[Cloral]

Holy crap! How did I not download this mix before just now? This is absolutely awesome.

[Tensei]

Originally Posted by xRisingForce

I'm glad you took it upon yourself to solo in the right key.

Chip and others approve of your synth solo, so some judges may like it, or may not even notice it. Liontamer doesn't play an instrument, so.. he goes purely by what sounds "cool."

There are some that do catch the dissonance though, like NekoFrog. At any rate, I think it would be in your best interest to shift the tonal center of your synth and guitar solos to B just to see how it sounds.

So it's a matter of personal taste whether you like the solo or you don't. It's not in the wrong key, it's in the right key for what I was trying to achieve. I ALWAYS follow my ears, I never let myself be guided by musical theory. I quit musicology because they represented musical theory as rules, not as guidelines.

The only use musical theory has for me is to look at things in retrospect and tell other people what I did at a certain point in a song. So I'm afraid no, I'm not going to change something because it's wrong according to theory.

If nothing else, a shift/modulation to E is at least HEAVILY implied. The backing chords are E, G, A, B, which are all part of the E minor scale. What's important here is that the first chord of the progression becomes the E, rather than the B as it was the case in the riff before it.

Of course, due to the use of power chords these same chords would fit in the B minor scale, which is pretty much the case in the previous riff where the B is the first chord played. Apparently I liked to toy with this ambiguousness and created tension by approaching dissonance with the synth solo.

There, I did it, I came up with a retrofitted theoretical explanation of why I did stuff. Do I win a cookie now? :3

Edit:
I also don't approve of your questioning of Liontamer. Contrary to your reasoning, Larry tends to be one of the most consistent judges with some of the most useful criticism. Your 'because he doesn't play an instrument' is ignorant, Darkesword doesn't play an instrument either afaik, that doesn't make him any less capable as a musician/composer or jdgfgt for that matter.

[Torzelan]

What "sounds cool" is what matters I guess.

I absolutely love this one, so there's just one probably extremely quick fix I would've done, and that is the last note at 0:10 - just give it a little more life/human...ity...ness in whatever way.

[Geoffrey Taucer]

I LOVE the intro! And the transition gives me chills.

Strings are beautifully done. Excellent choice of guitar tones throughout the piece.

Solos are awesome.

Ending is beautifully done.

Were I a judge, I would give this a YES.

[Sixto]

That synth solo really threw me off. Rhythm guitar tones sound a little thin. Other than that, I likes alot.

[Tensei]

Very well, no use sitting on this for any longer, submitted. Thanks a lot for the useful feedback everyone! I should've said Tweek did most of the intro as well as all the string sequencing ;)

[DarkeSword]

Just want to address this:

Originally Posted by Tensei-San

Your 'because he doesn't play an instrument' is ignorant, Darkesword doesn't play an instrument either afaik, that doesn't make him any less capable as a musician/composer or jdgfgt for that matter.

I played trumpet for 8 years in school and played a lot of jazz in high school. I don't perform anymore (haven't done so in 6-7 years), but I do come out of a kind of instrumentalist mindset when it comes to composing.

Regardless, thanks for the kind words.

[HoboKa]

Originally Posted by DarkeSword

Just want to address this:



I played trumpet for 8 years in school and played a lot of jazz in high school. I don't perform anymore (haven't done so in 6-7 years), but I do come out of a kind of instrumentalist mindset when it comes to composing.

Regardless, thanks for the kind words.

Conversely, I've played piano and trumpet for a huge portion of my early child hood, up until grade 10. And still I'm an amateur at composing music. So...I think that that's a weak argument (about the fact that ppl don't play instruments = noobs at composing).

ALTHOUGH I do find it kinda unfair that I see Liontamer as a posted remixer and all he has is a vocoded voice sample in a song. I Know, I know he does a lot reviews and stuff and contributes to OCR a hell of a lot - but it still hurts T_T.

[kobuu]

ok. totally blown away! seriously, i've been following this one through all your hard work. i can't hear the little things, just the big picture and this one is AWESOME!!!!!

submit now!

cheers!

[Fishy]

Originally Posted by HoboKa

ALTHOUGH I do find it kinda unfair that I see Liontamer as a posted remixer and all he has is a vocoded voice sample in a song. I Know, I know he does a lot reviews and stuff and contributes to OCR a hell of a lot - but it still hurts T_T.

He did contribute to an OCReMix though. Spoken wurd niggz.