SONG: GIN & MONEY   MEMBER: KAI LAVATAI I just got back from an amazing trip to Kalamazoo, Michigan! I was invited to the Pro Co cable factory, which was awesome, I will tell you about the amazing trip at the end of this TEEK! This week’s TEEK is a song called GIN & MONEY; let’s go check this song out!     1)     INTRO: The Intro sounds like you use a keyboard bell type sound along with vocals this is real good, also I like the reverb/delay you add and the autotune effect which you use is good.   Then the drumbeat comes in bringing the int...

SONG: NO DRAMA   MEMBER: CARTELL BROWN What’s going on Teekers!!! I just want to let all of you know that you can now listen to the song that I’m teeking right in the same blog. So you can follow along with the teek! I would like to give a big thank you to the staff at Indaba for making this possible. Once again they are always trying to make things easier for all of the members in the Indaba Community! You guys are the best! This week’s teek is a cool instrumental called ‘No Drama’.     1)     INTRO: The synth sound sequence to start...

"SHAME" by FELSITE Once again I’m amazed with the material I’m getting every week! There are a lot of talented people in this community and I love hearing all the styles and creative songs I’m getting. This week is a cool song called SHAME.   1)     Intro: Man this brings me back to the 80’s! Excellent voice Felsite! I really loved how you have just the kick and your voice for the first 4 bars of the song, you have a good voice that can stand alone! I also liked when you used a couple samples of your voice before the keys come in. This is a good intr...

SONG:   BEAR   MEMBER: Marcel C.     What’s going on Teekers? Hope all is well in Indaba Music Land, please remember to keep sending in your songs for Teeks! This week we are going to look at a great rock ballad called BEAR. Come on and let’s go for the ride with this song!       1)     INTRO:   Good intro with the bongo roll and then the instruments coming in. The recording is clean and levels are all good here. The acoustic guitar sound really good along with the electric.   2)     1 ST VERSE: The vocals a...

SONG: LAST TRAIN HOME MEMBER: MEL B. Hello everyone. Hope all of you are grinding as much as I am with music and hopefully I can get the chance to hear it from the Indaba community, so keep sending in your material!! This weeks TEEK is an instrumental called LAST TRAIN HOME. Let’s take a peek at it shall we?     1)     INTRO: Great intro!!! Readers please listen to this intro! You start with a hesitated melody of the main chorus and that was perfect! This is how you start a song! There are no other instruments involved which is great because you are saving the ot...

SONG:ENVY EYES MEMBER: ADRIENNE COLLINS Man!! Every week I’m getting better and better stuff from you members! I just want to say that I love the talent from the Indaba community! This week I am TEEKING a straight Jazz vocal tune called “Envy Eyes.” Let’s go through this jazz tune from top to bottom.    1)     INTRO: The drums in the beginning by themselves are good and when the rest of the band comes in it creates a great Jazz intro. I love the dominant 13 th ’s that are used in the chord progression. Overall the intro is great; however I...

Song: I SEE YOU EVERYWHERE Member: DOMINIC MATAR   Hey Teek fans! The music that’s being sent in for teeking is so amazing. Keep on sending them in so you have a chance of being the next one TEEKED! This week’s song is a Folk/Rock type song and it’s a very radio friendly song once again. Let’s check out “I SEE YOU EVERYWHERE”.   INTRO: Good intro, your basic guitar, bass, and drums, with a little bit keys in there too, but not too much which is a good way for an intro to be. Also I like the bass melody in the intro as well. 1 st VERSE: Great first ...

Song: UBBER COOL Member: Rick Sankey   This week’s teek is a great groove that sounds like it mostly consist of samples. A sample is grabbing a piece of music that has all ready been recorded; it could be a part of the chorus, part of the verse or just one word.   You can then transpose that sample to your keyboard and play the sample on any key of the keyboard. After you have all these little snippets of music you can put them all together to create your own composition. Now lets take a look at Rick’s UBBER COOL !   INTRO: I love the short teasing bits of samples th...

SONG: ARE YOU READY  MEMBER: Mantis Evar I would first like to say thank you to all of the staff at Indaba Music.  They have been excellent in getting Teek Me up and running.   There is no way this could have been possible with out them, thank you Indaba Music!   I would also like to thank all the members that have joined so far; I can't wait to hear your music.   Now let's get TEEKING!  To begin with this is a good Rock/Blues song.  Over all the form of the song is perfect, by this I mean the song has an intro, a verse, a pre chorus, another chorus...

Welcome to TEEK ME. My name is Frank Portalatin and I'm the new Artist in Residence with Indaba. A while back the people at Indaba Music informed me that a survey was taken and that most members of the community wanted their music professionally critiqued. Well this is your chance! I will be critiquing one song from the Indaba Music community every week. It can be anything from a full song, to a bass line, a chorus or any other aspect of your recording.   I will give you a professional musicians point of view of the work you submit.   I'm here to help ev...