Dragon Ride

Kids have to travel to a magical land to find a cure for a disease to save their parents. And somewhere on their way they encounter a kind sorcerer who agrees to help them, but the only way to travel further is to take a ride on mighty dragons.Dragon Ride

Dragon Ride

Sounds very magical! Nicely done, although it felt quite long. The samples were a bit hollow at times, and therefore the total sound was a bit hollow. The song itself is pretty great, although I think this is genre which does need a lot of own sound and vision to make it stand out, if you know what I mean. It's a fine piece, but I didn't feel it was very original. You did do a good job making it sound interesting throughout. Maybe that could be something to take with you for your next piece. Good job!

This is a job well done! I liked the beginning with the melody and the chords playing by the various instruments in the background. You have really good transitions too! Also, the story is a nice touch! Nicely done!

Sorry about the double comment. I had a bit of a lag

A nice piece. I think the intro could be developed a bit faster, it gets rather dull after a minute or so, it needs some more movement. The samples sound a bit synthetic, like the string leads in the beginning that go out without a tail, maybe try a different patch for that (lyrical violins do a good job on that). I would have like it more if it had more percussion in the bit that should represent the dragons flight. I liked the calm harp part, that was really cool.

Good job all in all, some more attention to detail in the future will help.

Thank you very much for comments! I guess this was one of those pieces where I forget about the fact that I was trying to compose a piece for orchestra and just tried to achieve certain 'sound'. For example cellos in first part actually sounded a bit forced, but my blinded ears seemed to be ok with that. Also my other half-mistake was probably the fact that I again composed a piece for a movie considering a sequence of scenes in background in my head, hence all those long background-ish introductions appeared. Stand alone symphonic composition should be a little more detailed I guess, you're right. Still, in terms of composition and orchestration I consider this one of my best, especially the second part. First part might be a little too long, yes. And forced cellos screamed too much 'we're sampled!'.

I would have like it more if it had more percussion in the bit that should represent the dragons flight.

I thought of that but in the end stopped on taiko ensemble percussion between two fast movements in the second part.

Whole piece was my tribute to a wonderful composer Patrick Doyle.

Hi,

When you want to have a long building intro like this, I think it would be better to add a lot more textures in it. You already started out with some wind chimes and celesta, which really sounded good, and made it better. But then I don't hear them anymore, and it starts to get "long" again. As soon as you get in the harp/celesta/wind chimes again at 1:45 or something like that it gets a lot more interesting again. Now you have those textures, which gives a slow moving piece the motor, the movement, the drive it needs. Next time, when you feel you finished your piece, try and add some more interesting lines and add some percussion, etc.

Overall I liked the piece and the ideas. The above comment was about your writing. The samples you use are obviously good, but can be used much better. Try and humanize, everything, and try to layer some samples. Furthermore, try to make legato lines sound more legato.

The best way to make everything sound more human, is to use a DAW (I think you already do this, right?), and revisit every line in solo and just listen if it sounds real to you. If not, try to make it as real as you can with modulation effects, layering samples, and extending some notes in length to overlap with the next note (for example) when creating legato lines.

I hope this helps.

Best regards,

Hugo