Honor the Fallen

This is really good man, really gets me, could be part of a top notch film score or in halo or something

Honestly very, very good!

(p.s. which vst's did you use? cheers )

I really enjoyed it, especially the flow you have going starting at about 0:34....brilliant. Is that a soprano I hear in the background starting at 0:58? Sounds like voice, but I can't quite tell.

And i'm curious as to why you ended the piece with more of a dissonant feel, and ended with an E flat and the bass on an F rather than the resolution on the A flat?

Anywho, brilliant, enjoyed it immensely.

This is really good man, really gets me, could be part of a top notch film score or in halo or something :DHonestly very, very good!(p.s. which vst's did you use? cheers )

Thanks! And about the VST part, I say this to anyone who asks: be more specific! I use lots of them and can't list all of them every time somebody asks.

I really enjoyed it, especially the flow you have going starting at about 0:34....brilliant. Is that a soprano I hear in the background starting at 0:58? Sounds like voice, but I can't quite tell. And i'm curious as to why you ended the piece with more of a dissonant feel, and ended with an E flat and the bass on an F rather than the resolution on the A flat? Anywho, brilliant, enjoyed it immensely.

There's plenty of female choir in this piece! Did you only hear it at 0:58? The ending chord is a minor one because I wanted a more "sad" feel for this piece. It is about stuff like death and sacrifice after all!

No I heard it for much more of the piece, and enjoyed it.

Yeah I suppose it fits your portrayal. Just checking your view. Well it's great, and I love that meaning behind it. One more excellent piece from you. Keep it up!

It's a successful mix of various scores of the subdued war film or TV show nature (Saving Private Ryan, Band of Brothers, Born on the Fourth of July and The Pacific).

Well done!

It's so good ! I like the voices and is there yearning in this piece? It's so melancholy. ><
Keep it upp <3 Loving the variety of compositions ! XD
xx

Wow. just wow. this is incredible. This beats any current film score.
well done, honestly.

I wondered which sample package (however you call it) the strings and choir are from. Thanks

Thanks, guys. Strings are LA Scoring Strings. Choir is Voices of the Apocalypse, very old library, hard to find, but it sounds awesome.

Very nice man! I enjoy it

This is beautiful !!

Good stuff.

My assumption is that this is meant as a film or game cue, which is totally fine. It's just that as a cue, it ends up being incredibly short. It'd be nice to see some more development. Maybe give it some more contrast in the middle, and then bring the theme back in at the end for a climax.

I think the piece would be a lot more effective that way, because now it sounds like one short smooth arc. This is fine for a film cue where the audience only really picks up on the major themes, but if you want a score that's more of a main theme of something or someone, then it might be more effective if you were to change that "arc" as i said before.

I'm thinkin' John Barry's Theme for Out of Africa (of which I'm hearing serious echoes in this piece harmonically). Also take a look at October by Eric Whitacre. It's a lot different from this stylistically, but he does a great job of setting up a theme and reusing it to good effect to create a really nice climax at the end. Also John Williams's Leaving Hogwarts does sort of the same thing. Give those a look to see what I mean

Great job!!!

Wow! Thank you for sharing. You have made my night listening to this. I also love the ending.
Patrick

IDK how you do man but that is awesome!

This just mind blowing! Very well done sir!

Wow, you are definitely growing. Wow! This amongst a few of your other recent compositions has landed you the position of one of the best of YC in my book. But this is the best I have heard from you. It is voiced very well. The transitions (which are hard to make natural and smooth) are seamless. Even though it is short it feels complete. And your sound libraries, mixing and editing are amazing. I don't even think I have heard anything that life-like and realistic from Marius.

Well, what can I say, other people have already said all the praise that I would have, so I'm not going to repeat them.
Anyway, just a quick note: this really is brilliance.

But what VSTs are you using?
-Phil

nice one !!!!
I loved each part of it.....

Nagyon szép, nagyon jól használod az oboát és a közbe belépő hegedűket és csellókat és gyönyörű harmóniát alkotnak. Az eleje emlékeztet Hans Zimmer- Deliver Us címü zenéjére. Gyönyörűek a hegedű vezetések és alatta a basszus.

Fantastic!
Not much else to say other than simply superb.

i hate u xD .... you made my cry xD

this piece deserves a real recording ^^

Sounds amazing, Max. It has a really epic feel to it, but I bet that was your intention.

Awesome I am very jealous sounds like it needs to go straight into a movie!!!

Good job! This is a gorgeous piece. I really love the piano solo bit.

Very inspirational. Nice work!

Wow, very nice! Congratulation!

Astounding piece. Absolutely love the melody. Amazing. I'm listening to that all the time.

This is my first review on this site after leaving for 4 years. things have certainly changed and hearing your piece is a very good way to start my relationship on here. please keep up the wonderful works.

This is very great!
It reminds me of so many film scores, mainly "Conan The Barbarian" by Basil Poledouris (the old one) and "Anakins Betrayal by John Williams". Hope to hear more!

I can't stop listening to that. I love how it evolves.
For me it reminds me about My Name is Robert Neville by James Newton Howard from I am the legend.

LOL the beginning just has the voice of Marlen Brando in my head with the horn: "Im gonna make him an offer he can't refuse!"

1:05-1:10 seemed a little off... like the brass was wandering.
2:10-2:14 was gorgeous!

Interesting ending. Leaves me wondering if I heard that chord during the piece.

Sounds incredible!!

This is great. This is the exact kind of music that interests me. You should really look into writing for films. Also, is this a live recording, and if not, what sound system are you using and for what program?

like begining of strings and piano+trmelo part..

How did you get the strings sounding so warm and "stereo"? I have LASS as well but they always sound mono and bright!

WOW

This is really a beautifully haunting work, Max. My only comment would be to expand it - bring it up to a really emotional, powerful climax, and then let it fall naturally to the ending you have here. Very nice work.

This is a very powerful piece. I haven't imagined any other clearer pictures for any other piece of music.

LOVE the choir at 1:10. And the opening solo trumpet sounds great. I want to know where those two are from, the solo trumpet, and the choir.

Also love the French horn joining the melody line at 2:05, and the choir joining at 2:10. Makes me cry. So good! I also loved the dissonant minor ending. It just leaves me hanging enough that I feel incomplete, as if something or someone is permanently missing from my life. I imagine that's EXACTLY what you're going for. :-)

Great work.

Wow, sounds just like a movie score. This is great. This should get some recognition in the movies.

Hmm... thinking about the kind of movie this could go in. Something innocent and beautiful, and probably fantasy. Like the character could be some princess in a castle, and the princess could be dwelling on the fact that something great happened, like some victorious moment, or freedom for her country, or something like that.

That was what I was envisioning with this piece. It's great. Great job!

Beautiful piece

This is awesome! I could feel the emotions behind it.

Very nice work, with very good little orchestral "jumps"

Didn't expect such a good work in this pathetic site...

absolutely incredible! totally blown away

very nice.

Wonder what you think to my pieces.

Joe

Nice work. simple theme , tastefully played out. ending's good too.

This is a great piece. The orchestration is great too. I actually wish I could see the full score or get a midi file just to try and decipher your technique in orchestration.

I like the build up and the interchange of the melody from section to section. And the choir....wow!!! There is something about the choir in this kind of piece that really works some magic.

wow great stuff

.... just WOW!!! what a piece... great work Max!!

A great score!  Thanks for sharing.  I'm listening to it now on the radio...