Awsome work
This is a great piece. It's cool to see how you layer different things, and using them in different levels. I don't know if that makes sense, exactly. Basically, it's great to see how an idea evolved into so many different things, without sounding boring, and it's able to sustain itself, using itself as melody and accompaniment.
Another great work
Your music is amazing and extremely useful for movies and animations. As I listen, I can always see a scene. Your music has inspired me to continue some stories of mine because just listening to this piece evokes many images, and displays a story very well. I've said it before and I'll say it again, you are a great composer. Have you ever considered writing a concerto or suite for here? Not that it's important at all.
Not that any of your pieces aren't, but I want to hear something incredibly epic from you. I'm sort of thinking of the end of Pines of Rome - Pines of the Appian Way, or the end of A Venetian Coronation, or anything of the likes. Very big, brassy, a lot going on, a lot of huge chords. And, adding to that, a lot of motion, and playing multiple themes at once, or/also playing a them, augmented over itself. I think you could easily write something that's so epic it would cause anyone listening to it have a massive orgasm so big that their heart stops, or explodes out of their chest. Your works are epic, but I would love to get chills from listening to something truly epic.
hmmm... but if I made something THAT epic... my entire listener base would die D:... and then i'd have nobody to share stories with :'(
But I do intend to write concertos, suites, and all that good stuff. I am however not confident enough in my abilities to do it right. I am currently studying orchestration and enhancing my music theory so that I can carry out this journey properly. The days of learning by trial and error are long gone and to do so any further would prove worthless to both myself and anybody who would want to listen.
You will have your epic boom Dufanzy, one day, I promise.
Until that day, I ask you bare with me as I continue to tell stories :)
Thank you for the review, i'm glad you liked it!
Exhalted Brilliance
You are an amazing composer, and this is another epic work of yours. This is a very theatrical piece. I really enjoyed listening to this. I don't really have anything to critique it with. There's always things you can change, but I don't think anything would necessarily make this piece better. I think it is great as it stands. Awesome work. Very good developement and transition from idea to idea. The story is well told.
Epic songs are my favorite form. Only in this form can I tell the stories I want to tell, the images I want to show.
It's true, a song can be changed in a million ways, whether that change makes it better is an entirely subjective field, some will like it, some won't. I am glad you found yourself enjoying the story, and the song. Thank you for the review! I apologize for the late response!
serene and bold
This is gorgeous, and it sounds like a good flashback/reminiscing song. This is a sweet and simple tune. I really like this piece. It is good writing, as well as very good for general use in a lot of situations. The ending is very nice. This whole piece makes the perfect serenade memory background. Very loving and smooth. You use the different registers of the piano very effectively with setting the tone of the piece. I think you could add a little extra, adding a sweet and soft contrapuntal line an octave or two above what you have written already. I think that and added little section with that would add to the beauty and warmth of a piece like this. A possible note for a future one, just because something is peaceful, doesn't always mean it's soft all the way through. I think if you add even a short section that is powerful, with sounding fifths in the left hand, and full chords, and long runs in the right, that can make that peaceful dream seem so much more meaningful, and then end like you did, softer, and sweetly. But I think that is for another piece, or a variation of this one. I think this one should stay soft and sweet the whole way through, as is. (with the added contrapuntal note i added)
Could you make an orchestral arrangment of this? or a chamber group arrangement? I can sort of hear one in my head, but I'd be interested to see what you would do with it.
Thx for the review. ^_^v
I really wasnt sure what the hell I was doing when I made this. It just came to me then next thing you know...bam! New song. lol
hmmm, as far as making an orchestral arrangement, I'll think about it. May need some help with that though. But I'll see what I can do.
fairly good
Every once in a while, you have a missed entrance, and it is pretty repetitive, but otherwise it's very good. Good idea, just not developed well.
Missed entrance? How so? Hmm... and yeah, it is pretty repetitive, but that was kind of the idea. Thanks for the review anyways!
I would have to agree
I think that this is a damn good piece. I like the transition from the original melodic statement through all of the variations and other themes, eventually leading back to that original theme. I like how you also take a harmony and turn it into the melody at one point, and then change the instrumentation, and slightly change the theme. There's a whole lot more, but I don't want to write a text book analysing it... unless you want me to.. :p One thing I might suggest is to expand on these ideas. I think some of the ideas you present in the piece are very good, and you could even play with styles and transitions that you use in different ways. I also think that if you used all of your sections at once (in some way) at the end, it would make it much more climactic. A lot of themes and motion happening at once gives a better sense of size and power. I think adding that section at 2:01 (especially if you extend it a bit, and add some cool countermelodies, harmonies, and stuff. maybe even just augment themes or something) to the end would make the end of the piece seem bigger, more important, and more substantial. But that's just what I think... :p
thx for the tips!
adding more in the end would be cool!, if built properly xD, otherwhise its chaos xD
good concept, not so good piece
I think the idea was good, and the openning development of the themes was good, but I got bored with it pretty quickly. I think that the development section should be longer, and more contrasting. I was expecting something more.. mystic as well. this felt more like a slow funk, or something. the synth strings didn't really make it "mystic enough."
Huh, strange that you would say that.. I felt it gave a great mystic feeling to it. But i guess its not for everyone right ? =) Thanks for the honost review! Much respect!
epic
great work. it's a really cool piece. very stunning work. I'd say just make it a little longer, and give it an ending. It doesn't work too well as a loop.
really? I know the flash player sometimes messes up and cuts it off too short or long, but sometimes it works as a perfect loop.
Oh well, the loop itself doesn't work out as well as I wanted it to. Expanding it is definitely a worthwhile project I should undertake at some point!
Thank you for the review, i'm glad you liked it!
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