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  1. Oh! Oh! Very useful! Thank you. :D

    I've looked those potential genres you list. :3

    I have looked up their definitions then compared them to 4 fields:

    - role

    - members in foreground (eg. soloists, aria vocalists)

    - members in background

    - specific pacing

    The role is unrelated to genre. (It is related to position of piece or purpose of piece.)

    Foreground and background membership is related to genre, because it dictates the sound that can be produced by restricting to certain instruments and vocalist types?

    Specific pacing may be key to genre. Pacing is the type of melody, no? :D

    I have written down the following pacing types:

    - incidental music and chamber music (usually lower key in background)

    - minuet and minuet trio (a movement in 3/4 time?)

    - waltz (a composition in triple time?)

    - polka (in duple meter?)

    - march (usually duple meter, regularly accented?)

    - quadrille (alternates between simple duple and compound duple time?)

    Are these genres? Maybe if pacing type is added to membership type... that will be the genre.

  2. I apologise for my inarticulation of ideas. Uncluttered communication is not the easiest thing for me. Takes a while to orient the words. n.n'

    Does anyone have a good grasp of orchestral music genres and words used to describe them? My Google Fu has been unrather successful in finding genres within Classical music.

    From reading, I think there are 3 main types of music, but cannot see what falls under 1 of them.

    (1) Popular Music: pop, rock, country, metal, etc. (I can identify)

    (2) Folk Music: -search for an ethnic group or instrument- (I can identify somewhat)

    (3) Art Music: (what genres are in here?)

    If pop, rock, country, and metal all fall under Popular Music, what genres fall under Classical (or "Western Art"?) music? Searching for 'good classical composers' comes up with widely varying types of musical pieces. Even a site like AllMusic points to dissimilar "Related Artists". For example, Tchaikovsky's related artist includes Bizet which, while pleasant, is not greatly similar to my ears.

    I've also tried looking up descriptions of composers I do like for keywords for finding similar composers to no great luck. Some of the terms seem to identify what century they lived in instead of what sorts of music they made (eg. Classical, Romantic, Baroque), while other terms are suitably vague and haven't been so helpful to me (eg. Light Music, Dance Music).

    I'm not expecting to be spoon fed here: I'll read pages on genre terms. Just having trouble getting my footing even after sifting through many pages of information. A simple set of terms probably escapes me. Crossed fingers that someone here will know more. :)

    (And I didn't even use a single exclamation mark! :D)

  3. Ah, I thought the dolphin sound was a synth effect. XD hehe cool

    You're welcome for the feedback. I'm not a musician so I can't give you any specific advice on making the music, though -- sorry! :)

    BUT... you can look at your transitions at 1:34 and 1:52 then think how they're different from the more abrupt transitions at 0:57 and 2:28. You're right in that there are a few more notes there, which are absent from the latter 2.

    0:57 sounds like you've skipped to another track at first without any transition.

    2:28 has a bit of a drop off, so may actually be alright, depending on your taste.

    With 1:34 there's a little elevator transition and 1:52 has a little wind/waves before the change.

    Whoa, only a year of training and you made this?! That's pretty rad. :D You'll go far! Keep it up!

  4. Oh, nice mix! :D You gave Tube of Medusa a creepy vibe, like the

    in EVO. :)

    ! Where's the dolphin sound? I can't hear it? XD Is it a clicking?

    I can't speak much of the production, although it sounds like you've got some ideas on improving that with the full version software, but I enjoy the melody in all of the sections.

    I don't think you have too many or too instruments.

    0:28-0:56 is pretty cool :3

    Melodies at 1:01 and 2:13 are keen. 2:23 is boss. >:3

    Yeh, transitions at 0:57-58 and 2:28 are abrupt.

    Transitions at 1:34-35 and 1:52-57 seem alright. :)

    The ending piano at 3:10 after the fade-out seems out of place? It's so short and sudden. You could probably just leave it out.

  5. There's a lot going on here -- but it seems to go on together, like waves under water or wind in the air. -_- (Also, yeah woodwinds! :D *fist pump*) Man, that's a niiice whistle. :)

    I want to say this could replace the original Saren fight music, but I haven't heard it! Still, I bet this would be an awesome substitute. Just menacing and oozes badass.

  6. What, only 8 rainbow road sources? No F-Zero rainbow road? ;)

    At 0:39 I started imagining this as a ballet. Rather pleasant in that regard. :)

    And although my ear for identifying melody isn't the greatest, I'm not hearing this as a medley: every part seems different enough that it doesn't come across as a medley.

    But the recording quality seems off in places?

    I'm hearing static in my headphones throughout: 0.10-11, 1:00, 1:48, 1:50, 2:00-2:03, . . .

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