Looking for opinions on my electronic/disco cue

[TLovato]

Hello again! I'm looking for some feedback on my latest cue. No brief or reference tracks or anything, I just came up with this for fun off the top of my head. I know it's not exactly authentic disco, I just called that due to the funky guitar + 4 to the floor type drum beat!

Please let me know your thoughts/suggestions to make It better! Thank you all!

https://www.taxi.com/members/PNQZVfSXS0 ... ntly-disco

I will probably target this towards media such as commercials, YouTube Ads, etc.

[douglasricketts]

You have NAILED the Nile Rodgers guitar style! That is an utter compliment. Those handclaps need to be real.

[ChristopBass01]

I love the mood. the guitar tone, groove is swingin!! I say the drum fills need to be slightly more natural or real. But certainly not bad!!

[TLovato]

Thanks guys!

[cosmicdolphin]

Cool track, I dig the groove.

Good to hear you've included some edit points. Couple of thoughts...

Intro, not sure about the low lead in sound..something like a cymbal reverse might be better

It sounds a little repetitive so by about 30s I feel like I've heard it all. I think it needs a few arrangement variations to keep it interesting. There's some easy things you can do like playing little licks and stuff an octave above, and I feel it needs a more prominent EP part and a better section where it just breaks down to say the bass and kick. Be sure to give each instrument it's own little moment in the spotlight as the track progesses including the keys. Something like a moog-like synth arp up high or a string line might help. A few years back I made a PDF about avoiding repetition, the link is here if you want a copy : https://pdfhost.io/v/LBOwk0xbh_Cosmics_ ... eetpdf.pdf

I hear a few timing issues , it's just a little scruffy around the parts where it goes between sections. Something is slightly outtta time but it shoud be an easy edit.

This sort of stuff is popoular on TV so if you can get it right you might find some success.

Mark

[davidagates]

It's very nice, got some serious chops on there.

Maybe add a bit of a B section, so that the lovely guitar work doesn't get repetitive. I'd turn up the keys in the background, but maybe have a section with just them as well, and another with keys and just some riffing about on the guitar. Think about it as though you're an editor, if you can give them options, that still make sense within the context of the song, they'll pick it, it'll just give them more to play with.

Production wise I'd generally up the keys and bring the guitar down a tad, I'm a guitarist by trade and it took me a long time to work out how to eq guitars rather than turn them up, definitely hard when you're proud of what you play. Perhaps offer a bit of variation with the drums a well, more fills, perhaps more of a breakdown at one point.

It's genuniely lovely though, just needs a few tweaks for the purpose it'll be used for.

[TLovato]

Thanks Mark and David! I will work on it some more!