<pony><original> Ponyville Suite

[J Brew]

Great job! Its a well written piece. The only criticism I have is the sound. This is good to present it to a director but if you want to get this to performance quality, either you need to get it performed or you need to use a DAW and sound libraries like project SAM, the ones that come with Ableton live Suite or Kontakt that are used within the music production industry. I use Garritan for now but it doesn't get the sound quite up to performance quality. Other than that, this piece sounds great and is beautifully written and I think you a lot of both talent and lots of potential in composition.

[GhostXb]

Great job! Its a well written piece. The only criticism I have is the sound. This is good to present it to a director but if you want to get this to performance quality, either you need to get it performed or you need to use a DAW and sound libraries like project SAM, the ones that come with Ableton live Suite or Kontakt that are used within the music production industry. I use Garritan for now but it doesn't get the sound quite up to performance quality. Other than that, this piece sounds great and is beautifully written and I think you a lot of both talent and lots of potential in composition.

Considering the amount of instrumentation he has, either getting it performed or purchasing sample libraries of a high quality would be rather expensive.

A lot of good sample libraries use Kontakt, so if you wanted to expand your repertoire, that would be a good place to start. It comes with a lot of decent sounding orchestral instruments.

That said, I do like the sounds here, it has an old school video game vibe, and I think that's quite charming.

You have a lot of talent with progression. The pieces progress and vary nicely. Musically it is very dynamic, however, the overall sound kind of blends together a little too much, and this makes the pieces seem less dynamic then it is. A little work mixing, and boosting frequencies in the individual instruments where they need it with an equalizer I think would help separate the instruments more.

The instrumentation I feel is a little too busy for my tastes, and this also makes the character of each song too similar. The only songs I felt had more of a unique character overall was Fluttershy's song, and Raindbow Dash's song, since Fluttershy had a slower pace, and Rainbow Dash was the only peace not written in a Major scale.

I really liked the intro to Applejack's song. The scarcity of instruments (such as the pizzicato theme) I felt gave the piece a more unique character, but once it got too busy, it started sounding too similar to the other pieces.

Of course, this is mostly nit picking according to my own bias's in music, you don't have to take anything I say for a grain of salt, as I think this is already a fairly complete sounding suite, perhaps just something to consider for future projects.

Another thing you might try experimenting with is changing the key and scale during the piece. My favorite example of this is Chopin's Raindrops, which shifts from D-Flat Major to C Sharp Minor, beautifully done.