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The announcement of the new movie really inspired me to compose a piece in the production style of early 2000s action-thriller movies like National Treasure and Tomb Raider. Let me know what you guys think!

Here’s another one with heavy Beatles influence. I’m interested to know how the balance is and if the bass is too loud. Thanks for listening.

You are absolutely right on all of these points. If we invert Viola Contrabass I still do think that the redundancy of the process or maybe the length of the passage is too much.❤️ My idea is to show the concepts not narowing them to an antique style.

The descending scale in octaves offset by a quarter beat already establish the parallel octaves (parallel double octaves in this case). So I'm not overly concerned that this passage violates the sacred, eternal rule of no parallel octaves. My concern on the octaves is the tendency of strings to strengthen when playing at the octave. One only has to gander at the quartets of haydn, mozart, and Beethoven to see octave doublings abound in string writing- for dynamic and timbre purposes. My concern is that the bass is playing fast material that would fit more idiomatically in the viola part and vice versa. It's clear the composer isnt going for antiquated contrapuntal observation -even the first part isnt quite 16th century.

Um... you do realize that this is virtually impossible right? The Cb sounds an octave lower than written... meaning that the passage you mention would be played in a much lower range than the open C string on the viola! Honestly, I think if he placed this material in the viola and the bass played the quarter note... this passage would be fine with the right articulations.

Ummm... Thank you for this extremely long but interesting review and for all the help you've given. I'll have a look through the piece and try to fix up bits. Thanks Thanks Thanks😁

Yes, they'd use the G and D strings which, open, wouldn't ring as they'd be stopped for the B and higher G. All "first position".