Battle Theme (Synthesized

This is my latest endeavor, I listened to a bunch of battle themes on youtube and tried to basically write my own. This could be longer but I like the sounds I found and how it came out.No score sorry, I assume this forum has a lot of that though!I would appreciate comments on how to improve. I tried to extend phrases and use accidentals to spice it up.

Battle Theme (Synthesized

Cool piece carryon! Is this your first battle theme?

You definitely have the right kind of instrumentation. I'd think about expanding it even further. Give the melody to another instrument after 16 or 32 bars. Add in an electric guitar. Play around with it so that you have enough material to expand the piece and to keep the listener engaged.

The beat is very important to a battle theme. It creates the energy for the players; it gets them excited. Work on your drum beat so its sounds great by itself, then add in the other instruments. If you have instruments in the background supporting the beat, make sure they sound great with the drums.

The piece has a nice bit of tension. Try using a little more and see if you like that sound. There's a huge range of battle themes you could write. This one sounds like a regular encounter. You could write a boss theme which sound more intense.

What you have is a great starting point. Experiment with more aggressive instruments. Play around with a bit more tension. These ideas will help you expand your piece.

Nice work!

-John

Cool piece carryon! Is this your first battle theme?

You definitely have the right kind of instrumentation. I'd think about expanding it even further. Give the melody to another instrument after 16 or 32 bars. Add in an electric guitar. Play around with it so that you have enough material to expand the piece and to keep the listener engaged.

The beat is very important to a battle theme. It creates the energy for the players; it gets them excited. Work on your drum beat so its sounds great by itself, then add in the other instruments. If you have instruments in the background supporting the beat, make sure they sound great with the drums.

The piece has a nice bit of tension. Try using a little more and see if you like that sound. There's a huge range of battle themes you could write. This one sounds like a regular encounter. You could write a boss theme which sound more intense.

What you have is a great starting point. Experiment with more aggressive instruments. Play around with a bit more tension. These ideas will help you expand your piece.

Nice work!

-John

Thanks John!

Yes this is my first battle theme. Your advice is great. I think im gonna add a bass guitar and continue the piece with some different instruments.

I definitely hear you on the drum beat, one thing I noticed about battle themes is they all have drum "parts" if you will and need to be engaging in themselves. I tried to do a little of that but it could use more definitely.

again thanks for the review!

Dude -- this is a way cool demonstration of your skills! :w00t:

John's right, the instrumentation is spot-on -- it sounds sort of like something that would be in one of those old SNES RPGs. The panning effects are really great, and the chord changes are strange, in a good way :nod:

The only thing that kind of distracted me was when the gunshot effect came in at about :18, it sounded like it was going to be a constant, pulsing beat for the piece, to my ears, but then it kind of introduced the coming drum breakdown. That's interesting, the way you did that -- I kind of wanted it to be more present, but maybe that idea is better in concept than in execution.

Thanks for sharing, this was really fun to listen to! I look forward to hearing more from you :D

Fantastic. What video game is this from again? If it's not already in a video game, it should be.

Fantastic. What video game is this from again? If it's not already in a video game, it should be.

thanks to both of you! (I hadn't seen these comments)

I agree serge (whats your name again?) The machine gun sort of drum definitely sounded better in my head than it did after the excecution.

And I posted this on a few sites, hopefully someone will put it in their flash RPG or something, hell its free!