A Hero Rises

Just a make you feel alive type of piece of music! really nice sound to it.

A Hero Rises

Where can I hear the piece?

Cool. I hear a lot of familiaritys in there. Inspired by Batman Begins/The Dark Knight and Transformers? :)

Definitely reminded me of the Transformers soundtrack.

Zoltan

Welcome to YC.

This sounds like pretty standard hollywood fare and would work well in a number of settings.

Although we are still in the beta stage here at the new and improved YC, those of us here in the Games forum have always tried to go out of our way to critique each others music. So I will ask you to join in as much as possible. Many of our members will return the favor.

Nice work

Ron

Listening now. What kind of sound library are you using? This sounds pretty good for a kind of rustic, Lord of the Rings kind of sequence leading into something epic like a battle or a uniting of forces for a major conflict. Could go well in a variety of other contexts, but this was kind of the first thing that came to my mind when listening.

Good work. Welcome to YC!

Hey there!

Welcome aboard, first of all, and thanks for sharing your piece with us!

I will be honest with you and say that I found it to be extremely generic and anti-climatic. With that being said, you've captured the general outline of a good deal of modern Hollywood fare, so what you need to do now is colour in that outline so that you get yourself producing some more solid and compelling music. To begin, thicken up your orchestration and find different ways to use your instruments to support the motion you have going on — variety is a key to maintaining an audience's interest. In addition, I wanted to hear the build to the end get a LOT larger; at this point it builds, but by the end I don't feel like I've reached a climax, it's just sort of bigger than it was when you started....I'm hoping for a massive and powerful sound by the time the track ends so that I, as a listener, feel like I've been taken somewhere, that I've heard some development over the course of the track.

I'll reserve commentary on the production end of things for now because your focus at this point, I feel, should be your actual composing skills.

Welcome once again, and I hope to continue seeing you around the forums! :happy:

I agree with the comment of it having a similarity to The Dark Knight. No worries, though. There is nothing wrong with using ideas from another composer as long as you do not rip them off. This is how we discover, learn, and grow (most important)

Rock and drama do not usually mix well. You have combined this rock-like feel with a rather dramatic and tragic pad in the strings. It works well. Good job

There's some very nice ideas going on in here and some of them even quite complex. I'm not much on playing the critic so anything I say PLEASE just take as suggestions from one musician to another to be used or ignored as you see fit. There's a couple of spots where you seem intent on getting some contrapuntal melodic lines working. Great idea but maybe could benefit with a little more planning. You also interchange vocal and string choirs a little too freely for my taste. Personally, I'd choose one or the other as I think this would give a more sustained direction to your dramatic curve. I also find that specifying the ensemble makes it easier to exploit good old tried and true techniques like octave doubling in certain voices etc. while maintaining a consistent sound and thematic continuity. The only other thing I'd suggest is the same thing I tell myself constantly: develop those mixing skills. I don't know if you use Logic or not as I do but constantly improving your skills in this area, especially in todays soundtrack world, is always a plus -- even if it is also a pain at times.

Great work! Take care!

WOW thank you soo much EVERYBODY for commenting and giving advice!!! im really happy my music has gotten 84 play already lol i didnt think it would reach this much thb. one thing i really wanna shout out though is have i put my music in the right category? lol cuz i dont know what "renaissance" is, since my target audience is people who like hollywood-ish and film score-ish type of music. THANK YOU EVERYONE again. And dont worry people lol because I will be commenting on YOUR music VERY SOON !

bye for now.

BTW i use fl studio ( i know i know its not as good as PRO TOOLS or CUBASE or LOGIC PRO, but i cannot get a MAN and CUBASE is way too complicated to even look at lol)

BYE for now...

Hey jollyzolly,

Once again welcome to YC, and I look forward to hearing more pieces from you.

Regarding 'A Hero Rises', I honestly thought that the piece was excellent. I really like the introduction, but I think that you could build up the ending to a dramatic and bold climax. This song reminds me of alot of video-game music and it would easily fit into many of the recent and popular video-games. The strings work really well, considering you are using FL Studio (which I can never get to work ).

Anyway great piece and I look forward to hearing more great pieces from you

haha lol thank you very much!!! yepp lol im almost done working on a piece which i think is quite good TBH. i'll upload as soon as poss.

take care

Nice developments of motifs though they are similar to some already out there... And i like the use of instruments, perhaps could have extended the climax more? Has a lot of potential!

Yes very batman. I really like the Choir. Your play from strings to brass is very nice.

There are some really nice ideas throughout the piece!

--I like the way instruments keep adding and layering throughout the first half of the piece: it adds a real level of coolness to the experience and elevates it from more than just something you'd only listen to as a soundtrack.

--I wish you'd continued the above actions right to the end, but instead you get comfortable in the last half of the piece, and just play around with the musical ideas you've brought in with your instruments up to that point. Why not go the extra mile and keep layering until the gloriously exhausting end? You set yourself apart from the more generic Hollywood fare that way!

Thanks for sharing! :D

really good ideas. lovely pitch passages. i love choirs and strings too, lovely combination. <3

Nice work! once again, it reminds me alot of batman begins/the dark night mostly the beginning.

I really like your viola, I think its a viola theme. and in one spot, I'm not sure exactly where, the brass seemed a little off timing.

otherwise it was really cool!