March 4, 2019

Erika - Burning Spirits (MV)

Winter is over very interesting: such a beautiful girl released a MV.



This is performed with a classic guitar tone on a standard E guitar tuning. These facts quite often say that we will not hear diversity here. And when I turned on the video, I immediately heard the confirmation of these words.

Composing at the secondary level work. It's noticeable that composer has good abilities. However, instrumental parts are very predictable. Сomposition can be divided into several parts. In the beginning you can hear intro on the synthesizer in the spirit of Korg MS-20. The first part is riffs with fifths and scale, the second is tremolo with power chord, the third is power chord, the fourth is breakdown with imitation of blues improvisation, the fifth is power chord and coda. As for the lead guitar, here you can see a minor pentatonic with rare inserts of “something else” (for example, tapping).

You may also notice that the music does not exactly match the video. And also in the video rather weak plot. Here you can see footage from two concerts. I don't want to say that professional direction is obligatory. Just the opposite: the best music video have a low budget, because the most important thing in them is idea. But here I just see the footage from the concert.

In general, it sounds cool. But here everything is very predictable and I see no reason for high ratings. Instrumental music is always the pinnacle of any musician’s mastery. But here I see a standard novice set. Well, this guitarist also has a extended range guitar, for which can write something more interesting. However, if the release is exactly as I guess, the rating will be 55-60/100.