I remember years ago there was a thread around here where the composer were composing a piece. It was like composing a few bars then the next one that pick it, compose another few bars, etc. Making a piece. I think that is a fun thing to do. And maybe will revive things around here a bit (I hope).

I will start with two short Midis. Your mission is to compose 4-8 bars(Or more if you wish) that will continue what I already did. It does not have to be similar to my part. But must show a good flow between the sections. And don't worry if there is no repetition of themes. This is going to be like a progressive piece that goes on and on. But that sounds flowing and not exactly random.

The only rules are:

-You must submit it as a midi file.
-The next composer is allowed to modify the last measure for fit his idea if is necessary.
-You can compose more than 8 bars. But don't over do it like composing 100 bars!
-You are allowed to add another instruments.
-You are not allowed to change the previous instrumentation of the piece.



Would be good if you say you will take the piece. So someone else won't be composing something at the same time as you are.

Well, I hope people will join this. And hope this don't die so fast. X_X

Choice the midi file you like more, and compose! (If you don't like both, pick the one that you tolerate more then). After you select it, the other one will be send to the trash.

HAVE FUN!



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HALL OF FAME

Ichigo's Composers Collaboration Op. 1 No. 1

Composers that participated in this MIDI:

- Nyu001
- DeathRaider
- Etaroko
- halfangelfreak
- Solaphar
- Elezeid
- link0099

The whole piece can be found here:
http://scp-designs.com/stuff/ichigos/Ichigo%27s%20Composers%20Collaboration%20Op.%201%2 0no.%201.mid

Ichigo's Composers Collaboration Op. 1 no. 2

Composers that participated in this MIDI:

- Nyu001
- Mushyrulez
- KaitouKudou

The whole piece can be found here:
http://scp-designs.com/Stuff/Ichigos/Ichigo%27s%20Composers%20Collaboration%20Op.%201%2 0no.%202.mid

Ichigo's Composers Collaboration Op. 2 no. 1

In Process



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I'm taking no. 1!

Here you go! I did 8 measures. I added another piano to the mix, too.

Number 2.

EDIT -- Nevermind, my Finale doesn't want to playback for some reason (no sound).

Did you make sure it's playing back through Midi rather than VST? I can make a .MUS file that should work and post it for you if you want.

Edit: oh, and I just realized I have to fix some stuff in the MIDI I posted last night so that it opens right for other people. Sorry!

Edit2: it's fixed!

Eh, i added a little bit on no. 1

I vaguely remember this game . . the music so far sounds fun. Keep it up guys!

You're not going to help us?! :(

Cool addition Etaroko! And deathrider one is super! I hope your Finale thing is fixed mazeppa, so you can join. :)

Are we allowed to add even if we're epically bad at composing?

Any person is allowed. Just submit it as midi and don't forget to separate the tracks.

You're not going to help us?! :(

I wish I could, but I don't even have time to compose my own music!

That's too bad.

Erm, sorry about epic fail of this.. I couldn't make the original rythym stay, so I guess this counts as a seperate section.

Sorry if it sounds horrible, however this is my first time using Finale (I usually use FL Studio). I only did 4 bars :\

Also, what do you mean by split track? I don't know anything these days :heh:

LoL this is quite interesting. Since no one took number 2, I guess i will.

Erm, should we fuse that into no.2-3?

lol sorry I didn't see yours there when I uploaded cause I probably didn't refresh the page before I hit reply.:sweat:

So, what should we do? The beat's entirely different :P

I was thinking Original - Mine - Yours, because Mine ends on the original melody, and your's begins on it.

This seem to be getting messy. :P

Originally was suppose to go with deathrider choice. We were suppose to composed after the first person that choice the midi. The other midi was going to go to the trash. But since it was used, let's have both running here then, haha. Unless that is... confusing. o_O

I dun think it'll be confusing. I think we should have both running and people can write for both of them. As for who's melody to choose, how's about we let the next person who decides to continue on choose.

