I love your composition style, the way the synths and sample instruments work together is super cool! The sound design in that first track is rad, and the rising bell arpeggios in Out of Curiosity / Reflections remind me a little bit of The Gate by Bjork (pretty different genre tho) I really love the texture they add.
Really beautiful composition all around, I'm really jealous of the chords and key writing haha
Great work!
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Haha thank you so much! I listenend to The Gate and wow, such a trip :0
Very nice to know what you liked the most! And I guess I can feel happy if you got inspired by the writing, means a lot coming from you. (I actually tried to follow and play a bit of your Mourning Sun song on guitar, love some unexpected mouvements :D)
I think I got the main part right, I went until 1.40 then the synth took too much for me to focus haha ^^ The chords might seem simple to you but I find this progression very interesting. I might get advanturous on key writing on the keyboard but I struggle to do so on the guitar so that is fun to learn :D
And the pacing of the arpeggiating is so moving, the debut of main motif at 0.28 to 0.31 for example (the B going to G through F/D?) is a great motion. With that G going to A minor 👌 The pause and then doubling the arpeggios makes a cool cadence. I don't know, these chords felt non-intuituve to me at first and I wondered how you proceeded :)
I'm really stupid with guitar/music theory so I don't know the exact names of the chords I was playing so I made a quick mock up of the tabs and basic chord shapes (there's some movement in the chords). I hope this helps? It should be mostly correct but there is a chance that there's an error since it's pretty rough. The intro and first half of the main part is relatively easy since the chord shapes allow you to keep your fingers in roughly the same spot, but the second half in the main part that moves to C is always tripped me up. I'm really glad you like the progression! It was fun to write. I hope the tabs make some sense!
Intro is on top, main part is on the bottom:
Oh thanks for the tab! From what I see I was quite good :) I am pretty bad at naming chords too ^^
It makes me want to do something with a piece of guitar work I have, and develop it as inspired from this maybe?
I might try to write a tab for it and share it with you. It would be fun to see what violins and synths movements you would add on top ! One day maybe if you feel like testing it :)