The Summoning

[kneedeep]

I listened to the entire thing.

Sounds like an orchestral piece. You have basic composition down. I have a bit of critique though: In such a long piece of music, I would expect to hear a theme established and then variations on it, trading melodies between sections of the orchestra, a structure that starts in one place, goes elsewhere, returns in a different guise, then goes off again etc. I didn't hear all too much of that, your piece seems more like a linear sequence of different ideas that's kinda missing the internal connections. You establish something, then eventually throw it away. That works of course, but you could try returning to musical ideas and varying them a lot more instead of doing a chain of new ideas. It sounds like you kept adding bars and filled them with new stuff until the piece seemed done. I'd like to hear some earlier ideas return more often.

Not saying you're not doing this already, just maybe do it a lot more.

Your horns sound like a synth at around 7:50. There are other places where instruments sound like MIDI, too :-)

I liked the dynamics.

[Viktor]

(07-06-2017, 10:02 PM)kneedeep Wrote: I listened to the entire thing.

Sounds like an orchestral piece. You have basic composition down. I have a bit of critique though: In such a long piece of music, I would expect to hear a theme established and then variations on it, trading melodies between sections of the orchestra, a structure that starts in one place, goes elsewhere, returns in a different guise, then goes off again etc. I didn't hear all too much of that, your piece seems more like a linear sequence of different ideas that's kinda missing the internal connections. You establish something, then eventually throw it away. That works of course, but you could try returning to musical ideas and varying them a lot more instead of doing a chain of new ideas. It sounds like you kept adding bars and filled them with new stuff until the piece seemed done. I'd like to hear some earlier ideas return more often.

Not saying you're not doing this already, just maybe do it a lot more.

Your horns sound like a synth at around 7:50. There are other places where instruments sound like MIDI, too :-)

I liked the dynamics.

You're generelly right, thats with what I struggle the most right now. Getting a decent ark of suspense, that uses the melodic ideas to it's fullest potentional. I'll try to make it better with my next piece, thats what my question also was basicly about, how to approach that suspense question and getting as much as possible out of the themes.