Month: November 2016

Broadjam Artist: Steve Taylor
Song: Skipping Stones (Guitar Solo)

Reviewer: Dave Haddad (CenterPeace)

Positive Comments: Excellent recording of the acoustic guitar… bass too, nice live tracks!! Thanks you!! Brilliant playing! The kind, welcoming and inspirational melodies put me in a good mood. Sneaky key change produced a nice effect. Perfect recording of the duo, just a touch of reverb and probably some compression… doesn’t get in the way at all and enhances nicely.

Constructive Comments: Maybe the song could have been a little longer…. repeat the main form again with slight variations and save the key change for the second time around… but then you probably tried many different arrangements and ended up where you did. Nice tune.

Broadjam Artist: RICARDO ALONSO
Song: El Ultimo Adios (The Last Goodbye)

Reviewer: Dave Haddad (CenterPeace)

Positive Comments: Song builds really well to a pleasant climax. Nice melodies throughout. Thematic sounding, this song has good potential for licensing. Good programming, parts are well defined and develop well. Writer has a great sense of how each instrument should be played, the parts are exceptional.

Constructive Comments: 7 seconds pass before the song started, try to have the best production on your tracks, you are seen as more professional. I have a hard time listening to songs where all instruments are keyboard based so my constructive comments would be to try to infuse some live instruments into your production. An emotional song like this would have a lot more power and impact if presented with more live musicians and the emotion that they could bring. Sounds were dated but I know you are working with what you have, not everyone can afford to hire musicians or purchase expensive sounds, I’m in the same boat. I try to blend sounds to create something not so common. From an arrangement point of view there were a few spots which felt awkward or out of place… the repeat of the 4 bars at 1:54 (an obvious copy and paste). This spoiled your attempt (because of the midi) at a ritardano for me. Not to mention the short length (could have perhaps had a repeat of a section) but maybe you wanted it short for theme song or placement purposes 🙂

Broadjam Artist: Zeiko
Song: Evolutionary Tendencies II

Reviewer: Clark Ford

Positive Comments: This song grabs you and doesn’t let go. Great beat. Well-produced and performed. High-energy but repetitive, yet the song could easily have been twice as long.

Constructive Comments: It was hard to make out the lyrics over the music.

Broadjam Artist: Keith Taylor
Song: Crank It Up

Reviewer: stefo

Positive Comments: guitars are crisp and well played. vocal is wonderful, great tone and feeling. good time feeling song.

Constructive Comments: really liked it .

Broadjam Artist: Sam Cooper
Song: I WANT MY COUNTRY BACK (featuring Jimmy Copens)

Reviewer: Jeff Maguire

Positive Comments: I like this tune a lot, very down roots swamp funky bit or Rock Americana … maybe Trace Adkins meets Jerry Reed, nice picking.

Constructive Comments: As above, love the song, recording and mix could stand some work. The double tracking on the vocals might not be helping you either.

Broadjam Artist: Randal Dunkle
Song: Jesus, Savior, Lord

Reviewer: HarryBudini

Positive Comments: I like the continuosly pulsing bass. The guitar riffs have a wicked sound.

Constructive Comments: I don’t like the mix. Guitar riffs are too high, and often feel out of time to my ear [I may be wrong], sometimes with debatable notes too. The cymbals have an awful sound. Vocally, you’ve done better performances than this, I think, anyway it’s probably too high in the mix too, which doesn’t help. Lyrically, as usual I’m not much into getting on the knees and praying a guy, as much as he can be a wonderful bloke.

Broadjam Artist: KCKeys
Song: About Face (Be Saved)

Reviewer: HarryBudini

Positive Comments: Pretty weird stuff.

Constructive Comments: The sounds don’t seem to be much amalgamated. Too much synth shrieking.I’m not sure the vocals and the music always go along.

Broadjam Artist: Gary Mazzola
Song: HONEY BEE

Reviewer: Bobby Caputo

Positive Comments: I’ll be your worker …you’ll be my queen…sweetest little stinger I’ve ever seen….Honey Bee….great line!!

Constructive Comments: Recording is so thin it really detracts from the rockabilly attempt…push those drums…or hire a real drummer…this could be fun.

Broadjam Artist: Steve Dafoe – Songwriter
Song: If You Have The Time (Pop)

Reviewer: Bobby Caputo

Positive Comments: Sweet voice that gives the impression that this is spontaneous…I see her at a window with her guitar singing and strumming.

Constructive Comments: Structure is weird…like two different songs in one. Lyrics rambling and repetitve.

Broadjam Artist: Chet Nichols
Song: Say Your Prayers At Night

Reviewer: Bobby Caputo

Positive Comments: Sweet little song about and father and son and bedtime prayers. A really nice chorus that climbs on the word “high” which was a cool idea.

Constructive Comments: Sloppy recording…especially the drum loops….would’ve been better of with bass, piano and vocals