Hey everyone!
I don't know if this deserved a new thread, but i wanted to post for the 2nd time on this wonderful forum a little something i made in regards to Hans Zimmer's work, again... :)

For all of you who might be Batman fans or have simply watched the third trailer to the third installment of Nolan's Trilogy, i am pleased to share with you my own personal ear-recreation of Hans Zimmer's The Dark Knight Rises's Trailer 3 score...
As you already guessed, this piece is much shorter than the other one i made, but i still feel it was a nice territory to re-visit, because the scope of it is much bigger & melodic than the prologue! Hearing & watching for the first time what Hans Zimmer & Christopher Nolan created for this trailer was for me another of many examples for how music makes a visual experience so much more powerful & uplifting...
This was all home-made cooking, but I sincerely hope that i have been able to faithfully reproduce the amazing composition done by (as i see him) one of the great musical geniuses of our time. I can only wish you enjoy these 2 minutes of Hans Zimmer's cinematic music...

Many thanks for listening! Alexandre

- Audio file:

Wav (uncompressed format)
https://rapidshare.com/files/1739266157/Hans_Zimmer__-_A_Fire_Will_Rise__Trailer_3___The_Dark_Knight_Ris es_.wav

mp3 (320kbps)
https://rapidshare.com/files/2040758968/Hans_Zimmer_-_A_Fire_Will_Rise__Trailer_3___The_Dark_Knight_Ris es_.mp3

- YouTube video:

Hans Zimmer - A Fire Will Rise (Trailer 3) [The Dark Knight Rises] - YouTube (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WnxGpVLUL2Y)

Also if you haven't already, go listen (on YouTube) to my other orchestral ear-recreation of the first six minutes prologue from The Dark Knight Rises called
"The Fire Rises":
Hans Zimmer - The Fire Rises! (Prologue) [The Dark Knight Rises] - YouTube (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1ccjgOKDIik)



Also this time, if you have any questions on anything, i will be more than happy to answer them, as soon as i find some more free time for myself!...
Take care!

OMG pretty awesome. I love the trailer music. Just so damn...epic!

I had the feeling you'd come around again eventually. Again, great work!!

I still wonder what's Zimmer going to end up creating at the end.

Thnxxxxx so much
I actually was kinda waiting for u to make this :$
Greetings from egypt !

Thanks!

Rise and rise again until bats become man.

You've done it again! Thanks for this one!!

This is great! Thanks a bunch!

Great job!

Yep, really good job!

excellent work, only the choir is for my taste a bit too loud. if you can put the volume of it a bit more down, it would be fantastic.

My god... you are awesome... great job indeed :) I was looking for this piece! thank you!!!!

I think the choir is a bit loud too. But otherwise, sounds like the real deal!

You, sir, are extremely talented ! Great job ! and Thanks :-)

Amazing Work! I Love It!

Thank you EVERYBODY! The succession of all your comments makes me feel :O


Thnxxxxx so much
I actually was kinda waiting for u to make this :$
Greetings from egypt !

Love This. Amazing compliment for me!


excellent work, only the choir is for my taste a bit too loud. if you can put the volume of it a bit more down, it would be fantastic.

I think the choir is a bit loud too. But otherwise, sounds like the real deal!

Hey Thanks! Here is the same track with the chant hopefully lowered just enough for you!
https://rapidshare.com/files/1948552663/Hans_Zimmer__-_A_Fire_Will_Rise__Trailer_3___The_Dark_Knight_Ris es___Chant_Lowered_.mp3


You, sir, are extremely talented ! Great job ! and Thanks :-)
Those are pretty explosive words to read. THANK YOU so much sir!...

Thank you! I really wanna know though what program do you use? The sound quality is amazing for a 'home cooked' track well done!

i really hope Warner Bros. Records releases the FULL score

Thank you! I really wanna know though what program do you use? The sound quality is amazing for a 'home cooked' track well done!


Hey MasterZPrime,

thanks a lot!

Well here are a few technical aspects i can share with you:

I use Cubase 5 as VST host sequencer for my instruments!

I generally like to make use of all the most known libraries available on the market, such as LA Scoring Strings, (ProjectSAM), CineSamples, East West, Spectrasonics products and so much more, but much more recently for the electronics parts, i love the synth plugin precisely used extensively by Hans Zimmer on Inception & Dark Knight called (u-he Zebra), but the most important part for me is to figure out how to tweak the instruments in a more universal way so that it doesn't feel like it's coming out from a sample library.

The Dynamics (Volume, Expression, Modulation) are the key, and they are all mixed in Cubase.

I also make sure i understand what amount of reverb is needed to the piece to control the size of the orchestra, and to make sure there is a constant balance between a dry-wet mix. Especially here with the chant, i made a combination of different "Deshay-Basara" recordings so that both the sound felt close to be heard, but more dominantly far to give this gigantesque "doom" feel (you get the picture)...

