Luigi's Ragtime

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**** SUX FAGIT

jk cool song mannnn

very jazzy cool feel

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I'm gonna eat dinner while listening to this.

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now i feel like playing luigi's mansion thanks =D

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Lmfao I thought the same thing.

This remix is freaking amazing I love it.

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Pure seckz.

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i like it nice job!

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my nipples are now harder than ever good job kgz

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I don't like the beat that much. Too drum 'n' bass ish for my taste.

:16 starts out very promising. If you want to get showy, an ascending blues scale riff or Bill Evans-esque arpeggio would be alright at :22. But you definitely don't need it; I'm just giving some ideas. On the repetition of that chord progression that kicks off the main part of the piece, I would have tried different voicing, because you just repeated verbatim, which is lame. I mean, the chords are nice, but not the repetition of the first part of the phrase.

The melody kicks in around :32... and I really don't like those chords you use there. They don't seem to fit, which is saying something for jazz music because you can get a lot of things to work. I think you're trying to get a funk feel to it. Sorry but it's not working; it just feels like you're mashing random notes below it. Here are the chords I used to get a regular jazz feel. I'd do something like this (tbh I'm not sure about the Fmaj9 though).

IF you want to have some funky chords, by all means add ninths and elevenths and thirteenths, but do so with caution. You should start with a basic chord progression and stop adding if it becomes detrimental.

Same problem I feel when you repeat the melody. Chords suck again.

The two solos are amazing, wow. Great job on those. A+.

It feels like after the second piano solo you should have an 8 bar drum solo (it would be sooo sexy), and then you can just end on a C9(b5) or something really concluding like that. The ending as you have it now is complete ****. Radio fade-outs are the worst and most uncreative and anticlimatic thing you can do. Avoid them at all costs, I beg of you.

All in all not bad.

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Well obviously you don't just want to have just triads; it's jazz, which basically demands adding sevenths to almost everything. Even putting a lot of layers in a triad just doesn't work in jazz.

But there's a certain way by which you should beef up your chords, and you need to restrain yourself. I understand that you want to sound different but "different" is getting into some risky territory. In most cases, I would start with something conventional-- something like what I posted-- and then add to it from there cautiously.

The drum beat doesn't actually need to be complex. Your school has a jazz band and I assume you play in it. Usually they play a beat on the high hat that goes "tssssst ti tss tssssst ti tss..." with a snare on the third beat, right? Just use that. If anything you've gone more complex than you need to go.

Also it feels like it's supposed to be the Athletic theme because it's prominent, and then you play a variation on it, and then you repeat it. But I wouldn't change around the piece just to make the Luigi's Mansion theme more prominent.

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By beef up chords, I mean taking a regular C triad and then adding a seventh. And then maybe a ninth, and so on.

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as one who usually really enjoys Jazz, I didnt really like this at all. Personally it felt really empty and repetitive. Production is pretty good, nothing clashed to me or anything.. but it just felt really minimal.

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I think the emptiness comes from the lack of elaboration in the drums and bass.

Just has a very, um... quantized feel to it.

Especially the bass.


I do like it but it just doesn't feel jazz enough. If you know what I mean.

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Thats just cause its you :S :3

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hmmm i love it ps now playing Luigi's Mansion lol and maybe a chart will come out soon too

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I was moreso pointing out that there are a small few certain people that get the most posts whenever they release something new. Something ive noticed at ALOT of music forums. Everybody chooses 2 or 3 people they really like, and give NO reviews to anybody else. It kinda sucks.