Donkey Kong Country-Aqua Theme

[Dj Monkay]

http://dl.dropbox.com/u/12375558/DKC%20Aqua%20Theme.mp3

This is my first time trying to remix a song and one of my favorite songs was Donkey Kong's Aqua Theme. I use Fruity Loops as my music maker and was wondering what i can do to enhance my song to a new level. The ending is not fully finished and refined so please disregard that. Thank you for your time in reading this.

[Rozovian]

Well for one, you could use more than just kick+snare+crash+lead.

The altered melody make the rhythms pretty difficult to follow. Adding the lead from the original, adding a bassline, adding chords; adding stuff should alleviate that without the need to edit the melody you have (unless you want to).

It could also use some variation. I wouldn't vary the melodic content you have here much (as there's so little of it atm), but the drum rhythms could use some edits. Aside from adding a hihat or shaker or other high-range percussion/rhythm, using half-tempo for intro and other calmer parts would go a long way to make this feel less repetitive. it's an idea, use it if you want to.

It's not a bad start, but it needs more of everything.