For this track, i actually specifically tried to use percussions in an unconvential way. You can hear the well-known pop-rock drums playing (the toms & cymbal, mainly), but in a funny way i also improvised and combined quite a good amount of unorthodox percussions for a single hit, such as a couch, a hot bathtub and a toy ball...

This may seem ridiculous and unexpected as you read it here, but i can tell you this was actually the wisest choice or the most appropriate placement i could make so that it would sound like the military toms & bass drums you hear in the trailer...

Thanks for asking!

Hey Thanks! Here is the same track with the chant hopefully lowered just enough for you!
https://rapidshare.com/files/1948552663/Hans_Zimmer__-_A_Fire_Will_Rise__Trailer_3___The_Dark_Knight_Ris es___Chant_Lowered_.mp3


Perfect, IMO

Awesome piece. Especially the chants. I love choirs. I hope he uses this in his real score too. So all the other composers and trailer composers have something to copy in the next year. ^^

Inception gave us the horn effect that anybody uses nowadays, sherlock gave us this gypsy instrumentation, dark night the 'plusating violins' that all new soundtracks are going for and angel and demos massive doom choirs.

Anyway, gonna cut the last part as a ringtone and watch the people on the train when my phone goes for the first time :)

Wow, excellent work. Sounds so close to the real thing. Great job.

That's awesome!!! Great work.
Now I won't have to put the trailer to listen the track :)

Hey Thanks! Here is the same track with the chant hopefully lowered just enough for you!
https://rapidshare.com/files/1948552663/Hans_Zimmer__-_A_Fire_Will_Rise__Trailer_3___The_Dark_Knight_Ris es___Chant_Lowered_.mp3


NOW it's perfect mate. hearing it over and over and it's a superb job. Thanks for changing the volume of the choir. with that done, it's freaking awesome now :)

just a question. you think you would be able to modify a track from the thin red line from Hans Zimmer? it's called journey to the line. In the soundtrack it hasn't any drum in it, but in the movie it has drums in the cue and i always wanted to hear that track how it is in the movie. and seeing your amazing talent I am sure you would be the right person who could get it perfectly. it's just adding the drum loop to the track, but it's hard to find the right drums for it... :(

Thanks again everyone! You are all showing me such a tremendous amount of respect, i don't always feel i am that worthy of it!

And thanks Thrustmaster, it means a lot!


Now about your question, I went back and watched the assault scene on "Thin Red Line". If you mean that scene! Yes you're right about the drums! Those are mostly taikos!

Now I won't do whole recreation requests, but your request got me interested, as for this, as you said, the actual track "Journey To The Line" can be kept with adding just the percussions sections you like...

I will do my best to add that driving touch you miss

This time, I also am definitely willing & encouraging to expand (in this thread or another) this community's interests, as quite a few people might be interested in knowing more about the world of MIDI, softwares, samples, virtual instruments (VST), etc...

Although i am far from being a master at anything, and certainly not in technology samples...


But if or when we do this I also feel it would be just as profitable that we all talk a little about the key aspect, which is how the orchestra/orchestration works (the different sections: strings, brass, percussion, woodwinds, even synths etc...) and understand how it is used by our great Hollywood composers and how each other compare in their use of the orchestra...

I can't thank you all enough for listening so actively to my recreation, i admire what you all do on this forum. This just simply shows a community nothing short of passionate musical people... :)

If nothing comes my way,
I will be back in "James Horner-mode" this time hopefully...

Thanks for this great piece of work :)
Can�t wait for the movie for my birthday celebration ;)

FFDream...did you pull that from the stems on the main TDKR site (www.thedarkknightrises.com/contest/assets/audio.zip)?

I feel like someone should put all those elements into one piece.

I agree with Iambodigidy
We should see it all in one piece, but the separate cues are cool.

On the website importedfromgothamcity.com there's also the total cue... in a slightly extended version!! :)

Thanks kindly!

superb music... thanks thanks!

Thx so much, I think it is pretty awesome

I haven't got a hold of the Rises soundtrack yet. Is the third trailer music on there anywhere?

Absolutely AMAZING!!!!!!!!! Thank you so much!!!!!!!!

Any chance we could get a re-up of this one?

Any chance we could get a re-up of this one?

Here

Download 55 - A Fire Will Rise (Trailer 3).mp3 from Sendspace.com - send big files the easy way (http://www.sendspace.com/file/8ilz5o)

Many Thanks! DAKoftheOTA

I know this may be a long shot, but does anyone have the original wav file for this? I had it but lost it when my computer crashed. Thanks so much for anything you can do.

Hi alex ! Would you reup the wav file ? link dead.. thanks !