'Kuwait Spirit' Performed by a 54-pc Orchestra

Nice track. I enjoyed it. Good theme in my opinion. Orchestra is at times a bit off, true. I am still liking it. Woodwind runs..a short thing about them: While they can add excitement and motion don´t overdo such things as it can become jaring or too much of a joke then. There are other ways of using the high winds to add motion or filling out the orchestration, e.g. with little puctuated short figures instead. If you are somebody who like to use flourishing runs use them a bit more specific. E.g. 1:57 horn is playing..with changing notes + the runs..they simply fucks the horn line there, it doesn´t make it cooler. You need to make space for such things, the first thing. And making space has to do how your melody is designed ryhthmically. When your melody is quite more busy with changing the notes a lot than I would better recommend not using them or at best with some counterpointed short ideas there (for instance answering a rhythmic aspect of the lower instruments). Runs work in the way for me that they celebrate and intensify a very specific note or moment of the melody line or theme. (like Williams uses them both textural, but also for enhancing dynamics). You can see that in a lot of this works but just go with the indiana jones theme. He starts with those runs in the finale part of his theme to goose certain notes of the melody, in the first section he uses them counterpointed wise to answer the ryhthm a bit but also he makes space there, so that the notes rest and then he can make something. So 1). safe those things for the final because you might lose the impact what you can give your recapitulation when using them before and 2). think about where you really have some sort of space for them in order to make that work, so that everything stays out of the way. If you just pull them in for the sake of: Yeah we need that runs and winds to make that more exciting the chance is high that it ends up as a random approach. I know you love runs and we all do, still study the greats and see how they do it. Less is often more in the end. I bet my ass they you probably won´t need them at least for some of the parts which would it make sound much clearer, controlled and focussed. Its just my opinion of course and if you are fine with it leave it like it is.

 

Wow, thank you, Abdulrahman.

I hope this post is better structured so that your eyes are definitely more pleased and I am very sorry for that.

I will definitely go and work on my layout technique for any future posts especially for you, man.

 

All good. I haven´t much time these days so when I use my spare time it was just writing down quickly some thoughts as I always try to be a bit helpful of course. I didn´t pay attention to the layout of my post. So knowing that you are wearing glasses makes total sense. Knowing that if you prefer I can also write in bigger letters. Because I know how it is because I am wearing glasses too..
Hope that makes sense.

 

Musiversal is a bit on the budget side and I understate that even a bit, I heard other examples where they were also slight out of tune depending on the piece and the time they had to prepare. Wasn´t musiversal the 99 Dollar Orchestra thing (see also their kickstarter)? I think they renamed? There was a dedicated thread on Vi-Control where people had mixed feelings.