Xavier

So I've been messing around with this track for a while now, having promised to make the soundtrack for my friend's little text adventure game. It's pretty standard fantasy fare, but I didn't want to even bother trying that epic orchestral hubbub. That whole area is completely beyond me at the moment, and frankly it's all a bit samey anyway. Instead I opted for a sort of baroque sound, or at the very least a vague imitation of it from the perspective of an amateur with no real musical knowledge, and not a whole lot of experience or love for said sound. I'm primarily looking for feedback on three elements: All around technical stuff. Is it musically correct? Are the instruments out of their range or unrealistically played in some significant way? (I do plan on going back through and adjusting the tiniest details like humanizing the velocity and tempo variation regardless) The ending, starting with the key change. I'm concerned that said change and the bit that follows after might be egregiously sloppy/weak from the perspective of someone who knows what they're talking about. Does it sound good allaround? This is subjective of course. Pull no punches; I'm aware that I have no idea what I'm doing. Do bear in mind though that I'm not trying to follow any particular form to the letter, just to evoke a mood without ruining the immersion of the musically literate.

I've had this lying around for some time. My intention was for it to be an intro track to a full album/ep that revolves around sleep, but I've been completely stuck ever since, floundering for a sound that both follows this track organically enough while also being at once appropriately surreal given the founding concept and sporting some literal value for storytelling purposes. So while I'm racking my head for the solution to this little conundrum, I figure I may as well have you guys confirm that this track is actually as strong and memorable as I've been assuming, or if it's boring and embarrassingly over-simplistic/ amateur. Or somewhere in between. Thanks.

If you don't know how to notate and you'd rather avoid the whole ordeal (like yours truly), try FL Studio. It's the best of its kind, in my opinion. It has an awesome piano roll function in which you can put exactly the notes you want while hearing them in real time, with time based on an intuitive visual representation rather than a plethora of notation methods. The default plugins are awesome, too, but you can get third party stuff as well.

At the risk of sounding stupid, I'd say just google it. That way you won't miss anything we don't post here. Not that I know anything about brass. ...Good luck, though!