I finally came to the gull to create another song. It seems a little better than the last one I made. Please rate and comment on it.


::EDIT::

Okay, I realize that it isn't a true battle song

New name: Racing to the Stars

Well, the the constant descending motion in the background was kind of overused, but that's the point of good songs, right? making it easy to get stuck in someone's head? Also, somewhere around 53 seconds I didn't like the high notes. They clash with the already present theme. It's like 2 songs at once, if you know what I mean.

8/10

it is awesome! but i dont' think i feel like a battle going on. it's too happy...
but besides that, it's really good. i think there are too many triads? duno if that is it or not..... but anyways, great job!

Rate- 8/10

uhhh I'm sorry mies but im going to have to be honest. It doesnt sound like a battle it sounds too happy I agree with archangel there. Also normally with music it gives off an impression that somethings happening. It's kind of a wtf is that all about kind of thing.
I cant compose myself I dont have any talent so dont expect anything from me but keep it up any way bro.

6/10

I will agree with Archangel and sephiroth as well. Although it did not sound like a battle theme, it sounded like a character theme in my opinion, which is perfectly fine by me because I usually prefer the character themes over th battle themes (except in Lunar II: Eternal Blue COMPLETE. *hums the boss battle theme*). My Choir teacher always tells us "Musicians love repetition.", so I find the repetition a good thing.

VERDICT

+ ~ Good use of repetition.
+ ~ Catchy intertwining melodies.
- ~ Too short and unfitting title.

OVERALL GRADE ~ 7/10 Very good, but can use more to make it even better.

Well, I've been working on a new one for about 3 or so days... Haven't had much progress but I managed to get a dark theme, which is an accomplishment for me. It's still in the early stages so I'm only putting a summary of the song for now...

expect more later...

The tubular bells and strings in the beginning were good, but the music box seems off, you might want to try pizzicato strings or a piano instead. Since this is an evil theme, it needs to get more attention to it, so try to develop more interesting parts instead of repeating.

I agree with Noir. Maybe you can try a celesta. In English music, everytime when somthing evil is to be pictured, they're using celesta

Good Ideas!!! *gets to writing the music again*

*bump*

YAY A CADENCE

It appears that MP3's won't upload in the thread: so MIDI it is! *I hope you all have good soundfonts

::EDIT::

Okay, to clarify a bit the beginning is ment to be a three part solo in snare drums, then they all gradually join in (1 then 2 then 3 then.... exc). Near the end, I put in a repeat and Ad-lib as nessary to add some repetition (without it, this would be a confusing mass of notes) to make it a musical piece. Basically, I feature each Drumline instrument for at least 2 mesaures in this piece with a funky loop near the end.

And another Piano Piece: WAIT!!! before you don't download, let me say that I have had Independent Study of Music Theory and have learned quite a bit about compostion! It is a more flowing musical piece: The Phase

A darker melody that I had when I had issues at home: Where You Are... I tried somthing different in this piece than my others (Ummm... Perfect 4th?). Check it!

I just had fun with this piece. I ignored all my teachings and went strickly (sp?) by what I felt sounded good at the time. Points of impossible dissonance to illogical note combanations on the Piano: A Heaven in Hell

HOLY 4 POSTS in a ROW!!! Well, I couldn't find a way to upload more than one file per post, so yeah! This is pretty much the culmination of the last year of composing for me :). I feel quite happy with how it's comming. Any and all comments (constructive or not) are apprecated and will hopefully make me a better composer in the future!

Geometric

I had no idea what the meaning of this piece was in the beginning. :unsure: Am I supposed to hear only percussion?! Is my MIDI messed up? Sure has some nifty percussion parts, though!

The Phase

Romantic beginning. I like the sustained feeling of the piece. Very musical indeed! Looks like that education paid off! My midi card could barely handle all the sustained notes. :heh: Anyway, the broken chord pattern is really good, and the melody is pretty simplistic and pleasing. I like the part about half way in where the RH goes into the upper register of the piano. This is a pretty good piece, I think, but after about halfway through, it started to sound just a bit random, but once the melody was brought back in, it cleared things up a bit. :) Interesting ending, but it felt like maybe something was lacking.... (the LH?)

