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On a very positive point, I've been listening to this and Vurez's other MM6 mixes from "that other site" vgmix.com Very professional sounding. Now comes the criticism ;P MedHead, you made a very valid point about hearing no drone. I found a good link, along with sound samples of what this particular instrument should sound like.. http://macedoniadirect.com/music/instrum/gajda.htm And yeah, I hear no drone, but still is a wonderful remix.

Aye aye aye.... There's some weird non-resolving chordal structure at :58 (7'th note in theme)... Sounds like the note was 'bent' up to the right one, but even hitting it throws the chord off... (then again, the chord doesnt feel right. If Im right, the SPC has chord changes 8 times in the refrain through major, minor, diminished, and dim m7 --no particular order)

Gravely mistaken? Really? Has it ever occured to you that if you attempt to transcribe a work, you must attack a time signature to it? There is no exact signature to attach to every work, as you could easily use factors to change it (say, a fast 4/4 to a medium 2/2). Unlike what you seem to say, you CAN atempt a profile of a song by 1: Counting lead beats for getting a rough beats per minute. 2: 'Feeling how long a phrase is'. And yet you assume that I am the same. I am not. Yeah. Bartok. From the same craptacular lines of Chopan and their ilk. I hate having to count 120 bars for my parts to come in. On the opposing side, playing Gershwin pieces, like Rhapsody in Blue are fun. And BTW, I've even had directors 'shit their pants' on stage over how the pianist plays these non-time signature songs. Of course, I bet you have no real concert practice, eh? Im talking about the source material, the SPC ripped from the game via zsnes sound extract. I then can import it via a tool to a Impulse Tracker and open it in ModPlug Tracker. After doing that, the base beats Im looking at channel 2 and 8. Channel 8 has subdivided notes (at 2x speed of the first 3 beats). I do, but evidently, you do not. In reality, depending what you play, 2, 3, 4, and 6 are all compatible. 2, 3, and 6 could all be used in a valse like Valse de Fleurs (Nutcracker). Just this last winter, I played that very solo. The song under our director, was conducted in a slow-ish 1, but my score is in 3. That specific solo is rolling upwards eighths, so counting 6 is possible. A question to you would be the following: What is the proper time signature for a song that is in 3/4, and has an excess of dotted quarters? I did it, and the rythym does not ritard, but I've to question who exactly that 'ritard' is. I would really like to know what experience you have in transcribing and composing. And no, I do not mean djng or other new-age crap. I mean real music work. Are you some sort of idiot? SO, according to you, every 4/4 time signature song is childs play? Well, I guess it is to you, if you create audio excrement. True, hardly. Places that deal in audio have this 'golden ear' syndrome. Whether people argue about types of wiring (gold vs copper vs material of the day) or headsets, or speakers, or whatever, it always is the "Im always right, youre always wrong" mentality. Perhaps, you might try backing up with your proof, and not try to divert attention on piano concertos. What do you think "beats" are? Oh yeah, they dont subdivide anything, right? Guess what, without subdividing, you'd end up with every song in 1 and that 1 would be the length of the song. Yeah, that sounds silly, but that'd be the truth.

Explain to me why Im "gravely mistaken". The song is obviously in 3, no matter if the baseline is in a faux-7 and 6. The first 2 phrases of this song are in 27 beats (or 9 measures of 3) if you do not count the leading 3 beats.

----"The original is in 6/4 or 7/4 or some weird time signature and it took a lot of manhandling of the material to get it into the 4/4 breakbeat form it's in now. Other than that... this isn't a personal favorite, but I really do like that flute at the beginning. And the weird guitar sound. I guess I am not so happy with this mix because I used so many gimmicks that I have used in the past... other than the musical challenge of changing time signatures and adapting the song, I felt I didn't break any new ground or improve in any way. Oh well." Erm, the song is in 3. 6 would be a multiple of 3, and would allow you to 'do it in 2' with some difficulty. The melody is obviously at first subdivided into 9 measure phrases in which later changes. DOnt get me wrong, bt the song is cool, but it's not "some weird time signature". If you want a really good example of a "weird T/S", go look at Final Fantasy 6 "Another World of Beasts". fun 7/8 time signature to play with. It could be worse.. I played for a marching band a song with 4/4, 3/4, 5/8, 7/8 in it. It was by Richard Melilo and the name of the piece was "Timestorm". That was a beautiful number Just picture marching in a fast 4 whilst playing 5/8 and 7/8 stuff. ;P

This song is really pretty good, except for the LAUGHABLE sample of the thunder at the beginning. It's the Thunder sound that the install of the drivers/software from a Sound Blaster Live. That sample, for me, ruins the song.

The slow part at the beginning is pretty darned good but I have a few criticisms.. 1: Drop the "Sound Blaster Live" thunder opening. It's really corny. 2: Hack out the techno-trance half. The orchestrations are much more.. beautiful than repetive trance that everybody and their brother have done. I know I can come off very negative... forgive me about that. I tend to aim for the neck. Still, good job.