{"id":56335,"date":"2018-11-10T14:44:00","date_gmt":"2018-11-10T20:44:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/broadjamreviews.com\/?guid=5d806591b0a1d5c7970fbe099a768f71"},"modified":"2018-11-10T14:44:00","modified_gmt":"2018-11-10T20:44:00","slug":"hammer-down-by-howard-delnick-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/broadjamreviews.com\/index.php\/2018\/11\/10\/hammer-down-by-howard-delnick-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Hammer Down by Howard Delnick"},"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\/146\/146228\/tmb_150x150_146228_269846.jpg\" title=\"Howard Delnick\" alt=\"Howard Delnick\" \/><\/p>\n<p><b>Broadjam Artist: <\/b><a href=\"http:\/\/www.broadjam.com\/HowardDelnick\">Howard Delnick<\/a><br \/><b>Song: <\/b><a href=\"http:\/\/www.broadjam.com\/artists\/songs.php?artistID=98352&#038;mediaID=615728\">Hammer Down<\/a><\/p>\n<p><b>Reviewer: <\/b><a href=\"http:\/\/www.broadjam.com\/artists\/home.php?artistID=112458\">Anxious Rabbit<\/a><\/p>\n<p><b>Positive Comments: <\/b>Liked Tempo felt &#8211; Liked concept &#8211; Memorable hook &#8211; Decent musicianship!   <\/p>\n<p><b>Constructive Comments: <\/b>So much depends on why your writing and recording &#8211; for fun? to share with friends? In hopes of obtaining a cut on an artist album or get a Sync placement in a Film &#8211; T.V. show or National Ad Campaign ? With that said &#8211; Assuming it&#8217;s more than a hobby &#8211; You want the most professional presentation of our song possible right? Have a pro-Demo house produce your track! Utilize a pro Demo singer &#8211; Have the song professionally Mastered. But first make sure you&#8217;ve confirmed what you are having demo&#8217;d is what the Music industry is expecting. This song has a major dis-connect [ unfortunately ] working against it&#8217;s self. The Musical &#8220;Movement&#8221; [ interlude ] that comes directly after the first chorus, feels completely out of place &#8211; like it&#8217;s from another genre or song it does not gel with the rest of the song. That absolutely needs to be addressed and a Pro Vocalist need to be hired. Again if you are hoping for a cut. The bar is very high in the ways of expectations of production. It&#8217;s not like is was 20 or even 30 years ago when a real raw demo could be submitted &#8211; expecting a Producer or A&#038;R type might think &#8220;Oh i know what to to with this!&#8221; Those days [ for the most part ] don&#8217;t exist any more. They want and expect high quality &#8211; lyrics &#8211; production [ even if stripped down ] and vocals that are nearly a mastered mix, if not mastered. Good songs don&#8217;t cut it any more, hey have to be great to qualify for an Album cut. However the bar isn&#8217;t quite as high for a Sync placement,..but nearly. So you must boost your level of presentation, in order to meet current expectations. Or just keep doing what you&#8217;re doing for you and your friends! But over all, a fun song! Keep doing what you love!   <\/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\/146\/146228\/tmb_150x150_146228_269846.jpg\" title=\"Howard Delnick\" alt=\"Howard Delnick\"><\/p>\n<p><b>Broadjam Artist: <\/b><a href=\"http:\/\/www.broadjam.com\/HowardDelnick\">Howard Delnick<\/a><br \/><b>Song: <\/b><a href=\"http:\/\/www.broadjam.com\/artists\/songs.php?artistID=98352&amp;mediaID=615728\">Hammer Down<\/a><\/p>\n<p><b>Reviewer: <\/b><a href=\"http:\/\/www.broadjam.com\/artists\/home.php?artistID=112458\">Anxious Rabbit<\/a><\/p>\n<p><b>Positive Comments: <\/b>Liked Tempo felt &#8211; Liked concept &#8211; Memorable hook &#8211; Decent musicianship!   <\/p>\n<p><b>Constructive Comments: <\/b>So much depends on why your writing and recording &#8211; for fun? to share with friends? In hopes of obtaining a cut on an artist album or get a Sync placement in a Film &#8211; T.V. show or National Ad Campaign ? With that said &#8211; Assuming it&#8217;s more than a hobby &#8211; You want the most professional presentation of our song possible right? Have a pro-Demo house produce your track! Utilize a pro Demo singer &#8211; Have the song professionally Mastered. But first make sure you&#8217;ve confirmed what you are having demo&#8217;d is what the Music industry is expecting. This song has a major dis-connect [ unfortunately ] working against it&#8217;s self. The Musical &#8220;Movement&#8221; [ interlude ] that comes directly after the first chorus, feels completely out of place &#8211; like it&#8217;s from another genre or song it does not gel with the rest of the song. That absolutely needs to be addressed and a Pro Vocalist need to be hired. Again if you are hoping for a cut. The bar is very high in the ways of expectations of production. It&#8217;s not like is was 20 or even 30 years ago when a real raw demo could be submitted &#8211; expecting a Producer or A&amp;R type might think &#8220;Oh i know what to to with this!&#8221; Those days [ for the most part ] don&#8217;t exist any more. They want and expect high quality &#8211; lyrics &#8211; production [ even if stripped down ] and vocals that are nearly a mastered mix, if not mastered. Good songs don&#8217;t cut it any more, hey have to be great to qualify for an Album cut. However the bar isn&#8217;t quite as high for a Sync placement,..but nearly. So you must boost your level of presentation, in order to meet current expectations. Or just keep doing what you&#8217;re doing for you and your friends! But over all, a fun song! Keep doing what you love!   <\/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-56335","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/broadjamreviews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56335","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=56335"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/broadjamreviews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56335\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":56336,"href":"https:\/\/broadjamreviews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56335\/revisions\/56336"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/broadjamreviews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=56335"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/broadjamreviews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=56335"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/broadjamreviews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=56335"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}