'THE ΛZMΛRÉAN DRÅGØNSONG - Final Version' - New Original Music for the Steem Monsters Music/Lore Contest! Orchestral/Theme Song/Instrumental + Walkthrough!

grapthar (74)in #music • 5 years ago

I posted an unfinished

version of this the other day, but in the mean time, I added a new little section to follow each Verse/B Section (except the 1st), which made the whole thing a bit longer, and broke up the repetition just enough for me to be fully satisfied. I still think it could use a melody line from a different instrument, maybe a horn section, but the horns I have don't sound as good as these strings from Spitfire Audio, so I decided to leave it as is, until a future date when I can update all my VSTs. Obviously, this is my submission for this week's Steem Monsters Music/Lore Contest!

Listen to THE ΛZMΛRÉAN DRÅGØNSONG here.

We have 3 main sections

(viewed from Track 1): Light Blue (Chorus, A section), Dark Blue (Verse, B section), Purple (Pre-Chorus, C section). I'll just quickly outline the main chord tones here, just keep in mind that Tracks 1 and 3 add some seriously dissonant notes throughout, which definitely add a lot of tension throughout. The Light Blue section begins on our tonic of C# (major chord the first time, minor the 2nd time around), then to an A, our bVi, 2x. Next we have an Abmin, to Cdim, which is where every A section ends after the first and last time around, where there is an extra 2 measures added on.

Track 1, A section.

Listen to THE ΛZMΛRÉAN DRÅGØNSONG here.

Track 3, B and C section.

The B section moves

to our relative major key of E, though we have some modal interchange, beginning on a C(7, theres a Bb in the low range), then up to Dmajor, and to E, then back to down to D. The first time through, this moves us to the A section again, but every subsequent time, we move to the C section, which is a new addition in this version. It feels like things rise up here, moving to an A#, then to D#, then a Cmajor, followed by a G#, giving us a nice bVii in our temporary modulation to A#. The next 4 bars consist of an F#maj, then A# to C#, to a D, and finally a Cdim, resolving back to the A section.

Listen to THE ΛZMΛRÉAN DRÅGØNSONG here.

I turned down the volume

on the cymbal group and the bells (Track 9), and turned it up on the drum kit (Track 8), which I think helped the mix a lot. A new addition here is Track 10, which provides a string melody for the entire ending of the tune, over the final A sections. I had it at the beginning additionally, but I didn't like it there, so I just used it once to swell into our 2nd A section, when the other tracks all come in.