The Grand Adventure: Part 1

18 year-old Canadian film composer Isaias Garcia's latest piece pays homage to the wonder that is film scoring. This is the 1st part of a 2-part series entitled: "The Grand Adventure". Part 1 consists of 3 movements and 3 main themes in the entire piece. The composition contains elements of mystery, adventure, action and purely epic orchestration. Isaias used Logic Pro 8 for this composition.Comment and SUBSCRIBE to Isaias' Channel. Your support will definitely help out Isaias' career as he will slowly become one the industry's youngest and most exciting film composers.For more original compositions, VISIT: http://reverbnation.com/isaiasgarcia OR visit his YouTube Channel @ http://www.youtube.com/user/canargentinemusic

The Grand Adventure: Part 1

Marius now has a fellow Canadian film composer!

Well done! It's well written, and for the most part, pretty well sequenced. The two things I would recommend you work on, should you think about polishing this track off, would be your mixing and some of your patch selections (particularly the staccatos). To my ears the track sounds overly reverbed and mushy, and overall I don't get enough of a sense of definition out of the instruments. This carries over to your selection of string staccato patches, they're not tight and articulated enough. I'd suggest finding either a closer mic'd string staccato patch or spiccato patch, and using that instead. To be a little nit-picky, you could also work a bit on further humanizing the track, with more attention to velocities/tempos/expression curves.

Did I hear influences of Danny's Batman theme?

Very well done, and I look forward to hear more work from you in the future!

Hey Andy :D

I appreciate the feedback and the interesting insights on the piece. Yes, The intro had been influenced by Danny Elfman's Batman theme (which I think was the best one he did). Thanks again :D

Cheers

Hey there, Isaias!

Nice to see a fellow Canuckomposer on here :P

Andy has pretty much covered the comments that I had spring to mind while listening to this. It's quite nice, and besides the percussion accompaniment in the active bit (which sounds very loose, tighten that up), I thought everything was pretty solid. You've made pretty good use of the samples you have, and as you get better at manipulating the sequencing, you'll no doubt be able to produce more convincing mock-ups. This track has a very nice variety of moods in it, which I appreciated, and it was evocatively written.

Keep up the good work, focus more on the production side of things, and I'll look forward to hearing more out of you. :happy:

Welcome to YC.

You can't go wrong having Elfman as an influence.

I have listened to all of your posted works and enjoyed them all. In the future if you would add in your post what programs you used to compose your pieces, it will help our members decide which Sequencers, Libraries, etc that they might want to buy for themselves.

Nice work

Ron

It's very amazing, a perfect film score! I love especially the rithm of your drums, it' gives ti the piece the epic atmosphere. What kind of drums are they? I'm just starting composing with classic elements, and there are many instruments that I don't know =)

hey rudirusso, thank you for the awesome comments... umm I composed this using only logic 8... the drums i got from the orchestral percussion instruments, ive got some asian toms of some sort, sometimes I like to double certain instruments to add more color, and yes i play around with the pan settings and reverb. :)

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Gosh, this is the second piece I'e tried to look at of yours, Isaias, and again, the Social Network seems to have erased your page! Could you try re-uploading your piece? :o