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This is my first foray into the land of serious composing (all my other stuff has been just doodles really). This is based off a simple central theme (12 measures long) which is repeated several times with new music layering over it. The original theme shifts down from 1st violin to 2nd violin etc. so that each insturment plays it once. All the other layers work like this as well. I think this makes for an interesting, well connected piece. But, what do you think?
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drakonis
Being a fellow note-by-note composer, I appreciate the work and
thought that went into this. As far as composition goes, this started
simply, then built up nicely early on. After that, it seemed to hit a
plateau, and I would have liked a little more variation or dynamics to
hold interest throughout. As far as production, I have two suggestions.
First, simply moving the Finale score to GB and using GB strings helps
the sound, but not a lot. Without post-processing in GB a little, the
strings still sound synthetic and detract from the performance. You
panned the instruments away from each other some, which is good. It
sounds like you added a little reverb, which helps. But a little note-by-
note tweaking to get faster or slower attacks on certain notes would
help the realism. And finally, your final mixdown to MP3 cut off the
very very end of the piece. This is a common problem in GarageBand
when importing MIDI. All the tracks end exactly after the last note
stops, there's no time for the notes to decay. You need to fake out GB,
by dragging out one of the tracks a little longer, to make GB think
there's another second or two of recording before stopping. And of
course, listen to the final MP3 before uploading it. Just some
suggestions from an impressed fan. And Happy New Year and
welcome to Macjams!
ttfn,
Drakonis