Course Challenge!

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1. Main Challenge
2. Extra challenges
Final Course Project
Make this the BEST piece
you’ve ever created!
 Challenge: Good ol’ Boss Track

•Use your Boss theme plan, use all the

knowledge you’ve gained in this course and
make this your best composition!
 Why aren’t I going to demonstrate the Boss
composition?

•You’ve already seen the whole composition

process
•You have SEVEN methods of composition at your
disposal
 Methods of Composition
• Chords-first Town theme (project 1)
• Melody-first Character theme (project 2)
• Structure-first 8-Bit Chiptune (project 3)
• Layering method Adaptive VO (project 4a)
• Sound-first Adaptive HRS (project 4b)
• Idea or ‘hook’ method Mobile game (project 5)
• Melody + Bassline first RPG battle (project 6)
 You know the drill:

1. Theme plan
2. Improvise
3. Piano Sketch
4. Develop into full composition

Optional steps: Analysis, inspiration

I’ll start you off in the next lecture
Boss Battle Theme!
 What your Boss music should sound like:
1. Open your Boss theme plan
2. The mood is the most important
3. Boss themes are:
1. Epic
2. Intense
3. Example Moods: Heavy and Grand, Fast and Crazy
4. Get across a sense of: Saving the world, finality, grand, doom, seriousness,
importance
5. This is the climax of your RPG game and/or level, so make sure the music
reflects that!
Course Challenge… START!
If you’re using a mode and not
sure how… watch the next
lecture
How to Compose with
Modes
 Composing with Modes
• You’ve already done it! Major and minor are 2 modes out of 7
• How to use the other modes:
• Same as major or minor, hit the notes in that key (mode)
• Since tonality may be less strong than major or minor, make sure you
establish the tonic (first note, main note) in your piece
 C Phrygian
• C minor (natural) has: C D Eb F G Ab Bb C
• C Phrygian has: C Db Eb F G Ab Bb C

• Phrygian is one note different from natural minor, just add a flattened
second
Publish your Final Project
CONGRATULATIONS!!!
Extra Challenge 1:
 Challenge 1: Snow capped mountain

• Compose a piece of music for a game scene where the

player must traverse through this terrain
• The player is cold, hungry and tired but at the same
time they realise just how beautiful their surroundings
are
• Mood: Beauty and hardship
Extra Challenge 2:
 Challenge 2: Ambient, sounds, fx

• Compose a game music piece using only ambient

sounds and effects (pads are also accepted)
• You can draw your inspiration from nature, or come
up with something entirely different – artistic,
creative, experimental
• Make sure it’s suitable for a game and loops correctly
Extra Challenge 3:
 Challenge 3: Dorian, 5/8

• Compose a game music piece in 5/8 using the Dorian mode

(any Dorian)
• This composition will be used for a cutscene, so it doesn’t
have to loop
• The cutscene plays out like this:
• The main character is in a tavern in a country town. He/she is
locating equipment for their next heist/mission. They have
stumbled across an old enemy and the tension is high – will
they fight?