Update. Smoother transitions and small extension

The complex one, it's pretty good.

I usually go for a more complex version when I see it, and this is no different. Well done.

Wow, it's rare to hear a piece with an awesome woodwind part. I'll give you an 8/10 because it seemed to end quite abruptly. A musical warning that the ending is coming would help the flow.

OH since I received some critique about ending, here is extended version....it.....has no ending, what do you think? Also different key signature, and slower tempo+1 instrument change :D

Very nice....altho i don't think this is a typical baroque piece....like probably 60% of it sound baroquish.

Great entrance and exits for the instruments.

but i'll give it at 8.2/10 good job ^^

Originally posted by Neerolyte@Aug 7 2004, 05:36 AM
Very nice....altho i don't think this is a typical baroque piece....like probably 60% of it sound baroquish.

Great entrance and exits for the instruments.

but i'll give it at 8.2/10 good job ^^
Mucho thanko ;)

I think it's rather nice. Reminds me of Babar for some strange reason.

8/10 though. Good job and keep em coming.

It sounds pretty good, but I don't like when the parts around 0:20 kick in. The guitar doesn't help it either. The flute going rapidly in the background lifts up the song's spirit though. It ends weird, so I didn't like that. Is it supposed to loop?

Took me awhile..@_@

Right, now where is it?

wow! awesome job! nice choice of instruments, very good and having all the sounds fit together smoothly.... and yeah, ending needs to be fixed..... i don't know about baroque.... cause i'm not into that detail of music yet.... but awesome, awesome job!

Rate- 9/10

It was horrible so i had to fix it. Now it's done. Rejoice.

My second arrangement from the same game. Overworld theme. I love it.

WOW! @_@

You should really do the arrangement contest (that no one submitted to). They sounded really good, and I'm a bit jealous.

Wow, really good, but I was just wondering, what are they from?

Originally posted by Cooldelic Dude@Aug 13 2004, 08:13 PM
Wow, really good, but I was just wondering, what are they from?
My second most favorite rpg for snes. Terranigma



(First is star ocean :lol: )

Incomplete, has temporary ending....Tell me what you think!


(My first organ attempt piece)

You give the performer some great chances to experiment with inventive registration with all the different layers. At points it seems a little sporadic and hard to follow. I like the pulsing under melody. It reminds me of some of my favorite Bach pieces. Always a good technique on the organ. I'm glad I inspired someone else to write for the organ! It is the greatest of all instruments, but it's seriously lacking in repertoire. It kills me that these tools with profound potential are sitting in every beat up church building, and no one plays them well or writes good music for them. Keep it up!

Haha o.-





For those who want sheet/or just want to see notation.


http://www.boomspeed.com/demonsword/12minQuickie.MUS

o.0 in 12 minutes? Wow! *stares in disbelief* did you see the one hour challenge thread? Hehe . . .

Anyways, I didn't like the intro (a bit strange for me) and the ending (too abrupt), but the middle was wonderful. ^^

Yeah, abrupt parts are my genuine work mark, how they distinguish my music from other's :D :P (until i improve that is)

-.-; Why not take the time and just bother trying to compose something decent instead? I mean, no offence, but this is so random my tone-deaf friend would notice that.

I agree- My shit sucks :D :sweatdrop:

I agree with Alphonse that the beginning and end need some work but I feel that the middle is too flourishy (I don't think that's a word but it shows what I'm getting at). It would work great as a climax to a piece but by itself it just isn't really a full song.

gees, that's awesome!
Are you in a trance or something when you're composing on the piano? The climax really lifts my heart. It's another piece that has lots of potentials. You should continue to finish this piece! (change beginning and ending. Probably add a movement that contains the intro version of the climax theme prio to entering the real climax)

Yes, as nice as the middle part was, it was a bit too much, "flourishy" even. But to me, it doesn't matter, because it was just a 12 minute project for fun. Hmm, maybe you can recompose the whole thing, using your old ideas as experience and picking only the best parts to improve on it.

:cold: :cry:

No, please don't take it the wrong way! Use our constructive criticism to help yourself to improve! ^^

Originally posted by Alphonse@Aug 20 2004, 06:15 PM
No, please don't take it the wrong way! Use our constructive criticism to help yourself to improve! ^^
I'm just playing. Thank you kindly for your criticizm. :P

This arrangement is simplification, meant to make this song performable on piano solo.

