RickyRister | Gambol with a Ghost (Remaster) @RickyRister | Uploaded August 2017 | Updated October 2024, 1 hour ago.
Part of a three track album I made for Redditaisai 2017, where I took some of my old songs and fixed them to be up to par with my current songs.
Despite only starting as a composer a relatively short amount of time ago , there’s a huge gap in quality between my earlier songs and my more recent ones. Melody wise, they’re just as good, but accompaniment wise, they’re not. I’ve always used to joke that the defining features of my style is emptiness and bad drums. While those problem may still persist, I’ve gotten a lot better at remedying them now.
Original: youtube.com/watch?v=H7fgO7I4OMs
To me, Gambol with a Ghost has the best melody of all my songs. The original was bogged down by emptiness though. Especially around the climax, the lack of fullness really drained the energy from the melody.
I replaced the piano lead with reeds and synths that I didn’t have back then, and the song sounds so much better as a result. There’s also that part where I cycle around the instruments playing upper and lower notes. It began as a dumb experiment but it sounded pretty good so I kept it. Oh, and I also threw counterpoint into every section of the song because the piano got freed up from having to play the melody and I was trying way too hard to make the arrange sound different. In general, there’s just more instruments playing at a time.
Personally, I feel like this is the best song of the album. Might be my new best song, even.
"Fun had while composing" rating: 7.5/10
"Fun had while video editing“ rating: -8.5/10
High Quality Download: rickyrister.bandcamp.com/track/gambol-with-a-ghost
#東方風自作曲
#TouhouStyle
Part of a three track album I made for Redditaisai 2017, where I took some of my old songs and fixed them to be up to par with my current songs.
Despite only starting as a composer a relatively short amount of time ago , there’s a huge gap in quality between my earlier songs and my more recent ones. Melody wise, they’re just as good, but accompaniment wise, they’re not. I’ve always used to joke that the defining features of my style is emptiness and bad drums. While those problem may still persist, I’ve gotten a lot better at remedying them now.
Original: youtube.com/watch?v=H7fgO7I4OMs
To me, Gambol with a Ghost has the best melody of all my songs. The original was bogged down by emptiness though. Especially around the climax, the lack of fullness really drained the energy from the melody.
I replaced the piano lead with reeds and synths that I didn’t have back then, and the song sounds so much better as a result. There’s also that part where I cycle around the instruments playing upper and lower notes. It began as a dumb experiment but it sounded pretty good so I kept it. Oh, and I also threw counterpoint into every section of the song because the piano got freed up from having to play the melody and I was trying way too hard to make the arrange sound different. In general, there’s just more instruments playing at a time.
Personally, I feel like this is the best song of the album. Might be my new best song, even.
"Fun had while composing" rating: 7.5/10
"Fun had while video editing“ rating: -8.5/10
High Quality Download: rickyrister.bandcamp.com/track/gambol-with-a-ghost
#東方風自作曲
#TouhouStyle
![[SttJ Stage 2 Boss Theme] Thought Amalgam ~ Unknown Hypothesis](https://i.ytimg.com/vi/Z-2Aekjr8Vs/hqdefault.jpg "[SttJ Stage 2 Boss Theme] Thought Amalgam ~ Unknown Hypothesis
SttJ got bashed hard when it came out for many reasons, not the least of which was because its music sucked.
Somehow, I’ve managed to find myself as the composer for SttJ, so now I’m slowly working to “fix Sparen’s mistakes” and replace its OST.
I managed to finish 5 songs in time for the first update.
“SeitenTouji 1 - Adamantine Memory Blade is a third person Touhou-style shoot-em-up game featuring an all-male cast in the world of Daiten Daichi. Play as Teiki Tetsurou and discover this unfamiliar world while also perhaps saving its fragile peace in the process.”
-Sparen
Download: http://www.bulletforge.org/u/sparen/p/seitentouji-1-adamantine-memory-blade
Music Room comment:
Taro Oshisou’s theme.
My songs usually have a predictable structure.
But this one is almost unchanged from the improv.
I guess this is the sort of chaos you can only get
by sitting at a keyboard and just playing.
“Fun had while composing” rating: 8.5/10
#東方風自作曲
#TouhouStyle")
