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For those who are pretty good at making music
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Lovely piano melody at 0:34. Really like the bells at 0:57. The section around 1:22 provided some nice variation. I like the slowing tempo around 1:55 and the stuttering melody, really communicates that the hero isn't long for this world. Good job!
sounds very tragic! Love the piano work!
Your melodies are really pleasing! Your description for the piece on the project page is very intriguing.
Thank you! I'm glad you find the story interesting too, I'm a big fan of "man vs self" story conflicts and I felt the theme was a perfect opportunity for me to explore one
Human error? What? I have a few questions about the name of your patterns.....
A nice, simple melody that gets a bit more epic as time goes on (namely since the fiddles came along)... And I like how towards the end the track “degrades” a bit, the bitcrash effect appears (I LOVE bitcrash). Love it!
Also on the third listen I noticed that you added a heartbeat, after which the bells and violin start to appear.... Are we dead? Are we dying? Did we kill the snail? What did we do?
P.S. Can I ask: what vst for piano did you use? :>
P.S.S. Rawr
Haha, I am glad you found my pattern names! I like to add little details in the DAW screenshot (sometimes) to provide a little more perspective from the outside! I titled it human error mostly because I wanted it to feel as if someone playing the piano was having a bit of trouble playing the melody. It represents the Hero being overcome with weakness
The heartbeat represents the heaviness of what the Hero is facing. It's a moment where a fearless warrior feels as if they're being suffocated by their own internal conflicts. I imagine thoughts like "I don't want to do this" or "I can't do this" fill the Hero's head. (But another internal conflict could possibly be some really intense indigestion after eating some funky looking snail too)
The piano vst is a LABS preset called "intimate grand piano - direct" from the "Intimate grand piano" pack. I like it a lot, I just discovered it and I really like how expressive it feels to play!
Thank you for listening!