You definitely depict a nice scene with this track! Well done!

You definitely depict a nice scene with this track! Well done!

Sounds like a wonderful dream. Literally.
Great work with an interesting songwriting approach.

Sounds like a wonderful dream. Literally. Great work with an interesting songwriting approach. :)

How wonderful to honor a pleasant dream with a song. Well done

How wonderful to honor a pleasant dream with a song. Well done

I think just the idea of composing/ideating through dreams is a cool one to experiment with. I like this track a lot as a kind of journey through someone else's dream.

I think just the idea of composing/ideating through dreams is a cool one to experiment with. I like this track a lot as a kind of journey through someone else's dream.

Oh that guitar is sweet. Beautiful melodies! The piano lines from 1:30 are sweet, you get a mysterious feel of them before going back into heavy prog rock.

Composing while lucid dreaming sounds awesome but there's no way I'd remember melodies. I'd need to get a recorder in there as well. I have tried to create electronic music while being... let's say... an equivalent of lucid dreaming. My experience so far is that it sounds very cool in the moment but when you're back on planet earth, you realize that well, you kinda need to be in that special brain tuning to enjoy it, else it's really really really crap.

Oh that guitar is sweet. Beautiful melodies! The piano lines from 1:30 are sweet, you get a mysterious feel of them before going back into heavy prog rock. Composing while lucid dreaming sounds awesome but there's no way I'd remember melodies. I'd need to get a recorder in there as well. I have tried to create electronic music while being... let's say... an equivalent of lucid dreaming. My experience so far is that it sounds very cool in the moment but when you're back on planet earth, you realize that well, you kinda need to be in that special brain tuning to enjoy it, else it's really really really crap. :)

Fun time signatures. I really like the guitars. 

Fun time signatures. I really like the guitars.

Cool approach, I didn't expect such a fleshed out track from your description. It feels like there are full chapters of ideas here, great stuff!

Cool approach, I didn't expect such a fleshed out track from your description. It feels like there are full chapters of ideas here, great stuff!

Fantastic trip that was. WOW.

Fantastic trip that was. WOW.

very nice! the arrangement is impressive!

very nice! the arrangement is impressive!

The story about lucid dreaming is really cool. I have been lucky enough to hear music in the state between dreaming and waking. Things are so clear when the inputs of the world are tuned out and the brain is left to its own creations.

The song has a flow to it where each part just works so well together. I like the heavy guitar with cleaner lead that stands out, but doesn't have to be pushed high in volume.

The story about lucid dreaming is really cool. I have been lucky enough to hear music in the state between dreaming and waking. Things are so clear when the inputs of the world are tuned out and the brain is left to its own creations. The song has a flow to it where each part just works so well together. I like the heavy guitar with cleaner lead that stands out, but doesn't have to be pushed high in volume.

Fascinating. You can't argue with results, it's very nice. I'd say the whole thing is dream metal.

Fascinating. You can't argue with results, it's very nice. I'd say the whole thing is dream metal.

Wow, very pretty song with great variations and structure. I like the irregular sounding timing / patterns and how you're able to shift from light melodic to very heavy sounds. Also very well played.  In my dreams, I'm a much better musician, so I wouldn't be able to play it after waking

Wow, very pretty song with great variations and structure. I like the irregular sounding timing / patterns and how you're able to shift from light melodic to very heavy sounds. Also very well played. In my dreams, I'm a much better musician, so I wouldn't be able to play it after waking :)

Thanks everyone, I appreciate the kind words

Yeah the whole thing about memorizing the song in your dream is the challenge. The musician who tried the experiment grew up classically trained so he knew how to transcribe it pretty quickly, plus he was pretty disciplined in the act of lucid dreaming. I only got as far as taking notes on like 10 or 12 dreams before I lost interest and did other things. Maybe I'll give it a shot in the future again though because re-reading those old dreams was kind of nice.

