seenoevil II wrote: ↑Sat Apr 06, 2024 6:27 am
I'm fascinated by this. She's a great drummer! But it looks like she's perpetually in an A studio with a multi thousand dollar mic cabinet pointed at a multi thousand dollar kit.
And it's only 20 bucks per track? And she only gives herself 5 days? I just don't know who or how anyone is making money here. Unless she's just grinding for XP.
I pay in the neighborhood of $65 for the two songs she's done for me. She gets them to me in a day. But I suppose she gives herself five days.
I think this is just what she does as a job, and probably has studied percussion her whole life in professional environments. In other words, it's what she does.
But notice that the $20 level is limited to 30 seconds there, Bump it up to 200 seconds and it's $50, no revision, and it's looking like you just get a stereo track.
The intermediate package I used she gets you ten stems, four minutes, and a revision. The more expensive package looks like you get that plus a stereo mixed track.
I knew I wouldn't need a mixed track since I don't even have the vocals ready. I suppose I could make a case for a revision but I kind of doubt it- I mean, there's a reason I'm paying a professional, and it's not for my own ideas. I used to be a drummer and I was good but she's light years beyond anything I ever was even at my best.
As a lapsed drummer I will listen to what she plays with fascination, I do that with drums in general. She's incredible, she drives the music but with finesse and nuance, the dynamics of her playing are incredible.
The hi-hat is the magic of the drum kit, I mean it's all important, but the hi-hat is where genius lives in my opinion, and she's got it. A very good example of another drummer that is a genius at the hi-hat is Billy Ficca on Television's Marquee Moon song.
So, she asks for what your thoughts are when you place the order, so far I've only asked for some bars of drums to lead into the song.
She also took it upon herself to add some shaker and tambourine because I guess she felt the song needed that.
I'm sure there's a lot of other great drummers on Fiverr, but I'll probably never know.
She did this song for me, I was charged with writing "dance punk" and I would say I did. But the end of the song is just me repeating myself over and over, so I told her the drums could be the main point of interest. Kind of a drum solo, but I figure there will be vocals leading it out.
She didn't quite do what I thought she might, but I like what she did. At one point in the song, shortly after 2:30, she kind of drops out for a split second, which gives it more power when she gets back into it.
That blew my mind- instead of just adding more and more to build intensity she made more out of less. I cannot recommend Francesca enough. I need to get her more music.
If I'm going to brag about myself I really like my bass playing, since the songs were constructed around the guitar and the guitar is pretty tight I decided to let the bass be loose, and didn't really work on the parts all that much in order to get that. I could have made them "better" but since I'm making these things in a modular way I am trying to make it seem like a group of people playing it together.