The Charge to Certain Death - UPDATE 8/9

Audio stops at measure 31. I wish I could here the whole thing. I also wonder what is happening. I do not expect Musescore.com to be glitchless, and this is just another example.

I love it! The images that formed in my mind as I listened started with a determined march toward a dreaded battle, turning into a charge and clash (brilliant use of string texturing here) as the armies meet, focusing in on a fierce warrior fighting impossible odds, near death at the end, and then there's a major chord. So it's not finished, but you have to make the decision on whether this brave dude (Chuck, perhaps? How much do you really like him?) lives or dies. Perhaps reinforcing troops come into the music, and the hero rallies to a triumphant finale. Or perhaps he dies, with a plaintive requiem soaring above the undercurrent of a battle raging on. I think you're perfectly capable of taking it any musical direction you choose.

Ahhhhh, Amazing! What soundfont do you use?

Wonderful start. Generally, you have some good moments (leading up to m. 36, for example), but those are seriously bogged down by the mundane harmonic structures forming the rest of the piece. I would challenge you to be more adventurous and to think about why you are writing (are you writing passive background music, or are you writing something that demands the listener's attention?). Also, think about the size of your gesture. Do these 2 1/2 minutes warrant triple forte and four full measures of silence at the end? Again, good work. I think your music could be more interesting if you wanted it to be.

so you asked for some refinement ideas. here are a couple (as if it were even possible to improve such as awesome piece): I hear the ominous march. maybe instead of a nice major chord in m50, a battle breaks out (could be between people, or against the weather, or some fatal disease, or between ants of different colonies, whatever.) this is no skirmish. it would need lots of trumpet and horn interaction with cymbals and timpani crashing about. the winds and strings would be providing the ground like the strings do in m23-30, but more chaotic as if the winds and strings were the smoke of the two sides in battle. somewhere a horn has to keep your thematic motif moving forward through the chaos toward... certain... death. I think you sort of do this already, i was just eager to hear more intensity and terror with trumpets screaming and lines of tenor drums with piercing fifes moving their lines of troops through the smoke of the battle as canon blast starting somewhere about m50. then of course the sudden death as if the king was pierced through in the battle, and the fight suddenly ends.

maybe followed up by a second movement of a heroic funeral march, slow and grand, (though it would be a true challenge to match Beethoven's Eroica or Purcell's Music for the Funeral of Queen Mary.)

just a couple of ideas

:O You made the cool thing even cooler! :D I love the contrast between the third section and the beginning pieces of this. :) Personally, I think it would be really cool to add a sforzando onto that end D Major chord. This is really good though! I'm glad you decided to continue this piece :)

oh wow this is amazing! Like leopard gecko said this really could be in a movie great job

Whoa Great job! I can't see myself nearly as close in 5 year.
And it's kinda hilarious and unexpected that the "certain death" at the end is a bright D major (very Chuck Norris "triumphant over death") xD

This sounds really cool! Like it could be in a movie!

Wow! I've been listening to some of your pieces and they are astounding!! Composition always looked amazing to me, I hope one day I could know enough about music to compose at least some simple and short pieces. Yours are wonderful! So profesional.

Oh, this is cool! This sounds like something I would hear in a professional soundtrack. Well done!

Even to my untrained ears it sounds great! This is some serious film music stuff! I love it.
;)

Do you also use FL Studio? For some reason there aren't any tutorials online and I guess I just have to figure things out by myself. Nice work by the way, I was hoping it would be more haha

Sounds great.

Come on bro! Why not NobleEwe? Her music is amazing!

Fantastic!

Um sooo...confusion? Chuck Norris? I'm curious - why you always tag your pieces with him?

I adore this , i think you did a fantastic job thank you thank you !!!!