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Strings 02 - Birth Of Man

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I kinda composed this with a light story in mind. The first chorus like bit is the creation and then when it gets a bit darker that's the corruptive nature of man taking over. A bit of despair with a glimmer of hope

Very heavy, not sure if people will like it. I haven't done any masterful mastering or anything just constructed the piece.

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Good job

-The name of the song is very interesting and it really made me want to hear how things unfolded and why you gave it such an interesting title to begin with.

-It starts out very powerful and only progresses to become more beautiful as it progressed. Classical string instruments just seem to have a way about them that makes them be able to hold a note but be so dynamic about when and what you do with said note. I just loved how everything came out. It's a bit short but at two minutes it's quite a long classical track.

-I definitely think you need to get around to that mastering though. It's really the defining factor in making a great audio track into an amazing audio track. But i'm assuming you just wanted to get feedback first before you did anything which is quite alright in my eyes and ears.

-Review Request Club

Review Request Club

0:00 Nice start; quite warm and aspirational. Most of the instruments felt quite in the foreground and started quite strongly; you could have maybe thoughout about having had them at more of a distance to get a grander sense of depth to them.
0:17-The violin was a touch too strong, but the chords underneath worked very well; quite celestial-sounding. One thing I did notice was that everything kind of moves together; one of the first pieces of advice I was ever given about writing for strings is that you shouldn't write "football charts"; insofar as you should avoid just solidly using long sustained notes. Adding a few countermelodies to the violin part can be very effective, as at least by personal tastes I find the viola/cello much more beautiful-sounding a lead instrument than the violin. And that's coming from a violinist :P
0:46-One of the suspensions felt a little odd, like some of the notes didn't quite mix together.
0:53-Here to about 0:57 felt like the start of a kind of main theme? I think were this piece longer you could have had more of a central melodic theme to it and developed it more, but as it is the length and speed it is I thought its placement here was quite effective and led into the new section nicely.
1:25-Am guessing this is the start of the corruption section? Definitely has some despair and sadness in it, but I was almost expecting it to be more harsh and dramatic; it definitely lost its light a little bit, but you could have delved a lot darker, given that man's corruption is a pretty...harrowing thing, on human scale.
2:01-Tierce de picardie here felt way too abrupt, I think it would have worked better if you led into it a little more, because here it felt like my computer skipped a few seconds or something.

It's got some nice emotion and atmosphere to it, but I think it could use a little more mastering just to work out the depth, and maybe some more variations to dynamic just to emphasise the emotions you're evoking here. Nice work overall, though.

-Review Request Club

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May 19, 2010
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Genre
Classical
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4.8 MB
2 min 6 sec

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