My first successful/coherent epic, and other songs
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Topic: My first successful/coherent epic, and other songs
Posted By: Zitro
Subject: My first successful/coherent epic, and other songs
Date Posted: March 07 2007 at 09:48
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http://profile.myspace.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=user.viewprofile&friendid=144302325 The epic is "Crime vs Crime", based on a true story of a soldier who learns the politics of the iraq war and refuses the order to go back to Iraq and is arrested. He could be a morally right person or a traitor, it's up to anyone to decide what he is. Musically, it is completely instrumental, divided into many sections connected together. All played by me, multitracking piano/keyboard tracks. It's classical/symphonic prog and features time changes, church organs and all that crap  though I tried my best to avoid cliches.5_ Crime vs. Crime (9:56) · i – Introduction - Ready to Fight 0:00 – 0:35 The other three songs: _One Last Dream: A "prog" song with vocals dealing with a woman suffering from delusions/nightmares. She thinks she is cured and wants to get her life back in track, but her sickness reigns one again and me and Kay Cuffari (singer/flute) wrote some crazy/scary stuff in that 2nd half. _A Tribute to Ale: A more normal song with catchy and melodic piano during verses/choruses (it has some "crime of the century" feel) and a more symphonic middle part. It's dedicated to my bro (He's not dead!) _A Birth to Zitro : The first half of the epic I will probably finish by mid-march. It's experimental, proggy, and almost like metal in parts, but due to being a bit incoherent , I'm not really pleased with it. This song deals with my difficult teenage life and self-esteem issues during that time. I associate the nickname' "Zitro" with my teenage life. |
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Posted By: Trickster F.
Date Posted: March 07 2007 at 10:02
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That's really good!
 A tune from 7:00 and beyond reminds me a lot of Opeth's A Fair Judgement. Coincidence?  ------------- sig |
Posted By: Zitro
Date Posted: March 07 2007 at 10:08
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mmm, I don't think there's much resemblence. If you say "firth of fifth" I'll probably agree. It accidently sounded like that genesis song due to the piano arpeggios and flutes. Thanks, any suggestions on things (if any) that don't sound right to your ears? |
Posted By: magnus
Date Posted: March 07 2007 at 18:37
I can hear it too. Good track!  ------------- The scattered jigsaw of my redemption laid out before my eyes Each piece as amorphous as the other - Each piece in its lack of shape a lie 
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Trickster F. wrote:Posted By: progismylife
Date Posted: March 07 2007 at 18:39
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Can I add you to my friends?
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Posted By: Zitro
Date Posted: March 07 2007 at 18:53
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Wow, I barely see any resemblance (maybe a small portion of the melody) though the mood might be similar: sad piano. Yeah, you can add me up, I change the songs around every now and then, so u could hear more stuff. |
Posted By: Fight Club
Date Posted: March 07 2007 at 19:15
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Wow that's some really nice stuff! Really impressive, I could never write piano music like that. Piano is really difficult for me I still haven't really figured it out! But damn, that song flows really smoothly. You can barely tell it's almost 10 minutes long. Same goes to the other songs as well man. Definately keep that up! ------------- 
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Posted By: Fight Club
Date Posted: March 07 2007 at 19:20
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I think I should start a thread for everyone just to post their personal compositions. That would make so much more sense wouldn't it? -------------
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Posted By: Zitro
Date Posted: March 07 2007 at 19:21
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EDIT: the "math joke" song in that link was uploaded badly for some reason. if anyone wants it, PM me. and yes, it has a "disco queen" sound in the choruses hehe  EDIT2: I used megaupload now: http://www.megaupload.com/?d=VJEUF324 let's disco! |
Posted By: Trickster F.
Date Posted: March 08 2007 at 10:11
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LET'S DISCO! ------------- sig |
Posted By: el böthy
Date Posted: March 14 2007 at 23:38
I respect your music, but I msut tell you I didn´t like it...still, keep making it!
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Posted By: Penumbra
Date Posted: March 17 2007 at 21:49
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I loved the Crime vs. Crime piece. It reminds me intensely of some mix of Rick Wakeman, Tony Banks, Vangelis, and Rachmaninov. Great job in all; I have added you : )
------------- The Holy Trinity of Symphonic Progressive Rock 
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