{"id":6835,"date":"2016-07-15T14:40:04","date_gmt":"2016-07-15T19:40:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/broadjamreviews.com\/?guid=ecdaf037a9c7f01e6c0b4829973fb534"},"modified":"2016-07-15T14:40:04","modified_gmt":"2016-07-15T19:40:04","slug":"for-a-friend-by-marc-s-pate-17","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/broadjamreviews.com\/index.php\/2016\/07\/15\/for-a-friend-by-marc-s-pate-17\/","title":{"rendered":"For a Friend by Marc S. Pate"},"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\/98\/98561\/tmb_150x150_98561_201725.jpg\" title=\"Marc S. Pate\" alt=\"Marc S. Pate\" \/><\/p>\n<p><b>Broadjam Artist: <\/b><a href=\"http:\/\/www.broadjam.com\/marcpate\">Marc S. Pate<\/a><br \/><b>Song: <\/b><a href=\"http:\/\/www.broadjam.com\/artists\/songs.php?artistID=68863&#038;mediaID=446186\">For a Friend<\/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 where guitar chops, arrangement skill, and a real ear for beauty come together!  There is some majorly wonderful stuff going on here in sound that reminds me of Duane Allman&#8217;s Little Martha and Steve Kimock&#8217;s music.  There are some crazy good moments going on here, including the climactic part at 1:19.  Nice nice nice!<\/p>\n<p><b>Constructive Comments: <\/b>I&#8217;d remove the chorus effect. IMO it&#8217;s really killing the tone of the guitars and cluttering up the space so you don&#8217;t hear the excellent fingerpicking and voicing that you&#8217;re doing.  I&#8217;d also drop the little chime\/tinkle you&#8217;re adding&#8211;it&#8217;s almost like one of those bell tree things the Smooth Jazz dudes do at the end of a Kenny G solo.  I&#8217;m not into the harmonics, I think they&#8217;re kinda cliche &#038; weak next to the other stuff but that&#8217;s me.  I&#8217;m picking at stuff only in the interest of making good great, and there are already some freakin great moments here!<\/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\/98\/98561\/tmb_150x150_98561_201725.jpg\" title=\"Marc S. Pate\" alt=\"Marc S. Pate\"><\/p>\n<p><b>Broadjam Artist: <\/b><a href=\"http:\/\/www.broadjam.com\/marcpate\">Marc S. Pate<\/a><br \/><b>Song: <\/b><a href=\"http:\/\/www.broadjam.com\/artists\/songs.php?artistID=68863&amp;mediaID=446186\">For a Friend<\/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 where guitar chops, arrangement skill, and a real ear for beauty come together!  There is some majorly wonderful stuff going on here in sound that reminds me of Duane Allman&#8217;s Little Martha and Steve Kimock&#8217;s music.  There are some crazy good moments going on here, including the climactic part at 1:19.  Nice nice nice!<\/p>\n<p><b>Constructive Comments: <\/b>I&#8217;d remove the chorus effect. IMO it&#8217;s really killing the tone of the guitars and cluttering up the space so you don&#8217;t hear the excellent fingerpicking and voicing that you&#8217;re doing.  I&#8217;d also drop the little chime\/tinkle you&#8217;re adding&#8211;it&#8217;s almost like one of those bell tree things the Smooth Jazz dudes do at the end of a Kenny G solo.  I&#8217;m not into the harmonics, I think they&#8217;re kinda cliche &amp; weak next to the other stuff but that&#8217;s me.  I&#8217;m picking at stuff only in the interest of making good great, and there are already some freakin great moments here!<\/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-6835","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/broadjamreviews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6835","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=6835"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/broadjamreviews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6835\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6836,"href":"https:\/\/broadjamreviews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6835\/revisions\/6836"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/broadjamreviews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6835"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/broadjamreviews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6835"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/broadjamreviews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6835"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}