Here is my submission for the relaxing music contest
Track Description
A light track which I hope is pleasing on the senses and will induce a relaxed mood
My Creative Vision
I have attempted to make a ‘shimmering’ effect with little vertical movement of notes in the chords and melody
Composition Overview
The chord sequence is fairly simple
C - Csus4 - C - Csus4 - C - Csus4 - G - F
It is in 4/4 time at 70bpm
Main Sounds
I subscribe to EW composer cloud so most of the sounds are from their sound libraries. I use a lot of reverb on the brighter instruments (not on the low end orchestral).
I also have applied EQ to the mid frequencies (1-5kHz) and a little compression.
Beautiful song. Direct and simple but effective for a relaxing goal.
I think that some bass lower notes are a little bit untuned. Take care of this instrument when playing that tessitura.
Thanks for the positive feedback. I really appreciate this.
The bass is a sampled electric bass played finger style from ew composer cloud sound library.
I will watch out for this tuning issue in future
It’s funny because the title “Shimmer” represents the feeling I have in this piece, and I really like it, would really see that in a love scene. Yeah and as @VSHDEL said some of the lower bass notes seem untuned and therefore lower quality.
The bass comprised a fingered bass guitar playing root notes and I had added a cello track playing the thirds. both tracks in the same octave. This resulted in a muddied, out of tune sounding bass.
Since the competition ended, I have deleted the cello track. I also changed the bass to a Fender Jazz bass. Thanks for your valued comments.