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Today's prompt is "hope."


This is a theme that actually dates back to 2008; the last time I attempted to do this I basically fudged it on Mario Paint Composer. Now, I'm fudging it on FL (and I feel, big time), but it's the best that I can do. It's been a hard one for me to do. Hope is a hard thing to hold on to these days.


I suppose that in the deepest of darkness, I want there to be hope.


In the darkness that I endured in 2008, I wanted there to be hope, and a way out.


The only way out is forward.


As a point of trivia, everything you hear has been played live (with the octave melodies done in a separate take). Those major 10ths you hear in the accompaniment? That's my hand span.

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This piece is beautifully hopeful, and the interplay between the piano and glock is a really wonderful symbol of this. While the glockenspiel represents the bright hopes, the piano is a little bit more of the sadder reality I think. I'm not going to fully review it ('cause there's still two more to do and that would just burn me out), but your piece feels like something that should play in one of those Nintendo or other Japanese video games with a rich storyline when the protagonist is feeling defeated. Besides, I think a lot of this can be described through how the piano and glockenspiel interact. Sometimes, the world (piano) is dark and somber and hard to get through. But it's the hope (the glockenspiel), those little flashes of hope, holy hope, that ultimately make life worth while.

Troisnyx responds:

This review is consistent with another someone gave me many years ago, that I wrote sad things with flashes of hope and light in them 🙏🏽

Beautiful...

Wow! This is a lovely piece! Really evoked both hope and the lows which it must arise from. Really great piece. Five stars and a favorite!

Hope. Once considered our greatest strength and our most crippling weakness. This song has proven that the former outweighs the latter.

I'm quite curious to hear this on Mario Composer.

Troisnyx responds:

I'll PM you a link when I get back.

This is so bliss to listen to whilst writing. Such a magnificent track!

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Votes
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Score
4.56 / 5.00

Uploaded
Mar 31, 2021
5:03 PM EDT
Genre
Classical
File Info
Song
7.9 MB
5 min 44 sec
Software
  • Flex
  • FL Studio 20
Misc. Kit
  • BBC Symphony Orchestra Discover

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