Tall Drinks...Taller Tales (European Folk Influence)

In a previous tune I'd shared, I originally had this highland sort of section, but it didn't vibe with the rest of the track, so I made it into its own little thing instead.

I'll probably swap out the folk instruments with the equivalents from Era II at a later date.

I see that now you're with Geralt of Rivia.

Happy to see that there's a folk tune I can listen to, 

that's one of my favorite music styles.

Let's give it a listen.

Sounds more like a folkish soundtrack, but it makes sense since you wrote "influenced".

The drums are too loud for me, but that depends on the effect you'd like to create.

I really liked the solo singer section. That was maybe the most folk-like thing here.

Mainly it felt like you used far too many instruments than what you should have used.

I'll give it another listen.

Oh now I get it. Did you think about making something like The Witcher's soundtrack?

Making something like that would be incredible, though it would require going to Europe to learn from original sources,

then producing the music with actual recordings of all these cool folk instruments.

If that's what you intended to do- no, it doesn't sound like The Witcher to me. 

But that's okay of course, achieving that is almost beyond what one can do.

So in general...

it could fit in a fantasy short scene.

The track's main problem, other than what I already pointed out,

is that it's EXTREMELY short.

I mean you have so many instruments there that you could use,

so many parameters to change, so many things you could do.

Try and expand it.

Game-wise thinking... try and make it something that one can listen to for a long time.

Ok now that I read my review again, I might have been too harsh on you.

Please excuse me, I had one of the most difficult weeks of my life

(had to guard a base for over 40 hours, standing alone in a tower with nothing but a gun, a helmet and a bottle of water). 

1 hour ago, Rabbival507 said:

Oh now I get it. Did you think about making something like The Witcher's soundtrack?

I did not, actually.

However, I am working on a witcher-themed track for Halloween.

4 hours ago, Rabbival507 said:

it's EXTREMELY short.

I mean you have so many instruments there that you could use,

so many parameters to change, so many things you could do.

Try and expand it.

That's the note you should take, not the Witcher one.

Well I have to say that I always respect the duration of a work. The composer has the last word.

Many times I am in the same situation. I don't like to expand anything if  I feel it's ok, no matter how long or how it has been made.

Perhaps my idea of development is different.

Said that, I like your piece, tha instruments increase the power and the vocal middle part is nice (you would need two singers! + chorus).

10 hours ago, Rabbival507 said:

That's the note you should take, not the Witcher one.

 

I'm going to be honest with you:

I don't care what you think about the length of the piece.

Most of the tunes I share here are demos that go on my website. When potential clients come to me, they don't want to hear a 4-minute epic from someone whose music they've never heard. Rather, they just want to know style, if I can actually write a decent tune, etc and if they don't like it almost instantly, they shut it off — I think most who'd listen here are probably of like mind. Secondly, sample demos for music like this, where it's all about the melody, shifts instrumentation continuously, etc. takes a lot of time to make even for a piece this long; it's not something like what a lot of YouTube composers do, where they fire up a legato patch, play some chords with the left hand, add an ostinato, and have a repetitive piece of 3 minutes in less than an hour. Thirdly, between normal life stuff and currently working on the soundtrack to a horror game, I don't have a tremendous amount of time to work on 3+ minute tunes for fun. Lastly, I prefer shorter tunes anyway.

I expect this feedback because I've shared it in a place where you find EDM artists and as I believe you are yourself, concert composers who have the liberty of spending indefinite amounts of time to develop pieces of music, but I still see the time criticism as largely irrelevant all the same.

2 hours ago, Luis Hernández said:

Well I have to say that I always respect the duration of a work. The composer has the last word.

Many times I am in the same situation. I don't like to expand anything if  I feel it's ok, no matter how long or how it has been made.

Perhaps my idea of development is different.

 

Said that, I like your piece, tha instruments increase the power and the vocal middle part is nice (you would need two singers! + chorus).

Thanks a lot Luis.