{"id":41130,"date":"2017-11-07T06:32:00","date_gmt":"2017-11-07T12:32:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/broadjamreviews.com\/?guid=94942cea32c6cb6900659b77b6f48e60"},"modified":"2017-11-07T06:32:00","modified_gmt":"2017-11-07T12:32:00","slug":"simpleman-by-rocky-larson-6","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/broadjamreviews.com\/index.php\/2017\/11\/07\/simpleman-by-rocky-larson-6\/","title":{"rendered":"Simpleman by Rocky Larson"},"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\/16\/16759\/tmb_150x150_16759_235277.jpg\" title=\"Rocky Larson\" alt=\"Rocky Larson\" \/><\/p>\n<p><b>Broadjam Artist: <\/b><a href=\"http:\/\/www.broadjam.com\/songheart\">Rocky Larson<\/a><br \/><b>Song: <\/b><a href=\"http:\/\/www.broadjam.com\/artists\/songs.php?artistID=12257&#038;mediaID=374506\">Simpleman<\/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>This is musical with a tight keyboard performance and some very nice changes in key spots.  It has a positive vibe that would work in a &#8220;company success&#8221; video context.  There are some very tasteful chord changes here.<\/p>\n<p><b>Constructive Comments: <\/b>The reverb on the drums has a very high EQ tail that I&#8217;d try to tone down a bit (kind a of rattling BB&#8217;s sound).  The horn part would be good with a real horn&#8211;the line is good&#8211;but the keyboard execution gives it too much of a band in a box feel (and yes it&#8217;s frustrating to not be able to get real horns in easily without hiring a section!!).I think you need a bit more tension in the arrangement.  You&#8217;ve got some really cool changes \/ voicings already so I think this would come from going to the rhythm section and working to make it breathe more and vary from the &#8220;chipper 8ths&#8221; that are playing constantly.  You *do* this at 3:32 but it&#8217;s really late in the game.  What about bringing the whole thing down about 4bpm?  That would leave more room for drama maybe?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Broadjam Artist: Rocky LarsonSong: SimplemanReviewer: Jeff RobertsPositive Comments: This is musical with a tight keyboard performance and some very nice changes in key spots.  It has a positive vibe that would work in a &#8220;company success&#8221; video context&#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-41130","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/broadjamreviews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41130","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=41130"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/broadjamreviews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41130\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":41131,"href":"https:\/\/broadjamreviews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41130\/revisions\/41131"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/broadjamreviews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=41130"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/broadjamreviews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=41130"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/broadjamreviews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=41130"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}