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Troubled Sands

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So in a music class I've been in this week, I've been working with two friends (whose Newgrounds handles are WXblackplane and transfordete). This song was written for a friend in a Game Design activity, who asked for a 'desert theme'. Thanks for listening and hope you enjoyed!

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Haha, I like the desert theme. I'm not sure I liked a lot of the samples, but compositionally it's a cool piece. Good use of harmonies and whatnot. The loop isn't bad, but I don't think this is a structurally complete piece as it is. Cool melodies and drums, though, and the mixing is pretty good. I think I recognized a number of Garageband presets in there. ;P Hmm...yeah, not much more to add. It has some potential, but I think it needs some more progression. 1:01 could function as a neat sort of breakdown, but as it is now it's more of a coda. I would look for some melodic development and other climaxes in the 2nd half of this piece (if it was there, haha). Otherwise, keep up the good work, you guys! ^_~

LunacyEcho responds:

Yikes, sorry this took so long to respond to! I've been... busy, to say the least. :P

=> mixing is pretty good =>

Yay! I'm getting faster at it, too!

=> some more progression =>

Well, it's just a minute-long loop. :P Is progression really that necessary?

=> melodic development =>

I love the Phrygian scale, and you'll definitely see me explore it in further depth in later music.

Thanks a lot! Sorry for the lateness!

Cool!
This track reminds me of both Desert (not Darude) Sandstorm, and "The Tomb Shaker", the latter one composed by Step. It definitely captures that vibe of a desert, more specifially an Arabic desert. Of course, it's to be expected when using that scale.

The intruments aren't of the best quality, but I think they are well mixed. That said, I think that the main melody intrument (starts at 0:16) sounds a bit boring, especially as this is a loop :(
It's a bit too repetitive, but I also feel like the intrument iself sounds a bit dry and bland. I don't know if more reverb would fix this either; it's probably just the intrument. I hope you didn't want to use something as "dry" as the desert XD

Apart from the repetitiveness, I like the melody. The strings and dynamics are nice. The loop is also smooth. The percussion is nice, to say the least.

All in all, a pretty decent track!

LunacyEcho responds:

=> scale =>

Phrygian dominant scale! That's so fun to say. Phrygian. Phrygian.

=> repetitive =>

It's an annoying loop. What else could you ask for? :P

=> reverb =>

The thing is, after my NGADM/NGAUC submissions, I've become REALLY wary of using reverb in my music, for fear that i'll become as reverb-heavy as those.

Thanks for the review!

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Jun 4, 2015
11:32 PM EDT
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1.4 MB
1 min 16 sec

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