{"id":46699,"date":"2018-03-17T09:11:00","date_gmt":"2018-03-17T14:11:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/broadjamreviews.com\/?guid=896aa7bf32c372694a21dbea0435fa5e"},"modified":"2018-03-17T09:11:00","modified_gmt":"2018-03-17T14:11:00","slug":"harder-to-hold-by-sonic-11","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/broadjamreviews.com\/index.php\/2018\/03\/17\/harder-to-hold-by-sonic-11\/","title":{"rendered":"Harder To Hold by Sonic"},"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\/184\/184097\/tmb_150x150_184097_277417.jpg\" title=\"Sonic\" alt=\"Sonic\" \/><\/p>\n<p><b>Broadjam Artist: <\/b><a href=\"http:\/\/www.broadjam.com\/sonicbandbogota\">Sonic<\/a><br \/><b>Song: <\/b><a href=\"http:\/\/www.broadjam.com\/artists\/songs.php?artistID=117622&#038;mediaID=716108\">Harder To Hold<\/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 both a Guns n Roses vibe and a later Weezer\/Offspring sound.  Very tight drums that play to the song perfectly and give a danceable hard rock groove.  Good guitar tones and lead parts.  The chorus has a good lift.  There&#8217;s a very cool riff sneaking into the later verses&#8211;nice touch!  The drop out section with bass &#038; drums is a great move and it sounds cool.<\/p>\n<p><b>Constructive Comments: <\/b>The vocal is not quite pulling off the high notes with authority and good pitch on the high parts&#8211;this is a part that&#8217;s designed for a real belter and this voice isn&#8217;t there.  And so&#8230;go get one or re-write to suit the voice you have (I&#8217;d argue for the latter).  The phrasing and melody on the verses is a bit tired and cliche to my ears&#8211;it&#8217;s a really old &#038; overdone  &#8220;ba de ba ba ba ba&#8230;.wait&#8230;ba de ba de ba&#8221; thing.  But that&#8217;s me&#8211;if you like that sound then that&#8217;s what matters.  But you do need real guts in the vocal to pull it off.  The same voice with lofi \/distortion could pull it off.  If you move the bass with the drums instead of following the guitar chords behind the beat it will add tremendous energy to the tune&#8211;try it and see.<\/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\/184\/184097\/tmb_150x150_184097_277417.jpg\" title=\"Sonic\" alt=\"Sonic\"><\/p>\n<p><b>Broadjam Artist: <\/b><a href=\"http:\/\/www.broadjam.com\/sonicbandbogota\">Sonic<\/a><br \/><b>Song: <\/b><a href=\"http:\/\/www.broadjam.com\/artists\/songs.php?artistID=117622&amp;mediaID=716108\">Harder To Hold<\/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 both a Guns n Roses vibe and a later Weezer\/Offspring sound.  Very tight drums that play to the song perfectly and give a danceable hard rock groove.  Good guitar tones and lead parts.  The chorus has a good lift.  There&#8217;s a very cool riff sneaking into the later verses&#8211;nice touch!  The drop out section with bass &amp; drums is a great move and it sounds cool.<\/p>\n<p><b>Constructive Comments: <\/b>The vocal is not quite pulling off the high notes with authority and good pitch on the high parts&#8211;this is a part that&#8217;s designed for a real belter and this voice isn&#8217;t there.  And so&#8230;go get one or re-write to suit the voice you have (I&#8217;d argue for the latter).  The phrasing and melody on the verses is a bit tired and cliche to my ears&#8211;it&#8217;s a really old &amp; overdone  &#8220;ba de ba ba ba ba&#8230;.wait&#8230;ba de ba de ba&#8221; thing.  But that&#8217;s me&#8211;if you like that sound then that&#8217;s what matters.  But you do need real guts in the vocal to pull it off.  The same voice with lofi \/distortion could pull it off.  If you move the bass with the drums instead of following the guitar chords behind the beat it will add tremendous energy to the tune&#8211;try it and see.<\/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-46699","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/broadjamreviews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46699","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=46699"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/broadjamreviews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46699\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":46700,"href":"https:\/\/broadjamreviews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46699\/revisions\/46700"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/broadjamreviews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=46699"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/broadjamreviews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=46699"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/broadjamreviews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=46699"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}