I haven't finished it due to school...arranging by listening is truly time consuming...>_>


http://www.boomspeed.com/demonsword/ENDLESS_DREAM.mid ORIGINAL PIECE- NOT MINE!

http://www.boomspeed.com/demonsword/Endless-Tom.MID My toil and sweat.my arrangement!...(i can perform it on piano! :D :lol: )

Nobody cares to listen to 3-5 minute compositions, they're long, and most of the time boring. Rarelly good. Let's compose some short ones! Come on! Post!

Time to compose: 18 minutes, 26 seconds(yes, i'm hardass to count seconds...) :drool:

Actually, 3-5 minute compositions are usually good. It's next to impossible to get proper development of a theme and put any significant contrast or form into a piece that's shorter than a minute. Even 15 minute compositions can be very good. Listen to a few mozart symphonies and then tell me they were boring and not worthwhile.

hmmm i done a 60 second composition and doubled the speed to make it 30..............personnaly id say mine was rubbish.

if you look at noirs and dans song specially on the composition awards they maybe long but i wouldnt have it any other way ^_^

oh nice composition by the way

Originally posted by Elite666@Sep 5 2004, 11:27 PM
Actually, 3-5 minute compositions are usually good. It's next to impossible to get proper development of a theme and put any significant contrast or form into a piece that's shorter than a minute. Even 15 minute compositions can be very good. Listen to a few mozart symphonies and then tell me they were boring and not worthwhile.
I think they're long and boring, since i'm hyperactive personality+impatient, i like 'em short, and fast.

To compose music intentionally under a few minutes makes no sense. Give me a good one and I'll reconsider. I doubt you'll find one, or compose one. If you think 2-3 minute long compositions are dull and boring, then the songs under 1 minute should be even less good.

As far as compositions go, I will never like something half-assed in a couple of minutes. Especially not if it was intentionally done. X_X

niceeeeee, me likes :D

i like that emphasis you put on the notes at the end of each measure during that phrase. good work good work :neko:

This was the first song I wrote for my composition course last year. About 35 seconds long. Took me about 2 days to write it. Sorry for the dynamics and the terrible syncopation errors in the last third of the piece.

However, I believe that even in a song as short as this, there is room for development and expansion. I'm slightly proud that I managed some sort of "flow/story" . . . so yeah, good short songs may be possible (not saying mine is, but you get the idea).

Vocalist doesn't like long songs? I recommend you listen to a piece called Locksley Hall if you can. It holds you by the shirt collar from the very beginning all the way to the end, and it definitely lasts over a minute. It also sounds kind of scary :boo:

Originally posted by Alphonse@Sep 8 2004, 02:11 PM
This was the first song I wrote for my composition course last year. About 35 seconds long. Took me about 2 days to write it. Sorry for the dynamics and the terrible syncopation errors in the last third of the piece.

However, I believe that even in a song as short as this, there is room for development and expansion. I'm slightly proud that I managed some sort of "flow/story" . . . so yeah, good short songs may be possible (not saying mine is, but you get the idea).
Nice, I like slow relaxing tempo, few good harmonics, others are good too. Cmon keep 'em coming!

Please rate accordingly ;)

Although it kept my interest for a long time, I don't really like this one. The parts after 1:00 remind me strongly of other songs, so that was the place I turned it off. Mm, it was too random for my taste, and it wasn't going anywhere. This song has too many phases, and I think that was the thing that made me a bit interested, but the bad progression and the fact that it is randomly notated made it look bad to me. You should consider composing with a solid structure or so, to make it a bit appealing..

I'd give it 6.5/10.

I quite like this, although it is quite messy at some parts, I do like it overall though. You get a 7 ..... i think deserve a 7.5/10 from me :). Keep it up, compose more songs! :)

Hmm, sounds pretty techno to me. More like a trance, a few different musics just compressed together, really a supermix. Some parts are pretty nice. However, try to bridge the musics together by having an movement ending, this is to make your music more flowing. This music is pretty raw but has a great potential in it.

6/10

Another unsucessful attempt to put what's on my mind onto a music sheet. Bah...I better learn something about music soon.

I don't know what to say. It seems like you concentrated on making a 'sound' for it instead of listening pleasure. Fast notes over and over makes a good sound, but drowns the whole song with it.

