Swashbuckler

The theme for an upcoming children's film I'm scoring involving pirates and of course, buried treasure...

Swashbuckler

wow nice!

totally immersing, i love how you've developed it on about half the piece, you got a fine flow of ideas,

and production is pretty nice too, i think those unison flutes and strings were abit too "synthy" but its probably unnoticed with a picture.

well done, and welcome to the forums!

absolutely perfect, the ideas fitted the concept of pirates so well and im looking forward to hearing more, how did u learn to compose like this? and wat notation software and sound libraries are u using???

Great staccato string sounds.

Fun theme. Strong pulse with this one.

0:56 is pretty sweet. I may have been bouncing my head.

Nice soft transition at 1:47.

The harp sounds hanging over the final chords is a little lame. You should cut that out.

Great track, TRK. My only complaint is that the strings sound a little synthetic when they do their runs at 0:10. Other than that, solid!

-John

Are you using a Casio for sounds? I think that I hear every other B-grade- pirate soundtrack in here... why not try something original? Lay off of the quantize button a bit as well and let it breathe, besides the MIDI sounds as well as the hum-drum "swashbuckling" harmonies (nausea) of the past 100+ years of film scoring, it has no "human" feel to it. Back to the proverbial drawing board? Yeah, I think so, maybe just throw in the towel as well...

I cannot help but hear a LOT and I mean a LOT of Pirates of the caribbean on this one. Especially the beginning. That being said, I think you did a nice job at production, but music wise it seems like a redone PotC score.

I cannot help but hear a LOT and I mean a LOT of Pirates of the caribbean on this one. Especially the beginning. That being said, I think you did a nice job at production, but music wise it seems like a redone PotC score.

I personally heard John Powell, in particular the recent "How To Train Your Dragon".