Yukri's Theme - A track from Project Rebirth

[Hutton]

I shall not, at this current time, tell you what Project Rebirth is or what we do,all I can say is that we are a game-creating team and we do use RPG Maker.

Anyway, our Track Artist recently came up with this. It seemed highly suitable for our main female theme, but i wanted to get it rated by non-biased artists before it is submitted.

The person who did this is an expert pianoist/keyboard, who worked with Keyboards for 20 years and still plays now, on and off. He did this in roughly 2minutes.

Yukri's Theme

:D

~Hutton~

 

[Kaoii]

From a player's standpoint I would find this to be very satisfactory and pleasing.

However, when I look at this from my personal standpoint as a musician, there are some problems here I did notice, and please note this all constructive criticism, nothing meant to be taken personally as this is all just my opinion.

If that is for a character theme, then it needs to be memorable. The only thing that actually repeats and sticks in my memory is the rhythm, which is just simple chord progressions of two or three changing intervals. The melody and rhythm at times are not together and the melody at several points goes off key (I'm sure this is intentional).

My favorite bit of the track was at 0:41. I thought that section was quite a hook.

If you want an example of what I'm referring to by memorable, here's a track I recorded myself last week:

http://rzgames.ragezone.com/Outerworld.mp3

Several repeats and after you hear it once or twice it pretty much sticks.

But remember, this is all just my opinion =p

 

[illustrationism]

First the good parts. I think it's very pretty. The piece has some potential. Like Kaoii said, it needs to be more memorable, but it’s a decent start.

Onto the song. I think that it needs to be stronger and have some instruments back it up if it’s going to be a main character’s theme from a game. A main character’s theme needs to be very polished, as it’ll be the theme that everyone will have to recognize. Also, without a little information about the character, it’s nearly impossible to tell if it’ll work or not.

Now for the not-so-good parts... As a pianist, I am very particular with piano compositions. I can say without a doubt that whatever the person playing is an expert in, it is not playing / recording piano. While the piece is very nice, I can hear that he's hesitating a lot; not something an expert would to. Also, the piece itself is very, very simple. In addition, he’s not using the sustain pedal correctly in some places... On top of that, the recording and instrument are both of mediocre quality.

I think that whoever this person is, he is exaggerating quite a bit about his ability and experience. Sorry.

 

[Kaoii]

Yeah, some of the pedal usage is kind of hazy in the second half.

 

[CERU]

Project Rebirth? Thats the name of an upcoming game of mine. o.o;