Project Firebird!

hello friends,

So I decided to score the fantasia 2000 Firebird segment with my own score for training/learning and because the imagery is just too beautiful to pass. I got very curios how I would do.

Structurally, I had to acknowledge all things that were acknowledged by Stravinsky's score mostly in the same manner and I did a lot more acknowledgments that weren't in the original score.

I'm so used to it now that I'm not sure how I did so I'm counting on everyone's opinion if it works or doesn't!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Rig6C3_RSx4

I hope you all enjoy it!

Wow.......

I can't get enough of it.......what did you compose this with?? I mean, was it live or sampled?

Anyway, wonderful orchestration, and if I heard this, I would think that it was the original backing track.

There are a few VERY minor niggles I'm picking at. One thing is at 6.33 I'd be tempted to lessen the slide the violin on the high register. Another taste related critique is that you could add a little more choir when building up to the climax of the firebird swallowing up the water spirit thing. HOwever, these are most probably taste related issues - I'm still a newb at composing!!

Overall, i can see you heading to score films and stuff - this is professional quality!! I can't praise this highly enough, so good luck on your bright compositional future.

Sherief

I must admit that this piece makes me very jealous.

The work is top notch all the way.

I am also very curious as to which libraries were used in its production. Is one of them EWQL Plat?

Where did you get the Video from? Any chance you could send it to me in a wmv format? I would love to take a stab at it myself.

Well done

Ron

Heya Sherief,

As I've come to expect from your work, this is top-class stuff. Extremely competent rendering and, more importantly, you captured the video's story extremely well. You have my full admiration here, it's a wonderfully realized project and I'm very glad you undertook it. I'm also a fan of the animation in this film, and I think you should send this to the producers, I'm sure they would love to see what you've done with the material. :)

If you could, some general notes about how you scored this (in terms of whether you scored it naturally or with a tempo map, what samples, how long it took, whether you started on paper, etc.) would be useful to share so that other members can learn from your skills.

Thank you for posting this, it was wonderful to watch and listen.

Wow.......

I can't get enough of it.......what did you compose this with?? I mean, was it live or sampled?

Anyway, wonderful orchestration, and if I heard this, I would think that it was the original backing track.

There are a few VERY minor niggles I'm picking at. One thing is at 6.33 I'd be tempted to lessen the slide the violin on the high register. Another taste related critique is that you could add a little more choir when building up to the climax of the firebird swallowing up the water spirit thing. HOwever, these are most probably taste related issues - I'm still a newb at composing!!

Overall, i can see you heading to score films and stuff - this is professional quality!! I can't praise this highly enough, so good luck on your bright compositional future.

Thank you sir! this is all samples! and thank you for your very good suggestions! :)

Sherief

I must admit that this piece makes me very jealous.

The work is top notch all the way.

I am also very curious as to which libraries were used in its production. Is one of them EWQL Plat?

Where did you get the Video from? Any chance you could send it to me in a wmv format? I would love to take a stab at it myself.

Well done

Ron

Ron, thank you for listening! I used EWQL Gold and vsl string librarys plus some other librarys as well. I will be uploading a large version of this to my website so that will take me the night, tomorrow i will make a version with no audio and pm it to you. will probably take a while to upload as well. or, you can just go to youtube, its all there with the Stravinsky score of course.

Heya Sherief,

As I've come to expect from your work, this is top-class stuff. Extremely competent rendering and, more importantly, you captured the video's story extremely well. You have my full admiration here, it's a wonderfully realized project and I'm very glad you undertook it. I'm also a fan of the animation in this film, and I think you should send this to the producers, I'm sure they would love to see what you've done with the material. :)

If you could, some general notes about how you scored this (in terms of whether you scored it naturally or with a tempo map, what samples, how long it took, whether you started on paper, etc.) would be useful to share so that other members can learn from your skills.

Thank you for posting this, it was wonderful to watch and listen.

Marius! thank you so much for your complement! I would love to send this to Disney producer's as well. the question that I don't know is how to find them! if you are willing to share that valuable knowledge with me, i will very much greatly appreciate it! thank you again for listening!

