Month: November 2016

Broadjam Artist: Bobby Caputo
Song: I Have Dreams

Reviewer: Jeff Maguire

Positive Comments: Very Beatles influenced tune, maybe a little Travelling Willbury’s thrown in for good measure. Very melodic and enjoyable.

Constructive Comments: Very melodic tune , well structured. Recording is a little rough, mostly drums, sometimes cymbals overpower the track.

Broadjam Artist: Keith Burgess
Song: Me Oh My!!

Reviewer: Black Diamonds

Positive Comments: I loved the loop, which hopefully was created by the artist. The drums sounded nice, and the overall mix was really nice.

Constructive Comments: Arrangement wise, the track was very repetitive, although it sounded great. The track could have used some surprise elements, pauses, different fills, or a veer from the loop playing repeatedly. It was East Coast, so the repetitive loop makes sense, but more dynamic changes to the beat could make it stand out more, and separate it, from the pack.

Broadjam Artist: Jeff Maguire
Song: Big Blue

Reviewer: Bill Dake

Positive Comments: There’s some potential here. Possibly a background track for a commercial or documentary scene.

Constructive Comments: Maybe cut back on the ambience overdrive, reverb and delay on the lead just seem to make it muddy. The whole thing seems a bit too compressed. I know that loud is the current thing, but clarity is just as important. Try to separate the instruments more and instead of trying to play every fast lick you know, work on some melodic phrases. A bridge would also be nice, a break from the heavy parts, wouldn’t take much, maybe 8 bars or so.

Broadjam Artist: Keith Taylor
Song: Lucky One

Reviewer: Brian Allossery and “The Lazy Poets”

Positive Comments: Nice groove and I like the fact that it’s a very spare instrumental = I would like to hear more instruments kick in later in the song however..

Constructive Comments: Bring in a full band after the first verse….

Broadjam Artist: The Sugar Pups
Song: back stretch

Reviewer: Jeff Maguire

Positive Comments: Very Zeppelin like riffing blues rock, nice guitar playing.

Constructive Comments: Intro is pretty powerful, very Zeppelin meets Trower. Don’t want to belabor it but you lost me when the vocals came in they just don’t hit the level of the intro or other heavy rock singers that I’d except, just overall weak for this style. Take the best instrumental parts out and you might get some soundtrack interest, guitar playing is good.

Broadjam Artist: Steve Dafoe – Songwriter
Song: Gone Baby Gone (Jazz Pop)

Reviewer: stefo

Positive Comments: nice fresh production brushes and bass nice and clear in the mix. vocal is great very unique and interesting vocal! like the sax solo.

Constructive Comments: enjoyed it very much . hook could have been a little more present and the vocal is a little too loud in the mix but i will check out your stuff nice and unique!

Broadjam Artist: Dave Haddad (CenterPeace)
Song: Beautiful Sound

Reviewer: stefo

Positive Comments: nice instrumentation particularly the guitar. great vocal. nice tone and control. nice piece of contemporary jazz could also here this as a film track .like the break with the guitar and percussion very nicely done.

Constructive Comments: good strong song and vocal performance. would like to have heard a few more adlibs vocally. great job!

Broadjam Artist: Gary Mazzola
Song: i CAN BARELY BREATHE

Reviewer: Jeff Maguire

Positive Comments: Moody late night and bluesy, love the tremolo on the guitar, very soulful.

Constructive Comments: Very soulful tune and performance with a nice arrangement, nice backing vocals and overall performance. Don’t particularly like the full top about 4:30, it’s too cute, probably should be about a minute shorter.

Broadjam Artist: N.Jones, Music Designer (Protilius Productions)
Song: Leaderboard Crack KILLS!!! 6 Pack Responsibly (2011)

Reviewer: Bobby Caputo

Positive Comments: Sounds like what happens when people enter the Broadjam Six Pack…

Constructive Comments: Sound effects overwhelmed the talent…couldn’t understand much of what he was saying…pretty lousy accent.

Broadjam Artist: FRED GROSS
Song: The Good Days

Reviewer: Bobby Caputo

Positive Comments: Some very tasty lick ideas…nice variety for an instrumental focusing solely on a guitar….song progresses nicely to handclapping…reminds me a bit of McCartneys’ Rockestra theme.

Constructive Comments: Maybe move things closer together for a bit of a “live” sound.