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Alternative Soundtrack Jam's itch.io pageResults
| Criteria | Rank | Score* | Raw Score |
| Credibility | #15 | 3.600 | 3.600 |
| Creativity | #22 | 3.300 | 3.300 |
| Impression | #23 | 3.100 | 3.100 |
| Composition | #27 | 2.800 | 2.800 |
| Overall | #28 | 3.060 | 3.060 |
| Sound quality | #30 | 2.500 | 2.500 |
Ranked from 10 ratings. Score is adjusted from raw score by the median number of ratings per game in the jam.
Streaming link
https://soundcloud.com/rtncdrmusic/alernative-soundtrack-jam-5
Track description | Creative process
I took this to mean "Buy Something Already" from the OST, so I went with a hokey psuedo-BLUEGRASS-style ditty as shop music from that era seemed to love being campy/humorous for whatever reason. I decided to play the Jug along with it, because why not? Even though SNES didn't use anything other than midi as far as I know. It was fun researching different banjo techniques and the saloon style piano fit as well.
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This actually made me laugh, in a good way ! Love the funny saloon vibe, my only concern would be the jug line, that I found a little to simple perhaps. But good job making this, very pleasing to hear !
Couldn't help but smile while listening to this one. Super fun tune, and I'm a big fan of the Jug!
The mood of the piece fits pretty well. My biggest crtique is that the chord loop is too repetitive. Also the jug from 0:30 is too chaotic and don't blend very well with the other instruments in my opinion. You could improve this kind of piece by having some sort of melodic line, not necessarily by adding an instrument, just by avoiding the constant repetition of the same pattern on the piano and banjo.
What I like about this jam are the song ideas that are way outside of my comfort zone, and comments that make me think about ways to improve overall. I'm not trained in music theory so chord progressions, solo techniques and such don't occur to me and it seems whenever I try something new, it ends up repeating too much. Duly noted. I had melody ideas for the jug after submission, and the only way to get different "notes" while doing it live was by using the voice, and I don't know how to make it not sound like a kazoo from jug blowing yt videos lol. Thanks for the feedback!
haha, it was brave of you to go for the live jug recording. Also even without music theory you can find good chord progressions by ear and try to find a good association of 16 bars of chord progression 1 then, 16 bars of chord progression 2 etc... It can be time consuming especially if your are aiming for a precise atmosphere.