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Listen To Made To Be Broken Orchestral Song By Marius9 At Looperman.com

9th Feb 2010 23:04 - 15 years ago
Description : I started out with just the warm mid-range strings section you hear toward the middle of the song when the piano gets sparse and sad, and I expanded on it from there. I really wanted that to be a theme throughout the song so I did my best to keep it going, even increasing the velocity of the notes in the track and adding a limiter on the master to get an even volume throughout the track. When it came in at just over 2:40, I felt it wasn't long enough to constitute an instrumental piece, so I started writing more string parts and just looped the piano sections, having recorded them in two tracks, one for treble and one for bass. I layered the strings to get a really big, climactic sound, and this is the end result. I don't say it very often, but I am really happy with it.

Comments (9)

If you have time take a listen and give Marius9 some feedback.

Mosaic
Mosaic 30th Jun 2014 06:58 - 11 years ago
Hey Marius9

Mate checking this one out because Gramo left link in a review he did for me, so glad he did, this is one very emotional piece, always love tracks with piano and strings, which I try to use in most of my trance piece's, this has so much feelings coming out of it, which isn't always easy to achieve, but have to say you have done so excellently, stunning listen...MASSIVE fav and respect on this piece...Mosaic...
Marius9
Marius9 replied 30th Jun 2014 - 11 years ago
Holy crap, I got an email saying someone reviewed a track of mine on this site and was so shocked I had to respond before going to bed! It's been years since I've been on here, talk about a blast from the past.

Thanks for the kind words and respect, brother! Love to Neo (Gramo now?) for plugging my track after all this time. It's really awesome to know that something I created has stayed with someone and moved them in some way. I feel like I should have some achievement unlocked on my musical journey (Emotionally impacted someone through music- 200G)

Seriously though, it's more touching than I have words for. Thank you so much for reviewing and letting me know it's moved you too!

If you (or anyone else reading this) is interested to know what I've been up to musically the past couple years, I've moved my stuff from here to soundcloud in order to get around the mb limit per upload. My new stuff is really long...

https://soundcloud.com/matthew-schnurer

Also, I'm using my real name now, not an alias, so there's that...
GramoChopin
GramoChopin 23rd Mar 2011 13:55 - 14 years ago
Best piano piece on here man, of course i've said how much i like this before by writing that story, but this is so drawing. it just really pulls me in. beautiful with no limits

Neobane
BluntsAndBeats
BluntsAndBeats 23rd Jul 2010 22:37 - 15 years ago
holy crap i love piano and this song is full of EPIC piano. Amazing job.
AllenV
AllenV 23rd Jul 2010 07:54 - 15 years ago
My lord man..this is beautiful,it just ended as I type and I don't know what to say...forgive me.
Just when you think you've found all the talent you can take in on this site,I find this.
Sorry it took a forum post but as long as all roads lead...
Wonderful.

Allen
StephenPotter
StephenPotter 22nd Jul 2010 08:02 - 15 years ago
The piano right at the start was great, and so was Neos imagery. Very well composed, the strings were full of emotion, you've done a really good job on this song, I find it difficult to keep a changing melody going throughout a song, and some of the piano slides were absolutley stunning!

Beautiful, just needs some rain effects over the top and a decent movie director and you've got the job!

But in all seriousness, this is a beautiful track, and I'm really impressed with what you've done here. A faviroute from me.

Ste :)
Elotium
Elotium 19th Apr 2010 20:45 - 15 years ago
I saw your comment on my forum post. Thank for your originality. This song is really nice on my ears. I can see it fitting in all kinds of different media. The piano seemed a bit loud at one point but nothing is perfect, and if something sounds perfect it loses some human quality which I love about unsigned artists. Keep it up, your tracks are really cool.
Marius9
Marius9 replied Unknown
Thanks for the kind words, dude. I certainly will keep it up.
ChaseManhattan
ChaseManhattan 4th Apr 2010 22:12 - 15 years ago
wow. the piano on this is very intracite and to the point. i like this a lot. you need to do more tracks like this one because this is epic. its flowing into speakers like an epidemic, you killed it someone get a paramedic!!!
Marius9
Marius9 replied Unknown
lol. Thanks man, I never had anyone bust rhymes in a review before. I got a couple more tracks like this out there, and I may or may not have posted them, I have to double check.
denialart
denialart 1st Mar 2010 09:32 - 15 years ago
my daughetr chose this tune.she danced like a ballerina
Marius9
Marius9 replied Unknown
Awesome.
SYLPHEERA
SYLPHEERA 25th Feb 2010 22:14 - 15 years ago
This is really some great piano material (and strings too). The only critisism I could make is that there are places where the strings should 'back down' in volume so the piano can shine more.
The strings always have harmonic stuff. If a real classical ensemble were to play this, the string players would control the dynamics in a softer way, since the piano (usually) has the more important material. Fantastic work though!
Marius9
Marius9 replied Unknown
Thanks for the input! It's hard to find someone who will even make a critisism, let alone take the time to put it down.

I was actually going for the strings to take the louder section in this piece, because I think the piano is a little repetitive in all, and I more or less made to piece to showcase my string arrangements.

I totally feel where you are coming from though. Thanks again for the input.

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