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Re: Taverner primitive releases a new song
« Reply #25 on: March 03, 2013, 06:46:42 PM »
Taverner, don't you pay any attention to what these other people are saying about your little song.  You deserve a participation award and here it is:


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Re: Taverner primitive releases a new song
« Reply #26 on: March 04, 2013, 04:23:34 AM »
This.

I couldn't make out the vocals.

At 6 minutes and 26 seconds it drones on too long and the instrumentals are really much too complex, alot like a cat playing on a key board, hitting the same chord six times in a row is not Mozart.

Earlier in this thread someone lamented about this being the final mix, I agree.

I think this has potential, he needs a second opinion to help get it untangled. I do have to admit it was better then I would have given him credit for going into listening to it.

Obviously your mileage may vary.

I didn't listen to it--don't want to drive Oreo bonkers, after all--so from what I'm reading, the impression I'm getting is that the best use for Tav's noise would be to drown out the sounds of torture in some Iranian prison.  (Not even the drug cartels of Central and South America could stand to use it for that purpose.)
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Re: Taverner primitive releases a new song
« Reply #27 on: March 04, 2013, 05:38:35 AM »
Before he get to singing lessons, or even music lessons, tav should go back to pots and pans and learn how to bang things in rhythm.

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Re: Taverner primitive releases a new song
« Reply #28 on: March 04, 2013, 05:39:45 AM »
Bless his heart.

I thought you guys were just being mean until I listened to it.

It's like every midi instrument is playing a completely different song and playing it not very well.
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Re: Taverner primitive releases a new song
« Reply #29 on: March 04, 2013, 08:57:04 AM »
That's absolutely terrible.

Believe it or not the vocals are actually the best part.  Not that they are actually any good, of course.  But the music sounds like something from a 1980s Nintendo game . . . except with worse mixing and way more mistakes.

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Re: Taverner primitive releases a new song
« Reply #30 on: March 04, 2013, 09:16:02 AM »
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Re: Taverner primitive releases a new song
« Reply #31 on: March 04, 2013, 09:31:25 AM »
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Re: Taverner primitive releases a new song
« Reply #32 on: March 04, 2013, 12:52:08 PM »
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My new song - "Wool Mittens" - give it a listen?

I did, for about 25 seconds before I had to shut it off.

"Hot shot", I've heard cats screwing under garbage cans that sounded better than that.  Did you write the synthesizer parts to be purposely jangly and out of place?  Music isn't supposed to set your nerves on edge, well, love songs aren't.

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Re: Taverner primitive releases a new song
« Reply #33 on: March 04, 2013, 01:35:02 PM »
I was thinking the beginning did sound like something from Nintendo in the 1980s.

The first thing I thought of...I played clarinet in the band in grade school for a couple of years. It sounds like every song we ever tried to learn the first time through. Especially during the first couple of months of our first year.

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Re: Taverner primitive releases a new song
« Reply #34 on: March 04, 2013, 01:42:54 PM »
It's the next American Idol!

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Re: Taverner primitive releases a new song
« Reply #35 on: March 04, 2013, 01:47:29 PM »
I think we've listened to that song more than anyone at the DU.

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Re: Taverner primitive releases a new song
« Reply #36 on: March 04, 2013, 02:51:08 PM »
OMGosh that was bad.  REALLY bad.  I guess Tav doesn't know anything about tempo or timing or ... or anything! 

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Re: Taverner primitive releases a new song
« Reply #37 on: March 04, 2013, 04:24:54 PM »
What I'm particularly loving is the complete lack of rhythm - the tempi are entirely inconsistent.

The different tracks sound like they were all recorded without any reference to each other.

It really is one of those, so bad that it's funny pieces.

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Re: Taverner primitive releases a new song
« Reply #38 on: March 04, 2013, 04:37:05 PM »
That was both painful and hilarious!  :rotf:

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Re: Taverner primitive releases a new song
« Reply #39 on: March 04, 2013, 04:39:25 PM »
That.
Was.
Horrible.

No rhythm whatsoever.

If ee cummings ever wrote a song, that would be it.

