Dragon of the Mist

[Alikrea]

Your work is simply beautiful... I am so moved by this music and its very easy to come up with ideas to draw from this. I was wondering however if you had sheet music for this song? My band and I have listened to this a thousand times and never had the chance to ask.

[LeonCastela]

Beautiful!!!!!

[StarSongwiz]

lol shoe size XD

[lindaterese33]

I love this song with all my heart.

[Celticsinger1]

you have an amazing ear for music the way you are able to make it all fit and flow togeather it's amazing

[TrichromeTycoon]

This song is beautiful... It could easily be in the opening credits for the Lord of the Rings or something else like that...

[coman4ero]

Let There & Everywhere Be LIGHT !

Peace, Love, Music & Rainbows !

Lot of SUN & Joy !

To All & Be Forever !

( : - )

[xxAsteriskxx]

You're music pretty good. I can tell that it is truly inspired from tender and modest place, and it's something we don't see a lot of these days. Don't stop. ;)

[AerialStoner]

my shoesize is 5 1/2 and im 14

oh yea and great song really enjoyed it

[bibigegedudu]

Beautiful! :D I would like to hear that played by real instruments.

[JackRabbit894]

LOL @ the random shoe size addition at the end. Funny, and a talented musician. You're going places, WizardWalk!

[WizardWalk]

@JackRabbit894 Many thanks! :-)

[AncientLegendSeeker]

Wow, if my fantasy novel is made into a movie, I so will choose your music to be in it!

[WizardWalk]

@AncientLegendSeeker lol Many thanks! :-) In that case, I really hope your fantasy novel will be turned into a movie!

[Renrul63]

i wanna listen to this so bad but every time i click on it i says error but my favorite is Across the Kingdom :D go WizardWalk!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[WizardWalk]

Thanks! :-)

[pieinyourface1]

WOW!

Truly incredible music, like absolutely inspirational!

[Sarn0]

nice :P

[Thedemonhunter14]

Beautiful, truly amazing.

[Fissie]

:'D Tear-jerkingly amazing~

[WizardWalk]

Thanks! :-)

[MikuMikuBeat]

This sounds really professional! It's exactly the sort of thing I want to do for my animations 0___0

[WizardWalk]

Many thanks! :-)

[MikuMikuBeat]

Have you ever thought about composing for film?

[WizardWalk]

I'd love to... as long as the director preferred my style of music :D

[cheesecakeNL]

your music is very good!

i saw your other vids , you have talent with composing music.

i like this 1 the most.

^^

[WizardWalk]

Thank you for watching, I'm glad you like it! :-)

[imperialpod]

Nice melody, sounds like a theme to some kind of rustic cartoon!

Critisism, sounded a bit too robotic, I could almost here the metronome in the background. ' And now its time for the crescendo' type of development.

Still nice though!

[WizardWalk]

Thanks!

Yeah, I think that "roboticness" is one of the weaknesses of composing entirely on a computer... I can't seem to get around it :-(

[imperialpod]

Ah, don't worry you're not alone.

I know alot of people that use computers with metronome for rock music and that too sounds very robotic.

The best way I've found is to treat the computer more like a tape recorder.

I'll still record say anything from 2-8 bars for a segment, then copy and paste but, I won't align or snap it to the bars of the sequencer page. That way it sounds more organic by not being perfectly in time, just a wee bit out.

Its time consuming but works.

Good luck!

[raxxroth]

Wow, superb. Love all your compositions but this is my favorite.

Keep your work up, it's great!

[WizardWalk]

Thanks! :-)

[Tamwyn07]

Wow, this is beautiful. What program is this? I really enjoy all your songs. Keep it up!

[WizardWalk]

Thank you! The program I used to make the animation was the Music Animation Machine; there's a link to it in the video description.

[jimmybogroff]

My four year old and I thoroughly enjoy your music. To see this mapped out and illustrated in a way that reinforces the fluidity of the music is beautiful.

[las798]

My favourite piece of yours of all time (though a better phrase is in Hour by Hour). The development of melody to a climax is something I've been trying to emulate since I first heard it. 4:08-4:54 is awesome!

I made a piano reduction (since I love to play themes that I hear in songs on the piano). It's a bit different. I'll record my playing it on video and show it to you. I found it also merged well with a couple of your other songs in the same key (I'm so bad on music theory. Is it E minor?)

