Guitar and Orchestra

Just me having some fun with our favorite program!

BiaB style = Slow Pop Orchestral

I deleted the drum track.
The following tracks are using Kirt Hunter's Studio
1-Bass - Virtuoso basses
2-Cellos - Virtuoso Cellos - I duplicate the bass track and raised it one octave
3-Guitar - Virtuoso Strings
4-strings - Virtuoso Serenity Legato

Piano - Amadeus Orchestra - Harp

All tracks were slightly altered to better fit the song. All but the bass and cello tracks have a touch of Raum reverb.

I am playing my Harley Benton guitar straight into my mixing board with effects Blue Cat's Re-Guitar set to Jazz Wide and with TR5 Tape Echo.

The master track effects are Aphex Vintage Exciter - preset - Project Legato.

All comments good or not so good are welcomed.

I am at work right now and speaking frankly registered on the forum just because got bored, but I put it on repeat! Great relaxing composition. Thank you! Also, sorry for off-topic, did not think that's important enough to post a new thread. I am about to buy an electric violin for my daughter. Is here a professional who could recommend one (from these, I guess)

Mario, interesting!

Way outside the square, invigorating, unusual and enticing.

You bent the rules, very successfully.

Sounds good to me, Mario! Nice new age type piece.

I'm having no problems hearing the changes here.

Nice tone on the guitar!

Hi Mario,

I read the comment about your chordprogressions, well I can hear your progressions. I find your melody very nice and I liked the dramatic move in it towards the end. But if you could distinguish your instruments a bit more that would work out better. I don't mean just adding more volume, but panning the instruments (wider)and add volume to some of them. Makes the mix brighter.

But Mario, who cares? You had your fun making this song and we by listening to it!

Stay safe,
Hans

Mario,

You are the New-Age King of the forum.

I like the "density" of the background. I did think the guitar could have been just VERY slightly louder - which seemed to happen around the 2:10 mark...then it seemed to drop a bit again. (It might be just an EQ thing - a little more high end might be the ticket. Guessing, here)

A beautiful piece. I enjoyed the listen.

fj

Very cool score type thing!! You are the master of the film score music!! Enjoyed A LOT!!! Take care. Greg

Hi Mario ...

yep ... new Age film scoring! As Floyd said,in so many words, you own this genre! what a soothing listen! You always do great work, my friend!

Wishing you the very best. Be safe ...

Alan

This is cool...reminds me of a lull section in a hooror movie where things are then suddenly interrupted by a gore fest. Lovely playing Mario. Angels sing.

Mario,
Mysterious and fun. Could be very well used as a background for a modern day narration of Thousand and One Nights. Nice guitar playing and FX!
Enjoyed it! Thank you for sharing.

Misha.

Your productions always bring me a new appreciation for MIDI based songs. Relaxing and uplifting tune.

Mario
A soothing relaxing piece. Nice work on the backing tracks.

Peter

So creative...love your approach to experimenting, etc. You get to places I would never think of going! Really makes me appreciate human inventiveness!
Thanks for stretching BIAB out like this!

A nicely layered soundscape, Mario.Beautiful guitar tone and the kind of string arrangement I wish I had the skills to achieve!
Very enjoyable inner movie music.

Robert

Sounds good. Ambient. Nice electric guitar playing.

A very interesting relaxing, yet cerebral ride. I like the way it rocks back and forth between major and minor tonalities, sometimes from the same same root chord. At least that's the way I'm parsing it as a beginner. And lands on an "up" feel. I wasn't all that crazy about the cello in my right ear on the phones. Probably not an issue on monitors/speakers. It might have been better had the strings taken the full spread and the cello shared closer to the middle...but maybe the very oddness of the piece begged for such a placement. I very much enjoyed the time listening.

Nice work Mario. You have a distinctive style all of your own.
That TR5 tape echo on your guitar gives an ethereal sound to the piece.
This music would be perfect for a dream sequence in a movie.

Hi MarioD,

This is a very melodramatic sounding piece.
You've done a really good job on it.
I'm not by any stretch of the imagination a movie director, but I can actually hear this as the intro or ending of a sad movie...

Or it could be played as an emphasis on a sad scene.

It's kind of sad, yet soothing. Thanks for posting.

Thanx for listening and those very kind comments.

Sorry but I don't know a violin player. You should start a new thread on the Woodshedding - Learning to Play forum.

With BiaB it is quite easy to think out of the box and to bend the rules. PGMusic should get most of the credit in that department.

Thanx so much Dave. I really like this HB guitar.

Thanx Hans for those suggestions. I'm sure they will make my songs sound better.

Thanx Floyd for that suggestion. I will give it a try.

I'm not sure about that New-Age King statement, but I'll take it

Thanx so much Greg. I'm not sure that I am a master of the film score music but I do like to write in that genre.

Thanx so much Alan for this kind review.

I never thought about this song in that perspective but you are right.

Thanx for listening and commenting.

Thanx so much Misha for listening and these very nice comments.

Thanx Charlie. Some people look down on MIDI while I look up at it. I much prefer working in MIDI than in Audio, but that is just me. Others are experts at working with RTs.

Thanx so much Peter.

Using BiaB makes it easy to experiment and work out of your comfort zone. Just try it and after a short while you will be more comfortable working in different genres and with experimenting.

Thanx Robert for listening and commenting. BiaB does have some very nice MIDI string tracks and it doesn't take much, if any, changes improve them. You might want to give it a try.

Thanx so much.

Thanx for listening and commenting. I will have to take a look at the cello. I place my strings in most of my compositions based on where they are in an orchestra based on the audiences view. Thus the double basses and cellos are on the far right. But maybe I have a volume issue, I will check.

Thanx for listening and commenting Andyman. I really like that TR5 tape echo. It is one of the best IMHO.

Thanx Bawb for these very nice comments. I appreciated them.

Moody, mysterious and mesmerizing...

Something we think the film libraries would
like to have in their repertoire.

We always like the backstories on how you put these
productions together.

Enjoyed it!

J&B

No worries. That explains it. Carry on.

Cool! It reminded me of background music from Escape from Monkey Island, which is a good thing.

Raum reverb is one awesome verb.

I'm glad that you liked this.

Thanx so much.

Yes Raum is one awesome reverb.

Sorry for the late reply Mario. Lovely song. Very peaceful. Very cool chord progression. Puts allot of feel into the song.

Good stuff Mario, very evocative. Did I hear a hint of a coir in the background too?
I liked it a lot.

Mike B.

Thanx Scott for those very kind words and for noticing the chord progression.

Thanx Mike and yes there was a hint of a choir in the background.

Mario, you always come up with interesting stuff! Beautiful in a strange sort of way! I've always felt you could do things that would work in film! Very nice! Thanks, T

Thanx for those very kind words.

Mario, who in their right mind could not LOVE this ? It's BEAUTIFUL. STUNNING orchestration that almost paints a picture of a spot in paradise. Thanks so much for posting this old buddy

Graham, thanx so much for this very kind review!