In Satan's Foyer

This is a little piece arranged for a two violins, three violas, bass, drums, keyboard, organ, marimba, and glockenspiel. It's designed to give a bit of a creepy vibe, so I put it in here (plus it's the only place it fits). I did most of the work on this a few months ago and yesterday I started to improve it a bit. It's mostly based on my love of enharmonic chords in harmonic minor, so most of the chord progression uses that. I'll probably keep working on this, maybe adding a bit of a quieter part to give the listener a bit of a break, but until then it functions well enough as a complete work.

"In Satan's Foyer"

EDIT: Here be a new score. It should be much, much better than the one that all of these comments are about.

I like it, but I don't think it needs a quieter part as much as it needs a break in the rhythm. At one point you, around 1:30 you started to change the rhythm and I was expecting this, but then you changed your mind and continued with the same thing. You have the place and the beginning of the change, go with it. JMO.

Yeah, I stuck that much-needed section in there and then just put a repeat back to bar 8. I plan on removing that so that the song can progress more. Maybe going back to the original theme with the strings playing arco or something.

All right, I just updated the audio.

Here's the score (I know very little about notation, so tips on that would be useful):

Let me tea..ch you something: In the beginning of that score you probably wanted to write "andante", aren't you? Maybe it's only little mistake. I know, that "andante" is 80 quarters per minute, I think 98 quarters is "Moderato". What next? Keys - violin, bass and other. They allways have to be in the beginning of lines, not only in the first line (oh my English, my poor English...). Next: bar 22, Violin 2 - how to play it? (tie from the staccato note). In the recording it's fine but in real world it's physically impossible I think.
Ok, let's say something about recording - it's preety good and I'll look forward for continue. Very nice effect when marimba (right?) comes from right to left. I've got 5.1 headset and it sounds pretty good. Ok, it's enough from me.

Ah, yes, adante was a typo. It's also just used as an instruction to have a walking pace, not that it's supposed to equal exactly 80 BPM. They can be estimated, but not totally precisely. Also, the program doesn't have many options in terms of notation, so I can't really change how often the instrument names are printed. Tying staccato notes was also stupid. I think that I added the staccato after writing the part, so it did make sense at one point.

And thanks for noting the panning effect of the marimba. I just think that it's so damn cool.

Huge thanks for bringing those errors to my attention.

Originally Posted by spherenine

Ah, yes, adante was a typo. It's also just used as an instruction to have a walking pace, not that it's supposed to equal exactly 80 BPM. They can be estimated, but not totally precisely. Also, the program doesn't have many options in terms of notation, so I can't really change how often the instrument names are printed. Tying staccato notes was also stupid. I think that I added the staccato after writing the part, so it did make sense at one point.

And thanks for noting the panning effect of the marimba. I just think that it's so damn cool.

Huge thanks for bringing those errors to my attention.

I wrote about "violin and bass keys". It's my mistake. I didn't have instrument names in mind. I was thinking about "treble" and "bass" keys in the beginning of each line, not instrument names such as "Violin" or "Double bass" for example. I wrote "violin key", because we in Poland call it "klucz wiolinowy". It's my little mistake

Originally Posted by Bipek

Let me tea..ch you something: In the beginning of that score you probably wanted to write "andante", aren't you? Maybe it's only little mistake. I know, that "andante" is 80 quarters per minute, I think 98 quarters is "Moderato". What next? Keys - violin, bass and other. They allways have to be in the beginning of lines, not only in the first line (oh my English, my poor English...). Next: bar 22, Violin 2 - how to play it? (tie from the staccato note). In the recording it's fine but in real world it's physically impossible I think.

Nice music.

The tied staccato is actually very possible and makes a lot of sense.

Violas use the alto clef. Cellos the bass/tenor clef. Organ the grand staff (depends on the organ).

The remark about the keys is correct.

Originally Posted by manossg

Violas use the alto clef. Cellos the bass/tenor clef. Organ the grand staff (depends on the organ).

The remark about the keys is correct.

Erg, all things that can't be fixed in the program I use. I need some Finale action.

All right, I just updated the hell out of the score, so some comments on the new version would be appreciated.