Exordium

I'd like to know what you all think of my song Exordium. It's a short instrumental piece but is very fast paced with many changeups. any comments or constructive criticism is more than welcome. Many other songs similar to this one can be downloaded for free off my site SubjectRuin.net.

Thanks for your time and comments!

Cool stuff! I'm not a huge fan of this kind of music, but the musicality of this piece redeems the genre a bit for me. A common irritation is that there is a lot of 'white noise' coming from the lower ranges; a generally indiscernable sound that smothers any sort of musical sound, in my opinion. If you like it, then keep it, because I know there are others who do.

Hey,

I think you can add really fast hihats or shakers to make this more intensifying.

Generally I think this type of music should be fast paced. But it's a personal taste.

It's good stuff.

I like it.. But then I'm a bit of a metal head.. I suppose my comment is.. and this may be more a matter of personal taste.. The tones remind me of that kind of Satrioni / Via sound.. and I never really went for that.. I went more for the Zakk Wylde.. So I suppose I like the dirty-er heavier kind of more frenzied sorta thing.. And you know.. What your doing is.. well not really that far from progressive thrash / speed metal.. except that your a little more ethereal... and um.. lol, less frenzied.. etc etc.. I suppose what would interest me is.. I feel like each turn / change the music makes.. takes us into a different world.. or maybe a different area of the same world.. And in some way I might like to see the details of those worlds more aggressively stated.. But a lot of that kind of thing might come down more to production techniques then composition.. Like maybe we should be shift what sort of acoustic spaces the instruments are performing in.. depending on the contents of the section.. and sorta playing around with that.. And more on taste.. Things are so clean and.. here's your drums and here's your other stuff.. I think there's a way where they're.. almost like clean clarity.. in that Via, Satrioni kind of way.. play against the metal ethos.. And I might like to see that relationship played with more... I mean.. on the one sense the pleasure of what you're doing, at least from my perception sitting in the audience, has something to do the technical virtuosity of the musicians.. So of course you want the mix to highlight that.. which it does.. Metal isn't always real technical.. And I often feel like Metal is limited as form because it's almost like if you don't grimace it's not metal.. Do you know what I mean? Like if you don't play the roll it's not metal.. but underlying that.. Is that metal plays to a kind of dyonesian instinct.. a kind of orgiastic experience of banging your head and making signs to the devil.. and all that good stuff.. And if you juxtapose that to someone like Via who's like.. doing his various meditation exercises.. and has an almost monastic aura.. well maybe what I'm speaking to is the tensions between progressive-ism and metal-sm.. That progressive metal must somehow stratal.. I tend to think of old Metalica.. or like Hanger 18 era Megadeth.. as exemplar's of how I like my progressive metal.. Well.. you know.. modernize it up a bit.. and there you are.. Of course how much of this is just my own personal taste and how much of it might be helpful to you is a whole other question.. But um.. I dig what your doing anyway.. Idk.. I'm not much good at criticism I don't think...