<Original><Nonpony><Orchestral>Pink Nostalgia

[DrSorkenstein]

http://soundcloud.com/drsorkenstein/pink-nostalgia

Soooooooo yeaaaaaah.... I know all I've done up to this point has been "WUBS" and "WOOBLES" so I felt like taking a break and doing something different for a change.

This is the first orchestral track I've ever done and to be honest: I have no idea what I'm doing. I churned this out over the weekend and just had a ton of fun trying to be all emotional and such.

Tell me what you think!

[silverblaze]

WOW! This is awesome! What do you use for your orchestral sounds? I've been using mainly .wav files for all my music, since I've never been able to find very good VSTs for orchestral stuff.

Thumbs up on your first orchestral piece. :b

[Dr_Dissonance]

Not a bad start at all!

I found a great quote recently, which I shall share:

“My endeavour is to provide a rich experience. If you move through a crowd, what occurs to you is only one succession of events; but in a piece of music you have the opportunity of experiencing a set of circumstances in a number of different ways.”
—
Richard Meale, when explaining his piece “Incredible Floridas”

I've decided that this is how I'll teach or explain orchestral. As you moving through a crowd!
Now think for a second. As you move through the piece you've made, how much is going on? Is it chaos, or are there few people? Is everyone in the crowd unique, or are there twins and such?

I belive that your piece has a good mix of things happening, however, there is a lot of repetition. Mix things up! Change the chords to ones not used before! Recycle a progression maybe once and then move on! Then recycle that! Then recycle the whole thing! But add something different!
One thing that a lot of budding orchestral writers forget about is variation. Variation is key! Keep the listener on their toes!

Also use more brass...the other families get much love, but not so much the brass...=P

[DrSorkenstein]

WOW! This is awesome! What do you use for your orchestral sounds? I've been using mainly .wav files for all my music, since I've never been able to find very good VSTs for orchestral stuff.

Thumbs up on your first orchestral piece. :b

Hey thanks I just used the orchestral patches that came with reason 6 so I can't really help you with VSTs. Go ask the orchestral composers.

Like for example the amazing OH MY GOD!
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Not a bad start at all!

I found a great quote recently, which I shall share:

“My endeavour is to provide a rich experience. If you move through a crowd, what occurs to you is only one succession of events; but in a piece of music you have the opportunity of experiencing a set of circumstances in a number of different ways.”
—
Richard Meale, when explaining his piece “Incredible Floridas”

I've decided that this is how I'll teach or explain orchestral. As you moving through a crowd!
Now think for a second. As you move through the piece you've made, how much is going on? Is it chaos, or are there few people? Is everyone in the crowd unique, or are there twins and such?

I belive that your piece has a good mix of things happening, however, there is a lot of repetition. Mix things up! Change the chords to ones not used before! Recycle a progression maybe once and then move on! Then recycle that! Then recycle the whole thing! But add something different!
One thing that a lot of budding orchestral writers forget about is variation. Variation is key! Keep the listener on their toes!

Also use more brass...the other families get much love, but not so much the brass...=P

A very thoughtful qoute. And a very insightful review. I set a deadline for myself on this track so the repetition came from inexperience and lack of time (read lazyness).

In all honesty though I rushed through way too quickly without taking time out to listen back and evaluate. And I'm sorry I toned down the brass but I thought it sounded a bit too artificial in places so I opted instead to let it blend with the other instruments until the very end. The brass also seemed to have a tendency to stand out a lot at the wrong times.

So what have we I learned:
-Loss of control Variation!
- Spend more time writing material beforehand!
- More brass!
- Writing orchestral music is fun!

I'll try again sometime in the future. Thank you for the feedback!