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[A try of melodic dubstep]

Hmmm... needs some things worked on. First of all, song structure. The typical dubstep song has two drops, not just one. I contacted Xtrullor about this actually, and he said that the drops are like two pillars, and you can build the rest of the song around those.

Next, the style. You wanted melodic dubstep, and I don't think this really qualifies. It's in minor, which is odd but not musically illegal I suppose, but the melody isn't that strong. Also, melodic dubstep usually has some crazy basses in the drop too, just in the background... kinda. To get a better feel for the style, a guy named Chime ( https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCuQvsnvJcFQEtX_C_X7AtOw ) makes a bunch of melodic dubstep, and you can go listen to his stuff.

So yeah. There's some stuff to do. Keep improving. :)

TibDJ responds:

Thanks for the constructive answer. I only try a melodic dubstep track. I don't worked in it a lot because i dont know xD. Thanks for the answer(second time xD). I will keep upload more in the future. Thanks

[[Future Bass] Saert - Zobros]

This is pretty good! My only thought is that if you're going to keep those chords going for that long, you'd better make 'em good. Not that they're bad, but I think they could just use some refinement.

2:12 was kinda cool, like "Surprise dubstep!" The first half of the drop was kinda odd, but the second half of the drop is really cool! That noise is super alien sounding, and if you used that in another song later on, that could be legendary.

[Mirage]

Sounds cool, but I think it's clipping. You also had the water droplet noise go on for too long (in my humble opinion), and I think it would have been better to just keep that noise with the snares and a fill or two. Other than that, the arrangement of the track is solid and the buildups are good. Keep it up! :D

[Into the Abyss - BrX10 (CS)]

This is awesome! You did a lot right - your ideas are great, and the track structure is solid - but the drops disappointed me a bit. The basses didn't feel like they had a sonic spotlight on them. The claps at 0:37 and 2:16 are also a little loud (maybe replace them with snaps?), but still, basically everything other than the drops was perfect as far as I can tell. Awesome!

[M-Shroom - High Life [Melodic Dubstep]]

At 52 seconds in, the chords have kind of an "EE" vowel sound to them. Try making them go "wOO" or "wOwOw" with an LFO or something. Also, at that part in the song, maybe quiet the chords down and pump up the basses at the end of every bar!

Also, I don't know what you did in terms of mixing on this track, but it seems like some elements are kind of unclear, like the snare, the lead, the intermittent basses, etc.

Other than that, you've got top notch ideas. Keep freakin' goin'!

M-Shroom responds:

Thanks for the Tip :) yeah it does need a lot of editing , it was one of my older tracks where i wasn't as good, i will definitely take this into consideration. thanks!

[Climate Change? No That's Just Capitalism!]

First, I'll talk about the song, and then I'll address the description.

The song sounds cool! Creepy and atmospheric. I like the groove it gets later on. I'm more of a dubstep person, so I'll stop my comments on the song here, but from what I've heard, this sounds pretty good.

Now to the important stuff: climate change being an effect of capitalism. I'll say it at the top, the climate change agenda isn't factual. Here's my reasons for going against the majority:

-The majority doesn't matter. To give an analogy, a majority of scientists used to believe that the earth was flat.

-There's a lot of political motivation for climate change on the left side of the aisle. For leftists, it's a great tool. They can use climate change to get money. They can say that anyone who opposes them just needs to shut up and realize the threat of global climate catastrophe. All of that just means that we can't trust people with political power on this issue because they have the possibility of having perverse motives.

-We don't have a crystal ball to see the future. We can develop our climate models all we want, but we will never be able to see the future. Climate models are also quite extremely unreliable; many of the "best climate models" show differing outcomes for the global climate. On top of that, the organizations that make and use these climate models are in positions of power, and thus may have motives other than "find the truth about the climate."

-We can't affect the global climate. We may put out X number of liters of CO2 per year, but the Earth has mechanisms in place to keep itself stable, to rid itself of imbalances. Additionally, the amount of CO2 we put out, however massive sounding, is nothing compared to our atmosphere. Even going by the prominently leftist Wikipedia, which means they may have perverse motives, only 0.0407% of the atmosphere is CO2. Methane accounts for 0.00018% of the atmosphere, in case you were wondering.

-If the climate is actually changing, it doesn't matter. The way that the climate has changed in the past has been sinusoidal, oscillating between warm periods and cold periods. If we're not affecting the global average temperature, but it's changing, then the best explanation that we have for this is that it's just the Earth doing what it's done for a long time. (By the way, the temperature change in the past 200 years is estimated to be about half a degree celsius. I say estimated because we don't know what the global temperature was like before we had satellites.) In other words, even if the climate looks like it's going to cause global catastrophe, it's just not.

And finally, capitalism is not causing climate change. I've been to New York and Washington D.C., places where you'd expect a lot of pollution, right? That would follow from the "capitalism = climate catastrophe" thought, right? Well, because we've found better ways to burn coal, we're not emitting as much waste into the atmosphere. (On the other hand, leftist places like China are extremely polluted because they can't burn coal cleanly. I'm not sure about current statistics, but in 2014, China's pollution made up a third of the pollution in San Francisco, California...!)

In conclusion, just... no.

zybor responds:

The denials and anecdote are amusing. "We found better way to burn coal", you buy into that clean coal horse shit? Did they mention to you that NYC and SF both are dealing with sea level rising?

Like I said in the description, just because you are living in comfort doesn't mean the rest of the world are the same. That's why I fucking hate Americans, even their own people suffering they are so fucking dumb they would deny it. You have been to Texas or New Orleans lately, boy? 3 massive hurricanes in a fucking year, still denying it eh?

[QWAZDYN - NOT AN APRICOT]

Cool!

QWAZDYN responds:

Thanks!

[Through the Skies]

Those toms are cool! Nice vibe to it, nicely processed. Cool!

DelectorMusic responds:

thank you :)

[Malevolent Mellophone Melody]

Hey, cool! I'm not sure quiiite what you were going for, but this sounds like a regular band composed a jazz piece. It's not bad, it just could be better. Keep in mind that much of the jazzy sound comes from crazy chords, walking bass, and improv. For crazy chords, there's a lot of techniques out there, but I find that the best chords come out of combinations of circular progressions, modal interchange, secondary dominants, 7ths, 9ths, & so on, and tensions. Oh, and the II-V and it's variations, of course. For coming up with chord progressions when you feel like it, try Online Sequencer ( https://onlinesequencer.net/ ). You can experiment with chords pretty freely there. Good luck! :)

PikmanDude responds:

Thanks; I'm a relatively inexperienced jazz composer and plan to take what you've suggested into consideration next time I write a jazz piece.

[DJ-Chezt ~ The Plague (Original Mix)]

Freakin' mastering. xD

Pretty brutal. It took a while to get into the first drop though. Still, I love the breaks, love the noises, love the arrangement, love the intense/creepy feel, just awesome. I'm not so fond of the swearing in the description to be honest, but your music is still good. :)