Very cool! Your composition skill astounds, as always. It's almost a bit unusual seeing you write something mostly in ionian rather than mixolydian, which I think you mentioned was your favorite mode! I think you've captured the grandiosity of the chorus very well in those transitions, which feel very effective emotionally.
Really interesting to see you experiment with different styles, especially something a bit more pop-music-y like this. I find there's a simple beauty in a good old punchy chord progression - sure, one can overdo it, but they work for a reason! A personal favourite of mine is ii-V-I or vi-ii-V-I.
When did you start using imagined lyrics to guide the melody? The first time I remember you using those was for the character themes way back in Taming Dreams - was that something you came up with yourself or did you see it somewhere else?
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Tobias 1104~1Y
Thank you!
I posted this one first largely because it makes use of something I thought would be more familiar to people than pretty much anything else I've composed recently. It was only really meant as practice for a technique - I had no intention of sharing it when I composed it - hence the repetition of the chord progression (though apparently repeating a chord progression - of even just two chords - incessantly throughout isn't uncommon for pop songs).
I read a few books about music composition a few years ago, during the period after MARDEK when I was trying to refine all my creative skills I think, which mentioned using unheard lyrics to shape a melody. So as much as I'd like to claim it as a brilliant idea of my own, I got it from the mind of another! I don't often make use of it, but it's very useful when nothing I like is coming to me straight from the aether.
Really interesting to see you experiment with different styles, especially something a bit more pop-music-y like this. I find there's a simple beauty in a good old punchy chord progression - sure, one can overdo it, but they work for a reason! A personal favourite of mine is ii-V-I or vi-ii-V-I.
When did you start using imagined lyrics to guide the melody? The first time I remember you using those was for the character themes way back in Taming Dreams - was that something you came up with yourself or did you see it somewhere else?
I posted this one first largely because it makes use of something I thought would be more familiar to people than pretty much anything else I've composed recently. It was only really meant as practice for a technique - I had no intention of sharing it when I composed it - hence the repetition of the chord progression (though apparently repeating a chord progression - of even just two chords - incessantly throughout isn't uncommon for pop songs).
I read a few books about music composition a few years ago, during the period after MARDEK when I was trying to refine all my creative skills I think, which mentioned using unheard lyrics to shape a melody. So as much as I'd like to claim it as a brilliant idea of my own, I got it from the mind of another! I don't often make use of it, but it's very useful when nothing I like is coming to me straight from the aether.