15 Minute Progressive Epic

Hi, I'm new here but I wanted to get some feedback on a fifteen minute instrumental epic I recently made for an album of mine. It's progressive metal / progressive rock so those of you who are either not fans of the genre or are simply not familiar with it might find it a bit strange. While most of it is rock / metal, there are several classical sections and even a few jazzy ones, so there's a little something for everyone. Anyway, enjoy, and tell me what you think.

I apologize for the lack of mp3 quality, but it is a rather large song and had to be compressed for convenience.

The Artist, The Sage, and The Jester

Hello Ruin,

i listend to your song and i must sa it's pretty damn amazing! But since it's very long i cannot go into too much details and recomendations...

Ok, so the first 2 minutes of guitar almost solo where very cool, as i am a metal fan myself. The piano folowing with the harmony was neat too. However, at 2:30 you had a strange rhytm, neatly done bu didn't quite fit in the previous mood maybe you can work a little about that. The classy part at 3:30, and the organ had a stunning prat there! Back to rock at 4:00. Really neat again, the guitar melodies are beautiful as are the virtuoso parts. And i heard a great "some hihg piched effect" usage, too. the solo part at 5:46 was really cool! I thought it would be the best part in the song, until i heard the classical part at 6:50. It was amazing! You have proved yourself good at this king of stuff too! nice gong and bassoon usage. A very tense and eery metal part that folowes... i loved it. But after 8:30 there were glissandos that i didn't really find amusing.... sounded a little sloppy.and after that the whole piece has a totaly new direction, i found it a little too of the original mood... it sounds cool, but gets the listener a little desoriented.... maybe you can slow down into it. But if its the beginning of another part (the sage?) then it's ok. And after that part the piano and glockenspiel (?) make a beautiful melody again. the piano fast part i found very nice, but it doesn't really come through, i suggest making it a little loder. The end was... im sorry to say this, but i think you may want to change it... the eletronic sound you used i found to be rather childish... i think a fuller ending is in order.

I see you have much, much talent and be sure to make the most of it! :angry:

And it would be a smash if you stayed at our forum here!

Thanks a lot for your in-depth review! It was very helpful and interesting to see which parts you hilighted as being good and bad. I apologize, but I think I forgot to mention that if you play the hi-fi streaming version of the song, you get a strange, sped-up version, and judging by the times you said these things happened at, I think you may have heard the bad version. For future listeners, it will sound MUCH better if you download the mp3.

Anyways, thanks again, wolf. If you like, I have three more songs avaliable at:

http://www.myspace.com/jtbruce

Now this is cool. I'm just wondering if this is all a live recording? Meaning, is it real people playing all this and not just a computer?

If computer, pretty convincing.

If live, man you're good.

This is definately not live - all the drums and keyboard elements were sequenced using soundfonts, and all the guitar is very layered. I'm really glad that you think it sounds convincing though, and righteous that you liked it.

All right. After hearing some of it, I came to realize that something wasn't quite....."live"sounding. All the timings were too perfect.

I have a nice 4:00 composition that I'll have to post here soon. I'd do it now, but I'm off to school in ten minutes so it'll have to wait.