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Children of the Night / Come, Little Children [Orchestral Cover]


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I wasn't sure where to post this. It's not from the show, but it was featured in an animated pony music video called "Children of the Night". However, the source material is from the movie "Hocus Pocus". So.. I dunno.

Anyway, I thought I'd try to make this song a little more "epic" with my arranging and instruments. It's all my instruments. Nothing was used from the original songs. This took about 20 hours of work to finish.

Enjoy. :D

https://jdharding.bandcamp.com/track/children-of-the-night

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Ok. 

 

Make sure your strings connect to each other. Sometimes, there's a cut in between notes. 

 

That brass could use a small drop of chorus. It sounds a little dry. Also, careful on that crescendoing rolling cymbal. It cut just before the crash. 

 

A glockenspiel would work great with this nice.

 

I like how the choir blends with the piece and nice use of an airy choir.

 

All in all, good remix, but it could be tweaked.  

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Some improvements here.

 

Most notably I fixed an error that caused the clarinets and bassoons to fade out of the song entirely at the beginning. I dunno how I missed this one.

 

Secondly, I added glockenspiel to the song.

 

Finally, I added reverb fades to the brass and also changed all of the fades throughout the song so there's more dynamics and certain instruments are easier to hear in certain parts of the song.

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I guess Equestria Daily didn't like this one. I tried submitting it to them, but I didn't get a response. Either that or it's not pony-related enough.

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Submitted this to EQD again and this time got a rejection e-mail claiming it's not pony related 'cause Hocus Pocus.

 

However, I submitted and had my PFUDOR orchestral remix approved for the site several months ago.

 

PFUDOR is not pony related. It was not on the show anywhere. It was, however, in a Fluffle Puff video. A fan-made video. Not an official song.

 

"Come, Little Children" was also featured in a fan-made pony video titled "Children of the Night".

 

So what's the difference here? Neither of these songs are pony related and yet I managed to get one of them on EQD.

 

And no, I didn't use the lyrics from PFUDOR. Only the music. So no mention of unicorns anywhere in the song.

 

This makes no sense.

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