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historylostsecrets
September 15th, 2010, 09:10 pm
Hello everyone, please tell me what you think. I would really really appreciate any feedback or comments!

Mushyrulez
September 16th, 2010, 04:49 am
First of all, welcome to the forums~

Having three voices for the Piano Battle Theme is great, but sounds to me a little impractical (but this isn't meant for practicality! :P). Or is it just two with the left hand stretching a little?

The bunches of fast notes at 0:35 were also sorta useless, IMO? Especially after it calmed down at 0:42. I'd suggest ya take that part out, and add a longer fast part from 0:42 to the end? Just a short burst of intensity doesn't seem all that dramatic.

Also, if this is a game style composition how about making it loop? Like end it on those perpetual motion left hand chords, so if ya replay it it still sounds alright?

I probably shouldn't have listened to that first, and the orchestral battle theme seems much... better? Because the fast notes are with one instrument, as opposed with all of them.

However, the... tone sounds really strange, like they're not instruments but just tones/beeps. What did ya use?

Also, maybe a more dark mood would work? Like, by adding more percussion and piano chords, it would seem a lot more energetic. I don't think ya had much bass in the orchestral version. If ya did... make it louder! :V

As with the piano version, the ending sounded really 'woah what just happened', and not in a very good way. Maybe with a more final cadence? I don't know :/

Silent Wings sounded very Touhou-ish (A Sacred Lot much :P)
Pretty nice; great electronic feel. Not sure what to say here; if I said anything I'd probably just feel ignorant ._.

Finally for Arrival of the Emperor, I'd expect something less dissonant and happier? I guess it's the arrival of the evil dictator from hell now :P
The sudden change to major was unexpected. Evil Dictator-turned Nice Guy? :/
I think if ya had a section before the beginning where the more major-like melody was first reinstated, or at least we had a hint it would turn like that, that'd be great.

Transition back into minor was expected and gave off a finished feel, but that last bass note was really unneeded, I think. It just cut it off, and felt like we were listening to an incomplete composition.


tl;dr: don't worry, ya compose better than I do :P

Ander
September 17th, 2010, 03:00 am
the battle theme piano sounds awesome. sounds like something intense is happening... then poof. it ends very fast.

historylostsecrets
September 20th, 2010, 12:24 am
@Mushyrulez
Thanks a lot for the welcome and feedback!

Yep, it's not meant to be practical. It would be useless to do so for me anyway, since I can't play the piano. :(

I personally love those fast notes. I can see what you mean, but it sounds fine to me.

That's not a bad idea, but 1:00 is the climax, and it's pretty much announcing the song's going to end soon. Maybe I could just delete that.

Actually, both versions are identical. I used the organ for the "orchestral" version. I know, it doesn't really sound like an organ. I think the piano brings out more of some of the harmony.

Great! That was the effect I was trying to achieve. This song's actually an arrangement of an old tune I made. That's why it sounds nothing at all like silent wings.

Yep, it's an evil emperor. I wrote the major part after I revisited it after awhile. So, I had no idea it would have turned out that way. :P
Hmmm, I had no idea it sounded that way.

@Ander
Haha, the abrupt ending was sort of a joke. It's my way of saying, "I'm won't be able to compose an grand ending."