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Reviews for "Don't Want To Come Back Down"

Don't Want To Come Back Down
by Ivan Chew
Recommends (18)
Wed, Dec 9, 2009 @ 10:01 AM

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colab
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permalink   Wed, Dec 9, 2009 @ 10:14 AM
Hey you.

I respect very much that you managed to tell a completely story with this track, and I mostly love it.

The intro is beautiful - absolutely lovely guitar work. The section when after the first third when the erhu joins didn’t work for me personally - I lost the connection with the core idea - only to find it again just around the mid-point of the track and loved it from that point again.
 
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permalink   Ivan Chew Wed, Dec 9, 2009 @ 10:30 AM
Dude. I had just finished the “How I Did It” section, did a refresh, and then saw your recommend and comment. That was fast!

In truth, I ran out of melodic ideas for the guitar after the first-third of the track. It got a bit too repetitive, so I tried to prop up the track with instrumentation (erhu and flute). That part can certainly be improved, now that you mentioned it. As always, thank you for your useful and constructive feedback. It made me come back down :)
 
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permalink   colab Wed, Dec 9, 2009 @ 7:36 PM
Quote: Ivan ChewAs always, thank you for your useful and constructive feedback. It made me come back down :)
No, no, no, no; don’t come back down. So maybe there’s a part I don’t love - so what? This is a hell of a track - and never second-guess yourself.

And that’s all I have to say about that. :)
 
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permalink   Ivan Chew Thu, Dec 10, 2009 @ 5:40 AM
Actually I needed to come back down. No worries man. If you didn’t make sense, I wouldn’t have taken you seriously. You made sense (not to mention good music).
wellman
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permalink   Wed, Dec 9, 2009 @ 10:40 AM
I realy enjoyed this! Very very wel produced track! My congratulations and respect!
 
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permalink   Ivan Chew Thu, Dec 10, 2009 @ 5:46 AM
Hey wellman, thanks for the thumbs-up. I’m quite pleased with the production quality of this track (by my own amateur standards anyway). Discovered how to use the Audio Limiter feature in GarageBand ;)
SackJo22
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permalink   Wed, Dec 9, 2009 @ 12:53 PM
Abasolutely lovely — the first part is indeed particularly pretty, as is the ending — a very sweet melody.
 
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permalink   Ivan Chew Thu, Dec 10, 2009 @ 7:06 AM
Hey! Thanks for letting me know. If I may ask, did the middle part work for you? Not that I’m paranoid about it :) I’m just checking on what listeners think/ feel. colab’s early comment made sense to me. I’m trying to get a better feel of what works and what might not. Cheers!
panu
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permalink   Wed, Dec 9, 2009 @ 3:04 PM
very pretty music, Ivan. very exotic & lovely.
 
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permalink   Ivan Chew Thu, Dec 10, 2009 @ 7:09 AM
Since you and SackJo22 used the “pretty” word, I’m officially including it as a genre when I tag my music. :)
AIR_LOMEG
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permalink   Wed, Dec 9, 2009 @ 3:26 PM
this is subtle all the way through. its texture and tectonic remind me on films of the late sixties. I like that! b.k.
 
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permalink   Ivan Chew Thu, Dec 10, 2009 @ 7:12 AM
ah, as I commented in your blog post, i felt the muse do her little dance in my head. when i composed this mix, i had the flowing river and a sunny/ fuzzy image, as how the scene appeared in your video. thanks for the discovery and inspiration.
urmymuse
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permalink   Sat, Dec 12, 2009 @ 11:54 AM
a wonderful,dreamy, exotic journey.
 
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permalink   Ivan Chew Sat, Dec 12, 2009 @ 7:31 PM
Thanks! I’m another traveler on the journey started by CASchubert and jaspertine. Hopefully, other like-minded wanderers would join us.