I really like this song. This song definitely sounds much different from your other songs. Very nice and peaceful and I really like how you added the ambient swooshing sounds. You really went for an atmosphere for this one. The very thing that I fear is all of my songs sounding the same. I try really hard to make every song unique. You really went for a much easy-going vibe with this song which I like. The melody is very repetitive and boring (I know you stated it in the description) and I feel like if you spent a little more time on the melody then you would have been able to make this song hit harder than it already does. For future compositions, a good idea to think about is adding some arpeggios to compliment the melody. At the moment it's very chordy, (Which isn't a bad thing) but it seems to have very few layers to it. A very tricky thing to do is to add enough to where it sounds good but to leave out enough to where the melody is the main focus. I tend to struggle with this because I always become too ambitious with my compositions. Overall, this is a very nice piece and I'm glad to see you experimenting with other styles a bit.
Author Comments
Ok here we go, you knew this would be a long description.
I tried something totally new this time. I received a complaint that my songs were beginning to sound the same and, upon thinking about it, they did all have the same exact genre and such. As a result I went all in on the theme and atmosphere rather than focusing on melody and structuring alone. Hence the melody is literally deliberately boring and repetitive because I wanted a folk song vibe, and folk songs tend to be boring and repetitive. I kept it interesting by using wind sound effects made by hand (there’s a trick involved with the mini synth option) and many instruments. I didn’t want it to be this long at first but it just happened with the intentionally long intro and outro. I imagine myself high in the Appalachians of Virginia, playing a folk song surrounded by friends just enjoying the beautiful view of the mountains. Enjoy the 25th special!
Edit: to be honest, this is not one I’d come back to often. It’s just sort of there, not really changing things up too much or even being that innovative. I didn’t even come up with the wind sounds myself, I copied them from a tutorial from like 3 years ago.
Couple things:
1. The “ambient swooshing sounds” you mentioned, that was supposed to be the wind on the mountain range Virginia is kind of known for.
2. I agree with the arpeggios thing, and maybe that would have made the song better, but I did purposefully keep it simple in an effort to retain the traditional vibe I was trying to go for. Otherwise you bet I would have drastically shifted the melody like I do in most of my other songs halfway through to introduce a new musical idea.
3. I’m glad you liked it, for a while I was worried that I under-did myself in musicality for the sake of the atmosphere which wasn’t the goal at all.
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