Ruins updated

I was only planning on making a few adjustments to this, but when I ended up making some major additions to the final portion of the song.
Videogameish, South American temple-ish, lots of strings, pan pipes, and percussion.

Ruins

Ruins

This is the most blatantly videogamish song I've written. It's based on a background song from the Japanese Super Nintendo game Seiken Densetsu 3. I'd post a link to that song for comparison, but my web browser is being a bit cantankerous at the moment, so that'll have to wait.

This is a complete song, done almost in one sitting. I consider this song one of the most successful things I've ever made in any medium. It's one of the few songs of mine that I listen to on a regular basis.

Ruins

Dance of the Dawn

I went through a phase of being enthusiastic about exotic scales a few years ago. This odd little song is based on a Chinese scale, I believe. The melody of this song is five measures long, which I suppose is strange.
I recorded this on a thirteen dollar acoustic guitar that I got at a thrift store. It was a crappy little guitar, and if you have an ear for that sort of thing you'll be able to detect that it isn't tuned very well either.
This song was saved as a wave file, rather than an mp3, so it is disproportionately large and takes a while to load.

Dance of the Dawn

Arabian

Of all the songs and riffs that I've made, this is definitely the one that I play the most often. My friend taught me an Arabian-sounding scale which I liked to goof around with, and on one sunny afternoon this song was born of it. The "chorus" riff (roughly :45 to 1:10) was devised by another friend of mine, who gave me permission to integrate it into the parts of the song I'd already written.
When I'm actually playing this song on an instrument, I typically do a bit of soloing in the middle section, but since I improvise that it wasn't included in any of these versions.
I have more versions of this song than any other song. The first draft of the midi is pleasanter to listen two than the second, I think, and includes strings and percussion, but the second is closer to how I actually play this song. The remix is an enhanced midi by Steven Ambarian, and the recording is me on my electric uke, not keeping very good time.

Arabian first draft

Arabian midi second draft

Arabian remix

Arabian recording

Honor

This is a very short and simple piece of music, inspired by the soundtrack for The Last Samurai.
Here's the original version and the enhanced version. The enhanced version is extremely quiet for some reason.

Honor midi

Honor remix