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oph.geschwind
July 4th, 2009, 05:04 pm
Hello everyone, I have been kind of away from the forums. Lots of schoolwork and all that stuff, but I also started composing on these last months, and I've been improving since then, I would like to show you some of them =)

Melodie 2 - It was my first song, when I had just learned some rules of harmony etc.
Melodie 3 - Was my second song, I used the Hendel's Passacaglia chord progression; it's not finished.
Melodie 5 - Was actually 4th song, I made the chord progression myself; it's my favourite, I don't know why lol
Harpsichord 1 - Was a test song, I wanted so much to make something to harpsichord, so I did; it's not finished either.
Minuet - Is my last song, I did it four days ago, I wanted to do something "cute" and nice to hear.

Some of them are not finished because I have some problem keeping ideas on my mind, I often lose track of them. I also have a terrible problem with phrases, I just suck at making them sound "musical" and connected, I'm actually working on that.

There are of course some harmonic issues, wrong chords and dissonances on wrong places but I'm just a noob lol

And yes, they all don't have names lol
I just can't think of any name for them, they are what they are, nameless or not.

Edit: the mp3 are "cut" at the beginning, sorry, I couldn't fix that :/

Shizeet
July 13th, 2009, 03:13 am
Not too shabby at all, given that you only started a few months ago. The harmony does feel off occasionally, but you sort of have the idea - interestingly enough, melody 2 is the one that sounds the least off even though it's your first.
Melody 3 and 5 sound fine most of the time, though the sequences sound kind of weird to me.
Harpischord1 has a lot of non-sequitur sort of chord changes, threw me off quite often.
The minuet has a nice flow, though I think some of the broken chords sound a bit strange.

Anyways, I think your phrasing is actually pretty decent; it just the underlying chords that needs some more work, in my opinion.