Yo, Dude
your style is beginning to be recognizeable.
As always a fantastic score, MaestroRage.
Reviews for "_-={Mighty Hails}=-_"
MaestroRage responds:
Thank you phoenix! I hope one day I can reach more people with these works, and maybe, even carve my own little story in the history books.
Thats a dream far off, but one I pursue regardless.
Thank you for the review, i'm glad you liked it!
Well...
Its a very well written song, but it keeps building up to something and never quite finishes. An epic atmosphere is present and dramatic feeling is at place, but at the end it just goes off.
MaestroRage responds:
It's quite true, this one won't go to anywhere climactic, and it does tend to tease a lot. The full version *not yet complete*, WILL have an ending, proper that is, and I will tell the FULL story behind this song. It is a rather important one to me, and I will let everybody know.
Thanks for the review, i'm glad you liked it. Thanks again for your honesty :)
A generally good piece
Sorry I haven't been reviewing your songs much lately, Maestro. To be honest, I find it pretty difficult to give proper reviews to songs which really deserve a thorough analysis. I have the same problem with reviewing Simon-F's submissions. But be that as it may, I'll just try to give some of my first general impressions.
First of all, I thought that the ending was appropriate. I also loved those angry voices that you used at certain points in the song. How did you do those?
The piece overall was a bit of a mixed bag for me. On the one hand, I love some of the subtle sound effects that you managed to achieve. Sound design seems to really be your strong point. And it had some very effective moments. On the other hand, I ended up feeling slightly bored in certain parts. The middle, in particular, I felt could have used some more energy. You had those angry voices yelling every so often, which was good, but everything else was pretty slow and mellow. Some more energetic drumming or faster melodies (though I notice you don't seem to do those much) in the middle would have been wonderful. Also... the melodic progression was sometimes a little unclear, although this could be my fault for not noticing it.
Unfortunately, the piece as a whole seemed a little static to me; there was little to move it forward harmonically or rhythmically. Despite the occasional spark of energy, it didn't really go anywhere. Your sound design is brilliant, but I feel that here you focused on sound design (which is definitely important) at the expense of the harmonic and rhythmic aspects, which are at least as important. If your song still sounds good as a crappy MIDI file, you'll know that you've succeeded. ;)
Anyway, it's still a nice song overall, hence my score. But I think there's some room for improvement. :)
MaestroRage responds:
the angry shouts are a patch from the VST library Symphonic Choirs. There are four patches, Bass, Soprano, Alto, and Tenor shouts. These are bass shouts, as they depict soldiers best imo.
Yes this song is slow, and mellow throughout, because the underlining emotion I wanted to highlight at all times, was sacrifice. The story used for it is the telling of their youngest warrior, to the older, disabled older brother. Who was unable to join the fight with his younger brother due to his limp leg *the older brother is the bassoon, and the younger brother here is depicted as the panflute*.
"The fight was great, the fight was bitter, and though his youth kept his fear close, your brother kept his wits closer. Slashing, tearing, fearfully running into the enemy, one at a time."
The telling of his story begins when the panflute plays softly, this is where the news is brought out, your brother has not returned with us. When it becomes more aggressive, the slow motion story of his slashing hopelessly against wave after wave of enemies, taking hits, arrows, and hammers on an already battered, and partly broken body unfurls.
The arpeggiated brass depicts a scene where the general, close friend of the boy runs to his dying side, screaming "DON'T GO! STAY WITH US!" the choir that joins them shortly after, depicts him holding the young lads head close to his heart, screaming at the heavens.
With the angry screams that follow, they are back. The panflute, the memento of his brother given to the older.
I did not intend to go that much into detail ESN, but I hope it helps you understand why I did what I did. So many times I felt it was the perfect place to break off and bring in some fire, but every time I chose against it.
Thank you for the review, i'm glad you liked it! I apologize for the late response!
meh
its aight not really my style though
MaestroRage responds:
well I appreciate you taking a listen anyways! Thank you for the review :)
Not feeling it...
I like this song, dont think that i dont like it. I've put it on my mp3 player! ok, now thats thats established, lets get to the juicy part :D
The pace set by this song in the beggining really raised my expectations. There were some cool effects. The back ground base drum thing really set a nice mood for the song and the dynamic contrast really made me believe that this was an exciting piece.
the reason why i wasnt feeling it was because of the unmoving whole notes that were everpresent in the song. Your phrases were beautiful but are they appropriate? The pace really becomes slow and imo, some really cool effects were overlooked. I couldnt hear the horn rip (i play horn) the first time through. My compliments for including a horn rip. man i shoud just give u a 10 for the horn rip lol. but that would do you no good if i just lie...
Nice mix of instrumentation, great beautiful stuff! Vocals are always nice, you've made them work.
MaestroRage responds:
I never feel bad about your reviews TsizzinC, your honesty is something I hold dearly. The song WAS supposed to break out into a big bad beat, but I decided against it last minute because I wanted to keep it a somewhat familiar tone to it. Changing the beginning to accommodate this decision would entail many hours of work, so I decided then to portray the story differently, holding the same values of course.
The horn Rips are indeed subtle. And I chose them to be this way. I have a song coming out very soon TsizzinC, which has... a LOT of horn rips, I think you might enjoy it :D!
The whole notes are there for support, and for the extra support from the back. The melody relies on this support to maintain itself, and though this may be a bad thing *some people say the melody should be able to play without any kind of support*, I feel differently.
Thank you for the honest review, I am glad you liked it still!