'In the Caves of the Peaceful Giants'- New Original Music! Splinterlands Music/Lore Contest Submission/25 Minute Songwriting Challenge! Electronic/Orchestral/Instrumental + Walkthrough!

grapthar (74)in #music • 5 years ago

Alright, so here’s my submission

for this week’s Music and Lore Contest! For the third or fourth contest in a row, I went with a timed challenge, 25 minutes like the previous one. It’s fun to do less than 25, cause its kind of a mad scramble to finish, but I think 25 minutes is just enough time to get a bit of layering, but not enough time to overthink/overdo things. Overall, I’m happy with the result, though it definitely could use some touching up long term, but for a 25 min. effort, I can’t complain.

Listen to In the Caves of the Peaceful Giants here.

The first two tracks grouped

together are the shakuhachi’s, which use Native Instruments’ ‘World’ set, free with the Komplete Start package. We’re in Dminor, with Track 2 providing our root notes, and Track 3 a second shakuhachi that provides mostly 3rds, though occasionally some other harmonizing. Track 4 provides the guitar-sounding instrument, which is an ‘Oud’, also from the World instruments set. Track 5 provides the timpanis, which stick to a pretty basic half-note rhythm, with a few variations to build up into the second half of the track.