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Date Posted: 07:15:55 09/16/02 Mon
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If you wanna get some more attention, try changing key in your songs. also, look for dynamics. the original slow, fast, slow thing hasn't worked effectively for a while. you need to make people stop their pint and take notice. one way you could do this would be to get your singer to scream some of the melody lines.
you have 2 guitarists- firstly, balance their volumes for overall performance, and get one of them to play octaves over the top of the chordal patterns. also, check out other influences. look at what rage did with rap, and metal. they also created amazing parts with just the use of a guitar. to add depth, get crazy, and make random noise with an AA battery slid over the strings as a slide.
as ska goes, i would say that you are well on the way. but what makes ye wiles stand out head and shoulders above the rest is their harmonies and their violin lines. listen to shuffle no.2. it is chaos, pulling in different directions, but ending up at the same place.
you need to do something other than just double the parts. what can you guys do that no-one else can?
finally, none of your songs seem to have a convincing hookline in them. for the unintiated, a hookline is something in the song that grips the listener. it may be a line, or a riff. it makes the song stand out. it can either be so subtle that the listener just misses it consciously, but gets hit subconsciously, or, easier, it grips them and they know it. take microwave meals. the half-speed change of tempo is unexpected, but the two harmonies that just get those hairs on the back of the neck tingling. now they are hooklines.
look at what your songs are lacking
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