AlmightyArceus
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You have HG/SS's modulation to Major in there. Please take it out ;o
Modulating to a higher-pitched key increases the piece's intensity...
... . and moving to Major destroys it. I'm definitely heavily biased against Major-key, so see if other people also think it's out-of-place, too. If not, then.. whatever, I'll leave.
Personally, this was my favorite arrangement of HG/SS. I thought the modulation to major was a pretty cool change, a way to make it a bit more cheer, as well as stay in the action. That really was the HG/SS part of the song. I can tell a lot of people are biased against major, but there isnt really much wrong with it. its all music. I'm thinking of maybe instead of doing a major transition there to instead transition up a halfstep in minor, or possibly to the ninth of the Eb minor chord. what do you think?
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Okay, so there have been a few changes ive made out of originality. i altered just a few chords for a different effect. this is probably the piece where i have the most drums. I thought it was pretty cool. but please, tell me what you all think!!!
Link: http://www.youtube.com/user/AlmightyArceus#p/u/6/3bo4ZBBzZms
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This is pretty good. From my experience, it's the kind of remix you would favorite on Youtube and listen to occasionally, but it's not something to download to my ipod...
Having mostly synth throughout the song is...hmm...well, it's not bland, but it's not too exciting either. I mean, I know the purpose of the song is to be soothing and all.... I still think you can do better though. Personally, I would add in another instrument to tie in with the synth. And maybe make the piano solo longer (or just another solo with another instrument). The piano solo is beautiful by the way.
Also, I'd add a better ending to the remix.
gracias bobby emerald. I did think by the end the synth got a little bit dullish...i also do want to extend the piano solo, and so i will. thanks for the suggestion
imma find the perfect tie in with the synth; most likely a more solid insturment. maybe an acoustic guitar (that would also widen the soloing ability) -
Wow, you suck at remixing. :DDDD
Listening to it now, it really gives me that nostalgic feeling, which there seems to be a shortage of on this site nowadays. As always the changes you make to the original are seamless. In other words, if I were a listener of this music with no prior knowledge of the original, I wouldn't be able to figure out what was original writing and what was part of the actual song. Hope that wasn't too confusing
The piano, surprisingly, fits in very well with the soft, deep synth texture you have going on. You used reverb very, very well with the piano. Everything just fits.
Gracias
i really loved the piano with it; it was a nice touch of solidity to the rest of the liquid instruments. I'm glad that my composing fit in so well that it was non-deviatable from the original. That means it flowed really well, which was what i was aiming for -
bummer. no feedback two weeks? sorry for bumping guys, but it seemed very neglected for some reason. again sorry, i just wanted some feedback. after all, thats what this wall is for, right?
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So this is my latest creation, used without any MIDI (or sheet music, as i couldn't get any anyways) assistance. it was made entirely from my ear, and my own interpretations. Some of the inaccuracies were due to the style i wanted it to have. i thought it sounded cool. anyways, here's the link! (i may put it in a different place besides youtube soon)
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The new legendaries are BADASS. Reshiram and Zekrom
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your lead, as had been mentioned before, is very weak. I really love the deep guitar shredding in the background though, so if you can, try to make that guitar resemble it in sound quality (not necessarily in range). Also, as Slygen has said, increase the volume. maybe just a pinch of distortion and reverb would work; dont go overboard as it may end up just sounding like "rock soup"
I don't really have a problem with the drums; its a guitar feature, but it wouldnt hurt to possibly make them louder. you could even save a second version with roaring drums to make it even sweeter (as we all know epic drums= epic music 90% of the time
)the volume is really the main concern of this, otherwise, nice job
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sight is one of your five sense
unless you're going to try and tell me that you learn music via smell
*facepalms* I KNOW sight is one of my five senses! THATS MY POINT! you were like "im pretty sure reading sheet music is not learning by ear sorry" and I said "I never said it was (LEARNING BY EAR) I use only my five senses," which INCLUDES sight!
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MIDI and sheet music are equals simply being that that's all that a MIDI is (arranged music) like sheet music, but the exception is that programs read MIDI (the same as a whole song written and put before you) providing the full inserted arrangement that you did not program into the DAW.
You don't want arrangement, you want reference, and with sheet music, it's probably psychologically easier for you.
Yes , you're spot on with the "arrangement...referrence" quote. I dont want to take it all in already created for me; i like plugging it in myself. I know MIDI and qheet music are equal to each other, its just a personal perferrence not to use it.
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yeah I'm pretty sure reading the sheet music doesn't count as learning by ear sorry
I never said it was. i said i use my FIVE SENSES. (ie, SIGHT) I said i rarely use it because I listen by ear most of the time.
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From scratch using only your five senses, but sheet music is okay and midi's aren't? :S
precisely. Sheet music=sense of sight and hearing; MIDI equals nothing as it is premade for you. With sheet music i have to manually measure it. Plus i only use the sheet music for the parts i cant hear in the music. and quite frankly, in the r/s/e dive theme, alot of the triplet ntoes are hard to hear, especially at a tempo of 196. Lol my ethics may seem a little confusing, but i just dont like taking the easy way. it's moer fun to enter it urself
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if you go search for noteworthy composer. its a small free download. you can import midis into it and it will spit score back out at you .
thanks, this is exactly what i was looking for
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But sheet music is essentially MIDI...
