VG
Song: Familiar Roads
I wanted this piece to be a simple, catchy town theme – not the typically dull background piece associated with that style of VG music. I like the instrument mix and pace and am pretty damn happy with how it’s turned out so far…
Song: Retribution
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…
Song: Reign of Anarchy
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…like this.
Song: Defiance
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)…
Song: Home
“Home” is short, simple, and peaceful. I hope that listening to it brings back a comforting feeling – like coming home after too much time away…
Song: Find You
“Find You” is a return to the roots of classic RPG music. Originally designed as a main theme (or main character theme), this song was probably my first real non-battle orchestral theme. The melody itself is purposefully short and simple, and the three levels of orchestration (duet -> trio -> epic) are pretty standard for an RPG theme. The counterpoint between the oboe and brass in the final section worked out particularly well, and – fun fact – this song spans almost the entire physical range of the oboe.
Song: Fate (Clint’s Theme)
The only way to really understand this song is to understand Clint V. Franklin …and I don’t think anyone – Clint included – really understands that. Kinda like this song, I guess. It’s not really meant to have a unified theme or style or feel or anything of the sort. It’s meant to be…”different.”
Song: DragonFyre’s White Knights Remix
DragonFyre was the second composer working on the score of the legendary TGP/TLA project. His music has a crazy ambient vibe to it (something foreign to my traditional line of composition) so I wanted to take one of his songs and rework it in classic Helland style. “White Knights” seemed the best choice as it was one of DragonFyre’s more thematic songs…
Song: Destiny
Yeah, this theme is amazing. I’m forgoing all humility and openly admitting that this song is a MIDI masterpiece. Seriously, I sat down at the piano one day and this just rolled off my fingers. If only that happened more often…
Song: Deserve to be Loved
I can’t speak for everyone, but I’d venture to say that most adults have experienced a time in life where they felt like they deserved to be loved by someone that didn’t grant the same. (If you haven’t felt such an emotion, consider yourself extremely lucky.) This is the song that plays as you walk down a rainy street, alone and tired and cold and angry and confused, wondering why you ever fell for him/her in the first place…
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