{"id":41200,"date":"2017-11-08T08:06:00","date_gmt":"2017-11-08T14:06:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/broadjamreviews.com\/?guid=f862d4a09d210da4174158ea8b6a95ec"},"modified":"2017-11-08T08:06:00","modified_gmt":"2017-11-08T14:06:00","slug":"lamplight-by-powerklash-4","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/broadjamreviews.com\/index.php\/2017\/11\/08\/lamplight-by-powerklash-4\/","title":{"rendered":"Lamplight by Powerklash"},"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\/182\/182769\/tmb_150x150_182769_274939.jpg\" title=\"Powerklash\" alt=\"Powerklash\" \/><\/p>\n<p><b>Broadjam Artist: <\/b><a href=\"http:\/\/www.broadjam.com\/powerklash\">Powerklash<\/a><br \/><b>Song: <\/b><a href=\"http:\/\/www.broadjam.com\/artists\/songs.php?artistID=116896&#038;mediaID=709412\">Lamplight<\/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 has an Elton John Yellow Brick Road vibe.  Banging piano groove over top of a tight bass &#038; drums groove&#8211;with a driving bass part (cool work in the coda) and some really cool high hat work.  This is a solid tune with good lyrics and hook.<\/p>\n<p><b>Constructive Comments: <\/b>You know I was about to give up on this because the intro was really &#8220;band in a box&#8221; and boring.  Then the rhythm kicked in, and I was totally on board.  So I suggest starting with the full band.Oh no no no Van Halen solos.  Pick harmonics and relentless hammer on&#8217;s are so OVER.  Says me. That solo just destroys the song daggonit.I think you can get a better vocal performance out of this.  There are a few places where the phrasing is kinda draggy (first couple lines), you&#8217;re doing too much vocal fry (forced gravel voice), and are a bit flat in spots.  You&#8217;ve got a good vocal timbre&#8211;I&#8217;d argue for trying some shorter, more staccato notes to avoid long holds where it&#8217;s easy to go flat.  Add a 2nd vocal on the chorus parts throughout.This is good work&#8211;I&#8217;m picking at the stuff I&#8217;d change if I were producing&#8230;<\/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\/182\/182769\/tmb_150x150_182769_274939.jpg\" title=\"Powerklash\" alt=\"Powerklash\"><\/p>\n<p><b>Broadjam Artist: <\/b><a href=\"http:\/\/www.broadjam.com\/powerklash\">Powerklash<\/a><br \/><b>Song: <\/b><a href=\"http:\/\/www.broadjam.com\/artists\/songs.php?artistID=116896&amp;mediaID=709412\">Lamplight<\/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 has an Elton John Yellow Brick Road vibe.  Banging piano groove over top of a tight bass &amp; drums groove&#8211;with a driving bass part (cool work in the coda) and some really cool high hat work.  This is a solid tune with good lyrics and hook.<\/p>\n<p><b>Constructive Comments: <\/b>You know I was about to give up on this because the intro was really &#8220;band in a box&#8221; and boring.  Then the rhythm kicked in, and I was totally on board.  So I suggest starting with the full band.Oh no no no Van Halen solos.  Pick harmonics and relentless hammer on&#8217;s are so OVER.  Says me. That solo just destroys the song daggonit.I think you can get a better vocal performance out of this.  There are a few places where the phrasing is kinda draggy (first couple lines), you&#8217;re doing too much vocal fry (forced gravel voice), and are a bit flat in spots.  You&#8217;ve got a good vocal timbre&#8211;I&#8217;d argue for trying some shorter, more staccato notes to avoid long holds where it&#8217;s easy to go flat.  Add a 2nd vocal on the chorus parts throughout.This is good work&#8211;I&#8217;m picking at the stuff I&#8217;d change if I were producing&#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-41200","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/broadjamreviews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41200","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=41200"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/broadjamreviews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41200\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":41201,"href":"https:\/\/broadjamreviews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41200\/revisions\/41201"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/broadjamreviews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=41200"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/broadjamreviews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=41200"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/broadjamreviews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=41200"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}