While working on some music for a radio play that I’m involved in over at Misfits Audio, I realized that I don’t write enough orchestral stuff. Now, I’m not exactly trained in composition. Other than what I learned in high school and on my own, I haven’t had anyone formally teach me how to write this kind of music. So, I’m going to try to do more classical pieces as I do these one hour compositions each week. I doubt I’ll do something classical every week but I’m certainly going to put it in rotation.
While listening to a little midi piece composed by another comic artists, Sonia Leong, I got inspired to write a song that might be played during the opening screen of some sort of BS/OD roleplaying game. Most of the music I write is in 4/4 and that’s something else I’m trying to get away from now and then. So, this one is in 6/8. It doesn’t exactly have that bouncy feel that 6/8 can often have but I think it worked out alright. The harp arpeggios are quite reminiscent of Final Fantasy and I suppose that was on purpose since I’m a bit of a fanboy when it comes to those games. Anyway, here it is.
Opening Screen
Opening Screen (1.9 MiB, 14 hits)
While I have shown some folks this image before, I haven’t talked much about what it was for. A few weeks ago, my friend Keith from The Dreamscapes Project asked me if I wanted to participate in their Twelve Days Project that they’ve been working on since the beginning of the year. Actually, this wasn’t the first time I joint in on the project. A couple months ago I went into the studio with them and was part of a choir for a song called ‘Hymm’. I was pretty excited to be asked to put together a comic for them on their latest song ‘Candle in a Blackout’ since it would give me a chance to do something away from my typical BS/OD stuff.
Right now they have the two pages of the comic I did for them over at their website and you can view it by clicking here. The song that goes along with this comic is free to download for the time being. So, click this link and go get it! The rest of the songs are available to purchase from TDPs Bandcamp page and you can listen to them below.
Wow! It’s been nearly a month since I’ve done one of these one our compositions. Between being busy and traveling, I guess I just didn’t have much time to do them. Well, I jumped back into it with a little tune for Hondo. After all, he’s a groovy guy and I thought he should get a groovy song. I suppose neither he or this song are rather groovy but here it is anyway. Yeah, I don’t exactly have a knack for the hip-hop like style. I suppose I just need practice.
Hondo's Groove Hondo's Groove (2.1 MiB, 11 hits)
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