Sakura Sanctuary REMIX

This is a remix of an earlier composition of mine by the same name (but completely different style). Please check out my youtube link:

Sakura Sanctuary REMIX

This is a remix of an earlier composition of mine by the same name (but completely different style).

Please check out my youtube link:

(I perform)

Thanks and I hope you like it =D

Sakura Sanctuary REMIX

Hay! I'm checked out your remix. It nice for shure. May be even better when before. Don't you fink so? And the music ollowing you - is it also yours?

I like this a lot. I wasnt in the greatest mood earlier until i started listening to this song. It put me in a happier mood. Thx

@DenNet Yes I made the accompanying track as well using FL studio, and my keyboard. Cheers~

I changed the style compared to the original so its hard to compare, but I'd like to think that this version has improved upon the original haha.

@Zer0 Thank you so much I'm glad you liked it =D

Very nice! You are well on your way to making some very good stuff! Keep it up. My only issues is the sound quality. Some instruments are a bit thin and obviously computerized(digital or whatever you wanna call it). It's not necessarily a problem as you are limited by your equipment but just make sure you milk everything you can to get full sound(double stuff, add delay/reverb/chorus, etc...). I'm basically talking about improving it a few percent.

Also I noticed that you don't seem to have a huge dynamic range. I tend to listen to a lot of classical music and this seems to be a modern and classical style mixed. By having more dynamical range you can help create that ebb and flow a bit better and make your climaxes stronger. Again, this is only a few percent. (if your aiming for a certain format it might need to be compress or if you want a more pop feel)

Arrangement wise I think it is nice. I like all the contrasting instruments as it adds a lot of interest.

The intro is killer IMO. But dynamics will make it really kick. Up to about 32s. The problem is that you build this textural and harmonic tension but the dynamics somewhat counter act it. The intro piano doesn't fade in and dynamically lead into the next part. At 17s you have a climatic point. You build up to this point rhythmically and texturally yet dynamically nothing changes. After 17s you have some very nice textures but there is no dynamic drive. At 1:36 you have another lead into the next section but dynamically there is no crescendo. Texturally and rhythmically this is what you are doing but dynamically you are not.

I think you have got the musical ideas in your head and how to arrange them. That is 95% of the work of making good music. Just remember that since you are manually playing these and don't have an orchestra you have to make sure you play it like real people would and remember to add dynamics and play them properly(it can be hell at times but that's part of the challenge).

Basically it's like your telling a very good story and using very good diction and vocabulary to make it interesting but you are not speaking it with very much emotion.

http://sbinfocanada.about.com/od/speakforsuccesscourse/a/speechlesson3.htm

(I'm not saying it's really bad but that if you make the dynamics fit the mood and get the climaxes to have dynamic crescendo's it should help and give the music a bit more "life")

Of course at this level it's more of personal opinion and other factors(physiological, equipment, etc...). If your completely satisfied with the sound then ignore what I'm saying.

I love the piano in the beginning, lovely playing! :D

I could definitely imagine this being the intro to some sort of Action T.V. Series.

The break at 2:21 is awesome, I really liked it. Very dramatic :)

Great piece, I wish I could write piano music like this. Did you do the guitar solo towards the end? It's amazing!

@JonSlaughter Sorry I havent used the internet in quite a while due to travelling for a few weeks haha

Thanks so much for your reply (man that must taken long to write). I will try to improve the sound quality (or rather musical timbre) in future pieces to sound more realisitic (as currently all are either from my keyboard or some random VST i found on the internet). I havent paid much attention to dynamics until now, thanks for the reminder. My keyboard has a really good dynamics range for piano-like sounds but for an orchestra not so much and could tend to sound fake, i guess i will work with turning a few dials in FL studio for that haha. This is definitely something I will pay attention to. Thank you so much for that huge review.

@kevin_w Thanks, the guitar sound is from a VST in FL studio, as I don't have a professional microphone a recording of the instrument would have too much noise... But I did play the guitar solo on the instrument in the video, (its actually not very hard apart from this one fill) the same notes and rhythm and all, but what you're actually hearing is computer-generated (sadly)

p.s. i really really want to get good recording equipment though, but it doesnt help that im not a pro haha

hey wow, this piece is really epic!!!!!!!it'll make great rock music hahahahaha wow, the piano is beautiful!! i love the melody line! Great job!!