Month: March 2018

Broadjam Artist: Kaye Logan
Song: Love and Pride

Reviewer: David James

Positive Comments: The song has a strong lyric and story line. The ‘Love built the bridge but pride tore it down’ is an excellent concept. I like the way the vocal adopts a higher register for the chorus. Some lovely guitar work on the track. The backing vocals work really well. Overall it’s a lovely song.

Constructive Comments: This isn’t my genre so forgive me if I’m writing nonsense, but to my ear the BPM are slightly too slow, and for that reason I’ve marked down the quality of arrangement. I think the song would sound crisper and more concise were the speed to be increased. just a tad. My motto is ‘if in doubt, increase the BPM’. Overall though a nice piece of work.

Broadjam Artist: Fred Kimmel
Song: Take Me

Reviewer: MGB

Positive Comments: Really good piece here. Great intro. Plenty of twists and turns, Great choice of instruments throughout. Really nice transitions and just an overall truly good sound. Outro is certainly unusual to say the least, but it is a deviation from the norm, and nothing’s wrong with that.

Constructive Comments: Good luck.

Broadjam Artist: Sonic
Song: Gypsy Soul

Reviewer: MGB

Positive Comments: Very well put-together song. Nice intro. Really good accompaniment and instrumentation throughout. Really good vocals and backups throughout. Great guitar work in the instrumental.

Constructive Comments: Keep up the good work.

Broadjam Artist: MineHead
Song: dry ride

Reviewer: Dave Haddad (CenterPeace)

Positive Comments: Ok now here is a professional sounding production, thank you. Nice sounds, everything right in your face and sounding sweet. Tight grooves all well arranged. The keys are dope then the muted trumpet, dang… Love the drum loops and the progression is smooth and interesting. All the guitar riff and keyboard runs are so sweet.

Constructive Comments: The percussion at times (1:50 to 2:25) is cluttered. I know what it is, that real straight and loud hi hat that is almost rushing is clashing with the uber cool loops you’re bustin. Around the 3:40 point, for me the song began sounding like an assortment of loops and not music. Then you hit that serious keyboard riff in the end, not fair. In the very end one of the drum loop jumps which may sound like nothing or cool to some but me I like my grooves to be smooth. Everything in this production was amazing until that very tiny little picky thing in the end. I know you don’t hear those things in with ecerything else playing and with a song like this it probably adds to the feel. Nice piece!

Broadjam Artist: Margie & Art Corey
Song: I’m So Lonely

Reviewer: Dave Haddad (CenterPeace)

Positive Comments: Fun lyrics, clever story. Vocals and saxophone carry the song along with the super cool repetitive bass. Fantastic vibe on this song, omg!! I dig the progression. Cool bridge right before the sax solo, nice background vocals mixed in perfectly at 1:26! The effects help create the environment.

Constructive Comments: Art my brother, you music is sounding better every time I hear a new song. Ok, in this case the reverb helps make the track. In the beginning I thought, ‘oh my there’s a lot of reverb on the vocal and sax’… then a split second later it hit me and I though ok now this is great improvement. By that I mean on your mix… panning, relative levels setting up what the listener hears most in your presentation… that shit was all there man!!

Broadjam Artist: Felice Kaye-Cooper / Songwriter
Song: Winter’s Song/with Isaak James

Reviewer: Dave Haddad (CenterPeace)

Positive Comments: Sweet melody, beckons a jazz standard or show tune but this song is original and unique. The bridge is perfect!! Passages remind me of the amazing Beatles and you wear it well. Magnificent song writing. I’m in love with the vocal harmony especially around 1:30. Good vocal blend, I understand every word, excellent!!

Constructive Comments: I would have preferred a grand piano not so much strings and pad… It would be more timeless and classic.

Broadjam Artist: DENNIS MAKEPEACE
Song: katy’s dance

Reviewer: Jeana Potthoff

Positive Comments: This sounds very true to it’s roots (Scottish?) in style. I like the major-minor back and forth with the melody.

Constructive Comments: Just a positive comment–very smooth transitions. Well done!

Broadjam Artist: Leftis
Song: War is not a fairytale

Reviewer: Jeana Potthoff

Positive Comments: I liked how the beginning was intriguing, then I like how you built on the main theme.

Constructive Comments: I thought the arrangement was seamless!

Broadjam Artist: MineHead
Song: garbo’s circus

Reviewer: Marilyn Hall

Positive Comments: Good beat for dancing. Unusual sounds and buzzes. Teenagers would enjoy this based on the beat.

Constructive Comments: It sounds a little like random household items being used as instruments.

Broadjam Artist: Margie & Art Corey
Song: Dark Desert Sky

Reviewer: Kaye Logan

Positive Comments: I like the song, I think the lyrics need to be brushed up a bit. and the Vocal sounded just a bit too weak. Other than that is was a good song.

Constructive Comments: I think just getting the vocals a bit stronger. There was places it needed to be improved on. All in all was a good song.