Every Morning Begins With a Hope

I composed this short piece for a short movie. It was cancelled at the last minute. Concept:It is nice to see the sunlight when you wake up. You can easily feel the freshness of morning. Soon, you will come out after breakfast, and will find yourself in a tender relation with the city. Walking around and observing the city atmosphere will make you a part of it. Hence, that will inspire you, and then you might feel hopeful for that on everyday.

Every Morning Begins With a Hope

This has a nice sound. It captures what you described perfectly. :)

I really don't have much to complain about, I thought it was excellent overall. I'm thinking the strings are a little loud though. They kind of drown out the rest of the instruments when they come in.

Other than that, keep it up.

Hi Hakan,

This isn't bad, and certainly captured the mood that you were trying to portray. I loved that bouncy mood!! :)

I agree with Amana about the strings. Another thing is the realism - I'd have also liked to see more attention paid to the sequencing with volume - the strings still seem a little synthy at the moment with that robotic swell at the start, and the tempo and certain odd instruments sound a little repeated at times. However, it's overall a fairly solid track, and I'd have liked to see it in the scene of the film :)

Hi Hakan,

Nice track. Very light-hearted, almost reminds me of Joe Hisaishi's work. The sequencing and mixing needs some serious work, as others have said. It's quite inconsistent in terms of volume and realism...tighten up those string attacks and phrases, and bring down the glockenspiel — it's a very piercing instrument, it'll cut through almost anything, so you don't need to make it very loud to make use of its effects.

Did you get any rough cut of the film that you could show us so we understand the context a bit better?

Thanks guys for comments, I actually should have told in the description. Such those of my earlier works were for creating the scene and catching its concept. Therefore, I havent polished or revised their repetitive parts. Well, they were done with very old system, so I didnt have a good chance to make good mixes either. My point here is only to share their musical concepts. However, I take notes the critics related to the mix because I have got problems with room acoustics and my monitors.For example, strings volume level is ok at my room. I dont have anything to change my technical environment.By the way, I didnt get any rough cut, not even a picture. I totally left it to my imagination.

Do you want the strings to land on the beat or off the beat? They sound like they have a really slow attack but you want to hear them on beat 1.

I'm thinking if the first image you're portraying is the sunlight across someone's face as they woke up, there should be less motion at the very beginning and perhaps something shimmery sounding. I'm thinking of just a few bars of introduction that smoothly leads into your piano melody. Something that suggests a great day is ahead of you.

0:47-1:08 feels a little too foreboding with those low strings. It doesn't connect really well to the next section. I think it would work better if you eliminated the break between these two sections and lead into with a rousing fully orchestrated melody.

1:10-1:20 is some good busy city feel writing. I wish there was more of this, it only lasts for a short time :sadtears: Do you ever listen to Gershwin? His music has a nice busy city feel to it. A piece like Rhapsody in Blue might be too hectic a feeling for the mood you're going for, but it's still worth a listen. Gershwin is always worth a listen.

Nice work, Hakan,

-John

Thanks for your comment John. You noticed the point. I wanted expressivo slow attack on strings. They land on the beat with a slow attack, and then getting louder. I really like this expressivo style. For example, I use this style in "Life as a Routine", too. I wish I could make it longer, but it was requested for that shortness. To finish this piece, it took two days in a short deadline. By the way, Gershwin was a really good composer. Take care..