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==General guidelines before writing a review== * Read some good reviews! *: You can find lots of great reviews on [https://critiquebrainz.org/review/4f0845ae-5418-4d42-8b2e-f9d49aac7fba CritiqueBrainz], or search the web. * Write in a comfortable voice. *: A good review probably won't sound like an academic paper, and probably won't sound like a youtube comment, but it should sound like ''you''. *: Reviews don't need to be in English. If you're more comfortable in another language, go for it. Choose a language in which you can express your emotions/thoughts freely. ===Writing a well formatted review=== The editor in the review column follows [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Markdown Markdown] so you can always beautify your review using the formatting styles because a well formatted article/review makes it readable and it becomes a little easy to understand what you have written. You can use the following [http://daringfireball.net/projects/markdown/syntax link] to learn markdown. ==Writing the review== ===Album Reviews=== *Listen the album from starting to end - Some listeners doesn't know that album is aligned in specific order so its better to listen the album thoroughly when you start reviewing the album. *Tell about how you felt after listening the album - Music is an emotive art. It's meant to move the listener. If you feel happy or sad, angry or calm, the emotion only matters that you pass it on. Readers will want to know about that before buying (or not!) a particular album. *You can tell about lyrics and the recording quality - *:Lyrics is what which makes a song/album meaningful. You can always right about how were the lyrics? Was it meaningful? Did it match the music? *:Recording quality matters a lot. If it's good it's good but if it's bad it will flop the whole album. It's always better to note these things and mention about it in your review. *Write about the strengths of the album, go easy on weaknesses - Can write about strengths which you loved or liked. Don't be too rude/harsh on weaknesses but you can mention what you disliked. These things strengthen your reviews. *Cover most of the songs in the album. *Be clear with your conclusion - If it's a must hear album give it some direction. It's always nice to mention people of which music taste will love it or people of which genre will like it. You can try to compare it with some other album which has been already released which will give the readers an idea as to what they can expect. ===Event Reviews=== *You can describe about the event, band/artist, where was the event taken place, what made you to attend the event etc. *Describe the event place - Event reviews are enhanced by description of the event place as to how big was the place? Was it enough for the crowd? or How well the band/artist sound in it? *Writing about the music played there - You can describe which songs were played in the event. Which were your favourite songs played, you can write about the staging of the band. Were there any stuff which you didn't like? If yes, then why? *Special moments, effects, surprises - Often there are special moments in every event, you can describe such moments that took place. You can also write about special guests(if present) any special effects in the event which caught everyone's attention *Writing about Event atmosphere - You can always describe about the crowd, how well the artists/band were able to entertain the crowd? Was the crowd exciting or it was a monotonous atmosphere? '''NOTE''': Try to be '''honest''' while reviewing, simply don't follow the trend. Review the album as to what you felt and not what others felt. And try to follow active voice. ==Common mistakes people do while writing reviews== *Writing '''long reviews that lack specific details.''' *'''Forgetting to check the factual information''' in the review after finishing the writing process. *'''No proofreading''' the review after finishing it. *'''Mistakes such as punctuation, typos, capitalization etc.''' *'''Writing in slangs''' - Try to write in proper English (or whatever language you prefer). It's better '''not to write reviews in slangs.''' ==External links== You can read some reviews from these sites before writing your own :- ===A few great review sites=== * [http://pitchfork.com/reviews/albums/ pitchfork.com] * [http://exclaim.ca/music/reviews exclaim.ca] * [http://www.nme.com/reviews nme.com] [[Category:How To]]

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