{"id":76692,"date":"2020-11-07T18:31:00","date_gmt":"2020-11-08T00:31:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/broadjamreviews.com\/?guid=224eeb594f7a44c4f855aabe2afcd6a2"},"modified":"2020-11-07T18:31:00","modified_gmt":"2020-11-08T00:31:00","slug":"a-storm-outside-my-window-by-jeff-ashbaker-3","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/broadjamreviews.com\/index.php\/2020\/11\/07\/a-storm-outside-my-window-by-jeff-ashbaker-3\/","title":{"rendered":"A Storm Outside My Window by Jeff Ashbaker"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"margin-right:15px\" align=\"left\" border=\"0\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" src=\"https:\/\/d3ck8ztij7t71z.cloudfront.net\/24\/24422\/tmb_150x150_24422_164611.jpg\" title=\"Jeff Ashbaker\" alt=\"Jeff Ashbaker\" \/><\/p>\n<p><b>Broadjam Artist: <\/b><a href=\"http:\/\/www.broadjam.com\/jeffashbaker\">Jeff Ashbaker<\/a><br \/><b>Song: <\/b><a href=\"http:\/\/www.broadjam.com\/artists\/songs.php?artistID=13896&#038;mediaID=532077\">A Storm Outside My Window<\/a><\/p>\n<p><b>Reviewer: <\/b><a href=\"http:\/\/www.broadjam.com\/artists\/home.php?artistID=29480\">David James<\/a><\/p>\n<p><b>Positive Comments: <\/b>It&#8217;s a beautiful melody. Lovely chord progression. A compelling performance from the lead vocalist. Strong musicianship. The lyric hook &#8216;down to the river&#8217; is very effective and overall the lyrics are strong. The quality of the recording is excellent. Great sound quality.<\/p>\n<p><b>Constructive Comments: <\/b>I&#8217;ve marked down the arrangement and instrumentation because I feel there were opportunities to pull back on the instruments in certain sections of the song to give the listener more light and shade. I also felt that the lines at 1.23 and 3.13, sung by the backing vocalist just repeated the previous line and didn&#8217;t add to the song. That could be rectified by adding the lead vocalist to those lines. I found the ending a bit abrupt. A drum fill or similar might prepare the listener for the ending. If these comments sound harsh, I don&#8217;t intend that. It&#8217;s a really strong song, which I think would be even better with a few tweaks.     <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Broadjam Artist: Jeff AshbakerSong: A Storm Outside My WindowReviewer: David JamesPositive Comments: It&#8217;s a beautiful melody. Lovely chord progression. A compelling performance from the lead vocalist. Strong musicianship. The lyric hook &#8216;down to the ri&#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-76692","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/broadjamreviews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/76692","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=76692"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/broadjamreviews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/76692\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":76693,"href":"https:\/\/broadjamreviews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/76692\/revisions\/76693"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/broadjamreviews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=76692"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/broadjamreviews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=76692"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/broadjamreviews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=76692"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}