[WizardWalk]

Many thanks! In some episodes of my podcast "The Compose Pile" I do talk about the orchestrating to the climax ... a lot of percussion build up and rapid arpeggios are what I tend to use a lot.

Oooh, I'd of course love to hear a piano reduction! :-) Yeah, it probably does merge with some of my other pieces; I think I use the same chords a lot (I iii IV V). Not sure what key it's in... starts out in C major and switches a couple times throughout... my music theory is also not the best :-)

[darthdude194]

I would love to play this I play Clarinet and bass clarinet. If you ever play it leet me know I will be there. I was at all-state last year (i'm a frshman in high school and I am an understudy for a pit musican. So if you ever need anyone lemme know. I love all of your music. I played you Quartet in G minor, it was nice but the clarinet part wasn't transposed it was kinda annoying but I got used to transposing in my head. Keep it up :)))

[ScorpioTranquility]

I love the music you compose. It really is amazing and beautiful. Just one probelm i play violin. I like the program you use. Before i go out and buy something i would like to know if it can work for stringed instruments?

[WizardWalk]

Which program do you mean, Garritan Personal Orchestra? GPO's virtual violins are ok, but they're quite limited in scope compared to all the expressiveness a real violin is capable of. Check out my string quartet video to hear how solo strings sound with the programs I use.

Many thanks for your kind words! :-)

[BorixTheGreat1]

if you really made this im impressed! i play oboe very good and i know how it is to make one excelent piece! great job and keep going!

[pacobecquer]

Perfect! 5 Stars. I´m your fan. Great job. I wish I could compose like you. Congratulations.

[WizardWalk]

Thank you, I'm glad you enjoyed it! :-)

[Rodier1128]

I dont know If you know about Finale? I would like you to suggest it to anyone who wants to write there own music, just kinda a hobby, but dont want to spend much money. since finale has a free version. Its what I use, and it uses the garratin orchestra sounds.

[las798]

Well, the free doesn't have Garritan (unless you buy it separately) but I agree, Finale is fantastic. I use it and love it. (I've been told Sibelius is good, but when I tried it, it seemed I had to forget most of my Finale knowledge - even if Sibelius is more intuitive.)

[Rodier1128]

I never tried silebus, is it any good/better than (easier to use and stuff) than finale (free version of course =P )

[las798]

It's pretty much like Finale with an easier interface and bit more options for instrument sounds... like, as if they were looking at each version of Finale and saying "This is good, now how can we make it easier to use"

[yukinonamida]

This is my favorite of all of your songs. The entire thing is just so beautiful. I play oboe, and enjoy your trios, too. Keep up the outstanding work.

If anyone could tell me how to post the video onto a myspace profile, please message me. I want to make it more available to my friends to see, too.

[WizardWalk]

You could use the "embed" HTML code under the description to embed a video to MySpace.

Many thanks for your kind words! :-)

[DeanVflying]

wonderful

[zpanther]

I'm sorry if this is a stupid question, but what software did you use to edit the actual Garritan sounds of this song? I know you used Overture for the notation, but what did you use to actually edit them? (ie: vibrato, dynamics, etc). Thanks :)

[WizardWalk]

Overture does that as well; it's score markings and symbols can edit the MIDI data of the notes (well, there's no actual vibrato control in GPO though :-)

[zpanther]

Ah. Thanks for the answer :)

[zpanther]

An epic, beautiful song. Thanks so much for posting it onto youtube. I just ordered Garritan Personal Orchestra, and hope to (attempt) writing music myself :)

[WizardWalk]

Thanks!! I hope you will enjoy composing with Garritan Personal Orchestra as much as I do. :-)

[niien13579]

I'm a fan!

x

[julieannjohn]

This is so cool! I'm going to show it to my piano students next week!

[WizardWalk]

Many thanks! Hope they enjoy it as well! :-)

[jannokas85]

So wonderful!

[KingElessar8]

This is quite beautiful, as is all of your music I have heard so far. I have a ton of compositions myself, but until recently they are all just basic midi files which makes for less than impressive sound quality. I just started using GPO (well the pocket version anyway), and I am hoping for better results that way.

[bennyboyr]

I have to say this is very impressive. I use garritan personal orchestra as well and I am very impressed with the sounds it produces. I am very interesed to what it would sound like with Halion or something! Anyway this is very very good! Well done!

[DBiscuit481]

Awesome. Great Song!

