Zelda Beat (Ocarina of Time)

[Linguini]

Finished this up tonight. Sampled the ocarina theme

http://soundcloud.com/nova1/zelda-beat

Let me know what you think. i also have some chrono trigger/dbz beats on my soundcloud page if anyone is interested.

feedback is pretty useful for me regardless!

 

[Vermanubis]

The BPM is too high, so the beats don't line up with the pulse of the original song. The original song's in 4/4 time around 60-70 BPM and the drum sample is in 4/4 around 140-150 BPM.

 

[DerpDaBerp]

well sure but it's a remix anyway right? :/
I was diggin it. very chill

 

[Vermanubis]

well sure but it's a remix anyway right? :/
I was diggin it. very chill

Yeah, but a remix and two different songs being played at once are different things. A remix takes the preexisting structure and arranges it. It's never a good idea to have conflicting beats, or irregular pulse.

Not busting balls here; it's just something that needs pointing out.

 

[Linguini]

Actually, I altered the the bpm for the original song to 148. you're right that the bpm for the drums is between 140-150 though.

i personally like how it turned out. at some times its a little off beat but i feel like that gives a cool aspect to the track. "off beat" isn't necessarily bad, look at flying lotus lol

 

[Vermanubis]

Yeah, I can agree that offbeats are cool, but what I was hearing wasn't so much off an offbeat or syncopation, rather, what genuinely sounded like two songs playing at once due to arrhythmia.

But if you like it, no one can say anything against that. Just saying for future reference that even though odd meters and beats can sound really cool, they still need to have some kind of accent to be considered musical. For example, some really funky time signature's are out there, like 11/8, but what makes them musical and recognizable as the same song is common ground in the accents of the beat.

Don't take this the wrong way, by the way. If it wasn't clear, I have a profound love of music, and I just thought this would be valuable information for future projects.

 

[JonnyW]

I like it

 

[Wizzrobe]

this song is much more suited without the beat though...

 

[DerpDaBerp]

so do you mean... like the original? Suited to... the game it came from?


Oh my god, a whole Hip-Hop themed iteration of the game itself
mind blown