ahh splendid piano solo i love the tone color of the piano really gives this cold and light feeling just like the art
and that that pad/string really adds some great ambiance
though i would say maybe adding more to the piano like a melody perhaps :) the chord progression is great it just needs a melody
but i love the ending
Why hi there!
I'm glad you like the piano, as well as the strings :D!
I'd like a melody in this song as well. There's not enough happening, really. I think I'd like to add some more instruments, some of which play melodies. It's just my bad for deciding to enter the contest right before the deadline XD
I'm glad you loved the ending too!
And thanks a ton for checking by, I really appreciate it! :3
Great, now I feel bad for not entering. :D
Sorry if this sounds blunt, but, frankly, I was bored. :/ It had a beautiful atmosphere and the instrumentation was great, but I was bored. Except for the breakdown towards the end, there was just no change in anything except chords. The rhythm was the same, the instruments were the same, the pattern was the same, etc. There was an introduction of strings near the end, which added a bit of alteration, but not much. I have no idea what drugs RealFaction is on. This wasn't melodic at all; there wasn't even a melody!
Now that I've gotten that out of the way, I can compliment this a bit more!
It does an amazing job of reflecting the piece. It sounds like it could be lonely, yet peaceful. A light drift of snow, with giant mountains looming all around you. This doesn't work very well as a standalone piece, but it'd be great background music for, say, a movie scene in a snowbound world.
Your chord progressions were nice-sounding as usual, and your instrument choices were very ambient and fit the frostiness.
I don't really think you need to stress out about the percussion so much. I could barely hear it; it blended in well with the deep piano chords you had going at the same time (I think). They sounded good together, and since they seem more like an ornamentation, it wouldn't make that much of a difference to the piece if you couldn't hear it. I think you should keep it in.
Good job and good luck! Sorry about the harshness.
Haha, there's no need to worry about harshness :p I mostly agree with you anyway XD
"Bored, same instruments, same rythm, etc."
=> Yup. This is true. That is what happens if you're me, and you try to enter a contest a cuple of days before it ends! If I had more time, I'd naturally still keep the same chord progression, but I'd add more instruments, and a few melodic parts. But not too much melody, as this IS intended to be background music/athmospherical. It's not really supposed to be a standalone piece, unless you want to just be relaxed. I was mostly inspired by the artpiece, but after I had recorded the piano, I realized that I must have been subconsciously inspired by broove as well, probably because I played "Pine" and "ALZ" by Dylan :3 (Where broove's music is used as background music).
I'm not really on his level at all yet though :)
Actually, the strings are playing very subtly the entire time, unless you're talking about the part at the very end after the breakdown with only piano. At points though, I moved them an octave higher, which allows them to be heard better, since the bass from the low notes from the piano doesn't interfere as much! So maybe that was what you were talking about :p
"drugs"
=> Hahha, I'm pretty sure he just wanted to say something, and said the first thing that came to mind. I can imagine one pretty much runs out of things to say when you're judging so many songs in such a short time! XD Well, to be fair, there is actually a bit of melody in this piece. Especially in the intro and in the solo piano part, but also in pretty much all the transitions. But I kinda agree with you still!
"Now that I've gotten that out of the way, I can compliment this a bit more!"
=> Yay :'D
I'm glad to see that you too think I did well in reflecting the piece! Actually, I'd say this song is purely meant as background music, at least at the moment. I tried doing other stuff like writing while looping it, and it didn't really bother me at all, simply because there's not many changes that can distract you from what you're doing. I basically wanted to portray that beautiful winter landscape :3
To be honest, I think that a couple of my chord progressions were a bit cheap and/or overused, but I'm happy with most of them :)
"Instrument choices"
=> You should have heard the strings and percussion before I added tons of reverb, put on a deep filter and lowered their volumes XD The piano is really what makes this piece, I think.
"No need to stress about the percussion"
=> Maybe not :/ The pure reason for why I made the drums almost unhearable is that I couldn't stand to hear them! I actually thought they were okay at first, until I accidentally heard on of the drums as a heartbeat instead of as a single hit. Now I can not unhear it, and I hear a heartbeat every measure :(
Also, I happen to know you have good headphones, but I always want to check my tracks with my poor headphones after I'm finished. And GOD DAMN! I couldn't even take the song seriously with them, as the percussion sounded so weird! The speakers on my laptop don't even play them at all though; not so that one can hear them :3
But I somehow told myself to keep them in anyway :D
Once again, don't worry about the harshness. I think we both enjoy critical reviews, as long as they are honest! Thanks again for being such an epic reviewer!
Ps. I think you could have made a great song, had you entered :) It's a shame you didn't, as I think you could've done well. The amount of amazing compositions are baffling though. My personal favorite is Steampianist's song!
Amazing
Well once again you do some amazing work especially with the piano and so smooth each key comes alive, Great track you have going here, really jumps out at you with the style you got going on this its stuff like this that really keep me interested in these types you have some Razor-Sharp ideas that push it forward great piano stuff here.
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Thanks! This piece was made for AIM, and I'm hoping to participate this month as well. I might make another piano piece :)