It was terrible...
...Terrible that it lasted for such a short time, because damn, this is amazing! Yeah, I feel guilty reviewing this after I worked a little on it too, but what the heck, 99% of it was made by you and great job on that, because this seriously sounds superb, and if the Berklee guys don't like this song, then they must be mad. D: Brilliant work, this song is just epic!
The melodies are probably what make this piece shine the most. The melodies are simply beautiful. Loved the chord progression you used, it's a nice change from all of the generic chord progressions here on NG, and I was also impressed by the great harmonizing you did over here. I really liked the harp glissando and violion glissando at 1:20 and 1:34 respectively. They really added a lot to the submission and were great ways of introducing new instruments. 1:35 would probably be my favourite part from the whole song since it was so full of action and epic, complimented by the wonderful melodies and awesome harmony. The detache violins were a nice touch and really got the song to its climax, before calming down for the outro. Amazing job with the melodies!
The instruments, wow, what VST did you use? :P. OK, lame jokes aside, the instruments were perfect quality, as expected, and added a lot to the submission. I noticed a few EQing problems, but that's probably just good old Darklight not knowing the difference between EQing and twisting shiny knobs xD. Still, not much of a problem. Your instrument choice was extraordinary. Loved the pizzicatos at the beginning, they started the song up perfectly, and I also really enjoyed the strings you added, esepcially the high strings towards the end of the song which really set the mood. The harp was a nice addition, you could've added a little more of it in the song, although I doubt it'd be that easy. Piano was great, and the double bass added a good amount of depth to the song, so yeah, awesome job ^^.
The transitions are all smooth and flawless, and no transitions felt a little abrupt. At first I didn't like the transition at 2:03 since I felt it skipped from loud to soft too suddenly, but the more I heard it, the more I liked it, and it sounds fine now ^^. New instruments were introduced extremely well, and as Haggard said, the gradual buildup from the intro to 2:03 was fantastic. Perfect transitions, perfect introductions to new instruments, perfect buildup, do you do anything wrong??
The structure is extremely well done. Sort of how life starts small, but gets larger and larger until it gets to the end where it slowly fades away. It's a bummer that the song is so short, I suppose the new life you were talking about must've been a short life. The variety is very good, since you kept on introducing new elements to the song leaving the listener interested till the end. The background rarely changed, but I think that sort of joined each melody together to avoid making the song random, which was cool :).
The intro, as Darklight pointed out, was a great way to start the song up, and the pizzicatos immediately get the listener interested in the song. As for the ending, it was also perfect, and I can't find anything wrong with it, since as I said, it sort of depicts life fading away.
I'll leave the paragraph talking about the drums out, since I'd basically be criticising myself =/.
This is indeed an amazing song, and I really enjoyed it. The climax of the song is amazing, the melodies are beautiful, harmony is flawless, instrument choice is great, transitions, wow, buildup is awesome, structure and variety are superb, intro and outro are excellent and the drums are great. The only downfall is the fact that the song is so short. I don't know if you have some sort of limit for going in to Berklee, but if not, this song would really benefit being at least 3/4 of a minute longer. Other than that, songs like this are what the Audio Portal needs, if you could submit a version with the guitar too, that'd be great! Keep up the amazing work, have fun in Berklee xD.
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