. And, like foldero said, the horn sounds are "dull".

And, while I'm going on and on ... I would suggest that you stick with a limited number of melody voicings. I find it jumps back and forth between various horn and strings sounds a bit too much. More like a synth ad than a lovely piece of music.

But, I do have to say "WELL DONE". It's a nice piece and easy to listen to. Thanks for sharing.

Thanx bvdp for those insites.  After listening again after reading this I think you are correct on all accounts. I never thought about the "synth add" remark but you are right.

Thanx for bring these to my attention as I will work on them in future songs.

[bvdp]

<BLUSH> ... I think I could have been a schoolmarm if I'd been born 100 years earlier, were a female and had a bun to put in my hair

Seriously, isn't it great that we have this internet-thingie where we can share, get opinions, ideas and improve.

Now, I really need to get my recording stuff out and do just that!