Got a bit of free time and added a little bit of mess.

Haha, interesting!

How long are the compositions going to be, anyways?

Does not matter how long they are going to be. What matter is participation and creativity. If after a time seem to be tiring or too much, I will choice another person to submit a new fragment for start a new piece, if this thread does not die.

hehe awesome addon by Nyu001, it really spun my head around a few times.
Good work so far all of you :)

Bump, I don't think anybody's working on this anymore.

(I'm too busy)

Yeah, sadly. I already took the last turn. So, someone else should add their bits and move it away of the already established theme. ;)

I don't think I did too well adding to it, but I DID mix it up a bit. :shifty:

Haha, that is cool!

Holy crap that was confusing O_o

Yeah, personally, I don't like what I did with that. I think I'm gonna redo it.

Noo, keep it! It sounds awesome!

Well, okay then.
For some reason it seems I like to put more... wildness than the rest of the forum... o.o

*revive*

Really starting to go creepy!

That is cool! This looks like the piece is being seduced by the 'dark' side. I like it. :P

I only added one chord, but I had to, just for fun.

PS. That last addition felt to me like some kind of weird spaz attack...just saying. lol:heh:

Buga buga buga! (<-I did not know what to type, lol).

*revives*

and i saved this with the wrong name.

The transition back into the original theme is really nice. I just wish the theme was varied a little more to fit the new register/mood.

Invoked my right to add a new instrument. And I'm actually surprised that no one else added any non-pianos until now, since it says right in the first post
You are allowed to add another instruments.

My addition is a little goofy, since I didn't put any real thought into note placement, nor did I have any particular melody in mind. But maybe this will at least get it moving in a new direction and spice things up a little.

Haha, nice move!

Hahaha! That was totally unexpected, but also totally awesome!

In retrospect, I probably should've taken a little more time to give it better melodic movement, but I was more concerned with just coming up with a fun little bassline (which I wrote first), than I was with thinking up chords and melody. But yeah, I wasn't really taking it seriously, since it's just a game.

I'm looking forward to seeing what the next person does.

and i saved this with the wrong name.

This is really cool. Can I get the score?

This is really cool. Can I get the score?

If you open the midi file with finale you can see it.

If you open the midi file with finale you can see it.

Don't have it :/

Continuing #1!!!

Okay here it is lol. I drew inspiration from the last part of the piece. And later realized that every part of this piece sounds completely different than the last.

Don't have it :/
You can look at individual tracks with the free Anvil Studio. You can't view or print the full score, but it's better than not seeing it at all I suppose.

later realized that every part of this piece sounds completely different than the last.
I sort of like the new direction it's going in though. Also, I wish I'd put in drums for the part that I added. For some reason I had it in my head that each person could only add one new instrument per turn, otherwise I would've added percussion.

Edit: Alright, fixed a few things (Like redundant events). Also, and I hope you don't mind, but I lowered the volume a bit (was getting kinda loud). And I fixed the name by going back and counting from where it got changed.

My addition is only a few more measures, and it pretty much keeps the ideas you had going.


Edit: Since I couldn't decide how to end the last measure, added an alternate ending. Just adds two chords on the piano and changes the bass to correspond to those chords. So whoever does it next can choose which end they like better.
Or just choose neither and modify as necessary, since the rules allow some changes on the last measure. "-The next composer is allowed to modify the last measure for fit his idea if is necessary."

Edit: I put the volume for the sax higher. I had it too low when I was trying to make the instruments softer.

Hahaha that sounds so awesome!

I really liked the riff you came up with, so I tried to keep the general feel of it going in my extension to it.

Okay, so I tried to put a little break in there, but it didn't go as well as I would have liked, and then I tried to pick it up again and I screwed it up. But since this is a collaborative project, maybe someone can fix my error! Sorry for not quantizing guys, It was snapping to the wrong rhythm.

