Thursday, July 17th, 2008 |
(Originally posted on THIS 1.0 on 15 Aug 2005)
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Retribution is my favorite rock/battle theme to date. It’s a great mix of old and new RPG elements, and the whole feel and pace of it turned out better than I could have hoped for.
The mp3 version of this song is a must-download; while I like the MIDI version, it won’t sound nearly as good as the mp3. Soundfonts are a wonderful thing. :) Also, if you have reverb effects on your sound card you may want to ramp them up for this song.
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Tuesday, June 24th, 2008 |
(Originally posted on THIS 1.0 on 25 Apr 2005)
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This song is, in a word, random. Sometimes I get a bunch of ideas in my head and I can’t think up a whole song for each one, so I throw them together into one big mess. This is such a song.
Organs are a greatly underutilized instrument IMO. They’ve been around for hundreds of years and are such a critical element of hymns and spiritual music, but really they fit a whole variety of other genres. I love what “Phantom of the Opera” did for the organ - it applied it in a modern context with the grandeur it deserves. Organs are cool instruments.
Now this is not to say that I use organs appropriately in “Reign of Anarchy,” because I really don’t. I wanted to write a really evil organ bad guy boss kind of song, but - as always - it didn’t really turn out how I’d planned it. This song sounded way different in my head. The opening bars are probably my favorite part of the song, and it’s kind of downhill from there. This song is a little too unfinished for my purposes, but it’s fun so I’ve uploaded it here. I’d appreciate any ideas regarding a future final arrangement.
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Monday, June 23rd, 2008 |
(Originally posted on THIS 1.0 on 24 Apr 2005)
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Ah, sweet “Defiance.” I’ve gone through hundreds of variations and modifications of this theme, but still I love the original incarnation of this piece. Yeah, it’s repetitive; yeah, the layout is awfully simple; yeah, that’s a weird techno-ish sound in the middle of what should be a solid rock song. But somehow it works. I don’t know how, but this song still rocks (and I’ve heard it probably a thousand times).
Getting a solid distort guitar sound out of raw MIDI is tricky, but I think “Defiance” succeeds. My goal for the near future is to produce an mp3 remix of this using real guitars. I’m not sure where I got the idea for the swayed power chord that comprises the whole first half of the song; I think it was Disturbed or Godsmack that first gave me the idea. The 2nd half - in case you haven’t already figured it out - is a straight adaptation of the bridge in Vertical Horizon’s “We Are.” On a random side note, Everything You Want was the first rock album I ever bought. Weird. Anyway, I love the riffs VH pulled out of that album, and “Defiance” borrows from them as a kind of twisted salute to a good band. Rock on, 35-year-old dads.
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Tuesday, June 17th, 2008 |
(Originally posted on THIS 1.0 on 24 Apr 2005)
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Tuesday, June 17th, 2008 |
(Originally posted on THIS 1.0 on 24 Apr 2005)
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Tuesday, June 17th, 2008 |
(Originally posted on THIS 1.0 on 21 Apr 2005)
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