Im talking about a set of notes to reference. i take the notes and alter them/add stuff to them. plus i really dont like the way the MIDIs process on the program i use. plus, i am more of a sheet music person. also, by ear is what i usually do, so a slowed down version of the song would also be appreciated.
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Hello! I was wondering if anyone happened to have of would be able to provide me with sheet music to the Pokemon R/S/E dive theme. OR if someone could provide me with a version of it that is slowed down, as i can not clearly hear some of the notes as it is at a tempo of 196.
I am a reixer who just HATES to use MIDIs to make remixes. I like making mine "from scratch"; that is, using only my five senses, NOT a premade track. anyways, please post a link fi you can provide these. thanks
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Nerd Speak ahead:
Now that we have clear battle images, I noticed the the enemy sprites are clear, not distorted in any way as one would expect for a Golden sun style battle. However, the user's Pokemon sprite is double the size (Each pixel is twice as large), similar to the original red and blue. I think that either Nintendo is modifying the battle engine for the moment to always have that angle just to fool us, or they are only taking pics of battles when they are at that traditional angle. The battle scene probably resets to that angle every turn.
Since the user's pokemon is double size, unlike every game since S/G, and the 'disks' are very obviously polygons, I'm still certain of the battle style.
Its weird how different their pixelation is from the other sprites for previous generations. The pictures of the 3 legendary dogs differ highly from the zoroark pixelation.
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I don't claim to be a theory expert, so the following is more of a guess on why the phrase appears dissonant at first than anything. The progression is based more on the key of Eb than anything, and so the B7 chord seems to come as quite a bit of a surprise. The tritone D#-A within the chord makes the listener caught in two minds, firstly to want to resolve the tritone, although the resultant E major chord would make things sound even stranger, and secondly to return to the minor key it came from. Instead the B7 chord resolves into a Bb Dorian scale, which makes it unpleasingat first, even though the transition back into the B major chord after that seems more natural after the listener is first accustomed to the idea you're trying to create.
yeah that half step is kind of weird...i think the original chord might have been a Db...but im not sure...either way i took the bass note to form the chord and thought it sounded cool. plus you know solo chords can vary a little bit, as they do in a lot of songs.
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well for starters, the intro is off in its timing. and the intro sounds like a doorbell, so unless you want it to, i suggest changing it to something different and stronger. It also remains to be very bland with little to no musicality. You need to broaden the amounts of instruments in the intro, at most points you're just using a sax. try different instruments. add piano! it needs chordal tones! it needs a stronger bass! it NEEDS a DRUM BEAT! also, i don't really like the sudden octave jump of the 1st sax; you could hav the melody change to a diferent instrumetn for that part or something.
.....oh goodness. sorry im listening to this phrase by phrase. and my goodness it kind of crashed for a bit at the bass/piano entrance at :48. first, the timing is COMPLETELY off for the entrance of those instruments, and it keeps the piano and bass ahead of the melody by a few beats. It i terribly terribly clashy here; an absolute train wreck. the sound for the bass is absolutely atrocious: either bring it up an octave or so, or completely change its ambience or the bass all together. Oh i know, the bass is way too reverbish/echoey...so tone that down a ton. then when its just he bass and piano, teh bass overpowers the piano, and it is again bland. at about 1:10 i hear this really really weird alien ambient sound that is jsut weird and freaky. i really have no idea what it is, but it also clashes. and THEN it takes a solo at 1:44?!!? im sorry, but i must be frank and say that it isnt really a good choice at all. Its super pitchy, idk if thats on purpose or what, but it far from matches the feel of the song. and it makes it sound really sloppy.
Now on a more positive part: it starts sounding a bit "cooler at 1:56 with the guitar and (new)bass entrance. i really like the sound of that bass a lot better than the other one, and its actually in time now! overall i like that chorus a lot more...the instrumentation is a lot cooler there. i just think its sounds a bit better. of course it still needs chords and backgrounds and improvs and whatnot, and of course a DRUM LINE!!!!!!!! You could change the pitchy background synth to a cool chordal piano background, and that would make it sound a whole ton better....
AYY!! at the 2:43 entrance, ti becomes out of time again! NO!!!! i thought it would make it to the end without another train wreck like that!...but it settles out at the end....
Okay, so i know this is a whole ton to take in, and it may sound a bit critical, but im just telling you your mistakes so that you can fix them and make it a better piece! this piece has a really long way to go, but you can do it! I hope this suffices as feedback!
----THE ORIGINAL ONE
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At 1:15, the melody goes F# G# F# D# F# D# F# G# F# A etcetc, with the bolded notes occuring on the 1st, 2nd, 3rd and 4th beats, so the conflict between D# and A is especially striking, and doesn't seem to fit IMO.
Haha and do take note of whatever slygen said about the key changes, because it's something I've wanted to mention, except that I'm bad at identifying keys in different modes unless I transcribe it first, yeah.