Where You Are

Really cool use of melody and drone parts in the LH! Sounds just a tad bit oriental to me. Good little flourishes and counterpoint 1/3 of the way in. A couple of debate-able cords in there, but I think it's overall very good. However, the huge intervals between the two hands make it really hard for the listener to snag onto a really memorable theme. Lots of good ideas used near the end, I say! Very questionable ending chord, though.... :unsure:

A Heaven in Hell

I wasn't sure what the point of the high-pitched note was at first, but it certainly reinforced the mood of the piece. Very driven LH part, though a bit sluggish (due to the thirds used in the chords the bass clef?). I really think you have a unique strategy of inserting amazing little flourishes in the melody, along with a huge amount of note values all crammed into the same measure. I was sort of disoriented at about the 2/3-point. Perhaps you should consider loosening up on the sustain pedal just a bit more often, because it sure does take a toll on my midi card. It's pretty cool how the song comes full circle with that piercing note near the end. :)

Very odd style you've got going on! I think you can improve the more you compose, so keep it up! :D

Originally posted by Mies@Jul 3 2005, 09:07 PM
*bump*

YAY A CADENCE

It appears that MP3's won't upload in the thread: so MIDI it is! *I hope you all have good soundfonts

::EDIT::

Okay, to clarify a bit the beginning is ment to be a three part solo in snare drums, then they all gradually join in (1 then 2 then 3 then.... exc). Near the end, I put in a repeat and Ad-lib as nessary to add some repetition (without it, this would be a confusing mass of notes) to make it a musical piece. Basically, I feature each Drumline instrument for at least 2 mesaures in this piece with a funky loop near the end.
Interesting piece... I don't think I quite get it either, but that won't stop me from posting XD. Anyways, it's kind of hard to differentiate the different snares, so what you might want to do is try to set up multiple drum channels so that you can pan them out nicely (or even adjust the panning controller on a note to note basis, though that won't really work if you have lots of unison notes, and it would be pretty tedious too). I've noticed the melodic toms are actually quite melodic in this piece :D, and that's about the only place the drum track sort of stablizes. That one repeat doesn't really help much, though - it'll take a lot more reiteration for this piece for it to become more tangible. Keep it up though.

A Heaven in Hell

Mhm, I would consider the beginning high-pitched sound a bit too long.
I too didn't really figure out at first what it was about.
I got quite confused about halfway through the song...but then again, I'm a person who likes to hang onto small "themes" and you don't have any real themes that repeat themselves (well except the beginning and end which do a nice round up).
Quite interestingly made but not really my taste ^^""



Where You Are...

Nice dark tones that....blend with major scales (o.O)b
Maybe try to balance both left hand and right hand:
The left hand always is pretty calm and the right hand goes off
like someone bitten by a tarantula. ^^"
It can be used like an effect or so but I don't think it
goes well for a whole song because I at least can't follow the
dynamics of the right hand because the left hand tries
to convey something more calm to me.


The Phase

Nice dreamy and calm. I really like it.I could imagine some
flute going along with it.
But the middle kinda flashed awkwardly, maybe you should fiddle
that part a bit to make it sound more smoother.

Geometric

o.O
Interesting work on percussion. Not my taste either but interesting
Kinda reminds me of local advertisments where people used a bottle of
carbonated water to make different kind of percussion sounds. ^^b

Hope nothing offends you, since music is always very subjective and I
sometimes perceive things differently than others.... o.O


Racing to the Stars

Nice, simple song. Really no battle theme. :D
I like the harmony of the chords and the off-beats in between.
Sounds more like Stars falling down from the sky to me X3

One word... Wow. I literally sat down and watch Air the animation and within 10 mins I came up with this basic melody; It's but a fragment of the orignal, but I am working on it some more and seeing what a real piano piece actually looks like (Yeah, at the end it gets a bit sparatic, but I'm working on the kinks).