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I was bored today and made this. If you have any constructive criticism, please post it below. If you want to add onto this piece, you may do so. (As long as you post it below.)
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Hey, this is great! The composition sounds like it fits the title it was meant for, and the rhythm is very catchy. Though, there are some things I want to suggest you can try to improve the song:
- Detune some of your pulses very slightly with a P7F or P81 so it doesn't clash with other channels that play the same note+octave. (I like P81 because I personally like sharper sounds)
- Alternatively, change some of your harmonies/countermelodies going on in the VRC6 channels, because I think they might have some clashing going on. I feel like your triangle could be emphasizing a different bass pitch, playing G on all the first beats of each measure.
- The song enables vibrato mid-note with 462, then doesn't disable it with 400 until the end of the pattern. I recommend disabling it the moment it needs to play the next note.
- The song uses very high volume levels for a 2A03+VRC6 track. Try to keep your volume output around 4-5 (by which I mean, the green blocks under the channel names) for all channels besides Triangle/DPCM (though you can make your noise drums and melody stick out more if you need to)
- Try to have some legato between your notes, where you have a very brief moment of silence between each of your notes. However, it's also good to simulate echo instead of chopping the note off entirely. To do this, you would put a lower volume level instead. I recommend using a release command so you don't have to think about the numbers too much. Because your song's notes are right next to each other, you should double your row count, highlight all your notes (CTRL+A twice), Right-click>Expand all of the notes, then double the Speed of the song. Your song is F05, so you would use F02+F03 every row.
I've attached an example demonstrating all of these fixes applied (though I kind of did a rush job on the harmonies...) Hope this helps!
I think the most effective way to learn things is to do a lot of arrangements of the songs that inspire you. Each arrangement teaches you new things you might not have been aware of, and eventually you begin to incorporate it into your own stuff (sometimes even subconsciously!)
