June 1, 201015 yr This is a product of me experimenting with some oriental scales. The underlying inspiration for it was an old Arabic tale :) Ebony Horse
June 2, 201015 yr Good work. It's very light and open sounding. Maybe try just a tad more instrumentation.
June 2, 201015 yr beautiful melody! Makes me feel I'm wandering through the desert at night. may I suggest a full string variation on the melody later on in the piece? or perhaps experimenting with some ethnic wind instruments to capture the feel of the desert winds? all-in-all a beautiful melody!
June 2, 201015 yr Author I'm very happy you liked it When it comes to adding some more instrumentation, I thought about it too, but then run into two snags: (1) I compose using my keyboard and it's so hard to simulate well the sound of a woodwind instrument, esp. ethnic; (2) honestly speaking, on a day-to-day basis I'm totally into symphonic rock and metal and therefore I don't feel comfortable enough around oriental scales to come up with some more complex melodies. Given that, I went for simplicity of just oud in the lead Before composing this little piece I had listened for days, over and over again, to lots of different Arabic and Turkish melodies so as to feel the climate and get the grasp of how it all should work. If you like my composition, then it's a huge reward for me