"Fixed". :)

HAHAHAHAHAH THOSE POOR BIRDS!! Lmao XD XD XD!!!!

I'm laughing so hard it's hurting!!

I just don't know if I can top that...haha!

Oh my fucking god, what the heck happened at 2:52?! It's like hell dropped out from underneath the song and it's suddenly soaring in ether!

I don't know. But after that I just know... never gonna give you up :music:
(I just remember that song always that I hear a part in the midi xD).

Oh my fucking god, what the heck happened at 2:52?! It's like hell dropped out from underneath the song and it's suddenly soaring in ether!
I took it in a new direction since I was getting bored with where it was going up to that point. That said, I now regret putting those slides on the bass in, because someone's program messed them up. Meh, whatever. If I add to it again, I'll go back and fix them, or just take the slides out altogether since they'd probably get messed up again.

I took it in a new direction since I was getting bored with where it was going up to that point. That said, I now regret putting those slides on the bass in, because someone's program messed them up. Meh, whatever. If I add to it again, I'll go back and fix them, or just take the slides out altogether since they'd probably get messed up again.

It may have been me who messed the slides up. Something's wrong with my Sonar, it's acting up lately. Sorry about that ^^"

And by the way, I really liked how you changed it up. It made it more interesting. I think it would be cool now if we used the original melody as a sort of "chorus" part of the song, but kept that upbeat sound.

If the pubic applause and screams give problem to continue, you people can take it off, lol.

It may have been me who messed the slides up. Something's wrong with my Sonar, it's acting up lately. Sorry about that ^^"
Don't worry about it. I shouldn't have assumed that everyone's midi editing programs would keep all data intact. So yeah, sort of my fault for putting the slides in to begin with.


And by the way, I really liked how you changed it up. It made it more interesting. I think it would be cool now if we used the original melody as a sort of "chorus" part of the song, but kept that upbeat sound.
Yeah, we'll have to figure out how to alter the rhythm of the melody to fit. Should sound cool if we can do that. Also maybe change a few of the underlying chords by moving the root a third or fifth in places, but so the melody still fits on top of the new chords. Basically, as long as we can sort of keep the new *feel* but with the original notes of the melody.


If the pubic applause and screams give problem to continue, you people can take it off, lol.
I don't mind it, although (and this is just my personal opinion) I think it's kind of a waste of a channel, since we only get 16 of them, if I'm understanding the rules correctly. *Prefers that channels are used on musical instruments.*

From your first post, when you said

But not allowed to change the previous instrumentation of the piece.
So that means we can't insert a patch change event (which would keep the original instrument up to the at point), right? Meaning once someone adds in instrument, it's permanently stuck as that instrument.

Just double-checking.

So that means we can't insert a patch change event (which would keep the original instrument up to the at point), right? Meaning once someone adds in instrument, it's permanently stuck as that instrument.

Just double-checking.

You can use a patch change event. Though I am not sure if will work fine when we open it in different sequencers or notation software?

I agree about the FX taking space. It's up to you or anyone to keep it or to eliminate it. You can break the rule with that FX I put in the MIDI file. If someone else decide to put a FX in the MIDI then you can't eliminate it unless they allow it, or unless is the last bar that you can modify.

I agree about the FX taking space. It's up to you or anyone to keep it or to eliminate it. You can break the rule with that FX I put in the MIDI file. If someone else decide to put a FX in the MIDI then you can't eliminate it unless they allow it, or unless is the last bar that you can modify.
Okay, I think I see now. So basically that rule is in place just so what has already been written is not modified (unless it's in the last measure).

So if I were to add onto the file again, I could just to an instrument change via a patch change event (leaving the previous instrumentation intact prior to that point) and avoid having to add another channel.

Btw, I don't have a problem with the SFX, it's totally fine as long as I can patch change to something else after it.

Decided to add a little more. Got lazy in the piano so I put block chords to save time instead of a nice rhythmic part.

