<nonpony><urban><remix> Yaar Yaaro (HACKD Remix)

[hackd]

Here's a ambient urban score a made for a friend's video project.

https://soundcloud.com/hackdsounds/yaar-yaaro-hackd-remix

I was able to throw this together in half a day haha. If you've got any feedback I'd love to hear it.

[PhillyPu]

Great periodic entry for different entries. The guitars could be given a bit more brightness (personally it sounds a bit "dull" on the mix side). Interesting usage of syncopation. Although it may sound full of things going on already, you could do a bit more to fill the soundscape (ambient pads, perhaps, I can see work in this case).

Structure-wise it sounds pretty repetitive. Perhaps this is what you are going for, but for me (who's sitting down and focusing on your music completely), the drone note of the bass is getting on my nerves. The vocal is nicely done, but could afford to sit better in the mix. I don't know, it seems the major beef i have with this song is that it doesn't have enough of a melodic or harmonic progression. Chalk this up to personal preference, but it just sounds like it's going over and over again the same idea. Zen-like, perhaps, but not enough to capture my attention throughout everything.

Keep it up~

[nirv]

it seems the major beef i have with this song is that it doesn't have enough of a melodic or harmonic progression.

haha, course you would say something like that.

Music went through a certain stage where people started challenging the need for harmonic progression to keep the music interesting. What they did instead to compensate was to achieve variation through timbres (basically use of different instruments/sounds), dynamics, and melodies. It's perfectly fine that this song has basically no harmonic progression, but you don't do much else to switch it up. From what I've heard, the melody for each instrument of your basically never changes. It may be re-introduced slightly differently at times, but that's not quite enough when 80% of the time it's the same stuff over and over. In terms of dynamics, you have I'd say 3 "quiet" sections that serve to contrast the rest of the track. The biggest problem with your quiet sections I'd say is that you are not taking out enough tracks to cause an noticeable contrast. In other words, the only thing I hear you doing is varying the drums (either taking them all out or leaving only the kick). Instead try taking out EVERYTHING except the vocals and the subtle plucked bass line you introduced in the beginning, and perhaps the ambient noise or other subtle noise samples. I would also suggest adding variation at least to the guitar melody and that "droning bass" that Philly mentioned.

TL;DR - You need moar variation.

I'm not too familiar with ambient music, but I will say that your track could focus a bit more on building atmosphere. I have no solid idea on how to do it myself, but listen to some of Seven Lions's songs. He's amazing at creating a huge atmosphere even though his music isn't completely "ambient." As it stands, your track is great background music but I'd hesitate to categorize it as ambient.

All that aside, great work.

[VaporBlaze]

I have to agree with PhillyPu an a lot of his points. You have a really great sound palette here: the exotic, foreign vocals, guitar, and droning bass are really cool to listen to, and initially grabbed my attention and got me really excited about the song. However, by 2:54 I was getting board, and tempted to just start skipping around the song, looking for some variation in the pattern.

I can definitely understand, though, if you are going for more of an ambient, background track if this is being made for a video, in which case you did really well in creating a good track that adds a lot of flavor and atmosphere to whatever is going on in the video, while not being to ear catching to distract from it.