{"id":34561,"date":"2017-02-14T08:50:00","date_gmt":"2017-02-14T14:50:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/broadjamreviews.com\/?guid=63bc2a545d803385edf98ca2c11d356c"},"modified":"2017-02-14T08:50:00","modified_gmt":"2017-02-14T14:50:00","slug":"short-story-folk-contemporary-by-bill-dake-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/broadjamreviews.com\/index.php\/2017\/02\/14\/short-story-folk-contemporary-by-bill-dake-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Short Story  (Folk-Contemporary) by Bill Dake"},"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\/126\/126057\/tmb_150x150_126057_261571.jpg\" title=\"Bill Dake\" alt=\"Bill Dake\" \/><\/p>\n<p><b>Broadjam Artist: <\/b><a href=\"http:\/\/www.broadjam.com\/artists\/home.php?artistID=86108\">Bill Dake<\/a><br \/><b>Song: <\/b><a href=\"http:\/\/www.broadjam.com\/artists\/songs.php?artistID=86108&#038;mediaID=654875\">Short Story  (Folk-Contemporary)<\/a><\/p>\n<p><b>Reviewer: <\/b><a href=\"http:\/\/www.broadjam.com\/artists\/home.php?artistID=11113\">Chet Nichols<\/a><\/p>\n<p><b>Positive Comments: <\/b>Very nice story song. Like the guitar work. Has an easy-going smooth recording and lush, spacey arrangement. Very unique melody that draws the listener in and captures my attention and keeps it. A very nice song for a movie or TV show with it&#8217;s free-form, free-flowing atmosphere. Nice job, thanks for sharing&#8230;&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><b>Constructive Comments: <\/b>I get where you are going with this song, but there are a few places were it needs some tweaking and it will be perfect. First the vocal needs to be re-done in spots where it is clearly pitchy. Try to be very critical of your own vocals and make sure the pitch doesn&#8217;t draw people away from the content of the song. I think the mix needs some tweaking and slight readjustments as it is a wee bit unbalanced. The instrumentation is excellent and the arrangement is very, very nice, so just balance out the left-to-right mix levels. The vocal has a very nice quality and is mixed very nicely in the track. it is warm and tender and helps to paint the pictures. There is a string PAD that comes in later in the track and I think that can be incorporated and weaved in and out of the track more. Lifting the volume 1-to-2-to-3 ticks would be interesting to play with just keep it subtle. Finally, a simple chorus\/hook or retain will they the song up nicely and there doesn&#8217;t seem to be on in the song. Could be as simple as a repeated line at the end of each verse&#8230;.but the song needs one. Hope this give you some ideas to chew on&#8230;it is a very nice tune and worth the effort.Best to you&#8230;..<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Broadjam Artist: Bill DakeSong: Short Story  (Folk-Contemporary)Reviewer: Chet NicholsPositive Comments: Very nice story song. Like the guitar work. Has an easy-going smooth recording and lush, spacey arrangement. Very unique melody that draws the list&#8230;<\/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-34561","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/broadjamreviews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34561","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=34561"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/broadjamreviews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34561\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":34562,"href":"https:\/\/broadjamreviews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34561\/revisions\/34562"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/broadjamreviews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=34561"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/broadjamreviews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=34561"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/broadjamreviews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=34561"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}