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Originally Posted by VEGANGELICA
7. Vatos Locos Guitarristas - Los Caballeros del san Mondell (from Tore)
Great, raunchy guitar in this song, complete with horse neigh and clippity-clop sound! I liked the “Heys!” and the sound of the fingers sliding on the guitar strings while changing chords. I imagine a bunch of Norwegian cowboys clanging their beer mugs together when I listen to this song. Nice twangy, “Western” solo electric guitar. And lovely whistling. I like how the song included different elements as it progressed. I liked the gun-shot and the “barbershop quartet,” too! Fun song, Tore! A nice ending, with the crickets. I guess the fire has died down, the horses are dosing, and the cowboys have fallen asleep in their sleeping bags under the starry night sky.
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Thanks for the comment and also the compliments and also the fitting imagery
Possibly, I wrote this already, but the clippety clops are actually two coconut halves that I'm banging together. Thank you Monty Python!
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8. Mette Marit - Flammenes Regent (from Tore)
An ominous beginning...I love the deep bong sounds contrasting with the rapid beats. Reminds me of dubstep songs I like. Also, I like the contrast of the bell-like higher tones with the underlying rhythm, and the way you introduce and layer in new beat patterns, which keeps my interest throughout the piece. Major shifts occur at 1:54, 3:15, and 4:17, for example. The song has a lot of energy, drive, and variety, which I like, yet also has organization such that it doesn’t feel random. This was my favorite song of the three you submitted.
9. Milo - Going Home (from Tore)
A playful, light song...cute and pretty! I like the delicacy of the ding-ding line and the layering of the various little ditties in the song. Ahh...going home must be a happy feeling! The song has a very abrupt ending that startled me because it was unexpected. I’d prefer a gentler ending that involved changes in the song that make you know the ending is coming.
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Ooh, thanks again for the nice comments
I'm sorry the ending for the Going Home song startled you. The truth is the song doesn't end at all - it just keeps going and going, but in it's original format it does so by skipping back to a previous point in the song. As an mp3, that doesn't happen and so it's just cut off. A bit of a bummer, I know!
The reason I made it this way, to just keep going without ending, is it's part of a set of almost 20-something songs I made for a platform game and I didn't feel that songs in a game which form a sort of backdrop to the going-ons should have defined endings. They should just keep going until the player does something that changes the game to a part where another song plays.
It does come at a cost though .. These abrupt endings as mp3 files bother me as well!