Try at making a ballad

[magmavander]

Hi all,

I've made a small snippet that is more or less a "pop ballad" 
I'm not sure about it, so all comments and feedbacks are welcome 
There is no title at the moment.

Thanks!

bye

mag

[magmavander]

... By the way I used here the Edirol Quartet VST for the "guitar", FM7 for the first synth that cames with the guitar, Bassline VST freeware for the bass, Infector, a buzz synth, for the melodic synth, drums were programed with SampleGrid, a buzz drum machine, with one shot samples. Trumpet and vocal are samples, of course 

[Laguna Rising]

Soft music track, nice set of sounds, they all blends in very well.
It's like sitting near the fireplace in a cold winter day
That's good

Cheers

[folderol]

This has a sort of travelling feel to me. I sense trotting horse, pony and trap etc.
It would make a good background theme to a TV travellogue type program.

P.S.

It could do with a title!

[FourthMansions]

Hi Magma

I liked this a lot - very atmospheric and great sounds. I  particularly liked the trumpet. Looking forward to hearing how you develop this.

[Martin E]

Nice one Mag.

Still looking forward to finishing that collab. 

[Fred S]

Hey Mag!

Very nice and smooth and it moves well. Soothing. I like it!

Now, regarding, making a "pop ballad". I'm not quite sure what your after here, but I think, unless you add some interesting chord changes/progression you'll have a difficult time creating a hook (if that's what you want). Even with vocals, that will be difficult.

Also, the guitar sounds very mechanical to me at around 1:20 part....unless of course that was the intent 

[Oren]

This one has big potential...

The intro with the picked "guitar" is very effective.
When the drums and bass are introduced there is an awkward feeling - perhaps a more natural-sounding bass would remedy this.

The passages where the strummed guitar is employed don't work well at all, but...

That last portion with bass, percussion, picked guitar, trumpet, and voice: magical. Very cohesive, solid emotional impact.

Oren.

[magmavander]

Hi all,

thanks for all the feedbacks!! This is very positive and helpful to me.
I agree that the strummed guitar sucks, I made it too fast. I have to learn patience I guess 

Martin, for various reasons I think 2008 will be more peaceful for me and I will have more time to work on music, not only writing a new song every three days 

Bye!

mag