Do you agree with the screener on this?
Posted: Mon Mar 07, 2022 9:59 am
I've had a lot of positive response to this song, and while I wasn't surprised by the return, I did find the particular criticism of the melody interesting.
"What I like most about this song
Great piano parts!
I think you could improve this song by
Melodically this song could use a little work. You are landing on the same note a lot. Try to change up your melodic flow and give us new and interesting phrases and feels.
I returned or forwarded this song because
I returned this song because melodically it's missing the extremely high bar they're after."
Here are the landing notes of the first 6 phrases (scale note #'s because I play it transposed and I'm lazy right now!):
1, 5, 3, repeated verse form so 1, 5, 3 again, then prechorus is 6, 7, then chorus first phrase lands on 2.
So, not counting the repeated verse phrases, (which SHOULD match,) I use 6 different landing notes on 6 phrases...that is "landing on the same note a lot"?
Feel free to critique the rest of the song as a whole...I don't think it's exactly "Wish You Were Here" or anything, but that struck me as odd. I'm sure the screener felt something about the melody was off, but what they wrote doesn't seem to hold water. Thoughts?
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"What I like most about this song
Great piano parts!
I think you could improve this song by
Melodically this song could use a little work. You are landing on the same note a lot. Try to change up your melodic flow and give us new and interesting phrases and feels.
I returned or forwarded this song because
I returned this song because melodically it's missing the extremely high bar they're after."
Here are the landing notes of the first 6 phrases (scale note #'s because I play it transposed and I'm lazy right now!):
1, 5, 3, repeated verse form so 1, 5, 3 again, then prechorus is 6, 7, then chorus first phrase lands on 2.
So, not counting the repeated verse phrases, (which SHOULD match,) I use 6 different landing notes on 6 phrases...that is "landing on the same note a lot"?
Feel free to critique the rest of the song as a whole...I don't think it's exactly "Wish You Were Here" or anything, but that struck me as odd. I'm sure the screener felt something about the melody was off, but what they wrote doesn't seem to hold water. Thoughts?
How Much of You
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