[quote=@Shorticus] How can I put it... Okay: [url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5YzEA_uQBg4]THIS[/url] is a traditional Nordic music excerpt I can find pretty easily. It sounds natural, because it IS natural. It's traditional. It's got real instruments. Love it. But when I type in "Celtic music" into Google, or try to find Irish music, or w/e... I get synthetic stuff that's made from what was ORIGINALLY normal stuff. Like: someone took a sound program that has the sounds they want, then just put it together and decided [url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ifQ3JRS4gqc]that makes this Celtic music.[/url] Which, okay, that piece isn't horrible. But then we start to get to, say... [url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bUwlqw8Qjsw]THIS GUY.[/url] I want to punch this guy and his brother. Holy moly, they muck up my searches for REAL Celtic music so much. It sucks doubly hard because I'm running a roleplay based around Irish-inspired clans. [/quote] I'm not sure who Derek's target audience is. I mean, it looks like he has a lot of those songs released in sheet music form as well. But looking at his videos, there's nothing but midi/sampled pieces. I'd say he's just a young composer, but it looks like he's been doing that for a while. Everything just sounds really samey. Like, really samey. Nothing harmonically distinct about any of it. It's really hard to listen to, and it's not just the shitty midi. All this talk of celtic music and celtic inspired music reminds me of a great Michael Brecker piece, Itsbynne Reel. Man, Brecker was just a beast. [youtube]https://youtu.be/aHZrZiACciM[/youtube]