{"id":29480,"date":"2016-08-29T13:48:00","date_gmt":"2016-08-29T18:48:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/broadjamreviews.com\/?guid=9c025af1d5b1f9c70ba0f353926d56f1"},"modified":"2016-08-29T13:48:00","modified_gmt":"2016-08-29T18:48:00","slug":"mcsong-contemporary-jazz-by-uncle-spider-the-electric-dirt-clods","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/broadjamreviews.com\/index.php\/2016\/08\/29\/mcsong-contemporary-jazz-by-uncle-spider-the-electric-dirt-clods\/","title":{"rendered":"McSong\/ Contemporary Jazz by Uncle Spider &amp; The Electric Dirt Clods"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"margin-right:15px\" align=\"left\" border=\"0\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" src=\"http:\/\/usrimgs.broadjam.com\/2\/2068\/tmb_150x150_2068_236393.jpg\" title=\"Uncle Spider &#038; The Electric Dirt Clods\" alt=\"Uncle Spider &#038; The Electric Dirt Clods\" \/><\/p>\n<p><b>Broadjam Artist: <\/b><a href=\"http:\/\/www.broadjam.com\/redwinemusic\">Uncle Spider &#038; The Electric Dirt Clods<\/a><br \/><b>Song: <\/b><a href=\"http:\/\/www.broadjam.com\/artists\/songs.php?artistID=561&#038;mediaID=601880\">McSong\/ Contemporary Jazz<\/a><\/p>\n<p><b>Reviewer: <\/b><a href=\"http:\/\/www.broadjam.com\/artists\/home.php?artistID=113411\">Josh Walker<\/a><\/p>\n<p><b>Positive Comments: <\/b>The arrangement and harmony are all very interesting, and the instruments used are appropriate for this song. I like the form as well, with the A and B sections balanced well.  It could be a very cool song!<\/p>\n<p><b>Constructive Comments: <\/b>The areas that could use the most improvement in my opinion are recording\/mixing quality and guitar tuning. It sounds like everything is bleeding together in the mix so that its hard to hear clarity. The drums have a lot of reverb and, at least on my speakers, probably too much low end. The guitar isn&#8217;t in tune with the piano, plus they occupy the same frequency, which makes the tuning problem worse. It sounds like you&#8217;re using electric piano, so you&#8217;ll need to tune the guitar to the electric piano. One thing that could help with the clash is use piano chord voicings in a different frequency so it doesn&#8217;t clash with the guitar. You really need to use a different drum sound, but I know drums aren&#8217;t cheap. Apple Logic Pro is a $200 DAW and it comes with a drum program that sounds pretty good, as well as a TON of great piano, keyboard, and synth sounds. Once again, I think it&#8217;s potentially a cool song if those are fixed.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" align=\"left\" border=\"0\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" src=\"http:\/\/usrimgs.broadjam.com\/2\/2068\/tmb_150x150_2068_236393.jpg\" title=\"Uncle Spider &amp; The Electric Dirt Clods\" alt=\"Uncle Spider &amp; The Electric Dirt Clods\"><\/p>\n<p><b>Broadjam Artist: <\/b><a href=\"http:\/\/www.broadjam.com\/redwinemusic\">Uncle Spider &amp; The Electric Dirt Clods<\/a><br \/><b>Song: <\/b><a href=\"http:\/\/www.broadjam.com\/artists\/songs.php?artistID=561&amp;mediaID=601880\">McSong\/ Contemporary Jazz<\/a><\/p>\n<p><b>Reviewer: <\/b><a href=\"http:\/\/www.broadjam.com\/artists\/home.php?artistID=113411\">Josh Walker<\/a><\/p>\n<p><b>Positive Comments: <\/b>The arrangement and harmony are all very interesting, and the instruments used are appropriate for this song. I like the form as well, with the A and B sections balanced well.  It could be a very cool song!<\/p>\n<p><b>Constructive Comments: <\/b>The areas that could use the most improvement in my opinion are recording\/mixing quality and guitar tuning. It sounds like everything is bleeding together in the mix so that its hard to hear clarity. The drums have a lot of reverb and, at least on my speakers, probably too much low end. The guitar isn&#8217;t in tune with the piano, plus they occupy the same frequency, which makes the tuning problem worse. It sounds like you&#8217;re using electric piano, so you&#8217;ll need to tune the guitar to the electric piano. One thing that could help with the clash is use piano chord voicings in a different frequency so it doesn&#8217;t clash with the guitar. You really need to use a different drum sound, but I know drums aren&#8217;t cheap. Apple Logic Pro is a $200 DAW and it comes with a drum program that sounds pretty good, as well as a TON of great piano, keyboard, and synth sounds. Once again, I think it&#8217;s potentially a cool song if those are fixed.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-29480","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/broadjamreviews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29480","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/broadjamreviews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/broadjamreviews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/broadjamreviews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/broadjamreviews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=29480"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/broadjamreviews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29480\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":29481,"href":"https:\/\/broadjamreviews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29480\/revisions\/29481"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/broadjamreviews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=29480"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/broadjamreviews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=29480"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/broadjamreviews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=29480"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}