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Cat_of_Ananke
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### [VRC6] My first post in 78 days, yo

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Post by Cat_of_Ananke » Mon Oct 26, 2015 8:49 am

Soo, a few months ago I was kind of pumping out the low quality pieces. I've to decide to, well, not do that, plus I'm back at school now so most of my composing efforts are going there at the moment.
In the time since I last posted I've managed to write a grand total of one piece but I'll try to try to keep working. Hopefully my stuff should generaly be of a better quality now, if I can put in the effort to keep on working at it.

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sterne
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### Re: [VRC6] My first post in 78 days, yo

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Post by sterne » Mon Oct 26, 2015 9:34 am

Drums are weak. That can be fixed.
My only problem with the actual composition is that it doesn't seem to go anywhere. The tempo may change, but the key and chord progression are pretty much the same the whole way through. The melodies seem to be pentatonic noodling which is perfectly OK for basic NES music, but they need to be broken up into sections so that they don't become too tiring to listen to.
I enjoyed the drum fake out somewhere around Pattern 20.
Please tune the triangle correctly. Halfway through the song the melody on the triangle starts to make absolutely no sense and it quickly descends into madness towards the end. The other problem with the triangle melodies is that they simply go on -forever and ever and ever-.
"It's the 20 minute solos, man. It's the stage dives. We're trying to land a record deal here, Dewey."
However, I can see very obviously looking at the patterns that you put a lot of time and effort into this, and that perseverance is very important for this kind of stuff.
Overall, I think that some simple composition improvement, combined with your technical ability with the effects and such, could make for a very good tune.
But... why?
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Shywolf
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Post by Shywolf » Mon Oct 26, 2015 5:03 pm

sterne articulates my thoughts on this tune better than I could. The triangle's descent into madness really puts the "Intoxicated" in the filename, though.
Also, was that a reference to Desire Drive in frame 0x22? Maybe it's just me. :V
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Cat_of_Ananke
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Post by Cat_of_Ananke » Mon Oct 26, 2015 6:39 pm

Yeah, I realise it is basicaly just a really long triangle melody in G. I was thinking that if I kept the chords and stuff simple I'd be able to get away with weirder stuff in the melody, buuut that's not how music works now, is it :p If a feature can't be supported by the whole texture than it probably shouldn't be there.
20 onwards I know lacks discipline, but I thought it sounded alright; the result was at least what I was aiming for.

> Shywolf wrote: was that a reference to Desire Drive in frame 0x22?

yes :v
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sterne
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Post by sterne » Fri Oct 30, 2015 8:06 pm

> Cat_of_Ananke wrote:Yeah, I realise it is basicaly just a really long triangle melody in G. I was thinking that if I kept the chords and stuff simple I'd be able to get away with weirder stuff in the melody, buuut that's not how music works now, is it :p If a feature can't be supported by the whole texture than it probably shouldn't be there.
> 20 onwards I know lacks discipline, but I thought it sounded alright; the result was at least what I was aiming for.

> > Shywolf wrote: was that a reference to Desire Drive in frame 0x22?

> yes :v

Try to make very interesting chords with a lot of variation and not too much "1.... 2.... 3.... 4.... repeat...." if that makes sense.
Then, on top of this catchy chord progression, put a melody that isn't overly complicated or "crazy solo" like, but manages to be very memorable and catchy. Have that melody repeat some phrases from earlier partially, but try to introduce a new idea with every measure.
A perfect example of a song that pulls this off is "Flowerguy's Pool Party" by Jake "Virt" Kaufman.
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