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Sailors from up North

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This song was inspired by Sea Of Thieves. The thought of a bunch of pirates playing a song together on a ship in the middle of the ocean at night was my inspiration for this song. I realize pirates didn't usually have Pianos and Violins. Just pretend the Violin is a Hurdy-Gurdy. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LJ5kx_MQnjM. This song Is still experimental and I may still change some things later on. So please give honest feedback so I know what to change and what to keep. Thank you all.

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'ery noice

Tangerine responds:

'anks

*Leaves a review on Virginia about arpeggios mostly*
*Makes a song that has them as a major element in the background*
In all seriousness, this is extremely catchy. There are two main issues I have with this and they have to do with subtler elements. The first is replay value; the lack of variety in the melody decreases its replay ability (a term usually used for video games but I think it works for music as well). I know this because Virginia suffers from the same thing. The second is the transitions between parts of the song; good example is 0:34-0:38 where the transition to the next part is very abrupt, so unless that goes against the style of the pirate theme it could be improved. In fact it was improved at 1:35. So really what’s missing until then is percussion, I’m feeling like a fast beat or something with a snare to build up its introduction at 1:35. I’ve never played Sea of Thieves so I may not be the most qualified to review this, but I do really love the chord progression and I think the guitar is a nice addition. Very well done, I think you’ve mastered structuring and harmony/melody at this point, just need to find better soundfonts for some instruments. I’ve never mentioned that; the violin soundfont you use I actually am not a big fan of because it fails to balance each note properly, as in in terms of volume and vibrato (string player of 8 years).

Tangerine responds:

Thank you for the review. I agree transitioning is something I really need to work on. I'm trying. The abrupt chorus with all the percussion was intentional because it was supposed to be a sudden jump with the whole crew playing together. I agree I lacked percussion for the first couple of sections of the song, but I didn't feel like putting much percussion into it later on. I preferred it without percussion in the gentler parts. Not much I can do about the sound fonts. I was thinking of just doing the violin parts myself so I can choose the amount of vibrato since the synth absolutely abuses vibrato. Has no wind down in it, just goes straight for it. The only thing stopping me from doing it myself is recording equipment. I don't have the microphones and insulation to record music. "*Makes a song that has them as a major element in the background*" At least you know I'm inputting my own advice haha. Thank you for the feedback!

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Score
5.00 / 5.00

Uploaded
May 13, 2021
3:25 AM EDT
Genre
Classical
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5.8 MB
2 min 32 sec

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