Month: June 2017

Broadjam Artist: Uncle Spider & The Electric Dirt Clods
Song: In A Ghetto De Vida / Rap Hip Hop

Reviewer: JFK

Positive Comments: needs more work

Constructive Comments: needs more work

Broadjam Artist: MES
Song: Need that Paper

Reviewer: JFK

Positive Comments: the lyrics is on point hook is ok….. instrumental is a laid back of track

Constructive Comments: the hook needs more work on it… that’s all

Broadjam Artist: Keith Taylor
Song: The Long Ride

Reviewer: Bill Dake

Positive Comments: Like the clarity of the recording and the vocalist has the country sound that fits this tune. Simple but easy to remember hook.

Constructive Comments: As this is most probably a demo I don’t have a lot to comment on as far as the performance….it was fine. I might suggest that the hook needs a more descriptive story line to tie it to. You might want to describe the girl, the journey, when it began, where it began, be a bit more specific. Also, I’d put the emphasis on the word “long” in the hook, stretch that word out. This is a good start, rewrites can be a pain, but they also can reveal a gem……

Broadjam Artist: Charlie Shock
Song: THE WAY LIFE GOES (192)

Reviewer: Jeff Maguire

Positive Comments: Similar in style and tine to Sheryl Crow’s ” All I wanna Do ” , no real criticisms , indie /pop with an edge.

Constructive Comments: Recording is lacking in a few spots, bass sounds kind of muddy, overall maybe a little dull. This is pretty much straight up pop so I’d at least consider cleaning up the guitar sound. Length is about right. I remember reviewing this song before, might have been a different version. I also seem to recall an issue with the length in the other review. It’s a good song with real commercial potential. Get in clean, say it, get out clean, and I expect you can sell it .

Broadjam Artist: Fred Kimmel
Song: Cecil’s Wedding (featuring Sali Oguri)

Reviewer: JFK

Positive Comments: the tracks is a soundtrack feel to it sound like its pop

Constructive Comments: I think your track is good for pop music

Broadjam Artist: Mitch Siegal
Song: Chasing Fair

Reviewer: Jeff Roberts

Positive Comments: Great hook and superb lyrics, melody, and vocals throughout. This has a Dan Fogleberg vibe. There are really good backing vocals, and the string arrangement greatly enhances the tune. I’d bet that this is Mitch? This is a really lovely tune.

Constructive Comments: 4 out of 5 on instrumentation simply because a good mic’d acoustic sound with some air in it would add so much more than what sounds like a direct sound. It sounds like you’re autotuning the vocals in places like “who says” or else compressing it pretty hard. I wouldn’t–the vocals need to breathe more, and the pitch is great as is.

Broadjam Artist: Lisa Vivienne
Song: Holy Lullaby

Reviewer: Jeff Roberts

Positive Comments: I’ve heard this before and really liked it then. There are some wonderful arrangement touches here, solid instrumentation and recording, really nice vocals, and just a really great song at the root of it all. I love the descending melody on the chorus!

Constructive Comments: Your vocals in the first verse may be a touch flat in some spots, and I think you’re pushing a bit outside of your best range. But that’s putting a very fine point on it. This is a joyful tune~!!

Broadjam Artist: Remerge Band – The Melody Stuart Project
Song: Got a Thing for you – Felica Raphael

Reviewer: Patrick E. Muth

Positive Comments: Boy its nice to hear this fine laid back tune from some long pros that know how to do it right!

Constructive Comments: My taste would say a tad more bass and vocal the rest is perfect! Great Job! Catnipim going to give you a listen!

Broadjam Artist: LaWanda Macik
Song: How I Roll (Instrumental)

Reviewer: Patrick E. Muth

Positive Comments: i liked the way the song started out, love the beat and the hint of the horn and i was so pumped i almost got out of my chair

Constructive Comments: you’ve got a great start but remember the listeners get bored after 3.5 seconds so you have to keep it moving really fast to keep them or they go adrift!Double or triple track that fine horn, turn the bass up and change chords! Besides finding a sexy hot lady to add some mood!Good Luck and Keep On Truckin! Catnip

Broadjam Artist: Randal Dunkle
Song: The Salvation Song (Roberts/Dunkle)

Reviewer: Calico King

Positive Comments: For the sake of being objective, I try to listen and give as much feedback to the song with out any biased I might have towards a particular genre or set of lyrics that said, for a second I thought I was listening to some C.S.N.Y. or Buffalo Springfield, Byrds, due to the beautiful harmonies, the vintage clean guitar tone, the refined drums, and the overall sound of the tone. It has very positive energy and sincerity in the vocals, and the overall production value was pretty good.

Constructive Comments: I have a hard time with Christian Rock, and the Christian Genre, but it’s not my place to judge another person’s musical taste and I am no authority on what defines quality lyricism. As I stated above, I loved the music and the melody/harmonies and atmosphere. I can’t deduct points for subject matter, because I know it’s a major market. My only issue with this song, is one that I have with a lot of songs in this genre as it exists right now I think there’s an over simplification and lack of diversity in the genre at large, and so much christian music just seems to tell me one thing praise jesus. I understand these are worship tunes, but I also was raised in the christian tradition and minored in religious studies in college, and I feel like there is so much more to be extracted from the canonical gospels than mere celebrations of faith. I understand that to be a christian artist you have to have worship songs, but what I don’t understand is why everything has to be a worship song. Look at the gospels and all the literary devices that make jesus’s life so intriguing elements of narrative, parable, metaphor, symbolism– there’s conflict, temptation, mystery, courage, redemption, betrayal, dialogue etc. Why doesn’t any christian music step out of the comfort zone and every try to make songs that aren’t as simple as “Praise Jesus” — I think if you were to start looking deeper in to the individual situations of the gospel and use that as source material, you could add more color to the genre for example a song about Peter’s denial 3 times and what it means to abandon conviction. A song about Judas’s guilt and the gut wrenching pain between Jesus and Judas for that betrayal would be interesting. How about a song that explores what it means to see your faith abused by money changers, and Jesus’s reaction when he saw that in the temple. I only say this because you’re music is beautiful, and I understand that you have your deeply held beliefs, and I seriously encourage you to take the new testament, find something small, and construct a song around it. It could add color or dimension to this music. It could even reach a bigger audience. I would love to hear a song like yours still give praise, but explore faith in less black and white terms , less cliches, less redundant hooks and verses.