I REALLY liked this. :3 A little lengthy and repetative but really well done with lost of variation! Well done Jaiko!

Thanks for your thumbs up ^.=.^ *hugs*

love it :3

That means a lot coming from you =D thanks!

Wow. This is really nice work!

I could say the same for your WiP ^.=.^ I can't even fathom the words of praise I will give to you when I hear the finished version.

<3!

I love you too babe <3!

Kupok actually typed that XD

I am seriously speechless. This is a beautiful song, Jaiko! It really makes me think of a futuristic city illuminated by the night, hence the title. ^_^

Thanks =} I wanted to make sure it fell under my specified parameters =D

You're welcome. I'd say you succeeded :3

heheheh, very nice jai :3

Thanks =}

Excellent!

Very beautiful, so soothing and has a nice melody to it.

Thank you =}

Jazzzzzzzzzy and awesome. I think yours is a bit better than mine, but I gotta say, it reminds me of daytime more than nighttime. >.>

Thanks for the compliment! We'll see what the judges think. I'm prepared to be hit REALLY hard by one of them XD

Hoo-hoo! I am generally quite quiet here, but I have to pop out for this'n! As always, I am quite impressed, Jaiko! Your music all has different flavors to 'em, a fact that I can very much appreciate!

Thank you! That's my goal! To experience and create all types of music and give 'em all a dragon flavor ^.=.^ hopefully this will increase my chances of doing this for a living someday!

Wow!! Some of your best work to date!!!

Hey, thank you so much! That means a lot coming from you ^.=.^ *hugs*

It's cool! It has a very modern city new york sound in a way, but is very mellow at the same time. ^^

Thanks! Using Jazz, in my opinion, is the best way to make a theme song for a city =}

lol XD yeah for sure XD

Damn I really, really wish I could create and upload music... I can write music (sorta), just cant' record it or anything or make it sound good XD

Trust me, it's REALLY hard! Everything I use to make music was given to me through connections. And even so, I still don't have the highest quality stuff to work with.

lol yeah... All's I need is a tape recorder and a way to put the music online.. it'd be just piano but it'd be better then nothing XD

My first impresion upon hearing this song was "Hey this sounds like music straight out of a modern sonic game"... That may sound like something of a compliment, but let me assure you, I meant the menu screen. Anybody who has played those games knows exactly what I'm taling about: The music might be fun for the first two minutes, and then all of a sudden, it just gets under your skin and stays there like a bad itch. So then along comes the saxophone. I have to say, Jaiko, the quality of that patch is phenomenal... But I thought this was supposed to be a futuristic fantasy city, not 1920's Chicago. Since when did Smooth Jazz and futuristic city go together? Ultimately this is repetitive, slow, and not appropiate to the theme, shame on you, didn't you MAKE this contest?

The only thing this has got going for it is good sound quality.

LOLZ, and I felt that I fit the bill quite well. Ah well, that's why I chose you to be a judge after all XD

Actually after giving the submissions a few hours to sink in, I like yours quite a bit because you actually handle a thematic statement, which is WAY harder to do than just techno. Good for you!

Thematic statement? Heh, in any case, thanks!

Hmmm...for me, listening to this piece brings back images of a cityscape background in Breath of Fire III, which I think is a good thing since this is a rather catchy and smooth tune. What a nice thematic motif you use! One of the most difficult things to do in any piece of music is to come up with a melody that stays in your head long after you've listened to the piece. Not all great music can be like this (academic 20th-century work especially), but in pop music this is especially important, and you ALMOST had me whistling that motif as I was going through.

Of course, there is such a thing as too much repetition. You wisely avoid the usual pitfalls, and despite that there are some rather repetitive moments in the formal structure, that falls in appropriate accordance with the style. Probably my most serious critique as a percussion player is that I think the piece could greatly benefit from some serious remastering of the drum kit synths to make them match better with the effects latent in the harmony and melody, especially when placed next to those rather fantastic alto/tenor sax sounds you Reasoned. Admittedly I was hoping for a bit more daring in the chordal progressions, seeing how the improvisation in piano and sax is brilliantly done and could use such backup in the harmony voices.

Intrinsically you have a great ear for smooth jazz embellishment and overall style, though I fear the theme plays a bit too casual and modern for the silver sky city idea. Listening to this, I just don't get that sense, and odds are I probably would not recommend this song for the setting you have in mind. Even so, I think it's quite a decent piece. Keep up the good work. :)

Wow ^.=.^ thanks!

Yeah, admitedly, I feel I didn't exactly capture enough of a futuristic quality in the song. I am good at city themes, but in trying to avoid making it sound techno-y, I failed to find a middle ground that would allow me to fit the theme exactly.

Oh, and I've been meaning to talk to you about drums. I suck at doing anything out of the ordinary with them. I don't know if it's the fact I don't have any good drums, or if there is some special effect I can use to make them better. Either way, I REALLY would like help in that department. Is there anything you can do sweety?

You and your ability to critique music well! D:

XD

Jaiko, dear, let's see. At the star of your song I get the picture of flying through the clouds, heading in the direction of the city in the sky, this long journey. With the piano playing in the background it really sets the peaceful and calming tone and definitely a bit more when the saxophone starts up, that calming, cool feeling thanks to jazz. The song is indeed lovely and worthy of much praise. I do, however, don't picture a silver, high-tech city, though I do indeed picture a city. A city that is generally busy all through the light hours, but when the moon comes out things calm down a bit and this "calm, cool" group comes out to play, I get the feeling of those old jazz clubs set up through a city out night and keepin' it cool.

Thank you =D

Madre de Dios!

Better than anything I could do.

Aww you'll get there eventually. It took me a long time to get to this point.

Well it's more of a hobby for me than it is for you. This one is your best yet. The only problem I found with it, is that it doesn't have something separate from the catch. If it had that ... that'd make this even better.

What do you mean by "separate from the catch"?

The catch is the chord progression (and sometimes) the lead that you have going from the beginning of the song. While that's farkin' beautiful, it doesn't ever change, and can get a bit grindy. It could benefit from a verse, and even a bridge. That's somethin' I'll take care of in the midi this weekend.

Hmm! If you can help me out through midi, I might take your midi work and add it to my song =}

That'd be awesome! I can teach you how to upload midis into Fruity loops, too. Since you haven't done it before. :D

That's quite true actually. I'm looking foward to working with you ^.=.^

Actually, I think I could probably midi this and add a verse to this hook, and make this song less repetitive, if I have your blessing.

But of course =}

Gawd this is beautiful. I LOVE the saxophone (tenor?) solo, As well as the piano/sax duet right after! I nearly came at that little bit! I'm VERY happy that you left the small gaps between sections of the sax playing, because it really gives it a more authentic feel. A friend of mine can play like this REALLY well, and I can almost imagine it's him playing.

Excellent work, man, I'm just mad I didn't listen to this sooner!

Ok, I gotta add this note. I just about came at the twin saxophones playing at the end of the sax solo! That was freaking beautiful!!

Aww thank you so much ^.=.^ You're so sweet *nuzzles* Yeah, I did pretty good, didn't I? I wish I could play a sax one day someday. I don't even know what kind of sax I used X3

Sounds like a tenor to me X3

when saxaphone kicks in i th ink of a old town night time like in the black white movies of investigaters that go into taverns stuff like that ^^

lol, thanks! Though I intended to give it a sky city sound, nobody seems to think "Sky city" when they hear it X3

Jazzy, I love the sax, gives it a lovely blues kinda feel...

Thanks =}