[semakitty]

i play the oboe, but would like to learn like flute,english horn, bassoon, flute or something along those lines

[321Regin123]

I seem to be posting this each time I've listened to one of your pieces, but really great. the best one I've heard yet of your work :)

Do you have the score online?

[WizardWalk]

I still need to work on the score, college has been very busy lately, unfortunately. Thanks for your kind words! :-)

[WizardWalk]

I do probably have a weakness for repetition... my early MIDIs (which aren't on YouTube) are even more repetitious, the same themes over and over and over... :-)

Anyway, many thanks for your kind words!!

[KubuntuYou]

Many of my own do the same. A great concert pianist once told me that to repeat the same thing more than three times in a row is to insult the intelligence of the audience. Perhaps this is why much of my newer compositions tend to wander.

[WizardWalk]

In case anyone is interested, I talk about the composing of this piece in the first two episodes of my podcast... see the link on the side in the video info... :-)

[daeth25042]

OMG I need sheets!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[WizardWalk]

I am working on the score to this piece and some other pieces... always hard to find the time. I'll try to finish as soon as possible though. Thanks for watching! :-)

[semakitty]

omgsh id love a copy, when u finish them

[Mahendor]

God, this is beautiful. This song is one of those I won't forget. I've been throguh a difficult moment in my life and this piece gave my soul a sense of peace it needed. So soothing...

[sinmall]

Good Work. How do you use GPO? Did you use it in real time recording or by input music in score notation software and work by means of a midi file?

Thanks beforehand

Yours

Sinclair

[WizardWalk]

The latter; I input the score into a notation program (Overture 4 in my case) and play it with GPO instruments instead of MIDI instruments.

Thanks for watching!

[leroyosmon]

Nice!

[JucHugi]

It's very touching, beautifully composed, and makes the fantasy go on a journey. Bravissimo!

[WizardWalk]

Many thanks! :-)

[WizardWalk]

There's alto flute, flute, 2 oboes, english horn, 2 clarinets, 2 bassoons, 2 french horns, trumpet, 2 trombones, tuba, cymbals, tambourine, mark tree (sounds like wind chimes), bass drum, snare drum, harp, celesta, and strings... whew! :-) Thanks for watching!

[BeautifulDisaster082]

Omg, I love your music. You are a very talented and amazing composer!!!

[WizardWalk]

Thanks!

[iluvmyb3]

Nicely done.

[WizardWalk]

Thanks! :-)

[WiiandWario]

OMG!!! This is soooooo good! I cant wait to get my Garritan Orchestra.

[WizardWalk]

Thank you! Garritan Personal Orchestra is amazing. :-)

[KalTei]

Pretty nice piece of music, this can be easily the next main theme of the new installment of Final Fantasy ;D

[WizardWalk]

Thank you, I certainly wouldn't mind that!

[KalTei]

You're welcome :D I'm just wondering, are you using some kind of reverb with your *COUGHbeautifulCOUGH* music?

[WizardWalk]

Yes, I use a plug-in called Ambience for the reverb.

[KalTei]

Thanks! (I just noticed that you are buddy with FireGS [I love his work with Zelda, its amazing :D] xD) keep the good work!

[WizardWalk]

lol, yes, how did you find that out? Small world! I love his work too! :-)

[KalTei]

Well... I was checking your website and I happened to follow a link to a forum (northern sounds) where you are moderator, next I notice a certain senior member (FireGS) and the rest is history! xD

PD: you both have to make some type of collaboration, both are awesome artists (btw, I heard that the sound libraries of FireGS are insanely HUGE [over 500Gb O_O])

Keep the songs coming! xP

[WizardWalk]

Ah, so that's how! :-) 500 GB?! I wouldn't be surprised, he definitely has a lot, I'm quite jealous!

[smartblond92]

Wow... That's pretty impressive. I play bassoon, so that's mostly what I listened to... :-)

[WizardWalk]

Cool! Sorry if my bassoon parts sound boring... all I ever seem to give them is bass notes.

[smartblond92]

What are all of the instruments involved? I can figure out some, but not all...

[WizardWalk]

There's alto flute, flute, 2 oboes, english horn, 2 clarinets, 2 bassoons, 2 french horns, trumpet, 2 trombones, tuba, cymbals, tambourine, mark tree (sounds like wind chimes), bass drum, snare drum, harp, celesta, and strings... whew! :) Thanks for listening!

[Javielle]

beautiful

[algm]

Nice theme. I liked it so much!

[WizardWalk]

Thanks!