Farkle
Senior Member
Hi, everyone!
So, I'm following Jim Venable's workflow, and composing everything in Sibelius before firing up my DAW. It's awesome.
I'm working with Andrew Aversa (zircon) scoring this retro "Final Fantasy 6" style game for Hunt Game Studios in Seattle. I am working on the Boss Battle theme, and I thought it would be cool to show folks how my sketch process goes with EIS.
I used a reference track from Chrono Trigger to get a feel for the form. The piece is short, only a minute long, but it's basically a reduced orchestral score. The bulk of the orchestration will be in brass (trumpets in chords, bones filling in the bass), but there will be woodwinds and strings in secondary roles.
I sketched out the piece in piano stave, and am now in the DAW, blowing it out into full orchestral score. I'll post that when it's done.
There are so many tools in EIS... I started with 9th chords, with resolutions to create some linear motion. At the end of each 2 bar phrase, I dropped into book 6, polytonality, with some split octave and Semi Split Octave chords. Once the main theme started, I made the accompaniment with ostinato in the bass, and then writing a vertical chord structure, and then breaking that apart horizontally and adding leading tones from Book 7 to get a busy texture.
Somewhere at about :40 seconds I didn't know where to go, so I just did an EIS sequence of progressions, which pushed me into a new area. Finished up with a diatonic (Book 5) progression with strings in 3P-H3.
Here is the MP3 and the PDF of the reduction. I really am excited at how fun and "easy" it was to make these musical patterns. And, how much energy this piece has, even with no percussion, etc.
MP3: (broken link removed)
PDF: (broken link removed)
If you like classic SNES scores like Chrono Trigger and Final Fantasy 6, this is in your wheelhouse. I also thought it would be fun for people to see how I start my composition in sketch form, using EIS notes and reminders all around my score to keep me focused and my music under control.
Hope you enjoy it! I'll post the orchestral breakout when it's done!
Mike
So, I'm following Jim Venable's workflow, and composing everything in Sibelius before firing up my DAW. It's awesome.
I'm working with Andrew Aversa (zircon) scoring this retro "Final Fantasy 6" style game for Hunt Game Studios in Seattle. I am working on the Boss Battle theme, and I thought it would be cool to show folks how my sketch process goes with EIS.
I used a reference track from Chrono Trigger to get a feel for the form. The piece is short, only a minute long, but it's basically a reduced orchestral score. The bulk of the orchestration will be in brass (trumpets in chords, bones filling in the bass), but there will be woodwinds and strings in secondary roles.
I sketched out the piece in piano stave, and am now in the DAW, blowing it out into full orchestral score. I'll post that when it's done.
There are so many tools in EIS... I started with 9th chords, with resolutions to create some linear motion. At the end of each 2 bar phrase, I dropped into book 6, polytonality, with some split octave and Semi Split Octave chords. Once the main theme started, I made the accompaniment with ostinato in the bass, and then writing a vertical chord structure, and then breaking that apart horizontally and adding leading tones from Book 7 to get a busy texture.
Somewhere at about :40 seconds I didn't know where to go, so I just did an EIS sequence of progressions, which pushed me into a new area. Finished up with a diatonic (Book 5) progression with strings in 3P-H3.
Here is the MP3 and the PDF of the reduction. I really am excited at how fun and "easy" it was to make these musical patterns. And, how much energy this piece has, even with no percussion, etc.
MP3: (broken link removed)
PDF: (broken link removed)
If you like classic SNES scores like Chrono Trigger and Final Fantasy 6, this is in your wheelhouse. I also thought it would be fun for people to see how I start my composition in sketch form, using EIS notes and reminders all around my score to keep me focused and my music under control.
Hope you enjoy it! I'll post the orchestral breakout when it's done!
Mike