very stylish
Nice meditative aura. A guy could listen to this stuff all day. Not a lot of parts, but each carries a lot of power. I can just imagine some beautiful multilayered strings descending over everything at the end just taking us up to a higher place! I really dig the guitar timbre, is it a steel string? it has a bit of bite to it.
Admirable simplicity, maybe save the strings for another day!
Thank you!! This seems to be rather successful :)
I'll see if I expand it into something more listenworthy, on the other hand I've been picking up on my guitarplaying a lot lately, and lots more ideas arose. I'll be toying with different arrangements and post them here for everyone to enjoy :)
The guitar is a classical, but compressed and stuff. Bite comes mainly from purposely overplucking though.
delish
nice use of the percussion, the low thuds and metallic hits to create a creepy Diablo style ambience. Nice snare pattern goes perfectly with the eerie string sequence. Good attack on the strings to give them a horror movie flavour.
You're really good at these cinematic/computer game tracks man, dont stop now!
Only criticism, seems a little bit short. I would have loved a final explosion. Still, I got some good nightmare/graveyard vibes ;)
Ooh, thanks. I've never played Diablo, I was actually thinking of Metal Gear Solid for the percussive drumloop, and the low thud was inspired by Halo(you can see in my remake of a Halo song, "Lament for Pvt. Jenkins"). As for the snare pattern fitting with the pizzicato strings, that was because I just put in the same rhythm, with some variation. Along with the attack on the strings, I like attacking staccato notes very much.
You're right that it's too short. I should have made the end false, and then burst something really cool after a half-second of silence.
Thanks a lot for the review!
awesome
Nice one man, I'm digging the low down drums backed up by the horns. Gives a really strong, military, battle type feel.
The choir assists well in adding a dramatic flavour to the whole scene, well done in that interlude dropping the beat. It made it even more intense when you brought in the new section with the low strings. Very nice!
I see its been used in a flash already, I'll drop a vote on the flash.
Keep it up dude, this is sounding great. You've got the structure and build up just right!
Awesome, thanks. I love reviews this comprehensive, they let me know exactly what I did right and what I should keep doing. I was surprised that this has already been used in a Flash movie.
domination
Hardcore man, this one would probably make the crowd explode if you played it live. Explosive riffs man. Pure power.
There was a couple of times that I thought the cymbal hits didn't exactly mesh with the drums. The cool part for me was when you had the crash playing on the 3rd and 4th beats of the bar and then at the end of the sequence you had it playing on every beat on some ascending guitar chords.
Righteous, man..never stop rocking.
Would have loved a hardcore solo as well. Maybe next time!
I wish I could but I think my current band won't. As funny it is, I'm doing better with my own stuff than with the stuff I got going with my band. lolz.
Yeah, I think you are right about the cymbals. I noticed that too late. The song was already on NG. : /
haha, nice one man. Didn't expect only a few to notice that with the crash. It's nothing special really but I thought it was kinda cool and it's nice that you liked it as well. :)
I won't stop rocking man...NEVER! I'm trying to get some better solos done with my newer stuff. Anyways thanks for checking it out dude! \m/
mega work man!
awesome remix. I'm digging the leads in this one. Gotta love the transitions. I dug it how you gave us a taste of the original electronic version at the start, I reckon at the end it might be cool to chuck that over the top too I reckon.
hey, this brings back some happy memories. Thanks dude!
Its good to see someone so obsessed with Megaman :)
I assume you are obsessed with Megaman too ey? ;)
I'm obsessed by it for a looong time. I really never thought of actually playing the music of the games myself so it's awesome³. :)
Glad you enjoyed this track as much as I and Metalcan. :)
thats the stuff
Man, thats some delicious hard riffage. I'm not the biggest metal head in the world but listening to this makes me wish I had a furious guitar of extreme sonic violence myself!
Heaps of variety and righteous riffs.
Hmm..I wonder if the drums are sequenced or a live recording. They're tight as hell.
I especially like the ascending sequence with the lead guitar. Gnarly dude!
Sweeet.
The drums are programmed, yes! Just some good samples. I'm glad for that.
Gnarly review, thanks a bunch! \m/
im rocking out!
Fun is something that makes the world go round.
Nice goofy melody, doubled up nicely by the bass part.
Ahhh, very nice, just what I needed after a hellish day.
The electronic bleeps you bring in keep me on my toes, nice syncopated feel.
Well, good to hear the inner Wintang child break out! ;)
Thank you!
Melody is not mine, mind, it is the well-known Chocobo theme from the Final Fantasy series. Bassline is all mine though.
Glad to hear someone likes the bleeps, everyone was dissin' them (fo' real, dawg) so far...
grand
There are some mightily haunting chords in there, there's something magical about the orchestra. Maybe it's never been improved on really.
Hmm..a bit of a tangent with the pizzicato. The phrasing is very well done and sounds true to life. I've always wondered if thats achieved with an expression pedal or sustain pedal, some kind of pedal? :) ahh, I'm clueless...
An enigmatic conclusion, I thoroughly enjoyed this one. Well done, really well done.
Thanks for the nice review!
The way this works: I wrote out the complete sheet music, including dynamics, slurs and whatnot, in NoteworthyComposer, and exported it as a MIDI-file. All the phrasings and dynamics stay intact that way. Then I imported into Cubase, loaded Edirol Orchestral VST and assigned the samples to the channels. That resulted in the version below.
For this version, I sent the MIDI to Simon-F who did pretty much the same thing, except with Garritan Personal Orchestra - a better VST, Q.E.D. :)
keep working
Ok, first thing you want to do is get some basic patterns going, like a 4 beat per bar kick drum to start off. Its hard to put a bass or a synth part down without a beat. Get the kick going, your clap is sounding fine, throw in some hats..nothing fancy, maybe just on the offbeat, or alternatively 8 times per bar.
And then when you have a rhythm you can put down cool parts on top. Its hard to do anything without it though. Look at the demo songs for some ideas!
Or use some drumloops in Fruityloops. Shortcut!
That sounds to hard.
im happy
Right on man..music doesn't have to be dark and evil. I'm digging the positive vibes floating around this song.
The melody is just as cheesy as hell, but its cool! Cool synth sound. Nice doubling up of the bass. The rhythm works well, and the fx you use give a good lead in to the new section.
Its simple but it works, there's not much to comment on. But if you wanted to, you could crank it up to like 160-180 bpm and make some insane happy hardcore.
lol yeah i should have made it faster but i totally forgot too before i exported it...
thanks again for the very well written intellegent review!!! =D
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