Spirit Of the Season (Working Title)

[roywestad]

I compose in much the same manner, I want to hear polished music almost as soon as I'm playing and recording it.

Extremely high quality virtual orchestration, particularly for TV and film is in good demand - budgets are tight, deadlines are even tighter, so working in a virtual space and it staying there, (i.e. never going to live musicans) is common - so get your templates set up and saved. Speed up those projects and work on the realisim aspect when you can. You don't have far to go from what I hear.

While I would relish the opportunity for live musicans to play some of my music - I do love completing virtual works and licensing them or scoring short films for directors - the likes of which would never (yet) dream of hiring an orchestra.

Yeah, I am working on my template right now It's a neverending process though Always something to improve!

Having my music played by live musicians is definitely a kick, but to write really good music, virtual or live, is the ultimate kick for me

Hello, and many welcomes, Roy!

This is certainly short, but very sweet. You have introduced some very nice themes in this short clip; it really sounds like it could set up a variety of programmatic ideas. (Including Star Trek, as Randy mentioned )

I wish I could give you experienced advice about how to go about determining if this is ready for a professional orchestrator, but I have never had that opportunity. I can say, however, that even in my own compositions for smaller groups, I almost always think of something to add/remove/change to it after I think I am finished. In my opinion, if you find your self making tiny changes that really don't have a huge overall impact on the sound, it may be a good time to stop. But, that can be really difficult, because once you decide to make the change, you'll probably end up listening for the change, thus, each change you make will sound significant to your ear.

I don't know, good luck!

And welcome, again!

Thank you so much! I'm really glad you think so It's always nice to have some themes up my sleeve, you never know when a project calls for just THAT kind of theme

You are so right about making changes only we can hear! Spot on! I can certainly see myself in that description Sometimes, when I write something really quick, and it sounds good right away, I think to myself; It just can't sound good that fast! I just HAVE to touch some faders, adjust some EQ, apply some compression... And before I know it, I'm lost!

Welcome to the forum! Great little piece you have here. As others said, it sounds like the opening to a TV, either an adventure type show or maybe a sporting event. No advice, but I liked just wanted to say I liked it.

Thanks a plenty, mate! Thanks for listening to my little piece Have a super weekend!

Sorry for my late replies, a lot of stuff going on around here now

Roy

[FossMaNo1]

As others have said, welcome to the forum! This was a great opening piece... very Hollywood (and I mean that as a compliment). I thought was very good and blended (I wish I could get my bress to sound that smooth).

The only criticicsm I might make--although you don't really need to change anything--is with the opening brass line. It's very steady. You might was to consider rythmically varrying it a bit.

I look forward to hearing many works tunes from ya!

[roywestad]

As others have said, welcome to the forum! This was a great opening piece... very Hollywood (and I mean that as a compliment). I thought was very good and blended (I wish I could get my bress to sound that smooth).

The only criticicsm I might make--although you don't really need to change anything--is with the opening brass line. It's very steady. You might was to consider rythmically varrying it a bit.

I look forward to hearing many works tunes from ya!

Thanks, man! And that's good advice regarding the brass line! Maybe more rhytmic variation would do the trick thanks for listening!

[fastlane]

Solid work roywestad!

I checked out your sight and it looks like you're sort of a budding Norwegian Danny Elfman.

I watched Edwin. Funny and sort of sad.

There is nothing wrong with working with an orchestrator if it gets the job done so you can keep doing what it is you do best. It's also good to learn more about orchestration.

Thanks for posting.


Phil

[jaynkate01]

Hey Roy! The forum seems to be getting a lot of film score type music lately. This is another one, and I like it very much. Your piece paints a broad open picture to me. It makes me think of a sweeping meadow with a mountain range in the background. Very cool! Thanks for posting.
Jay

[roywestad]

Solid work roywestad!

I checked out your sight and it looks like you're sort of a budding Norwegian Danny Elfman.

I watched Edwin. Funny and sort of sad.

There is nothing wrong with working with an orchestrator if it gets the job done so you can keep doing what it is you do best. It's also good to learn more about orchestration.

Thanks for posting.


Phil

Hi Phil!

So glad you liked it! Wow, Danny Elfman is one of my favourite composers, so that's a compliment Thanks! And I should really learn more about orchestration...

Roy

[roywestad]

Hey Roy! The forum seems to be getting a lot of film score type music lately. This is another one, and I like it very much. Your piece paints a broad open picture to me. It makes me think of a sweeping meadow with a mountain range in the background. Very cool! Thanks for posting.
Jay

Hi Jay!

Thank you for your kind words, it means a lot