Sanctus - I'm New!

Hey everyone!

I've been composing some stuff for a couple of months now mainly for use in some fantrailers that I make. I thought it was time that I asked for other people's views on my music (family is no good since they are nice no matter what!). Anyway, I use Cubase and EWQL Gold and Stormdrum to compose and I thought I'd share with you my latest piece.

It's called Sanctus and uses a repeated melody on the strings with variations on other instruments buliding up to a choir at the end. Since it's a trailer soundtrack it's just short of two minutes in length.

Here it is: Sanctus_with_choir.mp3 - FileFront.com

Thanks for you time and comments!

Hey hey,

Good work!

Ummmmm... you know leaving comments on other people's compositions is a hard thing to do because music is sooo... well it's never right and never wrong. Everyone has their own idealistic styles, but who is to say that their style and approach should be yours. So nobody is ever truely qualified to tear apart your work but yourself. With that said, I have just a couple of my own thoughts:

1. Your opening totally sounded like drum core... not... well I don't know what your trailer was about. But you just might double check whether or not you want to keep those drum fonts. I will admit, they do sound pretty rad. But that isn't always the best thing when you are trying to keep with a certian theme. But hey, I liked it.

2. The theme motive idea that you had bothered me... not because it was bad or anything. But I totally heard it going someplace else than where it did, curse of a composer I suppose.

3. Now, remember, these are just my opinions..... I would have loved to hear some more chordal structure. What I mean by that is, some chords... like... stacked... at the same time playing. Would have been nice in my ears. The strings are cool... really cool... maybe switch it up with some obeo, clarinet or english horn? The strings were really kinda driving me up the wall by the end of your clip. Heck, some trumpets would have really sounded cool in this clip.. I think.

4. Voice leading... ummmm... that's probably the biggest thing I'd work on.

But like I said. Great work, and who I am to tell you what you need to work on. What do you think of your clip? That's the important thing.

Hey Berklee,

Thanks for you comments! It's always good hearing someone else's opinions.

I'll try adding some more woodwind/brass during the song to tone down the strings - I totally see what you mean about them becoming repetitive.

And yeh, I'll need to work on the choir, I added it in at the last minute just to round it off but didn't really work on it properly.

The other stuff I've composed is really just trailer music, so short stuff, and I really enjoy it. I don't think this is my best piece but the end of it feels much "fuller" than my other stuff.

Thanks again for your comments