ZipZipper's audio Reviews on Newgrounds

[Velge]

Hahahaha cool! I love these kinds of rhythms. The piece itself reminds me of the mayor's office music in Majora's Mask and something else...but I can't put my finger on it. I like your instrument choice and how each instrument is used orderly and in fashion. There were a couple of things that I didn't quite like. The drum beat is nice, but if it took a break at one point that would have been neat, like a little surprise. I also wish it didn't fade out at the end! I think there could have been a really cool big finish. And I was a tiny bit bothered with some of the panning and the reverb, but it's actually fine as is. Nice marchy kind of music, my favorite kind. Great work!

Jasonatron responds:

I'm glad you enjoyed it. :)

I very much appreciate the though you gave! I definitely could have given this more time.. I completed it in a in a couple hours, for fear of losing inspiration. To be honest, I wasn't sure about the fade-out end, myself. Maybe I will go back through and properly flesh it out. It feels like when I don't rush through a project, it never gets finished. I'll have to find a good compromise in pace.

Thanks again for the feedback, I will try to pay more attention to these areas in the future, and possibly attempt fix them here and update. :)

[Christe Redemptor Omnium]

Oh my...nevermind what I said about Step's piece. This and that will spar in a great battle!

bassfiddlejones responds:

TO THE DEATH!! lol, seriously though, thank you!

[Yuletide Groove]

Welp...I think everybody else lost. Goodbye.

Step responds:

Oh stop it you :3.

However this review really brightened my day. Thanks a lot haha.

[2 Part Invention in Bm]

Ugh...I really wanna write something like this. But every time I try, I hit a dead end. I find this even more wonderful because it's in B minor. I thought that sometimes the ideas pieced together too well and made the song a little boring. But, I can't really complain because I think this style of music is hard enough just brainstorming. Measure 23 showed the biggest and most exciting change, to me. That was my favorite part, the left and right hands were fighting in a way that I don't think is heard at any other point of the piece. Yeah...this is overall a great little invention. I might attempt to learn this song from the sheet music you put and maybe learn some things from you about writing in counterpoint. Thanks for posting and great job!

deadlyfishes responds:

2 part inventions aren't really meant to be super-entertaining, but test your compositional chops. Inventions, fugues, and canons are technique pieces to pretty much show off writing skills, and yet hold some creative retention. My suggestion is to find yourself Bach's collection of counterpoint pieces and use those as a guide. "The Well Tempered Clavier" is probably your best reference. Also, just learning the form, is a good place to start :]

[The Feast]

I don't know why, but I started laughing imagining the scenario you put while this music played. I think it would actually fit well for such a scene, or any sort of background for someone going crazy or being attacked by spiders. The build up of the whole song was well done. This is a really nice little score for a creepy situation, I like it.

stunkel responds:

Thanks! Yeah to be honest, I felt really stupid typing that description out, but I think it worked! I actually made the song for a scene of an animation where a bunch of people are going crazy and laughing like crazy men. I'm glad that the creepy vibe hit you in that way, thanks for the review!

[Serene Fantasy]

This has definitely got the workings of a typical pop piano ballad with the spice of a slightly atypical structure. Lyrical lines over this would fit to the style. I thought the left hand rhythm became a tiny bit overused, or perhaps just the melody of it turned into a drone. It was nice that at some points you switched up rhythms and arpeggiated the right hand while harmonizing the left hand. Maybe that could have helped a little more in keeping the melody interesting in the left hand. Dynamics would help with that and the piece overall. So yeah...it's pretty good and it is what it is. Nice job.

stunkel responds:

Thanks for the review! I honestly threw this together from a request someone gave me. And for my next piano piece, I'll definitely take dynamics into consideration a bit more. Again, thanks for the review! :D

[Overture to the Crown]

I...love...baroque. So majestique. Oh my Jesus, when the fuguey thing began at 01:34 and it all went building up and up and up...Ugh I just came. I'm seriously clasping my face over how marvelous this sounds. The style is PERFECTLY implemented. I wish I could make classical as brutal as this. The energy from the middle part got me so excited that I wish it went on much longer, in tandem to the slow rhythm of the beginning and end. I guess what I'm trying to say is I thought the end began too early. Or I'm just greedy and selfish. But great as is, obviously. Not much else I can think of saying...Bravo.

descara responds:

Thank you for the very kind words!

The B-section could definitely have been longer, I was just in kind of in a rush to finish it so I took the first reasonable chance of an ending that I got ;)