Dark piano ballad/theme for video game

The following is a piano ballad for a game. Honestly I wanted to extend the song and add a snare and bass drum and loop the overall main piano theme to kind of add a battle theme to it. Thik of this song as the intro to the battle. Idk tho tell me what yall think?

Hi @Zeldz,

I like you are using the dark key of G# minor here for the dark piano ballad. But maybe for me it's too beautiful to be the intro of a battle. Unless you are using a horn for the slow version of this and then use trumpets for the real battle music, idk.

Henry

Thanks so much! I understand what you mean. I’ll add a snare and bass drum and see how it sounds. If that doesn’t sound good I’ll probably just pass this on as just a piano ballad. I also thought of using voice such as a solo female lead to add a main melody.

Here’s the full version with the battle version:

https://on.soundcloud.com/9KNgfwfHxXtuEv3m7

Nice piano piece and I enjoyed the full battle version as well!  I think something you could have done better in the orchestrated version is use the piano only in the extremes of its register as that's how piano sounds best in an orchestral context.  There are loads of arrangements out there where the arranger simply took a piano piece and kept it in the score throughout the whole arrangement just adding more and more orchestral instruments to thicken the texture and they really sound very dull.  That is the worst way to orchestrate a piano piece.  But if you removed some of the piano and substituted an appropriate wind or string arrangement in the middle of the register and use the piano in only the very high or very low tessitura it would sound 1000% better imo.  Those are my thoughts.  Thanks for sharing!