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Bumping this up so it doesn't end up completely lost in time before the 2nd part is finished. The 2nd part is going to be a long time coming though before it's finished. I'm only about 15 seconds shy of 2 minutes into it, and its estimated total length will be around 5 minutes or so. This is because it's a very time-consuming part I'm working on, because they dynamics are raised, I have to add many overdubs of each instrument to increase their volumes and mix and blend together, and every instrument is playing its own melody or rhythm within the two chords throughout most of it (this section reverses the chords though, switching back and forth between Fm and Gm for almost its entirety). The drums are also increased in intensity a lot more, with a lot more volume, overdubs, and some really maniacal fills. It takes me about an hour to make 8 measures each time, even though I've pretty much figured out what I want each instrument to do. I am exporting an MP3 of it tonight to bring to one of my music teachers during practice Sunday evening to explain to him what I'm doing and to ask how to make it better, so I can also post it here and get some constructive critiques from you all as well. Really I cannot wait to finish the song because I am having a ton of fun making it, it is just a LOT of painstaking work and concentration required. The 2nd part is called "Here Comes the UFO!!!" which is, of course, a reference to Gulliver flying in a UFO in City Folk. If y'all want I can post a link here teasing what it sounds like so far with the rest of the piece. It (Here Comes the UFO!!!) begins with a section I made myself which plays for about 30 seconds and the rest of it is exactly as I described earlier. Well anyway I can put a Newgrounds link should anyone want to hear :3

http://www.newgrounds.com/audio/listen/582011 3rd and final draft for now, until the 2nd part is finished :3 I got rid of the other 2 versions as my Newgrounds was starting to crowd with these a little too much. Only updates this time were volume related ones. The bass guitar and the kick drums as well as the organ were lowered a tiny bit in volume, the strings were cut down a big amount and the theremin was raised a little. And a fade out was added to make the ending seem not so abrupt. Hope this makes for easier listening :3

I was kind of thinking the same thing, although I do like having loud drums and bass just as a personal thing. I will correct volume issues as I continue with the project. If anything I think the strings in the later half are the biggest issue. They will definitely be cut down a few notches, especially out of necessity for the 2nd part I have began a little work on. :3

http://www.newgrounds.com/audio/listen/581961 Here, I made a revised version of it, changed a couple of things by your recommendation and a couple things I thought personally could be fixed. Here are the list of revisions: -Cymbal crescendo was now just replaced with some progressively louder ride cymbal hits -Bass line has been given 2 added notes -Organ's lower sub tone was deleted so now it's a single line. I tried using the EQ to make it brighter but did not understand the specifics really. :/ -Theremin moved up 2 semitones so its first note is on the root of the chord. I hope that's what y'all were thinking I had to do... :/ -Piano arpeggios switched from major to minor 7ths. -The theremin spazzing section at the end has had all the stretched notes eliminated so it's now just a bunch of bubbling frenetic staccato craziness. It's also fun to take other instrument sounds and copy the notes onto them from this section. :3 Hope this is liked a little better than before... guitar tone is still really "metal" but I still have no guitarists. :/

I see... well I think that it was meant to be 2 semitones up actually, so that its first note lands on the root of the chord (G), right? At 3 it kinda sounded off :/ Well I've made a few minor alterations to the song, some by your recommendation, some by me thinking some other things needed to be changed, I'll put it up later on as the 2nd draft of the song. 2nd part I will begin as well pretty shortly. :3

Thanks a lot for that Rexy, that's very informative and you're very polite. Yeah I know the guitar tone I picked on Slayer doesn't sound all that good. I was looking for a sound with a little edge and distortion but not full-on metal. I guess I overdid it ;_; I selected Autochords, and chose Tube and Combo for the amp and cabinet models. I couldn't find a middle ground between clean and distorted so I just went for the full-on. Maybe I need to fool around with it some more. I was just considering going on here and asking for the guitar to be done live by a player, but I didn't think going on here asking for a guitar without first showing I tried anyway would help my case. I certainly would appreciate a live guitar player for this project, as there is the big jam part in the middle that I would like a professional-sounding solo over it once finished. Real chords sound better than fake chords as well. One thing in particular I would like to fix is the cymbal crescendo in the beginning, I guess I shoulda paid more attention to searching for one :/ I set it up so that the organ melody is playing the same melody on 2 octaves at the same time ( A#5, and A#4 playing at the same time for example), so maybe that's why it sounds too thick. I thought it sounded too thin without any lower sub tones though. :/ I'll try the EQ trick though. Downloading outside instrumental tones doesn't sound like a bad idea either... By 3 semitones what do you mean exactly?

Animal Crossing is really one of those childhood games for Nintendo fanatics who were young in the 00s, and even though I don't play it anymore I have a soft spot and fondness for it. Sonic Adventure is the same way for me because I had a Gamecube instead of a Dreamcast and therefor got the DX edition. I really like the soundtracks to both games, AC for its adorable simplicity and SA for its overwhelming power. I've recently been planning on constructing a concept album on one of the summers I had a couple years ago, and thought that the 5PM theme, updated, would sound really good in the album because of its laid-back sunset groove sound and the fact that the game was part of the summer back then. It's meant to be three parted: the first part is just a simple remake of the 5PM theme, with a few instruments changed, the bassline edited, a few new instruments added in different parts to make the song have a little more going on... the 2nd part is supposed to suddenly switched from laid-back to aggressive before entering a long "jam section," and the 3rd part is supposed to calm everything down with a version of the ending of E-102 Gamma's theme (both that song's ending and 5PM's theme have the same chord changes in general right? It would be a smooth transition actually) on acoustic guitar, electric bass, strings, piano, organ and acoustic drums. So far I've only got the first part finished but I plan on fixing it up a little bit and then working on the 2nd part pretty soon. The first part is called "Tangerine Skies" because of the sunset feel of the original song. The main thing I ask from you all at OCRemix are just basic ideas on how I can improve it. I still don't know a whole lot about songwriting or FL Studio 11 so I would ask for tips mainly on updating the instrumental tones to sound more authentic, or correcting any incorrect notes/chord changes in particular. I actually performed this before by myself on a few instruments and I've asked one of my music teachers for advice on making this happen, so I already have a good idea on how it is supposed to sound and notation and everything. Still, I don't think it's perfect and could use some small-scale modification. Let me know what you think could be done, but be nice. I'm trying my best. >.> http://www.newgrounds.com/audio/listen/581875