This is an action theme written for a project I’m involved with for a Star Wars-themed Youtube channel. A very serious feature-length fan fiction is being created, and I am scoring the project. A dream project, as my only “brief” is to compose music that sounds like Star Wars, but is wholly original. So no actual Star Wars themes are allowed, and anyway I wouldn’t want to do that! Obviously, with Star-Wars-iness as the goal, this is a pure orchestral piece, with no hybrid or electronic elements.
So I didn’t compose this piece for this contest, but I happened to be just starting to orchestrate it when Mike announced this contest. It was in production during the month of July, so I believe it meets the criteria.
There are no live instruments in the version submitted here. The strings, brass and woodwinds are almost all Berlin/Orchestral Tools. Percussion is mostly Cinesamples. In the next 3 months I do plan to add live musicians just to push it up another level. But I must say the Berlin samples get me a lot closer than anything I’ve worked with before.
Apologies that I’m using Reelcrafter and not Soundcloud. You can take points off!
A+++ Everett! The “Golden Age of Hollywood” sound/style, which John Williams comes from, is one of my favorite styles of orchestral music as it evolved out of the tail end of the Romantic era and still retains some of that good old “classical” sound to it. Your piece is very Willams-esque and definitely sound like something from Star Wars, so mission accomplished! if you made a score for it, I’d love to dissect and study it for sure!
Also, since there’s no complete score to dissect, you would be welcome to just ask me anything. And it started as a piano foundation, and was orchestrated from that.
I’d gladly send you the midi file of the piano foundation. Pretty much every part is in the piano foundation.
I finally managed to hear your track, and i have to say that it is one of my favourites so far. I really like how many instruments you used, and how fine the ornaments are in the whole track.
i love how the combination of winds with the percussion (marimba i think) works.
Well done, Everett!
Everett - very nicely orchestrated track. You definitely got the Star Wars style down. Will be nice to hear with the real musicians when you do that. Please post when done.
I think you got the “feel” down to a tee!
Truly amazed by how dynamic and varied this piece is. The last third was my favourite part, the elongated parts, chordal harmonies.
Just brillant!
As a fan of Williams and Star Wars, I’m obviously really enjoying this! Lovely flowing melody lines, and you certainly nail the action theme with this fast moving, urgent feel. And as always, flawless orchestration and production.
Everything has already been said above, bravo @ComposerEverett
If you ever make a Youtubevideo when you compose something like this please let me know! Even if it´s a hundred hours long.
Oh man. Impossible not to love it. It can be listened for hours anlyzing your creation. Beautifull and clever. Many, many things I can learn from your piece. Thanks for sharing your mastery.
