'The Order of the Silver Shield' - New Original Music/Song Idea Inspired by Splinterlands! Orchestral/Instrumental + Walkthrough!

So this is unfinished tune,

which will be my official submission for the Splinterland's Music/Lore contest when I finish it. I was just playing around with some instruments in the 'World' pack, from Native Instruments' Komplete Start package, and I thought it had a bit of a medieval vibe, so I rolled with it, adding some strings, bells, timpani's, and hand drums. Next up will be adding a B section of some sort, and alternating the instrumentation/dynamics a bit.

Listen to The Order of the Silver Shield here.

Track 1 uses an instrument

called the 'Oud' which has that guitar/lute sort of vibe, and provides the basic chord progression. The Blue section plays a Dmin (i), Bb (Vi), C (Vii), and Dmin again (played 2x through). When we get to the Green section, there is a bit of dissonance added with some non-diatonic chord changes added. We begin on a Bb, then move up to an E (a tritone away, which initially feels a bit odd, but with the bell melody, works nicely), to Bb again, then C, before resolving to the Dmin in the Blue section.

Track 1, Green Section.

Listen to The Order of the Silver Shield here.

Track 4, Bells, Green section.

Track 2 is the hand drums,

also from the World pack, which works with the timpani (Track 6) and cymbals (Track 7) to complete our percussion section. Track 3 adds the strings, which stick to the bass/cello range, and Tracks 4 and 5 provide the bells. Track 4 uses the crisp, more staccato bell sound, while 5 provides a more ambient, floaty bell, which fills things out a bit more.

I'm going to continue working on this tonight, so stay tuned and see what it becomes! Thanks for listening!