I hope you had some fantastic holidays, and here's to an awesome new year! Now, my vacation away from school isn't quite over, but I have a little bit of work to do. It turns out that I had missed a couple of blog posts for December, so I've got to get these in. Plus, I was bored and needed something to do tonight , and thought that I may as well blog about it as it relates to our progress on the game.
Late last night on December the 30th, I began working on yet another song to incorporate into the game. It will be the second ambience tune, or an ending theme (Not sure yet). Currently, it consists of a 4 part string section, playing chords in the background through the entire piece, a 3 part clarinet section, one, but soon to be more trumpets, and the melody played by a flute. I have also left space for a 4th type of instrument, as well as a bass part and percussion.
The strings add a nice feeling to the piece, and they help to fill any empty spaces in the tune that would otherwise seem weak. It also adds another layer to the entire ensemble that help it sound more "full." The clarinet part is interesting; I have arranged it into 3 parts as mentioned before, and with that I have added a bit of a cool touch. Only one of the clarinet parts is moving at a time, with the others just playing dotted half notes (the piece is in 3/4 time). However, I set it up so that the same part doesn't move two bars in a row. This makes a really cool sound with the way I have it set up. There is always movement, which sounds nice, but also keeps the piece moving instead of just dragging on slowly. Currently as for the trumpet part, I just have it playing a bit of an arpeggio, as I wasn't too sure to put for it. I might just leave it, seeing as it sounds nice, and gives another element of movement in the piece; and of course I will add more, I just haven't gotten to that. As for the flute part, I only have the initial melody part that plays along with the strings for the first 16 bars. I haven't made up a second part for it yet to cover the rest of the piece, but it shouldn't be too difficult. This part of it wont be too complex, seeing as there is a lot of action going on throughout the piece already, and I don't want things to get too chaotic. Sometimes a simple melody is nice once in a while; it's easy to follow and relaxing, which is kind of the aim for this.
That's all I have for right now. It's getting late at this point, and I'm pretty tired as well. Tomorrow, (or rather later today... It's 1:30AM) I will make another post with any more progress I make before the new year. I will get the flute part incorporated, and I will add one or two more trumpets into the mix. I would like to play around with the bass instruments as well to see how they fit into the song.
All that, and maybe I'll try to figure out what other instruments to add and how to use them.
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