Your feedback needed on a work-in-progress song.

[fisk0]

I to do like Squirrel Havocs post, so I start one myself:

Well, here's a song I've been working on for about 2 years, and I've been stuck since september last year.

So, I would like to know if you have any ideas or something about this song - could be anything. Stuff you don't like, or things you like or have suggestions about.

Here it is anyway: http://medlem.spray.se/fisk0/music/jms-20040326-1.11.mp3
and if that doesn't work (as my host isn't very clear about hotlinking), go to http://medlem.spray.se/fisk0/music and right click to download the song jms-20040326-1.11.mp3.

It's obviously an Mp3, 256kbit/s, sized at about 5MB and it's lenght is 2:54.

[Squirrel Havoc]

Man, you think with all the bad news I heard on my song, no one would have the guts to let us hear something unfinished Anyway, downloading now. Stupid tripod doesnt allow external links, so I had to go to the page and download.




Man, you guys make some trippy music. I like this, it's like newage meditation music. I would say keep going how you're going, just add variety to what you add to it and you got a good song

[apple-joe]

Don't give up on this. This is an example of a piece which I could not be the author of. Not at this point. That's a compliment.

Keep on working. You were also lucky with the samples, nice sounds.

[xaimus]

I to do like Squirrel Havocs post, so I start one myself:

Well, here's a song I've been working on for about 2 years, and I've been stuck since september last year.

Haha, I know how that feels.  Almost all of my projects have been around for the better part of two years.

So, I would like to know if you have any ideas or something about this song - could be anything. Stuff you don't like, or things you like or have suggestions about.

The percussion seemed overly "stereo" to me.  I also didn't really like that piano at 0:31.  Aside from that, it is good.  While listening to this, I kept mentally transforming it into a fast DnB song.  :D

Anyhow!  Around 1:30 or so, I'd play around with a bassline.  Later on, I'd throw in a pad/string section.

EDIT: Typos!

[BooT-SectoR-ViruZ]

unable to locate file...

[fisk0]

Thanks for all the comments

While listening to this, I kept mentally transforming it into a fast DnB song.  

Actually, this song began as the end of an techno/something song I made in 2004. It was about 30 seconds of an 3 minute song, and I felt I could try something different with it.

unable to locate file..

Strange, it works for me. But as I said, that host isn't very reliable. Did you try the other way? http://medlem.spray.se/fisk0/music and right clicking/save target as from there?

Even streaming directly from the server works for me, actually.
I'll try to find another host soon.

Don't give up on this. This is an example of a piece which I could not be the author of. Not at this point. That's a compliment.

Keep on working. You were also lucky with the samples, nice sounds.

Thanks Actually, most of the samples weren't that high quality, but after some effects (first a lot of degrading and then lots of reverb) they turned out quite nice.

Anyhow! Around 1:30 or so, I'd play around with a bassline. Later on, I'd throw in a pad/string section.

I'll try that, though writing bass lines isn't my strong side.

Thanks again for all the comments, I'll keep on working on this one.

[apple-joe]

I was a little impressed by the simple but yet efficient web page you had there.

http://medlem.spray.se/fisk0/

I'm rookie when it comes to HTML. How do you manage to use a picture as background for text? Do you have to use Javascript, or is it possible to use a simple HTML command?

[fisk0]

I was a little impressed by the simple but yet efficient web page you had there.

http://medlem.spray.se/fisk0/

I'm rookie when it comes to HTML. How do you manage to use a picture as background for text? Do you have to use Javascript, or is it possible to use a simple HTML command?

Everything is possible with HTML+CSS.
I'm not sure exactly what you mean, but if you, as an example, want an paragraph with a background picture you can just write:

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HTML:
<p style="background-image: url(mybackground.jpg);">Hello world</p>

or <p class="background">Hello World</p>
and CSS:
p.background { background-image: url(mybackground.jpg); background-color: #000000; color: #FFFFFF; }

Or anything you want. CSS is really incredible (unless you use Internet Explorer, whose CSS support is very bad - though, of course, I tested my page in IE when I made it, to make it work as good as possible in that browser too.).

[apple-joe]

Thank you, I might check it out!

[apple-joe]

Which applications are neccassary? I assume you need something more than Notepad, concerning the command you showed. Never seen such HTML code - it seemed a little like programming.

[fisk0]

Which applications are neccassary? I assume you need something more than Notepad, concerning the command you showed. Never seen such HTML code - it seemed a little like programming.

Actually, I only used MS-DOS Edit (which I prefer over notepad for no real reason) and Paint shop pro and a scanner to make the graphics.

The page is actually quite simple, it's the CSS that makes it look advanced, and using CSS also makes it much easier to change the appearance of the page later on, as I only have to change one file (the CSS file) to change the layout on all pages referring to that CSS.

There are some tips and info on http://www.w3schools.com/html and http://www.w3schools.com/css as well as http://www.w3.org/.

Feel free to look at my source code to see how its written (though my host has added a lot of nonsense to the code to display ads and crap).

[Relabsoluness]

Well that sounded quite good - I liked the drums in particular.

[apple-joe]

Which applications are neccassary? I assume you need something more than Notepad, concerning the command you showed. Never seen such HTML code - it seemed a little like programming.

Actually, I only used MS-DOS Edit (which I prefer over notepad for no real reason) and Paint shop pro and a scanner to make the graphics.

The page is actually quite simple, it's the CSS that makes it look advanced, and using CSS also makes it much easier to change the appearance of the page later on, as I only have to change one file (the CSS file) to change the layout on all pages referring to that CSS.

There are some tips and info on http://www.w3schools.com/html and http://www.w3schools.com/css as well as http://www.w3.org/.

Feel free to look at my source code to see how its written (though my host has added a lot of nonsense to the code to display ads and crap).

OK, thank you for the help. I'm not gonna steal your page, but I surely liked the design. I'll just try to understand the concept.

[DavidN]

Real men use text editors to write webpages

[Randilyn]

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