For example, let’s say you have a big taiko drum to play the main percussion groove.
But for epic music compositions you should focus less on busy and complex rhythms, and more on heavy accents, and a very bold and powerful main groove.Īugment your accents by layering them with lots of instruments and sounds in your composition. Rhythm and drive is always important for energy and action in music. Epic music is about big and bold sounds that stand out with their raw power. Like big bold brass, a massive string section, over the top percussion, and a deep low-end boosted by sub-bass.Įpic music is not usually focusing on intimate and light sounds, other than for contrast to powerful sounds. A good way to start your epic music template is to add sounds and instruments into your DAW project that are massive and powerful on their own. Bold SoundsĮpic music is mainly about power and authority. This piece was created by starting with the percussion part, which drew me very fast forward in the composition-process. There are just one Omnisphere-percussion and EW Choirs for the shouts in addition. I love the monumental sound of this library. The Music was mainly created with Metropolis Ark and sounds out of the box with a little reverb. A little bit like Theoden’s speech or so.
It is starting slow, like having thoughts the night before, then going with full plate into battle after speaking to the soldiers. Siegfried’s description: I had the image of a king who is riding into final battle. This is epic in the sense of proud and powerful warriors. This composition features very dark moody strings with mean low brass. The intense hybrid section was made with Novo and Forzo, Keepforest Aizerx, and the softsynth Spire, and the ethnic flavor comes from Red Room Audio Celtic fiddle, as well as Spitfire solo strings layered with Joshua Bell violin. The risers and pads are from Heavyocity Gravity and Rise and Hit, as well as string textures from Auddict Angel Strings, and war horns and brass from Keepforest Vikings. I used Sonuscore Origins, Sonuscore Vocal Phrases, and my usual round of Spitfire Symphonic orchestra, 8dio Century and Legion Series, and Strezov Afflatus. This track was inspired by quite a few different concepts, and was named after the recent album by metal band Amon Amarth.įor the intro wanted to create something unique and organic, inspired by the Netflix show The Last Kingdom.
That’s one of the reasons I love these challenges. Then after a huge tension riser it goes into the main theme, which is a kind of oriental melody that is supported heavy hits.īrian also spiced up the rhythm and groove with syncopation and triplets without sounding too cliché, like most trailer tracks with the standard triplet transitions.īrian’s description: I wrote this track in a few hours overnight after finishing client work and needing to focus on being creative. Then builds up with plucked strings in that remind me of The Gladiator Soundtrack.