After listened to many anime songs, I've finally been able to composed a song, Lycoris. I hope you guy'll enjoy listening to it and I'd love to get some feedback from you guys.

It's great :) .

It's sort of like "background" music, which is how most anime music is ;) .

Wow... That's amazing...

I sounds amazing like New Age music, which is one of my fave types of music so that's amazing.

(Could I have a copy of the score?:heh: )

Huh, that's really good.

You have a fantastic talent.

I enjoyed that quite a bit, though I would have prefered less rolls.
you encorporated a lot of cliche´s but made it sound somewhat fresh so kudos to you. great piece overall.

Hmm... OneWinged is right. It does sound a little too cliche and it's mostly due to the progression. Also, your chords doesn't seem to give a sense of 'satisfaction' throughout. This means that you didn't resolved some of the chords too well. It's probably due to your repetitive chord progression throughout. Furthermore, to improve, you should try to incorporate another part with another style to it.

For the song itself, it's easy to listen to--not really rough on the ears..

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Comments : In the world of "Anime" music, originality is kind of a hard factor to grasp, because it seems like most/everyone uses the same chord progressions in their music. This was OK, it repeated too much to..

5/10

Thanks for the comemnt you guys, I do realized most of the time when I was composing that I'm following the cliche, like I know that then chord will follow that and this note will be used. My previous composition (see my game soundtrack), also kind of follow the cliche. It make people feel like I copied the composition. What should I do to break from the cliche?

One word :

Develop.

Second word: practice. If you know what cliche music sounds like, then you should know how to avoid it.

There's something in cliché music that works, I so I wouldn't suggest to "avoid it" in the sense you (SirDdotodot) put it. Study it and figure out why it attracts so many people. It will become handy when you're composing in your own, unique style.

I wonder whether these cliche each has individual name? And if these cliche could be listed?

Thanks for the comment guys! I really appreciate it.

ofcourse you could list the most frequently used chord progressions etc, but I for one wont throw myself into that. A cliché is something that is proven to work and is therefor overused...

Hey guys,

I've learnt something interesting in music class today (IB music), that we can use the bass part of old classical songs to compose new modern song. And if you look at most songs today, all have the same bass progression as the classical song. So they call it a natural movement or something (my note taking skill is bad), and being natural, it is overused and become cliche for modern songs.

do you guys think that what we compose today are just revolving melody around the natural movement (afterall, that that mean the song become unnatural if you don't follow the movement)

Think outside the box...

The "natural movement" is the chord progression that most Game/Anime movies use. It's very common, but it does get old sometimes...

Try studying 20th Century/Impressionistic music... the music uses different chord progressions...

I also agree with One Winged.

Hey, I'm in IB Music too! Are you taking HL? Are you guys talking about like...circle progressions leading towards the tonic, or ascending fifths, descending fourths, as well as ascending and descending thirds leading away from the tonic? We just finished a chapter on chord progressions like that, and writing four part music from a figured bass line.