General Music Chat

production critics have an axe to grind.

Adrian Its cool that your son is singing along with you, I dig that, but when you put something on youtube, lots of people get a chance to hear it, and to me, its distracting. I mean Im sure your family loves it, its sweet.

But in music like many other things your first impression on a listening public is often the only chance you get. Honestly if I just stumbled across your video, when the noise kicks in I would just switch it off.

And Im very very open minded musically, I know how hard it is to sit in a chair and play to a disinterested audience, Im mainly a guitarist, but I spent a year doing duo and solo acoustic gigs, just to see if I could hang, so I know what that feels like.

I didnt mean to cut your music in anyway, its a pretty decent song, but I would suggest when you post a video somewhere for the world to see, make sure its the best youve got to give. Save that video for you family album.

http://soundcloud.com/user6728505/it-feels-like

Original recording of this song. And yeah...feel reeeal welcome. Based on the down right insulting "Constructive Criticism" from the first few replies, they should rename this site "Unoriginal Aging Blues Guitar Players sh*t on Stuff".
But to everybody else, thanks for the feedback. My son that sounds like a girl singing along didn't bother me, but it's my son, so i was happy to hear him. But yeah, probably not a good thing to post in an open forum given the cell phone quality sound and visuals. Duly Noted. Still new to this stuff. But check out my sound cloud, where there are other semi professionally recorded songs sans child background vocals.

Thanks,
Adrian

Adrian, OK i spent the time to listen back thru this.

First off I think you maybe could edit it down, cut some verses, its almost 2 minutes in before you get to the chorus, or what I call the chorus. 6 minutes is a long time to hold someones attention.

Youve got the Billy Corgan vocal thing going, passionate but it gets out of pitch a bit, but its not really that distracting like some things Ive heard like this. Especially at the end where you are kinda breaking up vocally.

So like I said, if it were my song, I would make the intro chords one run thru instead of two, then I would combine the 1st and 2nd verse to get right to the chorus, or you maybe should try starting with the chorus, to me thats the meat of your song, some nice little guitar changes in there, but cut them shorter. To me if you serious about being heard, it might be a good exercise to see if you can edit this thing down to a shorter version, if you are sending it to someone that might use it, you have about 15-20 seconds to get thier attention.

This style of music is a little outside my comfort zone, but I think it has huge potential.

Good Luck