Might be time to move away from the sax as lead instrument. Maybe after a couple more turns, at least.

Haha, cool. :)

I keep wondering how things are getting out of bars for a tiny space, lol.

okay i added more..... that is if im allowed...
very very basic hahah

okay i added more..... that is if im allowed...
very very basic hahah
Sounds nice. I might even add onto it later this week, unless someone else adds to it first.

I just looked at your profile and this is your first post here. I guess you've been lurking since June. You made a good first post though. =)

oh thanks =D
i will hopefully upload some of my compositions later this week. depends on school though

Hey, welcome link0099! Nice to have you around the composition forum. ^^

how long will the piece be? i kinda want to do the next one with everyone.

Should we scrap this one and start over then? I suppose that's up to Nyu, as he's the thread creator and made the first sections of the two different midis.

On the other hand, it would be nice if more people had tried to add onto the second piece, I'll look back and see where it was left off.

I'm pretty sure he'd be fine with it if someone started a new one.

May I request that people with midi sequencers be considerate, though, and try to keep it simple enough that those of us with only programs such as Finale can still participate? That's the only reason I haven't written any more lately...

I have no problem with it. This midi got pretty far and long. To start new one would be cool!

I will give the turn to Deathraider to start the new one if he want.

May I request that people with midi sequencers be considerate, though, and try to keep it simple enough that those of us with only programs such as Finale can still participate? That's the only reason I haven't written any more lately...
Sorry about that, I had no idea. What part needs to be simplified, so I don't unintentionally block you from contributing in the future?

Also, and I know that no one likes to switch sequencers, but have you considered Anvil Studio? It's free and very universal from what I can tell (I often use it except for adding midi events). I'm not saying you shold use it, since I'm willing to take action to prevent incompatibility with Finale, but I thought I'd just give the suggestion of trying it out.

Hmmm, I actually have it installed but I was having a little bit of trouble figuring out how to use it. That could work, too, though, if I can figure it out... :P

I'd love to start one! I'll edit this post when I have the new one written...

I edited my first post and added a "Hall of Fame", if someone else know a better word to describe this kind of "hall of fame", please let me know. :P

I changed my mind: new post!

it was... interesting deathraider. i made it over the first obsticle, i think.:think:

you can get rid of the very last note if you wish.

LET'S GET THIS PARTY STARTED!!!

ps. just to let you know mine starts from 16sec mark to whatever. i thought it'd be nice to know from where one's input starts since it's hard to keep up at the end if there is a new comer who wants to know who did what.

Nice! Yay Jazz!

No comment. :heh: (Garritan .mp3 is attached also.)

Just so you know, that solo part that starts out at the beginning is supposed to be a bass.

Interesting the direction this one is taking. ;)

Just so you know, that solo part that starts out at the beginning is supposed to be a bass.

Sorry about that - Finale was playing it as a piano and they were both on the same track. :heh: I'll fix it in an edit of this post.

i never knew jazz can be so...... emotional, for the lack of a better word.

Sorry about that - Finale was playing it as a piano and they were both on the same track. :heh: I'll fix it in an edit of this post.

No worries. Finale is kinda dumb when it comes to importing midis...

Fixed. :heh: The .mp3 has Garritan sounds.

i can see myself playing this piece... and mr. bethoven shoves me aside out of nowhere and takes it over. hahah.

I will take next turn.

I think my addition was too drastic :hey:. I changed tempo to 180 at bar 41.

No! It's amazing!

I did an alternated one. Pick one of both to continue.

Tempo change to 180 at bar 41.

I had already started working on one for the first one, but if you want to go in and fix it so that it's the alternate, you can. :P

Edit: nevermind, I did it myself.

Edit2: I messed it up, so now I have to fix it...

Edit3: fixed it! Sorry, it's a little messy, though...

nyu... that was awesome. i couldn't help but smile.... and then i burst into laughter.