Alright, congrats to Pucifer for getting second (glad you finished your piece as well, dude), and to everyone else involved. We had a LOT more entries than expected. Let's keep it up, shall we?


Alright, so for the test competition, we did a general Mario 1-1 theme. Now, seeing as it seems to be lifting off the ground well, let's get more specific. Or perhaps, in your view, this is getting more general.


The theme:

Chase music. You know, the kind of music that plays in the background when we're being chased by a truck/machine/biochemical zombie/huge enemy of some kind, and all you can do is run? You're to create that kind of music.

The specifics:
- The tempo must be 180 or higher. No lower. After all, if we want to set the atmosphere/scene for a chase scene, we can't have music that's dragging us along.
- Lots of decreasing scales. This is another aspect of chase music, running usually is a negative, that also decreases in expectancy of where you're going. Having a lot of semi-note scales going down helps this mood. If you don't know what I mean by this, then I just mean to make sure you have a good amount of notes going down 1 by 1 on different instruments:

G
F#
F
E#
E

etc etc


If you need an example, I've created one. It only took me about 2 hours, so it's not great at all, but it serves as a reference point.

http://brosofcanada.sepwich.com/Chase.mp3


The competition will end January 4th, seeing as we have holidays and such.

ALRIGHTY GO

Alright, missed the last one, so let's try this one.
Interesting theme...

This post has been edited by kane]deth[ on Dec 11 2007, 09:36 PM

When will this end?

Good question.


Lemme add that.

This time I will get a badge

I'll get on it right away!

EDIT: Here's my song v.1
It doesn't really feel like a chase IMO, but it's fast paced.

This post has been edited by NICKtendo DS on Dec 12 2007, 06:37 AM

Attached File ( Number of downloads: 123 )
 Javelynn_Chase.mid

ah, fast.

That's right up my alley.

Yeiiiiiiii


tuba solo <3

Good, but near the end when yu have those three parts transposing, they don't sound liike they're done at the right moment.

I'll try entering this if I can think of something cool.

This post has been edited by Morty Maxwell on Dec 12 2007, 04:27 PM

Can it be from a game or does it have to be custom?

I'd rather it be custom. In this competition, it's like you're creating a song for a new video game.

does it have to be midi/computer made or can i record me playing guitar/drums/whatnot (my friend has a recording studio in his basement) would that be fine for me to do that?

We already said in the first competition, but yes, you can use whatever medium you have, as long as the average computer user has the ability to play it with whatever programs he/she has.

oh sorry, i didn't see the first one, just stumbled across this today when i saw your music note badge on the side. alrighty, sounds good, ill start working on something.

Fruityloopification!
It feels more like a Boss fight than a Boss chase or something IMO
It's now in MP3 format. I've transposed the 'chaotic' violins a bit to make it sound more like that 'I'm gonna stab and murder you when your taking a shower'-scenario.

Attached File ( Number of downloads: 60 )
 Javelynn_Chase.zip

Actually, I realize that it's difficult to make a "chase" song, even my example isn't that great. That's why I said basically, there's two specifics to it - the tempo and scales, and the rest is up to you.

Allright. This ought to be a bit more fun than Mario theme remix #12A. I'll do my best to get my entry done.

Agh. Anvil studio is not the program to use for this king of thing. I just hope the keyboard I have at my dad's is a MIDI one. It'd make this sort of thing a lot easier..

May I ask why Anvil Studio isn't the program to use for this concept?

I used Anvil Studio. Works perfectly fine.

Tottaly My vote!