A new little ditty for your enjoyment

I always have to resort to breaks, chopping them up and stuff because I have a real problem with making my own drums.

I just cant seem to find any kits that suit me. Any help on that would be great. But here, enjoy.

Feedback much appreciated.

http://soundcloud.com/anflec/sticks-and-twigs

Propa cheerful and summery.

Drums are a low point again, though.

I like the drums. beautiful strings and stuff. great track

it seems to me to be half intro; since you mentioned the drums i found myself just waiting for them, but i was underwhelmed when they did arrive

i think you have a good ear for space and melody but you need to practice variation to keep things interesting for the listener, esp. with the drums

  On 6/9/2010 at 6:21 PM, Lube Saibot said:

Propa cheerful and summery.

 

Drums are a low point again, though.

Yeah I know, I just cant seem to master them. Drums-how do they work?

  On 6/9/2010 at 6:32 PM, Bewarethefriendlyfoil said:

I like the drums. beautiful strings and stuff. great track

You're very kind Im gald you enjoyed it so.

  On 6/9/2010 at 8:34 PM, tht tne said:

it seems to me to be half intro; since you mentioned the drums i found myself just waiting for them, but i was underwhelmed when they did arrive

i think you have a good ear for space and melody but you need to practice variation to keep things interesting for the listener, esp. with the drums

Thats very helpful man, I do tend to ignore variation and go for progression instead. I should probably mix it up a bit, keep em guessing ya know.

Really appreciate all the feedback.

  On 6/9/2010 at 11:03 PM, chassis said:

  On 6/9/2010 at 8:34 PM, tht tne said:

it seems to me to be half intro; since you mentioned the drums i found myself just waiting for them, but i was underwhelmed when they did arrive

i think you have a good ear for space and melody but you need to practice variation to keep things interesting for the listener, esp. with the drums

 

Thats very helpful man, I do tend to ignore variation and go for progression instead. I should probably mix it up a bit, keep em guessing ya know.

 

Really appreciate all the feedback.

the thing about progression is that it's intuitive... but a majority of my favorite tracks by other artists progress while still doing one or both of the following:

a. shocking you right up front with some indelibly awesome opening figure, or, b. surprising you throughout the track with variation, all while progressing!

what you might try is to forsake progression for a few pisstake tracks and then try to interpolate what you've learned into all-new more progressive tracks

i don't know how experienced you are so don't take this as an insult, but when i was starting out i 'frankensteined' disparate segments all within one track

the advice that i would give anyone who is making music is to do what makes you feel good; i'd not advise anyone to rely on progression for its own sake

then again, you might end up like me and start out as a squarepusher wannabe and end up as a dilettante wolfgang voigt or axel willner soundalike... lol

edit: do you use vsti's? try dsk mini drumz and turn the resonance all the way down for better presence... 20 classic kits and then sample and customize

I liked the happyness of the synths but they got old really quick for some reason

I actually think the drums were the best part about it, they could use like a groovy slower bass drum and late snap clap but they are nice

the sound of the synths and the melodies just dont lock me down into appreciation but if you just changed the sounds of the synths and with way that main dun don dee don dunt synth thing is on such a weirdish rhythm it could probably benefit from a nice delay(adding delay on weird catchy rhythms can be the lazy way out but the rhythm is interesting and kind of nice but the way the synth sounds it just doesn't click and feels jarring to me)

I always delay the fuck out of everything to be honest but for some reason I didnt on the synths. Might stick some LFO or summit on em.

Thanks Blanket.

change the synth sounds drastically don't put a minor effect tweak em if you ask me (although a really calculated distortion patch could completely change their sound)