Icy Fingers (Side Effect)

Thanks man, that's exactly the CC I was looking for. Back to the salt mines!

Alrighty let's jump some CC shall we?

- More of an intro.  It basically starts immediately into the fray without much introduction.
- Main melody just plays tooooo many times.  Vary it up.  Try cloning the melody's phrase to make a new one with the same information and messing around with the notes.  You can try to get a melody that sounds different but enough of a connection to the original one so it doesn't sound out of place.
- I think melodies which include simple alternating between two different octaves of the same note sound corny.  Mess around with that bit at 0:20
- The bit starting at 0:27 is definitely a good start to having a good melody.  It uses more than just one channel for the melody and is colored up a bit more then the main melody with the addition of a couple 2 channel chords.  Mix 2 channel chords into the progression here and there as well as C commands chords (hell try both at the same time...you can get some pretty interesting stuff). Add varying amounts of vibrato, break a long note up into shorter equal parts in one phrase to change it up a bit. 
- Fill out your WAV channel more.  Your kicks are short so it'd be easy to fill in the space in between with a sound different than the kick.  I think it's good practice when just beginning LSDJ is too try to fill up your phrases as much as you can.  This obviously isn't true for composing music in general, but I mean LEARNING it.  Cram a ton of shit into phrases basically for the sole purpose of learning and practicing variation.

I'd say one of the best pieces of advice would be to listen to others' songs, pick a sound you think is rad and try to recreate it.  It can be tough but trust me you will learn SO MUCH MORE after spending a solid hour getting frustrated trying to figure out how to recreate a sound you've heard come from LSDJ rather than taking 5 minutes being like "mehhh i can't get it" or just using a sound you've already done.  And after you recreate it...change it and make it unique and your own.  What worked REALLY well for me was using a different command HEAVILY in each different song. 
Couple examples:
* Use the C/V command all over the fucking place in one song.  Mess around with a bunch of different values and combinations of values.  Try using the C/V command on all the other channels too.
* Make song song with a different time signature.  The H commands helps a ton with this so experiment with it.

I hope this is a good addition to our PM convo. and figured if I commented here any passerbys trying to learn could grab some ideas as well.