As I hinted in the previous entry, I ended up adding a new bridge coming into the anthem theme of Children of a Forgotten Sun. which consists of a 38 bar section driven by a rather fantastic set of cathedral organ samples.  The reason for this addition was that the preceding section was a rather hard driving instrumental section in D at around 160 bpm, and the anthem theme was in G at a mere 122 bpm.  The key change was a fairly standard modulation around two pivot chords, and that would have been fine were it not for the tempo change.  It was simply too much too soon.

So what I did was modulate into G and then at the slower tempo on the cathedral organ full stops setting repeated the main organ riff from the previous section.  This sounded right, echoing the high energy part in a majestic way.  Then I happened on a nice set of chord progressions that suited the organ sound and recorded them with some drums and bass and a tasty mono synth lead, which was a fanfare announcing the anthem section.

That done, I had a link that sounded logical and not like the listener was slipping on a banana  skin from one section to the next. As icing on the cake, I used the same organ sound under the second intro phrase for the song, and for the crescendo of the anthem section.

And finally, I have an arrangement I really like, and the one or two people who I’ve entrusted with test mixes are also happily enthusiastic.  I just might have cracked it people!