First song in the alien game..

[Synthetique]

Hey.. I started on this tune and i like the sound of it..
BUT!! i'm stuck now. i cant come up with any ideas.. maybe you could help me..

it starts when the purple alien gets up from the hole and looks at the sweet nature surroundings.. sunny and nice..
*sketching*


here's a quick illustration... hope you can get the feeling out of it..

http://w1.501.telia.com/~u50109765/music/Happy.mp3
40 secs / 627 Kb


Thanks for any suggestions!

[Gilbert]

...Then a spot of light approaches the alien and told him that the elders want to see him...

* Gilbot V7000a likes cliche adventure jokes...

[loominous]

Think it ll be easier to come up with a continuation if you introduce more instruments during these 40 secs; in addition it ll sound richer.

One way:

at 9 secs - let a bell like instrument play some kind of arpeggio of the chords. For example a celesta could play: c5 a4 f4 f5 d5 c5 a4 g4 f4.... in a fitting rhythm.

at 19 secs - the "bass"pizz (that takes goes: f c f c f d f d) could be lowered or doubled an octave down to provide some variation n depth.

General thing:

To make it sound richer you could pan out the pizz to make them belong to a stringsection.

For example: the melody would probably be played by 1st n 2nd violin section so they d be on the left; the current bassnotes would be played by the viola section or the celli, n would in the former case be in the center n latter to the right.

If you ll add deeper bassnotes (the "19 secs thing" in my example) they d probably be played by the doublebasses n which are ordinarily placed on the far right.

[Andail]

I think that was the most thorough musical feedback we've had on this forum, Loominus. Well done.

[SLaMgRInDeR]

i cant fealy be of much help there, as i cant find anything wrong with it, maybe try adding birds in the background, but almost subliminaly cheeping to the rythm?
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