Hello! I'm new here as well as new to composing, and I'm desperate to get better! If you guys could help me out, I would love it so much.:)
This first one is definitely a work in progress and I know it's in desperate need of harmony, but is the melody worth pursuing?

Hey, hey! This is fairly good for a new composer! It has a nice harmonic feel to it, nothing too chromatic or anything random. The melody might be something you want to variate a little- maybe make it move a little more? It tends to stay within the same few notes, so spread it out a little to give it something pulling.

A word of advice, never be doubtful of melodies or any ideas, I encourage you to keep any of them that come to mind or that you come up with- they can all be used someday somehow. ^_^

Good luck!

This is a typical beginner's composition, but as Mazeppa correctly pointed out, it's a good one at that. With the right presenation this composition would actually be able to stand on its own.

This new song is pretty much finished except for a few little tweaks here and there. Notice how I saved one song in three different files because of key and time signature changes. I wish I didn't have NotePad! It's impossible to put any emotion into the songs with it! Oh, and don't mind the terrible pedal-ness; that's just me not knowing how to use the program well. Just remember that this is one song and not seperate movements.

You remind me of how I used to compose. :think: Simple long tones for the "melody", which don't work so well in the future. I can't say that anything is bad, though, hard to think.

It's a fair piece for a beginning composer. The harmonies are correct, a melody is present... The next thing you can work on is perhaps expanding your chord progression and more complex harmonies. You should also try more counterpoints and apply more elements to your music.

I agree very much with Dot and Clari concerning your writing. . .I would like to expand that you should keep in mind that you parts need to be a little closer together, sometimes the right hand is two octaves higher than the highest note in the left hand, this can create a little problem on the piano concerning the quality. . .if you feel that you get spread out, try making that rolly-polly left hand come up a little more; you don't need to have your chord arpeggiated so closely. . .Rachmaninoff used to arpeggiate his chords up to 3 octaves. XD

If you continue to compose for piano, I'll be a critic on good writing. =)

Very nice for a new composer! The next step that everyone seems to be talking about is to embellish your melody more. You have a very good melodic outline made so it should be easy to embellish it.

See here to see what I'm talking about.
http://forums.ichigos.com/showpost.php?p=368090&postcount=17

Hope to here more from you! ^_^

I'm finally back! Just been to lazy to finish any of my new compositions.
Well this one, Ripples of Reflection, was started many months ago and I sorta forgot about it. I want to change the instrumentation from just piano. I've never really composed for an orchestra or even a large ensemble so I am sorta clueless. If anyone has any suggestions pertaining to instrumentation, they would be most appreciated. Oh, and before everyone everyone criticises my lacking melody: I'm already working on it.
Oh, and I'm sorry if you end up hating D major seventh chords after you listen to it. :heh:

Its a nice experiment with the tempo, ^.^ with a cute melody as well.

nice job i love how its simple and a beginner (like me) might be able to play it on piano

I have dial-up, and as such am unable to download things quickly, such as the program behind .mus files. If you could put this in .mid, that be awesome.

Shicoco: The ones that are in .mus files are ones that I'm going to totally redo. So you're not missing much!

Recently I've discovered the joys of polyrhythm. This is just a short little experiment of it. More like an exercise to help me practice two against three polyrhythm than an actual piece. But I may expand on it later...

Hmm, I just realized that I might have a problem finishing pieces....
Here's another unfinished one! It's just something I threw together in like 10 minutes a few months ago and totally forgot about. I have a plan for this one though! I'm thinking like a vibraphone and marimba duet or something. And I think it needs a contrasting section in the middle of what I currently have. So I'll start to work on that! This one I vow to finish! :heh:

Ahhh the joys of 2 against 3. I'm really liking that recent "idea" of yours. It's something like I'd hear in a little music box. Perhaps arrange it for celeste or bells?

This first "polyrhythm" ...which isn't really umm too much "poly", more like dual... is 'meh'. But I can see you're improving with this latest one. You've swapped around arpeggios and made an interesting melody.

Its pretty good for a first song, but it sounds more like a piano accompianment to a solo, rather than a solo itself. Try more variation to the melody.

Don't feel bad if you can't finish pieces, because I really can't do that either. XD

Wow it's been awhile....But I'm back! YAY! :D
WELL! Recently I've been like swamped with new ideas for pieces, literally bombarded with inspiration. Which, don't get me wrong, is a fantastic thing! (Something that has eluded me in the past to say the least...)
BUT! It has also shown me the HORRIBLE amount of unfinished compositions on my "to write" list.
SO! I've decided to dedicate myself to working harder on some old compositions that I really like but never got a chance to work on, because frankly, I think it's time to step it up a little.
Anyways, on to the music!

This first one is a more recent piece I started developing after playing around with 5/4 time. This was actually going to be my entry for Noir's contest but...time. :\ I was trying to be more minimalistic...but I think it just ended up being overly simple...and well, boring. Thoughts on that would be great.
Also, its not done at all so I will work on the transitions more, but do the different sections relate enough to provide adequate coherency?

As always, you guy's advice is incredibly helpful...so dish out any and all criticisms! :D

Hi everyone! Been away for a long time again...
But I've kept up the composing...for the most part :\
Lately I've been doing a lot of minimalism...very Philip Glass I might add...
Here is something I'm working on, inspired by Philip Glass's score for The Truman Show. Please tell me what you guys think!! :D
And hopefully, I'll stick around a little longer...

Kind of short, but not too shabby. The harmony gets a bit weird, though Glass does also deviate from consonance occasionally. The 3/4 change part for the four bar phrases adds a strange bit of groove to it. It's not necessarily bad, but make sure you firmly establish that bit as intentional as you go through the entire piece. Keep working on it though; it has promise.