Hey-

Superb! Can't stop listening to it. The moods you capture and the timing is excellent! The samples also sound extremely realistic, well done!

-jdrcopmoser

Hey-

Superb! Can't stop listening to it. The moods you capture and the timing is excellent! The samples also sound extremely realistic, well done!

-jdrcopmoser

thank you dude! I'm glad it pleased you!

That was quite beautiful. You nailed the ending and every subtle change of mood.

Such an undertaking!

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0120910/fullcredits

This link shows the producers of Fantasia 2000. To summarize it.

Lisa C. Cook .... associate producer

Roy Edward Disney .... executive producer

Donald W. Ernst .... producer

Patricia Hicks .... co-producer (segment "Rhapsody in Blue")

David Lovegren .... co-associate producer

Makes me want to rescore the Rhapsody in Blue part.

Inspiring, fantastic work. Besides the libraries, what did you use to compose this (i.e Sibelius, Finale etc) and what were some of your influences? Also, I applaud you for not ending the piece with an authentic cadence. It left a very interesting feel to the piece as a whole. :)

Inspiring, fantastic work. Besides the libraries, what did you use to compose this (i.e Sibelius, Finale etc) and what were some of your influences? Also, I applaud you for not ending the piece with an authentic cadence. It left a very interesting feel to the piece as a whole. :)

This is beautiful, marvelous, stunning ,amazing, pure and awesome. Your talent makes me jealous and trust me, I don't say that to each composer.

The samples sound so good. Damn, I need to get my hands on those EWQL ones.

Incredibleness.

Very well done.

THAT was FANTASMIC!!!

Perfectly fits with the visuals, and the mood is almost in respect to the actual disney score (if anything, it is ever so slightly more "mature" of a sound than a disney movie haha).

Wendell.R.F.93,Volt,MMarques,Joshua Luty,

thank you guys so much for your encouragement! your words touch me and i'm deeply appriciate of you guys listening to it!

Doovongeman,

Thank you so much for taking the time to find those names. i went on pursue but so far no contacts. especially with roy disney who is very big. I will keep trying though! thank you so much!

hello friends,

So I decided to score the fantasia 2000 Firebird segment with my own score for training/learning and because the imagery is just too beautiful to pass. I got very curios how I would do.

Structurally, I had to acknowledge all things that were acknowledged by Stravinsky's score mostly in the same manner and I did a lot more acknowledgments that weren't in the original score.

I'm so used to it now that I'm not sure how I did so I'm counting on everyone's opinion if it works or doesn't!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Rig6C3_RSx4

I hope you all enjoy it!

This is beautiful! I know I should probably go down and read all the posts, but what program were you using for this?

I just want to know how you got such a professional sound, besides the sound libraries. Cubase, Logic, Pro Tools, Sibelius, Finale, all of that stuff.

This is beautiful! I know I should probably go down and read all the posts, but what program were you using for this?

I just want to know how you got such a professional sound, besides the sound libraries. Cubase, Logic, Pro Tools, Sibelius, Finale, all of that stuff.

Thank you guys for hearing the music! I use Logic and east west libraries, vsl For some strings. How do i do it? well I study/over listen the real instrument and how it sounds with its ways of execution. You just pick all the little details and then pick your samples that mimic those and off you go. Sometimes my 1st violin line can have upto 10 different sounds from different libraries. from staccato to legato to trills to accent legatos. I usually end up having something like 90 tracks for each music, although the firebird score only had something like 45 which was low for my usual.

thank you guys for listening!

Wow, this sounds veeerrry good :) And it supports the pictures very well!

This must have taken some time to score, I guess... Can i ask how long you have been busy composing this piece?

Keep on posting this kind of work!

Grtz

Wow, this sounds veeerrry good :) And it supports the pictures very well!

This must have taken some time to score, I guess... Can i ask how long you have been busy composing this piece?

Keep on posting this kind of work!

Grtz

grtz, sorry for the very late reply. I didn't realize you replied to the thread until now. Thank you so much for checking the firebird. It took two weeks to make it and self doubting my self and redoing parts. thank you again for checking the music!

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