For my composers, how do you get better at turning your ideas into finished pieces? I don't seem to have much trouble finding ideas that I like but I want to improve my ability to compose. Do you study specific pieces? Do you study a specific aspect of composition? When you were first making music in the genre did you ever study medieval music or did you take inspiration from a totally different genre?
Hello everyone.
I am a composer, but of a slightly different sort. I enjoy writing my own music and recently I have challenged myself to write a full album. Right now I am working on a Dungeon Synth project where the idea is each album is a soundtrack for a game that doesn't exist.
I have just completed the first piece I want to end up on this album, and I am looking for feedback. Specifically, the kind that you guys provide.
I write in FL Studio so I can post MIDI + PDF + Google Drive. Would that suffice?
I'm currently working on a side project called Lantern Tower Studios. The idea is to make album-length soundtracks to video games that don't exist. My first is inspired by The Elder Scrolls II: Daggerfall.
This piece is specifically inspired by "Day Theme 6 - 02" from the Daggerfall soundtrack. Since the MIDI is online I was able to dissect and really understand the composition and learn whatever techniques I could from it. This pieces specifically is based on G Dorian. It stays firmly rooted in G Dorian with a drone in the pads, fifths in the strings, with a touch of chromaticism at one point. Here there is no defined chord progression, but a well-defined melodic progression and development of ideas instead.
I always notice errors in my work after I listen back to it enough, and I've already noticed a few fixes I could make in this one, as well as a few improvements. Let me know what you guys notice. :)
I've been making Dungeon Synth inspired by Daggerfall recently so I decided I would post this here. Enjoy! This is my most Daggerfall one so far.
Here are some of my other Daggerfall-inspired tracks:
Reckoning (Epic): https://youtu.be/h7AjEDnuOFM?si=mXW_aLTgklvbZja7
Last March (Sad): https://youtu.be/YQAJBVxxypw?si=93MFDYiPJcuWpTOI
All of my music is free to be enjoyed and shared, and is licensed under CC BY 4.0.
Been playing around with dungeon synth recently. Enjoy and let me know your thoughts.