This is an uplifting trance track I produced in cooperation with opera singer Lorena Medina. Hope you enjoy it!

was ok. The singing was atrocious and took away from the track. I suppose you use what you have access to. This singer has awful intonation and phrasing with really obvious support issues, i would try to get a lyrical / coloratura soprano as the voice and right range has less of that heavy wagnerian styled vibrato most people really hate. Perhaps the issue is that you are are writting for an alto and the singer is a soprano. Either way , it just sounds bad. The rest was not bad but so generic, that i just wonder what the point is. I suppose the lesson here is that you need to learn to write for voice as you are not using her actual range properly or she sucks. I think a bit of both ?

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Last edited by Looney4Clooney on May-02-2012 at 14:03

The music whilst somewhat accomplished does remind me of those early classical / dance tracks called 'hooked on classics'.
The title is a bit predictable.

I'm no expert on vocals, whereas looney4clooney most definitely is, but to my unprofessional ears it sounds good and warm whatever the fuk that means, but didn't evoke any kind of emmotional response in me. Not sure why. It's like the music and vocals were sorta glued together after the event, they don't really speak to one another.

I'd say you have the tools to make something really good, wish I had an opera singer in my bedroom, mmmmmm

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Although the effort must be applauded I think it is sounding a little pastiche.

It's how I'd see Andre Rieu doing a dance track.

I think she needs to be singing at least half an octave higher as well, I don't think the track is in the right range for her.

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Thanks for the comments and the feedback. I agree about the range so that's a good lesson for me for the next time.

I know nothing about singing, but i must agree with other comments, i didnt like the vocals that much. The track sounded forced. Generic (not always a bad thing), and the progression didnt keep my attention. In tracks i love to here sounds evolve, transform. I find that using high speed arps, such as the one in your track, the progression of notes/chords is less audible it seems, because so many notes are being triggered in a short time. Keep producing! as some one said before it sounds like you have to tools to create some very original, and inspired tracks.

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he called it trance plus opera, so no point in saying I don't like opera singers if you've had a listen

with that potential - I mean a pro singer who will do whatever you want I'd have spent a lot longer on the musical bits of the track and in production - what an opportunity. the track had such a potential to sound not generic - but it kinda does, it's too oldschool - sounding like this era:
I'd go back and re-work the track - try a new direction with it.

sorry for the somewhat negative crits, but I hope they help in some way.

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technically it isn't Opera. Just like using brass sounds and stylus rmx is not film music. Opera is the combination of singing , musicians in a theatric work combining a libretto and a score.

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Good Track with nice melody.

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