Haha thanks. Sometimes I feel like I'm ADD with my method of writing because I find it hard to connect back to previous sections like you would in normal song structures and I often just keep going forward with new ideas, hoping they all work together in context. But for them to be interpreted as chapters is neat

Sometime's I've fooled myself into thinking I wrote an amazing piece of music in my dream when the reality is that I fell asleep listening to a shuffled playlist and there was something really cool playing during that moment haha. Maybe someday I'll actually take a crack at the lucid dreaming method of song writing but for now its just inspired. I'm glad you enjoyed the track

Yeah, its definitely challenging! I think it takes some hardcore practice and a ritualization sleeping habits to even successfully pull a song back from your dreams. I mentioned this in a comment to someone else but the writer in motW was well versed in musical notation so he probably jotted down the idea really fast upon waking. I'm glad you enjoyed the track! I think the irregular feel is due to a 5/4 meter that takes place for most of the first half. Actually now that I think about it, I think the riffs descend in meter, starting with 6/4 for the introduction, 5/4 for the heavy part, 4/4 for the clean psychedelic jam, and 3/4 for the doom riff at the end. I mean technically 6/4 and 3/4 are nearly the same thing but I guess I'm counting it slower at the end haha.

[quote=ScanianWolf]You definitely depict a nice scene with this track! Well done![/quote] [quote=Reilly Farrell]Sounds like a wonderful dream. Literally. Great work with an interesting songwriting approach. :)[/quote] [quote=fetalface]How wonderful to honor a pleasant dream with a song. Well done[/quote] [quote=hent03]I think just the idea of composing/ideating through dreams is a cool one to experiment with. I like this track a lot as a kind of journey through someone else's dream.[/quote] [quote=Q-Rosh]Fantastic trip that was. WOW.[/quote] [quote=7506]very nice! the arrangement is impressive![/quote] [quote=Devieus]Fascinating. You can't argue with results, it's very nice. I'd say the whole thing is dream metal.[/quote] Thanks everyone, I appreciate the kind words :) [quote=Kedbreak136]Oh that guitar is sweet. Beautiful melodies! The piano lines from 1:30 are sweet, you get a mysterious feel of them before going back into heavy prog rock. Composing while lucid dreaming sounds awesome but there's no way I'd remember melodies. I'd need to get a recorder in there as well. I have tried to create electronic music while being... let's say... an equivalent of lucid dreaming. My experience so far is that it sounds very cool in the moment but when you're back on planet earth, you realize that well, you kinda need to be in that special brain tuning to enjoy it, else it's really really really crap. :)[/quote] Yeah the whole thing about memorizing the song in your dream is the challenge. The musician who tried the experiment grew up classically trained so he knew how to transcribe it pretty quickly, plus he was pretty disciplined in the act of lucid dreaming. I only got as far as taking notes on like 10 or 12 dreams before I lost interest and did other things. Maybe I'll give it a shot in the future again though because re-reading those old dreams was kind of nice. [quote=Sodabelly]Cool approach, I didn't expect such a fleshed out track from your description. It feels like there are full chapters of ideas here, great stuff![/quote] Haha thanks. Sometimes I feel like I'm ADD with my method of writing because I find it hard to connect back to previous sections like you would in normal song structures and I often just keep going forward with new ideas, hoping they all work together in context. But for them to be interpreted as chapters is neat :) [quote=Anon_Buster]The story about lucid dreaming is really cool. I have been lucky enough to hear music in the state between dreaming and waking. Things are so clear when the inputs of the world are tuned out and the brain is left to its own creations. The song has a flow to it where each part just works so well together. I like the heavy guitar with cleaner lead that stands out, but doesn't have to be pushed high in volume.[/quote] Sometime's I've fooled myself into thinking I wrote an amazing piece of music in my dream when the reality is that I fell asleep listening to a shuffled playlist and there was something really cool playing during that moment haha. Maybe someday I'll actually take a crack at the lucid dreaming method of song writing but for now its just inspired. I'm glad you enjoyed the track :) [quote=NWSPR]Wow, very pretty song with great variations and structure. I like the irregular sounding timing / patterns and how you're able to shift from light melodic to very heavy sounds. Also very well played. In my dreams, I'm a much better musician, so I wouldn't be able to play it after waking :)[/quote] Yeah, its definitely challenging! I think it takes some hardcore practice and a ritualization sleeping habits to even successfully pull a song back from your dreams. I mentioned this in a comment to someone else but the writer in motW was well versed in musical notation so he probably jotted down the idea really fast upon waking. I'm glad you enjoyed the track! I think the irregular feel is due to a 5/4 meter that takes place for most of the first half. Actually now that I think about it, I think the riffs descend in meter, starting with 6/4 for the introduction, 5/4 for the heavy part, 4/4 for the clean psychedelic jam, and 3/4 for the doom riff at the end. I mean technically 6/4 and 3/4 are nearly the same thing but I guess I'm counting it slower at the end haha.