He was late with the keyboards on some parts, early on others, and the guitar "solo" was so bad my cat could walk across a guitar and it would sound better.

PLEASE tell me he was high when he wrote this.

If not, he needed to be.

And that singing was like one of those drunk guys at karaoke whose buddies tell him he can sing, even though he can't.
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Re: Taverner primitive releases a new song
« Reply #40 on: March 04, 2013, 04:40:48 PM »
The last time I looked, at least one DUmbass has rec'd the thread.  Have there been any one ones?
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Re: Taverner primitive releases a new song
« Reply #41 on: March 04, 2013, 04:43:22 PM »
The last time I looked, at least one DUmbass has rec'd the thread.  Have there been any one ones?

Guess which DUmbass rec'd it...the only one who's posted in the thread. I suspect the only one who's looked at the thread too (excluding us and moles).

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Re: Taverner primitive releases a new song
« Reply #42 on: March 04, 2013, 04:43:55 PM »
I didn't think they were permitted to do that.

That's so gay.
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Re: Taverner primitive releases a new song
« Reply #43 on: March 04, 2013, 05:11:30 PM »
That.
Was.
Horrible.

No rhythm whatsoever.

If ee cummings ever wrote a song, that would be it.

He was late with the keyboards on some parts, early on others, and the guitar "solo" was so bad my cat could walk across a guitar and it would sound better.

PLEASE tell me he was high when he wrote this.

If not, he needed to be.

And that singing was like one of those drunk guys at karaoke whose buddies tell him he can sing, even though he can't.

It reminds me of the Family Guy where Peter and Lois get and and enter a talent show.  They think they're singing good enough to win and later wonder why they didn't.  Chris breaks the news to them that they were just rolling around and screaming.

Someone should break the news to Taverner.
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Re: Taverner primitive releases a new song
« Reply #44 on: March 04, 2013, 06:04:17 PM »
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Re: Taverner primitive releases a new song
« Reply #45 on: March 04, 2013, 06:05:15 PM »
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Re: Taverner primitive releases a new song
« Reply #46 on: March 04, 2013, 07:21:59 PM »
I'm a long way from making money on the sidewalk playing guitar, and I have a voice that belongs in a choir as long as I sing at a level so as not to be heard over actual singers.

This however is just plain bad.  As already covered, the intro sounds like a Nintendo game.  The music tone is played too high for his voice, he needs to bring it down at least one octave. 

He needs to decide what is playing the rhythm and what is playing melody, it sounds like the guitar and the organ are in competition for it, when either of them hit the mark, wherever that is.  Worse it's a slap fight between two boys that just ain't right. 

The synthesizer is just plain awful and that entire track should be dumped, it's not recoverable.

Why did he space out all the notes in the guitar?  Guitar playing 101 teaches that particular item is a non-starter as it immediately loses the attention of the audience.  I'd recommend he put the melody here, as it is plain that he doesn't have goood rhythm technique on the guitar.

The organ is bad as well. It's early, it's late, it's out of sequence, it's out of tune.  It's also easier to play rhythm chords on with a metronome and tape on the keys.

About the voice.  Taverner quit trying to sound like an Eric Clapton wanna be.  There's a million of them and they mostly all suck at it.  Your voice isn't trained to any degree, it comes across as flat, which wouldn't be a bad way to play this song come to think of it.  You are also off key, even if you had played the music in the right octave.  Lastly, the voice track should be at the same level as the rest of the tracks.  Instead, it's about 2 dB below where it should be.

That should be about all he needs to do to fix bring it up to merely sub-par.
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Re: Taverner primitive releases a new song
« Reply #47 on: March 04, 2013, 07:38:09 PM »
:rotf:

He made this with a Casio keyboard... :rotf:
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Re: Taverner primitive releases a new song
« Reply #48 on: March 04, 2013, 07:50:18 PM »
Tough crowd right?

Iv'e looked at your original thread.

You're not exactly getting any help.

We on the other hand offer sound advise.

I got a tin ear but I think I could help.

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Re: Taverner primitive releases a new song
« Reply #49 on: March 04, 2013, 08:02:57 PM »
I had to think about this but my vision for this song is Donovan.

Is that right?


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