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[Ethereal Realm]

this is super unique, great work!

ET-4L responds:

Thanks! 🙏

[To Mean Well]

This grooves! If I were to say one thing, I think that the hihats are a bit too sharp. Kinda hard on the ears. Otherwise, good work!

BusanBlack responds:

Thanks. Yeah the hihats could be dropped some so they dont stick out so much. Always room for improvements =)

[The Great Descent]

Absolutely beautiful. String ostinato at the beginning is super tense, pulling you through the piece nicely. Swelling brass and strings pull everything together very well.

Everything is mixed super well at around 1:10. Perfect balance between all the instruments, yet incredibly intense at the same time.

Moving on to 1:24, the piano is a dark and rich, and I really like the percussion orchestration. Strings are really expressive and a very nice touch to that section. All of this builds up the my favourite part this far (I’m writing this as I listen). I cannot stress enough how well this flows.

We reach 2:03 and there’s a bit of a bridge, with some super tense strings and low brass that give the section a really neat feel, like something big is coming.

Now, it’s time for the big part in question. Feels like the finale, the final quarrel between good and evil, with more incredible percussion and strings (as well as a choir in the bg which I really dig).

Finally, we resolve with a duet of strings and choir, and then a really intimate part at the very end to finish everything off. Beautifully done, 10/10, 👍 👌 💯 type shit. Wow. Good luck in NGADM.

CloakedSoup responds:

Thanks for the wonderful review!

[Autumn Carnival Waltz]

This is the most emotional carnival ever holy crap

Feels like one of those 1950s black and white movies about a lil kid and his sister or something going to the carnival and having a good time. Nice work!

I wonder, how long does it usually take you to compose a piece? Are you spending weeks finding inspiration, and then weeks composing, or weeks finding inspiration and then cranking out a piece in a few days?

Solacitude responds:

It's funny because while listening to the end result and thinking about how to title this piece, I had exactly this idea of a black and white silent film music coming to mind!

Autumn because of the more moody intro, which is the original inspiration for the whole piece. At first I was thinking about developing it into a more romantic waltz then changed my mind. The mood gets quite quickly more positive as soon as we get into the carnival part :D

As for the composition process, it's in the context of the NGADM so it's 2 weeks total to find the idea and compose around it until reaching a satisfying enough end result.

The process is not always the same, but for this one the original idea is a simpler version of the intro that I found in the first 2 days. At first though it's always the same, I improvise, let my mind roam free until finding an idea worth expanding on. Then I practice and complexify this idea until I get comfortable with it enough to hit record. Inspiration and working on the original idea is the biggest part of it. Putting it all together is done in the last couple days before deadline. What is frustrating is that I get better and better at playing it along the way and end up rerecording parts until the very end haha! Like the first theme, I had one version after 4 days that is way worst than the actual one, that I changed for another on day 7 then changed again on day 12, which is the actual version, but I could continue to practice it and get a better version... Good enough is enough to be good! Sometimes I have to not focus too much on making things perfect or I lose myself. Let's say it's something like 10 days of finding and expanding on the original idea then 4 days putting the end result together.

I'm glad you appreciate the end result and that it inspired you in the same kind of way it did for me!! Thanks for the review.

[Final Strike]

goes hard

JustDen responds:

Thanks, thats true hahaha

[Final Breath]

touhou is the goat

ThePhreshPhrog responds:

To be completely honest, I've never played any of the games, but I'd be lying if I didn't say the music influences my stuff a good amount

[the gloaming]

the gloaming

trevor8 responds:

thanks!

[Accordion Insomnia]

couldn’t sleep again huh

ravenousxxxdemon responds:

Brother, I haven't slept right in the past week and a half. I've been too inspired and have been producing some of the best music of my life. This is still a work in progress (as of 11/16/2024 4:00pm) but I think it's coming along nicely. I appreciate you always coming to check stuff out and leaving your two cents. I'm glad you enjoy it and I hope it inspires you to create some bangers of your own.

[Mine Tonight (Doing It Right)]

vocals are suuuuper clean

reminiscencegj responds:

appreciate it :))