The Pearly Gates

So Im not at all religious, but I had a dream about arriving at the pearly gates of heaven. When I woke up, I decided to write this! I got a huge amount of inspiration from Jeremy Soule, trying to mimic his textures here and there. Still working on it, but any criticism now would be awesome!

Thanks,

Jon

http://www.box.net/shared/eyndcev09c

This sounded more like arrival at a beautiful island, unknown to man, or some other planet or such... I think to give out the impression of heaven I'd use more choirs and less arpeggios and other sparkly instruments like chimes, bells etc. I think that keeping it more legato with strings, choirs, maybe an organ would make it sound more... holy. :) I think that for achieving this sort of sound you can look up to early church music, chorales etc.

The end of it (that's definitely not an ending. But the end of this recording) is very, very similar to a pre-existing piece of music. I can't put my finger on what it is...[edit] Got it. I've heard that exact sound here:

The ending. Dunno if you've ever heard this song before and engaged in unconscious plagiarism. :P

That aside, I agree that it doesn't sound like heaven. It sounds like some place of wonder underwater.

It is very nice, though.

Ah interesting! I honestly had no idea! Nice find :]

I als agree on the name change!

I agree that it sounds like more underwater or remembering sea to mee.

Peter : May It be originally composed and performed by Enya for LOTR soundtrack. That's a nice cover from Celtic Woman of May It Be also.

Ok, I know I'm crazy, but I just had pictures of whales swimming around and schools of fish dancing through coral reefs and all sorts of other ocean denizens doing their thing. Very peaceful and beautiful. Good stuff mate! :D