Nice. A few things - your background synth is getting limited really hard and it sounds not great.
The early drums don't make a lot of sense - they don't really fit with the synth and it's too long before any actual drum patterns to be justifiable as an intro.
The tonality is solid.
Here's an improv jazz piano track I did for a game project I was on: https://soundcloud.com/katadeus/hansom-cab-blues
I have an issue where I can never do better than my first take and so for this I just embraced it and prepared myself to play along with a backtrack and then recorded all the piano at once. There are a few mistakes.
Thanks for the input. Whenever I make songs I don't worry too much about technicalities of the sound--simply because I just don't know anything about them. I'm not very experienced, haha--but it's something I'll look into. I'll research limiting and work on the mix more in future songs. And as for the drums, my goal was to make the timing in the song a little bit more clear, since that pad is so wishy washy. It's kind of hard to tell the tempo of the song without any other instruments. However, I do agree that they don't fit very well, so that should be better next time. Again, thanks a ton for your criticism!
As for your jazz song, I think it's pretty cool. The chord progression is very similar to the
chimney song from Mary Poppins, which I loved as a kid and still today. That connection there is pretty cool, even if it wasn't intentional. Keep up the good work.
This is actually cool as forget, but I'd say I wish you had used better, more weighty sounding drum samples rather than those simple 808 style ones. It has good direction, I can feel a lot of possible paths you could take with this.
Thanks man! I used default samples in FL studio for this song. I'm still learning about which kind of drums are appropriate and where, as well as trying to find good samples to use in the first place, but I'll definitely take that into account next time. I may even redo some parts of this song. Thanks for your input!