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A jam submission

Submission For "Impressions Composing Jam: Imagination #2"View project page

Sorry if it's bad, I don't have much experience with music
Submitted by Xtreamcast — 9 days, 1 hour before the deadline
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Submission For "Impressions Composing Jam: Imagination #2"'s itch.io page

Results

CriteriaRankScore*Raw Score
Correlation to Theme#432.7502.750
Composing Quality#492.7502.750
Overall Uniqueness/Creativity#512.9172.917
Overall#512.6742.674
Execution#532.5832.583
Overall Uniqueness/Creativity (double field for weight)#532.4582.458
Listenability#532.5832.583

Ranked from 24 ratings. Score is adjusted from raw score by the median number of ratings per game in the jam.

Link to Streaming Service
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=MIPqK16zJiI

Description
Jam: https://itch.io/jam/impressions-composing-imagination-2

Soundfont: https://musical-artifacts.com/artifacts/24

Sorry if it's bad, I don't have much experience with music 😅

Screenshot of DAW (required, but it can be uploaded shortly afterwards)
https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1NrBgatVFQrx9p-fqE3dFQtBGHih3huJM

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Comments

Submitted(+1)

Really dig the synth sound that plays a few times over the song. Very catchy!

HostSubmitted(+1)

Heh. My biggest feedback to people with trying to write more complex things is to paly an instrument and improvise often.

Composers of the past - musicians of the past in genera - knew more how to improvise, and it was treated as a core skill in music. To me, it's almost like it IS the core skill in music. It's the easiest way to keep practicing dynamically. Focused practice is good when you need to learn something specific and technical. Improvisation is great for developing your musical understanding.

Since you're new at this, I'll say this - you clearly have an ear, even though it is not quite yet developed. You took on something actually pretty ambitious in terms of complexity here, which does take a lot of experience and practice.

I hope this all helps. One of the biggest reasons, and perhaps the biggest reason I host this jam is to help people grow musically into who they are. I want people to come into their own musically, and be able to express the extent of who they are.

Great work, I'm glad you are getting your start here, and I hope getting your start here helps you progress quickly! :)

Submitted(+1)

Like others already mentioned, this is not bad at all!

FoxHyode gave some good tips which i agree with.

One thing to give some variety to a track like this, you could try having a section that is more calmer with more sustained notes/tones instead of the fast lines the most of the track is at the moment. That could help give more contrast to the track/reduce the "loopiness", and help the listeners ears relax a bit.

All the lines/ideas you have in here are great, just need some arranging tweaking and maybe a contrasting second section to help elevate the material even higher 😁.

If you're looking to study up a bit on arrangement and composition stuff, highly recommend checking out the #composing-resources channel on the jam discord, and just asking people the for help with any topic you have trouble with, since I'm sure most people are ready to help😉.

Great work, keep it up!

Submitted(+1)

First don't apologize we're here to gain some experience. Not bad at all, its a interesting idea you just need to mix up your arrangement, try to change some rythmic patern so we're not stuck in the same loop for 2 mins, you went full modale on this one, next time you can probalby try to change some chords and I don't know what daw that is actually XD but I feel you're a little limited so its hard to arrange MIDI playing witouth sounding too stiff if you can try so make it more "human" it would make the track look amazing.

Submitted(+1)

First off, it's not bad. 

This is actually really nice. For someone so young you have a lot of potential, you clearly have an ear for specifically video game music and I hope you pursue production further.