A Pretty Minute

This is a little composition I did for a 'promotional animation,' whatever that is. The music was written before the animation, so that the animation can be based around the music written. I don't know that much about the animation at the moment, but once I do I'll change this description. Anyway, I was asked to write a 1 min long piece, that was quite quiet until 40:00, where it would crescendo to 50:00 before going quiet again. The timings are a little bit off from that, but the general idea is still there.

Nice guitar opening. Did they give you any other directions for the theme of the music?

Very gentle ending. I like it.

It seems a little out of place for the drums to crescendo through the orchestra from 0:36-0:50. Can you increase the volumes of the rest of the orchestra too? The drums sound out of place in their current state.

Fun instrumentation. I enjoyed the hand drums, the pizz. strings, the ukulele. They came together surprisingly well.

Peace,

-John

Nice guitar opening. Did they give you any other directions for the theme of the music?

Very gentle ending. I like it.

It seems a little out of place for the drums to crescendo through the orchestra from 0:36-0:50. Can you increase the volumes of the rest of the orchestra too? The drums sound out of place in their current state.

Fun instrumentation. I enjoyed the hand drums, the pizz. strings, the ukulele. They came together surprisingly well.

Peace,

-John

Thanks for the comment, glad you enjoyed it. I asked for a theme for the music, but the guy I wrote it for said he would shape the animation around the music so I could use whatever theme I wanted, as long as it had a crescendo to suddenly quiet near the end. So I thought it would be nice to do something a bit different to my usual style, something... happy! :o

I can see what you mean about the crescendo with the drums. There is some crescendos in other instruments at that point as well, but they aren't really that audible (could have been an effect of too much compression). There is also another violin bit just before it goes quiet that I don't like as well, but the piece has already been sent off and the guy was really happy with it, and I'm super busy with tracks for other stuff now, so I think I'm gonna have to just live with the things I don't love in this track.

Weirdly, the 'ukulele' is actually a harp, using a mode on the VST to bring out the harmonics more. It does sound more ukuleleish though thinking about it :P

Thanks again.