{"id":29959,"date":"2016-09-15T09:21:00","date_gmt":"2016-09-15T14:21:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/broadjamreviews.com\/?guid=7958154bf50b7075d9f2ab6f1c79e4ee"},"modified":"2016-09-15T09:21:00","modified_gmt":"2016-09-15T14:21:00","slug":"in-love-with-love-by-james-beck","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/broadjamreviews.com\/index.php\/2016\/09\/15\/in-love-with-love-by-james-beck\/","title":{"rendered":"In Love With Love by James Beck"},"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\/97\/97646\/tmb_150x150_97646_230585.jpg\" title=\"James Beck\" alt=\"James Beck\" \/><\/p>\n<p><b>Broadjam Artist: <\/b><a href=\"http:\/\/www.broadjam.com\/jdbeck11209\">James Beck<\/a><br \/><b>Song: <\/b><a href=\"http:\/\/www.broadjam.com\/artists\/songs.php?artistID=68146&#038;mediaID=577994\">In Love With Love<\/a><\/p>\n<p><b>Reviewer: <\/b><a href=\"http:\/\/www.broadjam.com\/artists\/home.php?artistID=80582\">Jeff Roberts<\/a><\/p>\n<p><b>Positive Comments: <\/b>I&#8217;ve heard this one before outside the review process.  The theme\/topic is good, and there are some really good melody and lyric moments.  I like the implied 12\/8 feel.  The &#8220;umm hummm&#8221; just before the chorus is a really good moment&#8211;it&#8217;s a completely effective prechorus with just two syllables.  I really like the way the changes move underneath &#8220;think I&#8217;ll stick to drinking and *hanging*&#8221; &#8211;that&#8217;s a really tasty spot there.  This needs some tweaks yet, according to my highly sought after industry veteran opinion (chuckle), but it&#8217;s good really good bones!<\/p>\n<p><b>Constructive Comments: <\/b>The vocal is too far back and there&#8217;s too much reverb that makes it lose intimacy and presence.  Your vocal delivery is a bit stilted on the verses&#8211;it sounds like you&#8217;re a step or two low for your voice.  The phrasing is very plodding in the verses&#8211;it could use some rhythmic variety and natural emphasis.  Definitely lose that 80&#8217;s hard rock guitar solo&#8211;it just doesn&#8217;t fit the style &#038; current sensibilities&#8211;it sounds like Brian May goes to Nashville.<\/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\/97\/97646\/tmb_150x150_97646_230585.jpg\" title=\"James Beck\" alt=\"James Beck\"><\/p>\n<p><b>Broadjam Artist: <\/b><a href=\"http:\/\/www.broadjam.com\/jdbeck11209\">James Beck<\/a><br \/><b>Song: <\/b><a href=\"http:\/\/www.broadjam.com\/artists\/songs.php?artistID=68146&amp;mediaID=577994\">In Love With Love<\/a><\/p>\n<p><b>Reviewer: <\/b><a href=\"http:\/\/www.broadjam.com\/artists\/home.php?artistID=80582\">Jeff Roberts<\/a><\/p>\n<p><b>Positive Comments: <\/b>I&#8217;ve heard this one before outside the review process.  The theme\/topic is good, and there are some really good melody and lyric moments.  I like the implied 12\/8 feel.  The &#8220;umm hummm&#8221; just before the chorus is a really good moment&#8211;it&#8217;s a completely effective prechorus with just two syllables.  I really like the way the changes move underneath &#8220;think I&#8217;ll stick to drinking and *hanging*&#8221; &#8211;that&#8217;s a really tasty spot there.  This needs some tweaks yet, according to my highly sought after industry veteran opinion (chuckle), but it&#8217;s good really good bones!<\/p>\n<p><b>Constructive Comments: <\/b>The vocal is too far back and there&#8217;s too much reverb that makes it lose intimacy and presence.  Your vocal delivery is a bit stilted on the verses&#8211;it sounds like you&#8217;re a step or two low for your voice.  The phrasing is very plodding in the verses&#8211;it could use some rhythmic variety and natural emphasis.  Definitely lose that 80&#8217;s hard rock guitar solo&#8211;it just doesn&#8217;t fit the style &amp; current sensibilities&#8211;it sounds like Brian May goes to Nashville.<\/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-29959","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/broadjamreviews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29959","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=29959"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/broadjamreviews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29959\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":29960,"href":"https:\/\/broadjamreviews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29959\/revisions\/29960"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/broadjamreviews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=29959"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/broadjamreviews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=29959"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/broadjamreviews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=29959"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}