Re: Some video of my JGB band playing Tangled up in blue
PostPosted:Sun Feb 20, 2011 4:19 pm
Great vid! Lots of good things to say, too many to list, but I have a couple of "constructive criticisms" that I hope are taken that way.
1. The keys are hard to hear, which is OK since I think that is a heavy guitar song anyway, but the keyboardist sounded like she was doing a GREAT job with backing vocals, when I could hear her, which wasn't often. Looked like in her efforts to not overpower you, she was a little far from her mic, which I am sure is real easy to do in that environment, and it is definitely better for the back-up vocals to be a little low than a little high, so I'm not even sure this is a criticism per se, maybe more of a comment.
2. It was a little weird at the end when you had your back to the camera, and presumably the crowd, for an extended period. Not a big deal, just a little like a "what is he doing?" kind of a moment.
3. Coming out of the second solo and going to the crunch and then back to mostly clean sounded great, and I liked it a lot. But, it did seem like there was a long period where you were really focused on your pedal board. Again, nothing big, just I can see non-guitar-players thinking "what is he doing?" again.
Lots of good stuff to say though: your tone and pitch was great, I wish I could sing half that well! Percussion and bass were right there, I like how all members of the band are comfortable adding vocals, that seems unusual to me. You guys were very together, played off each other well etc. Like I said, tons of good stuff to say, I had to almost reach for the above comments.
1. The keys are hard to hear, which is OK since I think that is a heavy guitar song anyway, but the keyboardist sounded like she was doing a GREAT job with backing vocals, when I could hear her, which wasn't often. Looked like in her efforts to not overpower you, she was a little far from her mic, which I am sure is real easy to do in that environment, and it is definitely better for the back-up vocals to be a little low than a little high, so I'm not even sure this is a criticism per se, maybe more of a comment.
2. It was a little weird at the end when you had your back to the camera, and presumably the crowd, for an extended period. Not a big deal, just a little like a "what is he doing?" kind of a moment.
3. Coming out of the second solo and going to the crunch and then back to mostly clean sounded great, and I liked it a lot. But, it did seem like there was a long period where you were really focused on your pedal board. Again, nothing big, just I can see non-guitar-players thinking "what is he doing?" again.
Lots of good stuff to say though: your tone and pitch was great, I wish I could sing half that well! Percussion and bass were right there, I like how all members of the band are comfortable adding vocals, that seems unusual to me. You guys were very together, played off each other well etc. Like I said, tons of good stuff to say, I had to almost reach for the above comments.