eph221
I can't seem to get past 1'16"  anyone have any ideas?

Am

Bapu, you're too generous.

Wayfarer
You've described the mood of the Funeral Games very well. Next Aeneas must sail to Italy, and with the guidance of Sibyl, find the entrance to the terrifying underworld, Dis, in order to visit his dead father and be told the future of Rome.
 
Simple, no? 

What are the funeral games?  A computer thingy?  Thanks for listening Wayfarer.

After Aeneas' father died, Aeneas set-up a sort of wake that included sporting games. Afterwards they (the Trojans) sailed to Italy where he was shown the entrance to the underworlds.
 
The chapter on the underworlds was the only interesting part of The Aeneid to me. The rest was fairly bland except for some of the symbolism. But it is an epic poem that deserves an epic music score. It's the type of thing you can do, I'm sure. Anyway, just a suggestion.
 
Bill

Sorry, I misread, of course the Aeneid.  It's been awhile...err a very long time since I read that.  I really appreciate the sentiments.  I'm still stuck however. :(

you are not stuck, you are the wind
 
don't blow it breezy

Still stuck, jesse.  Maybe I just need to get layed, not sure.

I like it, quite cinematic. Could be an opening to a rom-com. No idea how to progress it though.

well, if it was me, I would select 4 bars before 1:16, and reverse them, then I would copy those four bars and add an inverse reverb, then I copy that again , and I would create a bus and put a delay onto it but fade it in slowly, and then I would select the first 1:16 and paste it to there, and I would add some drums, and as it played out I would punctuate the whole thing with some guitar stabs, and then add another track and fade in a nice pad that had some movement, automate the modulation, and tweak the pitch.
 
That's what I would do
 

Very nice start indeed!  It definitely has a cinematic theme to it.  Rather than some of the cinema mentioned above, I got a Star Wars feeling from it (ya ---- I know).  However, I could see the dark-side lords making an entrance through a grand hall past the massive Empire troops.  At the point where the music cuts off (1:16) I can see some surprise event occurring that was perpetuated by the Rebels.  At this point, perhaps,the music could take off in a bit of an uptempo frenetic manner until some sort of order is established by one side or the other.
 
Or --- maybe not?!.  I'm just saying...
 
Any way very good start and I am looking forward to you posting the completed song.