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Thank you so much! I oftenly start with disorganised ideas on my piano (but sometimes I start directly in musesore). Actually, it happens that I have a melody line or a rythm in my head. (I kind of "hear" something that will sound fine to me). But the playback helps a lot to write. I often listen to certain parts over and over again to see if I could add or change certain elements. And above all to find out if it sounds good.

Thank you ! I can make a pdf of this sheet if you want.

@Marshoyen Yes, it would really be cool !

Or any stereotypical eastern music haha

@Marshoyen Actually it's lot different. As an East Indian Chinese, Egyptian, and Indian sounds a lot different. We use the turkish mode but vast majority sounds different. The turkish one sounds like

Pilu Raga

Chinese music will resolve towards down when they use the pentatonic we don't really have pentatonic (Vast majority of Ragas use 7-9) note scale, now the only case we use pentatonic is in certain tribal dances, it's in swing rhythm, 3/4,6/8 etc.

Thanks!

Thanks but they're not movements, they're just random tunes I've stopped working on. They are not related to each other😅, but I'm glad you liked them. I'm absolutely not a professional composer. I've never taken any composition course or made an ost for anything (wish I could!).

@Marshoyen Thank you, you have the sense of what to use after what and the correct form of orchestration.

It's a good idea, but I think it'll sound a bit repetitive

@Marshoyen Just what you said in your reply gave me a new idea. You can actually built infinite variations and put them together. Of course right now I can't do it but see the possibility with help modern technology.

I love the way you sustain the flute around 0:27. It creates a marvellous effect.

@@Swaroque Sometimes repetitive music can sound really nice (like the interstellar theme for example)

Thanks you! Mario Galaxy OST is probably one of my favorite videogame soundtrack ever

Thanks! I think it's "Muse Keys" -> "soft piano"

Musescore 4 (with musesounds)

Thank you! I love John Powell compositions so I'm glad it remind you of him!

Thank you very much!

It sound like the adams family theme? (I haven't seen the movies)

@Marshoyen Hello Friend it really is a most common motif so no worries on that point. Even Mozart's Jupiter begins with this, of course some people hear the harmony first and other melody. I hear the melody first.

@ Ah okay I hear it now (it's just the 4 first notes)

Thanks!

Thanks for listening!

Thanks a lot! I don't really know if it's ragtime or stride but I'm glad you liked it anyway

Thank you!

Thank you very much!!

No no, Thank YOU for listening!

Thanks!

Like... the meme ?

@Marshoyen yeah

@aPersonWhoHasViolins 🤣I don't hear it, but if it reminds you of good music, I guess that's a compliment.

Thank you! You're too kind!

Thanks! I like how it turned out too. You're right I should keep this idea in my head for future compositions!

Thank you very much! I do use Musescore 4 with musesounds. I see what you mean by "clunky and bugged". This sometimes happens with updates, try updating musesounds and musescore, it may help. Also avoid writing more than one note at a time in a bar. It will sound better with only one line to play (for example, at measure 53, I wrote more than one line in "tenors" bars, but I put it as "2nd voice" so the soundfront plays them as separate voices). It depends on how I start a piece. Most of the time I look for some ideas on my piano (chords, melody, rhythm) and then I write on Musescore and it's very common to make some changes to what I had in mind at the beginning. But sometimes I start directly in Musescore (I think I did that for some parts of this piece). In that case I often use the piano in Musescore to visualise what I am writing. I often start a piece with the strings or the instruments that will bring the main idea. I usually put the percussions at the end. But I often come back to certain parts and add or change some instruments. Sorry if the wording is a bit clumsy, but explaining this in another language is a bit complicated 😅

@Marshoyen thank you !

Thank you so much!! Not sure about what a breakdown mean but it's like me explaining how I wrote this?

Thank you! I don't know Thomas Bergersen tho but I guess it's a good thing to sound like a real composer!

Thanks you!! In movies they always use big percussion for epic music, so I used taikos, bass drums etc. to make something similar. However, I don't really like this new trend of putting the SAME heavy percussion in all film trailers to make them look ‘epic’ without really adding anything else. (Recent trailers I can think of: mario movie, minecraft movie, mutant mayhem, sonic movies and so on. That doesn't necessarily mean the films are bad tho, some are even very good).

Thanks!

Thank you so much for this kind comment! I'm very glad to hear that you liked this much my music! I keep saying that it can sound amateurish and that I make music just for fun so that people don't take me too seriously. And also feel free to let me know if you notice any terrible writing, so that I can take it into account when I write future music.

Alaska Wilderness is real music, not 20 different themes mashed together. Alaska Wilderness starts with excellent theme development, cadence, ends deceptively 1:35, new theme?, no it's the coda. ???

@@TheBalbrigganTelescope Thank you for the kind words! :) But yes, it ends rather quickly as you note. It ends before the music gets a chance to become truly grand and epic. But that's due to my lack of compositional know-how. I wanted it to be longer, and I do have several ideas on how to expand the piece, but couldn't yet come up with something that I'm satisfied with. The plan is to eventually expand this piece so it doesn't end so abrubptly.

Thank you very much! All the VSTs in this video are from Musesounds. Maybe yours sounds different because sometimes I change the default VST (example: I change the horns to "horns a6"). If you're looking for free VSTs, I sometimes use LABS and SinePlayer, they're pretty decent for something free.

@Marshoyen Thanks for the answer! I have to start searching for a stable set soon. Just if you're curious, as I think we both have a kind of similar style, I can write you the link to my yt channel, but only if you agree, for I don't want you to think it's spam or whatever. If so, just tell. Happy new year, mate.

@@javiergl4380 Happy new year! Yes, I'd like to hear some of your work! The more I hear other people's music, the more it can bring me new ideas and inspiration.

@Marshoyen Nice! There you have it then: www.youtube.com/@kingdomoflhesarion7253.

Hope you enjoy! :)

Dang, is it really THAT good? Thanks😅

Well its different ideas into one piece so im not talking about dramaturgy, but about writing. The combination of instruments, it sounds really well

@@wrench_shorts Oh I see, cool! Thanks again!

Actually to be honest, I started this piece thinking ‘oh let's do something like the intro of Majora's mask so I can understand how the composer did it’. I hadn't planned to post it on my channel (I was just exercising) but I kept composing and in the end it was a 6-minute piece so I thought it was a bit frustrating not to publish it for that reason.

Thank you!

Thank you very much! I don't know how concertos "work" to be honest so maybe one day, or maybe not

So, basically a concerto has a solo player (e.g. violinist, flutist, pianist, cellist, sometimes more than one soloist) and the entire orchestra plays for the soloist. Most of the time, the soloist will play something really difficult. There are many concertos but sorry I have no idea how to compose one. (sorry for bad grammar)

@@aPersonWhoHasViolins Thanks for the explanation! To write really difficult solos, I'd have to be a really good soloist myself, which isn't, haha.

Same 😂

I've just listened to it and you're absolutely right. Same range too 🤣

I’ve spent dozens of hours over the past two months working on this music to create an arrangement for an orchestra and perform it with my friends on my youtube channel, so it felt really funny when I heard that🤣🤣.

Thanks! Yeah I generally make short music but I recently composed something about 5-6 mins long. It happens sometimes and oftenly not... it's also because I don't know how to extend the theme

Actually the shaker is from the drum kit (don't ask me how I ended using the drum kit because idk), but both are from Musesound

Thanks a lot! I had the sound in mind and looked for an instrument with that sound, but there are probably better instruments to use to make these sounds.