Here is a little song we wrote for the wedding of very good friends last year.
Everything is FOSS.
The orchestra intro has been created with MuseScore, rendered and Imported into Ardour.
Guitars with a red Harley Benton Strat and a Zoom G3x.
Vocals are also real, everything else is programmed
Drums with MT Power Drum kit.
Video with Kdenlive
Nice work Peter, no doubt a lovely and appreciated gift for your newly wedded friends.
I wonāt comment too much on the musicality because this type of music really isnāt my cup of tea. However the intro is super cinematic and the guitar sounds Ć¼ber Strat-tastic and youāve performed the parts with sincerity and feeling which really adds to the whole package. Brilliant work on the video too - itās cheesy but in all the right ways, given the context.
Iād bet good money that your pals loved it. Nice one!
Thanks for your kind words. Yes, I have come a long way. Grew up with 1st generation hard rock, then picked up any hard and heavy stuff that came my way, played in some metal, hard rock and rock ānā roll bands.
Maybe too old to rock ānā roll now? Well, along the way I discovered that there is also other types of music, so I feel like being on a long musical adventure trip. Recently I started to try my luck with classical style composition and orchestration. Life is just not long enough for the things I want to do!
Downside of this: I will never be extraordinarily proficient in at least one subject but mediocre in too many ā¦ 
That harmony shift at 0:25 is my favourite part. That tells me youāve already got the handle of symphonic harmonizing/instrumentation, itās kind of a masteful move (youāll hear that kind of shifts in Disney movies, old musicals etcā¦reminds me of Eddie Calvert vinyl i listen sometimes just because itās there and it is on vynil )
On the topic of ageā¦
Well, i just learned that Debbie Harry has toured with Blondie in 2024 at the age of 78.
Supposedly, ātoo old is for rnrā is not a thing anymore, gives me the feeling iām in my teens
Well, I had the recording of the song, and the sketch of the orchestration. But the song intro itself (guitar part) already modulates. So those two parts (orchestral and guitar) did not fit together smoothly. Thatās why I had to come up with one more modulation ā¦
Hi Peter, great work! Obviously between the orchestration and the recording, editing and Video production there are a lot of hours of hard work in here and you have an impressive grasp of all of these disciplines. What a generous contribution to your friendās special day. The mixing is excellent too especially factoring in all of the instruments you had to manage. I will say Iām not a fan of the MT-Powerkit sounds and no itās not because they are a competitive product. I think itās an excellent project and I think itās wonderful we have it for Linux now, I hope in the future it will allow for substituting samples because the default sounds give me generic General MIDI vibes. That is from the ears of a drum-snob, in truth they sound perfectly fine in your arrangement.
MTās are super-clean and polished, but not much going on velocity&round robin-wise. Perfect for some slow hard&heavy balads like slow parts of Cemetery Gates by Pantera, some Scorpions or such. Esentialy, metal balads.
Unfortunately, when tempo picks up the pace even slightly, you can immidiately hear machine-like effect.