Well actually, there i put in a B7 chord, because it is actually a B(7) i believe. i kept it in its original B change, but idk if its actually a dominant chord originally (if it isnt, its my own perferred personal change for the solo section!) Either way, i think it fits there, as A is the b7 that makes the B7 chord (B D# F# A). What made it feel like it didnt fit?
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There are a few aspects that I really like, here, and a few that I don't care for.
When the track started, it felt like your idea of remixing it was simply taking out a couple of measures here and there simply because they were repeated bars. I'd just ask yourself if you honestly think it sounds better that way, or if it was just a quick way to get some variation out of the piece.
If you honestly think it's an improvement over the original, ignore me, and keep it in there. But even if you do, expand upon it! Every time you repeat that measure, I want to hear just a tiny bit of variation, even if it's as small as a grace note. If you find yourself copying and pasting multiple measures, make sure you tweak the second instance, or else it gets boring.
The mix is a bit muddy as well. That pad in the background shouldn't follow the melody because the attack on it isn't fast enough, and the release is too long. That's just the nature of pads. Keep it in there, but perhaps just make it sustain the root of the chord being played.
If you're feeling ballsy, make it crisper, add harmony, and use it as a pedal note ;D
I do like, however, that you're adding your own material to it. Sometimes it feels like its out of place, though, and that's because you aren't following a single scale with it. What that ends up sounding like is a bunch of modulations to different keys of different modes, and it feels random. If you like the jumpy nature of what you have now, consider modulating to a new key only, or a new mode only, rather than both at once. Or, when changing modes, modulate to a closely related or parallel key.
Evory is giving me some feedback on a single modulation of my own that needs work because it kinda smacks the listener upside the head. I hope he gets word of this thread so that he can give you some helpful advice.
I didnt take out any measures....? at least i dont think i did.
As for the pad in the back, i kind of wanted something that was kind of like that i guess at the beginning. listening to it now makes me second guess myself. as i think i said originally, this was like on of my first mixes, and i havent doe much with it yet. i am going to change that pad for example, and make the bass MUCH louder....also change the drums cuz they annoy me bit now...
The piano solo is not random at all, i just think what is lacking here is the lack of backup chords, which i may put in softly...it actually transitions from Eb to Bb to match up with the intro at the end.
thanks so much for the feedback, i didnt really think thre would be to much for this...
@evory at what time in the song is the F# D# D# A part?
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holy crap evolution 3?!!?! that means that it evolves 3 times, no doubt? what would that be like, a pokemon...lets say, luxray, the 3rd stage and 2nd time evolution of shinx, evolved AGAIN?! what would that be like? do you guys think that its going too far--you want to stay true to how its always been--or do u welcome the change?
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Pokemon Special wants to have a word with you.
I actually liked the game more when the story was a bit smaller. Not because I dislike story but because they suck at setting the game up for it in such a way that isn't irritating.
I could also do without the giant confusing as hell giant mountain chains full of irritating pokemon that I don't feel like battling. I'm also sick of useless HM's cluttering up my party with moves I don't like to use, or pokemon I don't want to train.
Pokemon Special? and personally, i love the more involved stories. I always love fighting the bad guys, hearing their musical themes, etc. It always makes me sad when the plot with the bad guys ends...because then its like what ever happened to the rest of them!
As for HMs, i am TOTALLY with you. it makes me so angry when my pokemon is going to learn a perfect move, but theres an HM blocking the way! And of course, the ever tedious pokemon that is everywhere (especially in mountains): ZUBAT. They do that on purpose though...its supposed to be a little tedious. plus all you gotta do is buy some repels and you're good!
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Well, apparently that won't appen, I lost my work, I made an MP3 but I didn't save the other stuff. I may be able to find the WAV of it(that I had rendered) and Autotune to Db scale, but it may not sound good. It also seemed too loud to me as well, I will fix that if I can get my old audio first.
couldnt you take what you saved to the sharing site? since it is your own work?
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Here's hoping the pokemon continually animate in battle. THAT would make a huge difference in my eyes.
they absolutely HAVE to make that transition...i mean they've done it for PBR and Stadium and XD etc....even though those were larger console games...but there's nothing saying that they cant continually animate the pokemon in the DS games...but it looks to me like they're enhancing the battle scenery first...for example, in a screenshot they show how refined it looked: the city in the background, the full bodied back of your pokemon, etc....
...also, what do you guys think of the enhanced game 3D graphics...it looks like it would be more difficult to see things, as the slant the vision near horizontal for a lot of stuff....
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lol about your last comment; I myself am for upbeat yet still epic songs; i absolutely HATE the rival battle music from D/P/Pt.
I also agree with the music intensity factor; that's why i changed that other chord before, because i thought it added a cool build and intensity to the end.
As for the 9th of Eb minor, it is actually just a straight F (as i am not intending for there to be a b9; i dont believe b9 is in the chord anyways; the minor has enough flats; the 9th is similar--pretty much is-- to the second except up an octave. Unless there's a flat nine. Fb would be just like moving up a half step)
Its pretty funny how pokemons supposed to be a friendly game, yet those were the same minds who had thought up the Mother series before. LOL