'The Naga Fire Temple' - New Original Music (Finalized Version)! Submission for Steem Monsters Music/Story Contest! Orchestral/Instrumental + Walkthrough!

grapthar (74)in #music • 6 years ago (edited)

I had shared an earlier

version of this song, so I went back and finally made some little edits to finalize it and voila! This is my submission for this week's Steem Monsters music/story contest. I had a couple of songs I was deciding between, but I think this is the most well rounded and pretty epic at points, plus I am always partial to an odd meter, lol. We are in 7/4 for the whole tune, though in the B section (explained below), it feels a bit less like an actual odd meter.

Listen to The Naga Fire Temple here.

We start the song

with just strings, playing our A section (Olive colored, B section is in Blue). Essentially we are just outlining 4 chords, Amin (our tonic), to Cmin (which sounds super dark and awesome), down to Fmin (minor 6, also dark and awesome), and finally to a Gmin in which the Bb eventually moves up a halfstep to give us a Gmaj, before repeating. However, in the B section, we change keys, moving to F#minor (the relative minor of Amajor, the parallel major of our tonic Aminor). I really like how this section is more driving and constant, it has a very adventure game/epic battle sort of vibe. Since we just have quarter and eighth notes here, it feels a bit like we are in 4/4 but just missing a bit at the end, as opposed to really feeling the odd meter like in the A section.

Brass Ensemble, A section.

Listen to The Naga Fire Temple here.

Violin melody, A section.

I have to say,

the violin melody (pictured above) has really grown on me. The descending little chromatic lines definitely have a sort of snake like feeling to them, which initially was accidental but definitely fit the vibe 100%. I would like to one day have some better orchestral percussion to work with, as the timpanis are fine for what they do, but anything faster than an 1/8th note gets a bit muddied, and it would be nice to accent certain parts with the drums. I also fixed the EQ'ing on the track, I had chopped out a lot of mids accidentally, and things were a little too compressed, so that's been changed.