New Music Video - "Shadows on the Ceiling"

Pretty darn cool!! For an instrumental, varied to keep my attention for the entire track, without too many changes, therefore becoming disjointed - if that makes sense. My only points to note, which are purely personal preference, but I would've had a harder/deeper snare sound. And I was waiting for some vocals, but they never came  But other than that, top job 

Video is well produced. Arpeggio/echos drive the song along nicely.  Lead guitar sounds great.  Beautifully crafted composition that would be ideal for music placement in films, and could also adapt to song (with vocals added). Well done  
 
Minor Critiques: Kick doesn't translate well on small speakers. Maybe a little too much reverb on the kick.  Overall bass/bottom end is a bit muddy.
 
Liked and subscribed to your Y/Tube. Wish you great success!
 
 

Songcraft:
 
Thanks so much. Yea film is definitely my main focus/goal. Glad you like it! The low end is fairly muddy, you're right, but hopefully the kicks aren't too low on a lot of speakers... I did test the album out on about a dozen different stereos before finalizing everything. But there always seems to be some kind of setup that can change things (there's one song on the album called "Forgotten" that literally has a completely new instrument on my dad's stereo... it's like some harmonic sound that's probably a subtle element within some synth multi I'm using that you seriously don't hear on any stereo OR my actual monitors where I do my mixing... it's crazy haha). Thanks also for subscribing to the channel!
 
Tom:
 
Thanks for your comments too! Haha, that kid needs to learn to just go sleep in her mom's bed when she's scared, not go all crazy :-) The snare has definitely been the biggest thing people have mentioned in comments on this track but it's one of those things where I just got so stuck on how they sounded on an early version that I listened to for months, that when I was finishing these songs I just couldn't change it. A double time section would have been interesting. Maybe for the remix :-)

Thanks Phil! Glad you liked it.

Haha I'll be sure to let the director know that you liked her daughter's performance :-) Thanks!

Thanks Starise.  Yea to be honest that was absolutely the intention, and there's a little bit of shadows at play in the finished video, but at last minute the director had people drop out due to scheduling conflicts, but we had a deadline to get it finished for the Nevada Women's Film Festival (our intended first festival submission, which we did end up get into), so she had to work with what she had to make it work. But definitely we intended on more dancing shadows, and eventually to imply that the creepiest shadow on the wall turned out to be the mother opening the door to check in on her. Overall we're still very proud of what we were able to pull together with no money or help haha. Glad you liked it!

hey kakku, i do the same thing, humming into my phone, when i'm not home to work on something haha.
 
anyway yea, technically what i do is background music, i mean my main medium is film score, so yea. but with these albums i try to push myself to build "songs" that have a bit more to them. i struggle with calling my genre electronica or alternative... it's hard to really classify 100%. the reason i think my music might seem either repetitive or like it could use more company like you said, is a combination of that film score background (my specialty in scoring is tension and mood stuff which tends to have a lot of repetition), but also because my biggest influences are groups where the music tends to stay the same a lot until a dramatic ending build... stuff like The Cure, Depeche Mode, Nine Inch Nails... I mean The Cure "Disintegration" is basically a 7 minute groove with little guitar and string pieces that happen on top here and there and it's one of my favorite songs ever :-) haha. still "Shadows on the Ceiling" has that middle section breakdown where things change for a little bit before the big end buildup, and then the music builds at the end until the electric guitar part which to me is like the climax of the song.
 
anyway, that's a lot of typing i just did haha but i love talking about my music and music in general. totally appreciate the comments. i always have room to grow and some of the songs on this new album are some of the most dynamic stuff i've done i think. i'll be sure to share more soon :-)