This is fun track. I think I'll shoot you some Rhodes fill you can patch in . PDMuzak

I know your track isn't finished but I used it for some this song I made for my mom lol it was kind of a last minute thing but you should check it out

Greetings, Golden O.

This is good though I appreciate that it's very much a work in progress. Adding more elements (and length) should indeed help.

This is fairly skilfully put together and definitely the basis for some proper funk.

Jazz guitar keyboard playing is good and sets the tone nicely. Then the first problem: that hat stands out as having the wrong sort of sound (too dry, needs reverb) and the wrong timbre. I know there's no "wrong" in music, I'm just saying how I feel. I have loads of good drum sounds but in some tracks they do feel wrong. Might also have groove not quite right. Play around with some different quantise settings.

Brass blasts are decent. Could be a better sampled sound but I guess it's the best you have. I hardly have any decent brass sampled instruments. They generally don't sound good played in a regular way so I have to use them in a different way ie add loads of delay or whatever.

0:55 first cool brass fill. Makes me think not of funk but some other genre. More jazz or ska or something similar.

I hope these thoughts help just a little bit.

Good luck with it as it's definitely worth continuing with.

I like the brass section, it is very catchy & groovy, when comes to the drums they are a little bit killing it. I used to play drums and that feeling for the beat is simply not coming. Funky music likes to use rhytms going against main rhytm (3rd = 1st) or rhytms 1-3 with pre-striked snares or kicks. It is kinda hard to create such rhytms in 4/4 sekvencers without using some shuffling or groovizer and even after it will still can sound odd & robotic. If you do this in Reason I could make some drum loops for you, if you like..

Hey Bro...definitely hearing something here!..the horns are fab and the little key solo in the intro is working..maybe needs defining a little more volume with a xylophone..roy ayers kinda thing!..but it works well..if its a instrumental you got some work to do!!...take out the shaker and o0pen the hi/hit a little as there too tight!

Amazing work so far! Really love how groovy the track is! I would add some live playing, but my mic isn't of good quality so I think it would detract from the song, not add to it.

Great work!
Rico L.

very cool everything works well together, it has a sense of progression which is always good. Doesn't feel like its going nowhere.
BUT i would say currently it feels a little bland, you mention your going to add keys, that will most certainly fix it i think, some underlying chords, a melody or something on the keys should do the trick :D

Cool track G.O :D