This song idea uses the same

instruments from the last two that I've shared, the various individually articulated string instruments from Spitfire Audio's LABS set, though harmonically it's way more interesting. I wanted to get really strange with the progression, which I think worked nicely. There are definitely some spots where I need to fine-tune the instruments, particularly the arpeggios in the staccato and pizzicato strings, as they clash at a few points (I didn't hear this until I listened with a better sound system than I was writing this with), so that'll come in a second Version of this.

Listen to The Priest of the Silver Shield here.

Since there are not a lot

of tracks, I figured it'd be good to go through the two progressions, which are divided into an A and B section (in Track 1, Teal for A, Purple for B). In the A section, we basically have a chord for every two bars, broken up into arpeggios and extra melodic lines. We begin with a Clydian (Cmaj7/#11), then to an Ebminor, returning to Clydian, to a Dmajor. This is played 2x in a row each time around. Next is the B section, which begins on Eminor (the C to D to Emin move gives us the feeling of temporarily being in Emin), then we have an Fmajor, to a Cminor. That takes us to an Ebminor, an Fsus4, to G7, which acts as our V chord back to Cmajor (the A section).

Track 1, A Section, Teal.

Listen to The Priest of the Silver Shield here.

Track 1, B Section, Purple.

Each of the tracks in the

overview at the top of the post are labeled by articulation/texture. The pizzicato sections happen the first A section each time, then that progression is moved to the staccato strings for the 2nd round of the A section, giving it a more full, heavier sort of feeling. I also added some more changes in dyanmics/expression on the tracks that it actually affects, specifically the pizzicato strings, though it essentially just feels like a volume swell.

Hope you like the idea thus far! I like the harmonic motion here a lot, so I'll definitely be adding some more layers and seeing what it can turn into!