My first track made with the virus. deadmau5ish inspired

[batman]

Your sound and production are good. The mixdown could be a bit clearer and less busy.

On the composition side, you are making the same mistakes as me:
- your breaks are too long, without rhythmic element. So people can't dance during them.
- Your intro has no beat. If you are not famous and have no djs that can remix your track, there is fairly low chance to be played in clubs with no mixable intro and outro.
- your are directly playing minor chords on your arp melody, which can be annoying for a dj (circle of fifths). It is easier to stick with fundamental and fifth at the beginning and end to allow more keys to be mixed with (let's say you got a C minor track running on deck A that outros with only C and G notes, youll be able to mix it with F major, A minor, G major, G minor, F minor or Eb major on deck B). When you are not famous, make it easy to mix with.

[Barnelby]

Originally Posted by batman

- your are directly playing minor chords on your arp melody, which can be annoying for a dj (circle of fifths). It is easier to stick with fundamental and fifth at the beginning and end to allow more keys to be mixed with (let's say you got a C minor track running on deck A that outros with only C and G notes, youll be able to mix it with F major, A minor, G major, G minor, F minor or Eb major on deck B). When you are not famous, make it easy to mix with.

I am REALLY glad you brought this up. I am just now getting into DJing and cant help but wonder if DJs actually consider the keys of songs and try to chain them together based on theory principles...and for that matter... does a good DJ have the ability to actually pitch shift songs on the fly, (improvising) to not only match but to be in a contrasting key of another song so that it makes sense?

Cause damn. I know theory pretty well but going through and remembering the keys of all the songs I MIGHT play in a set?

Do explain.

And where can I hear some of your stuff batman?

[suzzymackenzie]

<genuinely amazed at the notion that a composer could be constrained as to key>!

We got tailz waggin dogz here or what?

I am just old fashioned, however, and a creature of other genres, Barnelby. Your piece sounds sonically good to me, but I can't quite locate the bit that I would hum afterwards, or describe to someone else along the lines of 'you know, the one that goes x/the one with the y'...etc. Other rules apply, I dare say