'Zintar's Lament' - New Original Music/My Submission for This Week's Steem Monsters Music/Lore Contest! String Section/Dramatic-Theme Song/Instrumental + Walkthrough!
I shared an earlier version
of this tune a week or two ago, but I did a little tweaking, and think that it's worth using for this week's Steem Monsters Music/Lore Contest! I really like the progression here, it's got such a great dark vibe to it, and it strays pretty far away from a simple diatonic minor scale in parts, using some cool modulations that I am pretty proud of. Let's go through it!
Listen to Zintar's Lament here.
So we have 3 main sections,
which (in Track 1) are Green/Brown (puke color? lol), Purple, and Blue, which I'll outline really quickly here.
We begin in our key of C#/Dbmin, starting on a C#5, which is then defined initially by a major 3rd (making it a I), then that moves down a halfstep to the minor 3rd (now a i chord). This moves down to our Vi, but then does an interesting move, up to the bVi/bVii of A#/Bbminor. This chord would be the relative minor of our parallel major key (lol, a bit wordy), and it gives it a SUPER dark feeling.
The Purple section changes keys to Fminor, beginning on Db/C# (now the Vi chord), to Eb, and finally to Fmin, then up to our III, Abmajor. The next time we have the same Db to Eb, but then a bit of modal interchange again with an Fmaj, which moves down to Abmaj, our V chord in the original key of C#/Db, which resolves nicely back into Yellow/Green.
The final section is the Blue, which changes things up again, beginning on an Emaj, to a B5, then C#/Dbmin, and then a big weird change, to Ddim, which helps us modulate into F#min in the next 4 bars. These consist of the F#min chord, to Fdim, then Dmaj, and finally a tritone down to a G#/Ab chord, which again, moves us back into the Yellow/Green section in C#/Db minor again.
Track 1, Green/Yellow section, full 8 bars.
Track 1, Green/Yellow section, full 8 bars.Track 2 is our bass/cello part,
which mostly sticks to root notes, though it also adds some cool little dissonances at key points (esp on the Dim chords). Track 3 comes in a bit later in the song, providing some accents on the 1 of each measure, with a higher pitched, echoey/ghostly sort of synth. Track 4 uses the same chords as Track 1, but with a synth sound that helps to fill things out a bit more, and finally we have Track 5 which uses a different synth, in a much higher register, and only playing diads to make the chords even larger.
Listen to Zintar's Lament here.
Track 5, Purple.
Track 5, Purple.I hope you like today's submission! Check out the other contestants here and support their creations!
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