Emptiness (kaizsu_-_emptiness.xm)

Posted by arcturus on Thu 24th Jun 2004, rated 2 / 10.

I really hate it when the order list is three times as long as the total number of patterns written. It means there's a lot of repetition - and with a song this slow and uneventful, it almost put me to sleep. I suppose it's better than listening to a song that hurts my ears. This song is based on a simple guitar melody based on the A-4 and E-4 notes. It gradually adds more instruments to the mix, but gradually is the key word here. Very little happens in this song. It's five minutes long, but four of those minutes are the same guitar part repeating over and over and over. The timing is very awkward. At the end of each pattern are about 16 rows of air, because the guitar part finishes at row 49. As a result, there's a long pause with no notes that doesn't sound right. The guitar sample has an annoying warbling sound to it, and it sounds like it's being played an octave lower than its optimal range. Increasing the pitch by an octave, or choosing a guitar better suited for that low range would have improved the sound.