Worry... crisis... help!

Not bad, I think perhaps a little hole in the orchestra sound scape for the percussion to stand out would help. 

As to not Mastered will that not be something you do in the album production to ensure a balance across tracks and to ensure that you do not exceed stylus excursion overrun?

Thanks for sharing

Gee, Terry, this grabs me by the meatballs and pours spaghetti sauce all over them ;)  Seriously, it's a good start on many levels, and if you take a left turn where it now ends, it could be an epic song or beginning.  Is it generic?  No, it's a brand name.  It's dramatic, but not overly so.  As I'm sure you well know, you typically have 10 to 20 seconds to grab one's attention, and this does so in less time, at least for me.  But, I already think you're one of the better composers around, so you have to take that into account.

Oh goodness gracious....STOP it at once!!!

STOP having these crises...sheesh...this is seriously good stuff!  Keep it up and finish it.  This is just brilliant!

See my full review on FB. :) 

Hi,

Thanks to everyone for the feedback:

@Wookiee - yeah I'll make that hole when I do a proper mix of it... and you're right about mastering... that's exactly what I meant! ;-)

@Rik - good idea about more piano... since listening to it a few times last night I'm actually thinking of taking it down a notch at the 1 minute mark to be more piano based for about 8 bars and then CRASH into the louder section. And then after the louder section I've got an idea for a more piano based 2-3 minutes before building up the orchestra again for the end of the track.

@Lynn - shucks, thanks for the ego boost. Glad it does what it's supposed to - and isn't too generic to your ears.

@shawn - it does sound very 'soundtrack' like to my ears, I think it's the percussion combined with a ton of brass. Thanks!

@Janet - yes ma'am! I've read your full review on FB so I guess I'll just have to snap out of it. Thanks for listening!

@Mike - I'll try some tuned percussion and see how it sounds. Thanks for the suggestion, and thanks for listening!

So I guess the upshot is that I should stop worrying about it and just get on with the bloody thing... so that's what I'll do (in between work and sleep!).

Thanks again everyone.

Cheers,
Terry.

Ok good start, but my question is where do you want to go from here??

I liked the intro the piano part was interesting and cool, but it gets overwhemled once the orchestral stuff comes in but I understand that this is only a rough.

Back to the question, for me it could go three ways.  The first, it just ends like it does, nothing wrong with that.  The 2nd is that we bring the track down and what I mean by that is we start to strip away the orchestral stuff and we go back to just the piano part.  In reality we are adding a dynamic to the tune.  3rd it could go boom and you could take it up a notch, meaning it could go into a heavier section.

Peace Ben

Wonderfull
there is nothing to complain.
Like it 
but just a suggestion 
one or two sting strokes more
daaaa dada daaaa 
da da daaaa dada  (daaa octave up) 
then before its end (octave down da da daa) 
daaaa and so on i hope its helpfull.
it sound really great.
Peace!!!


sorry for my miserable english 
describing things is not easy for me

Hi,

@Boomin36Beatz - I understand what you mean and I'll certainly consider adding a bit more dynamic and octave range to the strings as the tracks developers. Thanks for listening and for your constructive comment.

@ABV - nothing to say other than it's 'fantastic'? I'll take that any day! Thanks! I thought for a short while about the sus4 resolves. Obviously the traditional way is to resolve them down to the 3rd but I thought that if I made one or two of them go up to the 5th instead it may make it sound a bit different. Most of them resolve traditionally... couldn't resist! ;-)

Cheers,
Terry.

It's all good in the hood Terry.

Hi,

Thanks for commenting!

@scottytunes - lol, as long as I'm doing something right! ;-)

@bapu - thanks! (I think)

@Ambient - glad you like it! There probably are a couple of glitches - this is just a work in progress to get a feel for what people think of it as an album opener (and setting the direction of the album too).

Thanks again,
Terry.

Wow!  Very cool, a big wall of sound and I love it.  It seems that a sax or Gilmore style guitar could break it up a bit during that 2 minutes.  That's just a personal thing.  I really liked this, Terry and will go back and listen again.  I can envision that going into another section after this part that is "sweet" and then back with a vengeance.   That's what I hear, but I'm old and I hear things and see things.  LOL!