Wild West Orchestra

My Spaghetti Western style orchestral piece. This is actually the last piece I'll ever do with my now ten-years-old PC, as tomorrow I'm finally assembling my new one.

Let me know what you guys think about this.

Very cool music. I've noticed with a lot of your recent posts that you're very good at exploring a certain style and making it idiomatic to what you're going for. Everything sounds spot on to fit the theme. 

In one of the bands I play in we do a song called Spaghetti Western. I'm so used to strat sounds and piano off beat chords that your music was a breath of fresh air when listening. It felt like the intro to a John Wayne movie, except the lead was a pretty blond girl instead. Cool stuff man, thanks for sharing. 

Superb. Brilliant in all respects. It might as well be a track of an OST recording. 

Has a slight scent of Copland about it. Very Wild West-like. Exciting, vibrant. No comment other than you obviously know what you're doing. And all the best with the new build. Hoping it works straight away.

Quinn

Hey Chris,

Wonderful! I love all the opening fanfare with parallel fifth and the mixolydian mode!! The middle section I love in 0:51 there's an imitation of horse neighing! Like Vince said you can always write idiomatic music to certain style which is a great talent and which is something I can never do!! Very uplifting music and thanks for sharing!

Henry

On 5/1/2023 at 11:04 PM, Thatguy v2.0 said:

Very cool music. I've noticed with a lot of your recent posts that you're very good at exploring a certain style and making it idiomatic to what you're going for. Everything sounds spot on to fit the theme. 

In one of the bands I play in we do a song called Spaghetti Western. I'm so used to strat sounds and piano off beat chords that your music was a breath of fresh air when listening. It felt like the intro to a John Wayne movie, except the lead was a pretty blond girl instead. Cool stuff man, thanks for sharing. 

 

Hey thanks!

Yes, I specifically tried to avoid the guitars and pianos haha. I'm glad you took notice of that.

22 hours ago, Quinn said:

Superb. Brilliant in all respects. It might as well be a track of an OST recording. 

Has a slight scent of Copland about it. Very Wild West-like. Exciting, vibrant. No comment other than you obviously know what you're doing. And all the best with the new build. Hoping it works straight away.

Quinn

 

Many thanks, Quinn. 

The build didn't work straight away unfortunately, but it's now up and running.

12 hours ago, Henry Ng Tsz Kiu said:

Hey Chris,

Wonderful! I love all the opening fanfare with parallel fifth and the mixolydian mode!! The middle section I love in 0:51 there's an imitation of horse neighing! Like Vince said you can always write idiomatic music to certain style which is a great talent and which is something I can never do!! Very uplifting music and thanks for sharing!

Henry

 

Thanks so much, Henry!

Uplifting is what I aim for.

Yee haw!  Howdy pardner! 

Oh my .. don't know where that came from .. Nice job with this western fanfare!  There is quite a lot of repetition in this but you don't take it too far.  You end it at just the right point - if you had continued past that point it would probably have been advisable to make some kind of big contrasting section in another key (like the lyrical love theme from Superman for example).  What you have is essentially a masculine theme - but now it's just screaming out for a contrasting feminine theme.  But that might just be my personal preference.  Besides that your track was ace-high!

Thanks for sharing!

Sounds great and definitely fitting of a Western movie!  I'm getting "William Tell Overture" vibes, especially with the "1 +a" rhythmic ostinato chugging along in the background. 

Thanks guys!