Month: June 2020

Broadjam Artist: Tommy Stewart
Song: Isolation

Reviewer: Caden

Positive Comments: Great instrumental! The guitar tone sounds great.

Constructive Comments: Keep up the good work!

Broadjam Artist: Bob Birthisel
Song: Driving Sports Rock – INSTRUMENTAL EDIT

Reviewer: Caden

Positive Comments: TEACH ME HOW TO PLAY GUITAR LIKE THAT!

Constructive Comments: Keep up the great work! Sounds amazing!

Broadjam Artist: Margie & Art Corey
Song: Bees in A Jar…Re-mix K. Kallen Vocals

Reviewer: Caden

Positive Comments: Awesome song! Love the Vocalists voice too! Guitars sound like BEES! lol love it!

Constructive Comments: No criticism. Beautiful art.

Broadjam Artist: Hartmut Oberdieck
Song: Springtime

Reviewer: Caden

Positive Comments: LOVEEEE the blues! This is what I grew up on! KEEP MAKING THIS MUSIC!

Constructive Comments: No criticism at all. Keep up the great work!

Broadjam Artist: Mossmunn
Song: Would That It Were

Reviewer: Caden

Positive Comments: WOW! It’s like a modern, more rocky version of The Beatles!!!!!!!

Constructive Comments: I have nothing constructive to say other than I wish I could hear more!

Broadjam Artist: Peter G Olach – PGO
Song: The Deadly Game PGOlach/Nils Rurack/JTB

Reviewer: Caden

Positive Comments: Intro had me hooked!!!

Constructive Comments: Instrumentally, this song could definitely sell…Maybe revisit some vocal melodies?

Broadjam Artist: Ante Novaselic
Song: JaFunktaBlu

Reviewer: Caden

Positive Comments: Really enjoyed this instrumental! Keep it up!

Constructive Comments: Keep playing! I know this is probably written to sell as a hook but I want to hear more! lol

Broadjam Artist: Patrick E. Muth/Catnip Pat
Song: GONNA BE ON TIME!

Reviewer: Earl Jenkins

Positive Comments: For a blues song, I rather like these lyrics. The chorus, in particular, has a nice duality to it, with the singer talking about how he’s going to work hard, and will help out as long as his partner “ain’t crazy”. And the verse about going to the beach, white sand in your shoes, and a Georgia Peach, paints a good picture.I like the intro hook. It’s catchy. And the overall groove is good. Hitting on the offbeat with the swing overtop makes it cool and driving at the same time. To me, this is a blues song, but not in the “hard-driving swing” style that gets overplayed these days. More of a funky-rootsy blues, which I like.The use of wah on the guitar solo was a surprise, but not a bad one. I like wah, and while other songs similiar to this would’ve used dobro or a fat slide guitar sound, I think the wah worked.Also, I like the wavering vibrato on the vocals. Not oversung at all, and quite suited to this style.

Constructive Comments: Bass is frequently not in the pocket. It’s a tad distracting, and takes away from what is usually a catchy groove. Re-record that, and make sure it stays on the beat, especially for the walk-downs.Vocals were hard to make out. The melody came through, but I’m not sure I would’ve ever understood the lyrics or what the song was about without reading the lyrics sheet. In the first two listen-throughs, the only words I really picked out were “Georgia Peach” and “Help you along the way”. I would push that up in the mix a tiny bit more, and re-record them with a great emphasis on enunciation and cadence. I get that the feel of the song is a bit “laid back”, but, for example, you could push the last word of each line in the chorus to give it more bounce and emotion: “Gonna be on TIME, most every DAY, gonna make my MONey, workin hard each DAY, and if you ain’t CRAzy, I’m gonna HELP you along the way.”

Broadjam Artist: Douglas Branson aka dB+1
Song: Terrible Videos on MTV

Reviewer: Caden

Positive Comments: I like the hook! It’s like Video Killed The Radio Star but a modern version.

Constructive Comments: Use more of those progressive synths like you use in the beginning!

Broadjam Artist: Patrick E. Muth/Catnip Pat
Song: TRAIN ON THE TRACK

Reviewer: Caden

Positive Comments: Reminds me of CCR!

Constructive Comments: Record drums with click track!