Escape at The Last Second

A song I wrote a while back, originally composed for piano. Inspired by epic film music. Composed with Reason 4.0.

Escape at The Last Second

Hi DW,

Welcome to YC!

This is a pretty neat track, nice and patient and with a cool modern vibe. I was hoping that the section around 1:00 was just a brief bridge to a really rockin' portion, but instead you made it a kind of middle bit before coming back to the original layers. It's not bad, it just feels very flat. I wanted more from the track and I didn't really get it. Some further time spent making the writing a bit more sophisticated will help improve this track. In addition, some of the mixing was rather bland and/or unpolished so if you do go back to it also work on getting your instruments to sit well together in the mix, not clash, and throw some gentle reverb over them all to make them sound like they're at least in the same general area instead of the more disjointed soundscape that's currently here.

Overall this is good though, I just sort of felt like it's an unfinished sketch for something more.

Thanks for sharing and, once again, welcome aboard! Browse around and see if you can leave some comments for others too while you're here — they'll appreciate it almost always return the favour. :happy:

hey , nice track . you should work harder on your mix , and also ur just repeating the first melody over and over . good job. welcome to youngcomposers.com .

Hey, thanks guys. Yeah I didn't spend much time on this, just split the original piano tracks and gave them different instrument tones; and of course made a drum part. Anyways thanks for comments!

With some polishing and a nice sampling/recording, this can go far, my friend! Loved the rock organ (i hope that's an organ haha).

Keep up the good work!

Hi, cool piece!

Other than what's already been said about mixing, there's a couple comments I'd like to make.

The closest thing to a melody that I hear comes in at around 20 seconds, although it's more of an ostinato (repeating pattern) I believe. I would consider trying a stronger melody that really takes advantage of the interesting layers you have. This would help make it more memorable and more complete in my opinion. Also, at around 57 seconds I would love to hear you bring in the original ostinato I mentioned (that comes in at 020) as an additional layer. Maybe consider giving it to the piano up in the high registers, staying more in the background like you have the piano doing already.

Also, the ending seems a little disconnected from the rest of the piece. You don't end on the tonic, and it seems like you're ready to move onto a new section in a new key. I would try to make a more powerful ending that emphasizes your main 'ostinato', and stays in the home key of C minor.

Hope that was good feedback :P it's my first time!

Thank you very much for the comment! Yes, I plan on doing stuff to the mixing and possibly have more of a melody as you mentioned. As for the ending; yes, the entire piece is in the key of Cminor but I thought it sounded interesting to end on an E note (imply a Cmajor chord). It just added an unresolved effect that sounded cool in my opinion but yes, I can see how that doesn't really fit.