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Feedback for Emotional Piano Track

Posted: Wed Apr 19, 2023 8:58 pm
by bmoBauhaus
Any thoughts on this piano track?

https://www.taxi.com/members/N5SOUeh_Qe ... her-autumn



The listing below

EMOTIONAL PIANO-Based INSTRUMENTALS and/or INSTRUMENTAL CUES are needed for a TAXI COMPILATION going directly to A WHOLE BUNCH of TAXI's favorite Music Licensing Clients! As always, we hold the bar high for these compilations, but the end result is that virtually every Instrumental or Cue on our comps gets signed. It's not uncommon for several companies to offer deals on the same piece. It's also not uncommon for the companies to ask our members to create new music for them, especially if they weren't fast enough to nail down a deal before their competitors did ;-)

We're searching for Emotional PIANO-BASED Instrumentals (or Cues) in a range of emotions and moods including (but not limited to): Introspective, Sad, Somber, Hopeful, Uplifting, Nostalgic, Joyful, Awe-Inspiring, Loneliness, Surprise, Anticipation, Grief, Jubilant, Longing, Melancholy, Heartbreaking, Fantasy/Wonderment, Cheerful, Triumphant, Pensive, Dejected, Regretful, Remorseful, Elated, Suspenseful, etc., etc., etc....

We're purposely not giving any references for this Listing because pretty much any style that effectively conveys a mood or emotion that a music supervisor, executive producer, film director, or editor would find compelling and "useful" could be fair game.

Our A&R team will have a simple mandate: Are they GREAT? Do they instantly capture, convey, or embellish an emotion or deepen a mood? Do they sound ready to go as is? Would they work well for placements in Film, TV, or maybe even Advertising? Would TAXI's music licensing clients be happy to hear them and want to sign them because they know they can make money with them? Once again, the bar will be high for this request.

No fades, please. Buttoned endings are needed, and edit points are recommended, although not necessarily in the form of a big, fat rest ;-)

IMPORTANT NOTE: Your Emotional Piano-Based Instrumentals can either be SOLO PIANO or PIANO with MINIMAL ACCOMPANIMENT (like strings, woodwinds, or synth pads). Keep your instrumentation very simple – solo piano OR one or two instruments in addition to the piano. Your pieces should have one central motif and mood – we are not looking for a score. The emotion needs to be obvious from the start, and remain consistent to the end.

Please submit well-composed Solo Piano Instrumentals (or Cues) that convey a clear emotion or mood from beginning to end. All submissions should be about 2 to 4 minutes long for Instrumentals and roughly 90 seconds to 2 minutes for Cues, give or take. Do not submit any material with unauthorized samples of other artists’ Songs, sounds, or any other form of media. Broadcast Quality is needed. Your mixes should be well-balanced, and if you choose to use any virtual instruments or samples, please be sure they are of the highest quality and very realistic-sounding – nothing stiff, dated, or obviously MIDI-driven will work for this request.

Re: Feedback for Emotional Piano Track

Posted: Wed Apr 19, 2023 9:36 pm
by mteezykeys
Lovely Piece! There are a few notes in the B section that sound a bit harsh. If it's a midi piano consider lowering the velocity. Also the track seems a bit soft compared to the recent references for solo piano tracks. Maybe try to match the loudness to this track which has been a reference track for the past few piano listings [BBvideo]https://youtu.be/LlABHrl0gFU[/BBvideo].

Re: Feedback for Emotional Piano Track

Posted: Tue Apr 25, 2023 3:59 pm
by superblonde
bmoBauhaus wrote:
Wed Apr 19, 2023 8:58 pm
Any thoughts on this piano track?
What is the title / what is the intended mood? - to answer the listing's "instantly capture, convey, or embellish an emotion or deepen a mood?"
I bet this is a forward. It fits easily within all the other forwards of prior piano listings.
The thing I would change is the final chord/final measures, which could be improved such that a music editor could cut & paste the waveform ending to truncate the track; for example as done in: “Broken Dreams” – Hugo McLaughlin which was a forward of S230404DY .
The open question I have is whether the right-hand is too busy for underscore, compared to sparseness of 'the very boring piano guy' Einaudi. Compare to my piano track https://youtu.be/v8OMf3TTsik which I am not betting on being a forward for this reason.

Re: Feedback for Emotional Piano Track

Posted: Tue Apr 25, 2023 7:58 pm
by Paulie
Get rid of the first three seconds of silence. I'm thinking the screener will return it for being too mechanical or sounding overly quantized. That happened to me earlier this year... I didn't quantize it, I played with good time (like this piece). But it was returned specifically for sounding too quantized. But, I edited the track by adding tempo changes to give it a much more rubato feel at the ends of phrases, and it was forwarded for a different emotional piano listing a few weeks later. I think you need to do the same for this one. Also, the piano sounds a little dry to me and could use more reverb or room ambience. As is, I don't think this generates a strong enough emotion to make the screener say "this is GREAT", which is a requirement for the listing. Beautiful music, but needs tweaking.