Judge this harshly.

[Edwardo Piet]

Completely off-topic but feeling a lot love for a lot of people and I just wanna say I like a certain excited animal.

[Excited Penguin]

I don't give a fuck, Ham.

Sorry, but that's the truth.

[Edwardo Piet]

That's okay, I really want the truth So no need to apologize

[RozKek]

This kind of music isn't really my style but ooo, it gave me the shivers, it's quite good. I like your voice. Personally, I'd like it more if the guitar, and instruments in general had a heavier/deeper/"bassier" sound to them. They sound very clean and light.

[Edwardo Piet]

I like the guitar sound how it is but I'm biased because I'm a Buckethead fan like Paul is so I like the Buckethead-y sound to his guitar.

ETA: If he had a bassplayer join him that would be kind of cool but I also like it how it is.

[Edwardo Piet]

After all Buckethead himself don't need no bassplayer! (double negative not to be taken literally).

[Mechaghostman2]

Upon 1st listen:

The mixing could be a tad better. I can barely hear the rhythm guitar. Maybe you could add more to the chord progression after the distortion kicks in, perhaps some added rhythm or perhaps throw a few more chords in there.

Upon 2nd listen:

The singer could emphasize the words a tad more to make it sound less mumbly, in the intro. More string bends in the solos would be nice.

Upon 3rd listen:

It needs bass.

Conclusion:

Overall the song is good, it just needs better mixing, more emotion in the solos (especially the first one), and perhaps maybe a tad more added to the rhythm maybe.

[paulpablo]

Upon 1st listen:

The mixing could be a tad better. I can barely hear the rhythm guitar. Maybe you could add more to the chord progression after the distortion kicks in, perhaps some added rhythm or perhaps throw a few more chords in there.

Upon 2nd listen:

The singer could emphasize the words a tad more to make it sound less mumbly, in the intro. More string bends in the solos would be nice.

Upon 3rd listen:

It needs bass.

Conclusion:

Overall the song is good, it just needs better mixing, more emotion in the solos (especially the first one), and perhaps maybe a tad more added to the rhythm maybe.

Yeh mixing is tough.

The singer and the other band member have both been telling me about adding layers to the rhythm part but it's been my stylistic decision as the guitarist to keep it as pretty much one layer.

This is purely because the guitar rhythm is very punchy, sort of Spanish sounding, I don't want that sound to be compromised.
To me it's sort of like flamenco style with distortion, I might be only one who sees it that way I don't know, but that's my logic.

The first guitar fill was actually down to me constantly being asked to add guitar layers and fills, I put that in there being skeptical of how it would sound but decided to keep it as I thought it fit surprisingly well, again sounding slightly like distorted flamenco.

I'll definitely look into the bass, I don't want to piss bass players off.

I'm not the best at mixing like I said but it sounds sort of ok to me, I play it full blast in my car sometimes aswell as quietly so I can hear it from all different perspectives.  I know I'll go thru it a few times though yet, and give it some touch ups, hopefully this will clean things up a bit.

Thanks for taking the time to listen to it.

[account_inactive]

I don't know that much about the creation of music compared to the others here, so I am unable to give an in-depth review but I actually quite like it.

[paulpablo]

I think we've already discussed the Three Doors Down similarity, so I won't go into that any further.

I wanted to correct this before this thread gets cast into oblivion and forgotten.

This song actually isn't the song that sounded like the 3 doors down song.

I posted another instrumental up sometime ago and everyone including myself agreed it sounded like the 3 doors down song and a Michael Jackson song.
That was a different instrumental though.

Unless you're saying that you think this also sounds like a 3 doors down song in which case id just have to disagree.