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A Final Peace

By Bunjigram on September 8, 2024 11:37 pm

Okay, so last week LittleBigMosaic downloaded the BBC Orchestra (free edition) into my Ableton. I've been wanting to play around with doing some orchestration and actually using more than one track for my weekly piano solo uploads. Of course, in my usual style, I waited until Sunday afternoon to even plop down and open the darn thing and start messing with it. Here's what I came up with -- some lush strings, tenor trombones and other horns, timpani, harp, and piano. I ran out of time and had to make my last-minute upload in Bunjigram fashion. If I can get good at this, LitteBig might give me the Philharmonic! smile Thanks for listening. -RCN

Wow, you really hit the ground running! Super impressive voicing and mixing on your first ever go at an orchestral arrangement. Everything sits really well together. Nice change up at 1:20 when the very pretty, minimalist piano takes the stage. This could totally be the soundtrack to the final scene of a motivational, feel-good flick. Looking forward to seeing where you continue to go with orchestral arrangement

As if your Sunday afternoon piano improvisations weren't impressive enough, this is what you come up with the first time sitting down with BBC Orchestra? Wow.

100% agree with everything littlebig said. Beautiful and lush, with great movement and variation through the piece. The change to the quiet piano theme was perfect. Excellent use of instrumental accents as well, like the timp and the harp. This is absolutely movie ready smile

Impressive orchestration given the time constraint! And you were entirely right, this will work great with the piano, as you already demonstrated in the second half here.

Nitpick: it cuts rather sharply at the end.

rplktr wrote:

Impressive orchestration given the time constraint! And you were entirely right, this will work great with the piano, as you already demonstrated in the second half here.

Nitpick: it cuts rather sharply at the end.


Thanks for the comments, and yes, I noticed the cutoff at the end and will fix that.  Thanks again.

littlebigmosaic wrote:

Wow, you really hit the ground running! Super impressive voicing and mixing on your first ever go at an orchestral arrangement. Everything sits really well together. Nice change up at 1:20 when the very pretty, minimalist piano takes the stage. This could totally be the soundtrack to the final scene of a motivational, feel-good flick. Looking forward to seeing where you continue to go with orchestral arrangement


Thanks for the feedback. Given the mood of this piece, it just seemed the piano needed to be a bit muted and delicate and fit well on the outro.  I lowered the strings and elevated the horns slightly in that part, but decreased the levels of both to give it a higher resonance background more balanced with the piano. I plan to play with this one a lot more and maybe lengthen it too.  Thanks for all the fun plugins !! smile

Paisleyfrog wrote:

As if your Sunday afternoon piano improvisations weren't impressive enough, this is what you come up with the first time sitting down with BBC Orchestra? Wow.

100% agree with everything littlebig said. Beautiful and lush, with great movement and variation through the piece. The change to the quiet piano theme was perfect. Excellent use of instrumental accents as well, like the timp and the harp. This is absolutely movie ready smile


Thanks for your kind words. I'm excited to have more tools and sounds to play with and to hopefully expand my creatively with the piano. I've been wanting to venture out, and this is a great community to learn from with all the diverse styles, talents, and experience. Have been enjoying your works as well.

littlebigmosaic wrote:

Wow, you really hit the ground running!

you certainly did, Bunjigram!
this was a lovely way to start my day. I feel motivated and ready to face whatever comes my way.
nice work, and I look forward to hearing more.

coming back for a little pick-me-up  smile

jwh wrote:
littlebigmosaic wrote:

Wow, you really hit the ground running!

you certainly did, Bunjigram!
this was a lovely way to start my day. I feel motivated and ready to face whatever comes my way.
nice work, and I look forward to hearing more.

jwh wrote:

coming back for a little pick-me-up  smile

Wow, thanks so much for your comments, jwh. That means a lot coming from you. I'm excited to explore the orchestral arranging more and see how where I can go with it. LittleBig just downloaded the Philharmonic on my laptop a couple days ago, so now I have lots of goodies to play with.  As always, thanks for listening.

Beautiful. Barely two and a half minutes but it feels so full, so much story told, really lovely. Piano at the end is just perfect.

sun just came up and this is perfect for just sitting back in my chair and feeling positive vibes for a good day to begin.  The orchestration sounds awesome.  Such a cinematic ending too.  Well done!

just beautiful

Great brass lines in here.  Sits very nicely in the the strings.  Overall has a very sweeping mountain vista at sunrise quality to it. 

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