Originally Posted by Tano Music
Really interesting “tapestry” or “quilt” that you have waved from the BIAB toolkit! I was very impressed with the many different soloists and how you kept the driving rhythm going during the whole track. My only recommendation would be this: it’s great material, over a long listening period. It can be a little exhausting to stay “tuned in” to get all the little details. If it were me, I would insert somewhere a “break” in the thick texture—maybe just a couple of bars of something like guitar-and-bass with no drums. That way the listener can “rest” for a moment..then resume with the lush thickness. Just my opinion. Great work!


Thanks for listening and responding, Tano Music. I'm aware that some posters are sensitive re track lengths and that some commenters like yourself address such, but for me it's simply a matter of personal taste and most of my posts are longer than average, in part because I like listening to playlists with long tracks in them - I can name numerous much longer tracks than any of mine in popular music from the 60s onwards - but also in part because the chord structure demands such. Once I have my chord structure sorted, the tempo, etc, I mostly repeat what PG music call the chords' "chorus" 3 times as I like to have a beginning, a middle and an end, though it depends on the chord structure itself. I have a very few which are only 2 choruses and 2 which are ambitious 4 choruses. You suggested inserting a break somewhere, but that would change the dynamic of the whole piece and would make it longer, or if chords were deleted to make room for a break then it would end up entirely different. So it all depends on the chord structure itself as to whether or not breaks add or detract. As said re track lengths it's predominantly down to personal taste, an example being that lovers of classical music like very long pieces, plus some classic soundtrack tracks are a lot longer that what one hears on the radio, but nothing would be served by shortening them. I don't know if you're familiar with Sibelius's "Night Ride and Sunrise" which is in 2 parts and around 16 minutes long, but I can easily see that if I created something the same length which was as good and posted it here many would say, "Whoah, Chay, that's way too long! You should entirely cut out the 1st half!" Ditto Blood, Seat & Tears' "Blues Part II" at almost 12 minutes long.

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