Sierra Escape

A light, upbeat piece that I recently wrote on Sibelius. While I was writing it I was thinking of Road Rash 2, a very old motorcycle game that I used to play, and I was thinking fondly of the Sierra Nevada map. Thanks for listening!

Sierra Escape

Well it's definitely up-beat! I generally don't like this kind of music, but even though this was a bit pop/rock-ish for my taste, I really liked it.

You need to upload a score! Do you use Sib 6? If you do I can tell you how to get a pdf.

Nice melodies here. I like how you used the banjo (I think) in there. Nice work with that. My only criticisms would be that somewhere along the line it needs change. A little B section or something to make it more interesting, because it gets a tad boring after a while. Also, the flute part seems pretty high... if some of it could be done down an octave, you'd make a flute player happy.

I like this melody a lot, though if I had thought of it it would have probably been for heckelphone and viola or something like that :P

Great work, and keep composing!

Heckel

Thanks Hecklephone for your review! I do have a score, albeit I am slightly embarrassed by it since I basically use the most simple scoring techniques to get the most amount of sound.

I agree, it gets kind of monotonous with the repeated 16th notes, and without a slower B section, the entire piece just feels like a relay race where one guy forgets to pass on the baton.

The flute is actually a piccolo, and I make a grave composition error here in that I actually have the piccolo play below its range for a few of the notes. Same with the Guitar, I have it play above its normal range. (I have never been good at keeping in range, honestly).

Thanks for your ideas and review!