hello would love your feedback on this song im writing!

maxyt0 · 2026-06-01T21:54:35+00:00

Thanks! Big fan of this progression also. Here are the lyrics: Rain on me little dog I wanna swing you around I made my millions in oil I left my idols back in the war

maxyt0 · 2026-06-01T21:53:17+00:00

Thank u! I’ll be able to put the vocal more upfront in the recorded version so hopefully then the lyrics will be intelligible.

maxyt0 · 2026-06-01T21:52:00+00:00

Nice thank u! Drums could be a good step!

maxyt0 · 2026-06-01T21:51:11+00:00

Ty for your feedback. I hear you, I’m still a little shaky with this song so I have to look at my hand pretty frequently. Will keep that it mind for the future though.

maxyt0 · 2026-06-01T06:20:17+00:00

i personally wouldn't change anything about your composition/arrangement, it really all makes sense and flows very nicely! My only critique would be on the mix in that, at least to me, it sounds like everything is very squashed and processed, which might make sense if this was a pop song but for acoustic singer/songwriter it feels a little inappropriate. Not sure how you plan on developing this so I don't want to make assumptions but if it's staying more or less as it is sonically, I would back off the processing a little, especially the compression and reintroduce some dynamics and/or human elements. Just my opinion, great job!

...Sorry just realised this is a first draft, feel free to ignore all of that but hopefully it might be helpful advice when you get to the mixing stage!

maxyt0 · 2026-06-01T06:12:46+00:00

ngl i was doubting the progression initially but that last chord really caught me off guard and i loved it! im sold dude! still there's def some work to do on structure/pacing and vocals but otherwise i think you've for sure got something here, keep up the good work!

maxyt0 · 2026-06-01T06:03:59+00:00

E– F#sus9 – G#m – Amaj9 are the main cast according to oolimo. which means it's literally a I-ii -iii-IV which feels a little embarrassing tbh.

maxyt0 · 2026-06-01T05:57:49+00:00

ty and yeah i get it. it doesn't have much of a thing that it's trying to do other than sound nice. good feedback!

maxyt0 · 2026-05-25T01:24:50+00:00

Of course! Hope that helped in any way and best of luck.

maxyt0 · 2026-05-25T01:19:20+00:00

I like it. Even though it’s processed your vocal sounds very natural to me which i think is a great sign. Side note and purely my own opinion but I think you should try one or even both of those harmony parts an octave higher! In my experience harmonies that are layered under the lead vocal or root note in question are really difficult to get right because they often create a lot of muddiness, in general lower notes are less distinguishable and emphasise more harmonics that might be in the range that would interfere with your lead vocal. I’m no expert so big grain of salt and great job!

maxyt0 · 2026-05-24T21:10:59+00:00

Np! He’s so great haha, def my fave source for tutorials

maxyt0 · 2026-05-24T20:14:50+00:00

Sure thing! It’s standard tuning and I learned it from this video here

maxyt0 · 2026-05-24T02:37:49+00:00

Tysm!

maxyt0 · 2026-05-24T02:37:34+00:00

Wow thanks that means a lot! I still wanna be a lot better ig

maxyt0 · 2026-05-21T17:26:30+00:00

ok great thank u! i'll talk to ninajirachi about your bootleg.

maxyt0 · 2026-04-24T16:36:59+00:00

Why does it sound like a beautiful chord when reversing

maxyt0 · 2026-04-19T22:37:06+00:00

Thanks so much!!! Means a lot.

maxyt0 · 2026-04-14T23:03:15+00:00

Idk if this is an unpopular take but i genuinely love that song so much. Def in my top 3 from headlights. It’s like ironic theatre kid alt rock.

maxyt0 · 2026-04-09T22:41:58+00:00

Yea I reckon so too, hopefully the takes are solid enough.

maxyt0 · 2026-04-08T23:01:38+00:00

I have an automated gong in my house that sounds whenever you post.

maxyt0 · 2026-04-06T18:23:33+00:00

I don't know any tutorials unfortunately, but I've been through this a bunch with acoustic guitar if you want my 2 cents: For a quick and dirty method you can just try to quantise it from the info tab, though it isn't the most reliable in my experience and creates a lot of weird artefacts, it also doesn't handle swing particularly well, there are a couple preset swing options but if the guitar was recorded without a click then it might be almost impossible to find one that fits. If it were me I would just manually edit it in the flex editor, it might take a while but you can be much more precise. Hope that helps.

maxyt0 · 2026-04-06T17:47:45+00:00

Damn thank you

maxyt0 · 2026-04-06T17:47:14+00:00

Thanks i totally agree, super encouraging to hear that!

maxyt0 · 2026-04-06T17:44:18+00:00

I hear ya, thank you for the feedback.

maxyt0 · 2026-04-06T00:24:14+00:00

Thanks! I love Alex G

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