Dahlia

Nooooooo! Israfel was one of my favorites. I felt a familiarity on the panel, seeing one who appreciates form and development so. Well, thanks to Israfel for providing the service for so long. I imagine it's a fairly taxing job, what with the massive flow of submissions. Hope to see some mixes from him soon. Almost forgot to mention THIS mix! Very nice! Welcome back to the site, Jive!

MAD PAINTBRUSH POWERZ!

I'm a bad, bad bear... [/southparkjoke] Yeah, didn't read enough, apparently. Alright. Well, I'm going to do my best to get acquainted with the game and try to hone my skills for this particular endeavor. Easy, children's writing is not. ~.C.S.~ ...and then the children rode the unicorns to a magical celebration in fairy land! The end! See? Not hard at all. XD

Like "omgz". If we were mathematicians, we wouldn't be doing music, here! XD Er... I'd like to pick a track, but I want to make sure I have the time for it. But then by the time I'm sure, all the good tracks are gone! How horrible.

Thanks for the support, DS! We're all really excited about this project, as you can see. ^^ Now Kyle has some big "Site Projects" authority! We'd better not slack off for sure, now. XD My mixes are coming along nicely. I'm eager to unveil my alternate *secret project*, but it'll take a while to get everything in order. KungFu, that's too bad! Don't worry about it too much, even if they take a little longer to heal, any one of the guitarists here could help you out. Can't wait to hear your new WIP(s), Fox!

I was just thinking, the Judges should probably be given access to the WIP forum so that they can assess the progress of the project as it goes on. ^^ (You know, for the big move to Site Projects down the line.)

Yup, pretty cool! I heard this before somewhere, probably from VGMix. I've never heard of Shatterhand though... no matter, the song rocks nonetheless!

I eat dissonance for breakfast! Awesome work, very cool!

Welcome back! You missed the wild weekend when Djp got raging drunk and messed up all the servers! Or in reality, ZTNet got drunk and messed up the servers. Whatever. XD

If you trash a hotel room he'll do it right away!

I'm with you Overcoat!

*Rips apart a hotel room*

Hey, nobody knows what's going on in hippies' minds! XD

Hey, relax, guy.

That interpretation is much more understandable than mine! Actually, I didn't hear the C in the first chord, so I took the last two chords as being IV - I in G. I have failed and must accept my shame by permanently resigning from OCR! And the whole internet!

The opening is so majestic, with the stately piano chords. It's an exciting feeling and serves as a good exposition of the main theme. The dynamic on the piano are very nice. The transition from the opening material to the section with the drums works really well, and I like how the piano part is handled with the strings playing the melody. When it changes again at 2:06... ahh, I can't decide whether I like the old version with the woodwinds playing that part or the new one! They're both good! The snare part suddenly coming in is a little disconcerting, you wonder what's going on, and then at 2:24 it all makes sense! Really cool interpretation of the song here, and the drums are great! The bass could be a little louder, cause' I love bass. ^^ I wish this section was longer! Okay, this is the interesting part. I was really wondering where you'd go next, but I didn't expect something this clever. At first it sounds smooth and flowing. All is well... but then the dissonances are slowly introduced, and it becomes more frantic-sounding. People who played through the lower levels of the Moria Gallery might remember the music began to sound really weird near the end. I think it was to give the effect of, "You've been down here so long, so deep, with these horrible things, you're slowly going mad." I'm glad you remembered that and included it! The only problem is that people who haven't played Phantasia might not understand, so you might want to clear up the dissonance in a relatively short time. Actually, I'd suggest making it even more unsettling for a few moments just to give the listeners the feeling that something is really wrong. ^^ I can see this new section being really cool, so keep at it!

This project is so popular!

Well, the half-cadence and opening chord give it a sense of E minor, but the song just doesn't follow any of the accidentals. You could construct your own chromatic patterns, but try to think of E as your tonic even in all the semitone madness! ^^ Oh yeah! Here, some profile information... Real Name: Fukuyama Sorahiko Birthday (Age): December 18th, 1984 Location: Vancouver, B.C., Canada Project Position: Musician Web Site: In the works. ^^ Not too exciting, but at least the slots won't all be blank!

Anyone have a good organ?

If you leave those harpsichord runs out, I'll keeeeeeeeel you!!!

Just off the top of my head, I'd be inclined to do speed metal, or maybe an organ solo piece. Or both in the same song. Hey, now that I listen to it, I regret not having picked it to begin with! XD I usually listen to something for quite a long time and examine the score before I really decide though. If you're going to compose a symphony, you first have to see if there are several recognizable themes with which to create a symphonic form. Or if you were making a passacaglia, you'd have to see if the melody lent itself well to four bar variation in multiple voices. It really is up to you, though! Remember if you're able to/decide to compose rock or metal, you've got a bunch of guitarists willing to record for you! It's a pretty cool song, there's a lot you could do with it. ^^ I'd love to hear a great variety of genres in this project so we can make albums that are constantly exciting in the "What's coming next!?" sort of way.

It's a bit tricky. For this piece you can't really say it's in one key or another, because there's no real established tonality. Actually, it was silly of me to say E major earlier, I'd definitely say E minor if anything. It won't follow any normal key signature though, because it's mostly chromatic. First it starts with a chord on the first degree, which is all well and normal. Then, already it abandons the signature in favor of chromaticism, making the root descend a half-step from the first degree onto D#. You can see, from here it keeps moving downwards until it prepares itself for the half close cadence in the relative major, G. (IV-I) Then it starts over again. The cadence at the end and the beginning chord lead me to believe it's in E minor with some simple chromatically descending patterns. An in-depth analysis might reveal that it's in a more obscure tonal mode and that all the harmonic progressions are valid within a particular tonality, but for now I'd just say it's heavily chromatic in Em/GM. ;p The song could be difficult to manipulate, but if you prepared it correctly you could write plainly in G major or E minor after that cadence without it sounding too far from the actual song.

So, Arcana. Where's your track? ^-^ I guess I should give up some information for my profile thing, huh...

Thanks for saying that, I totally forgot to go try to beat it last time I played through that.

Arek the Emotional Rollercoaster. XD