Originally posted by Noir7@Sep 26 2004, 01:24 PM
I don't know what to say. It seems like you concentrated on making a 'sound' for it instead of listening pleasure. Fast notes over and over makes a good sound, but drowns the whole song with it.
I agree, holy crap. Maybe cuz of my impulsive nature. Can you show me example of "listening pleasure" song please? I'd like to adapt particles of those styles of composition. I need to know specifically what you're talking about.

Listening pleasure is something that I define as a song where you just know something good is coming up, like a climax of that song. A very good example of what I'm saying is "The Princess Appears" from the Starwars trilogy. First, it sets up the mood, and then works its way up to the climax. You'll have to dig up the song yourself though. -.-;

Damn, that sounds like planning, and work...i usually spend about hour or less on my compositions...XD but i'll try something like that

Ya know, I like that song. It's better than a lot of stuff I wrote. mebbe you need to change the way it's written into parts, like: take one hand with a bass line that sounds pretty cool and play it once. Then play the treble line once. Then Put Them Together For The GRAND CLIMAX!!!! Then have a tinkly sort of ending with the same mood, but different notes, or a different key change. :think:

For instance

Err... in truth, I probly shoulda sped it up some, but...

There's an edit button for fixing your posts. You've committed a real travesty there Trumpet.

Shame on you for using Vocalist's thread to show off your work.

Like it? :neko:

Originally posted by TrumpetPLaya42@Sep 27 2004, 03:24 AM
For instance
Sorry to burst the bubble, but there is no theme or sensible emotion in your song. Dry music is not my type. Gomen.

Take your own advice then. This may sound harsch, but if you are more self-critic you will end up with better compositions.

Originally posted by Noir7@Oct 2 2004, 02:02 PM
Take your own advice then. This may sound harsch, but if you are more self-critic you will end up with better compositions.
You're right, but my music may have no body, but it surely has strong theme or emotion. So I can't critique myself on this aspect. Listen to my remake.

bump

That's the problem though: You think your music has strong emotion and theme, but it doesn't appeal to others as much. This is a fact that concerns all composers, not just you. Mm, you may have different views on this, and that's okay. But I was aiming against this:


Originally posted by Vocalist69
Sorry to burst the bubble, but there is no theme or sensible emotion in your song. Dry music is not my type. Gomen.

That's pretty much what I think of your music. I don't know if others share my opinion, since I'm the only one who commented on it. (Except for TrumpetPLaya42, who did like it)

Don't bump. X_X I'm sure that if no one commented on it, there's no need for you to bump. A good idea is to have only one thread for all of your compositions, instead of having a new one for each one.

heh i havent commented on any of your compositions but they are all very good ^_^

Reason i bumped it is because i changed the attachement, rather than making a new thread.

Enjoy, comment, critique.

here is link to mus:

www.allseeingeye.org/demonsword/DawnOfAdventures.MUS

The music is great! :) Its title is very matching to the song. But, is the ending fixed? It ended so suddenly. :(

Why thank you, kind sir. I have a weird, rare disorder that prevents me from composing a good ending. Sorry, i'll work on it ;)

*blink* but there's a lot of good 3-5 minute songs out there. The Samurai X soundtrack is simply gorgeous and nearly all the songs go past the 3 minute mark.

I like it, at least for the first half. I can hear a very distinctive theme and a clear structure: good job in varing the theme.

but possible improvement includes:
1. rework the chord progression in the intro; it sounds awesome in the first two chords, then it somehows fails to continue the tensionin the 3rd and 4th chord.

2. construct a climax and an ending,

Originally posted by Darren@Oct 4 2004, 09:34 PM
I like it, at least for the first half. I can hear a very distinctive theme and a clear structure: good job in varing the theme.

but possible improvement includes:
1. rework the chord progression in the intro; it sounds awesome in the first two chords, then it somehows fails to continue the tensionin the 3rd and 4th chord.

2. construct a climax and an ending,
Cool, thanks.

I'd say the length has nothing to do with the quality of the music, it's completely unrelated.

Also Vocalist, a few suggestions:
- Make a thread for yourself and put all your compositions in there. You are starting to clutter up the forum.
- I would suggest that you not make such a big deal about how long it took to compose a piece. You do this for a lot of your compositions, and people will immediatly prejudge it as rushed and will have that in their mind when they are listening to it.

all your compositions sound like they would go with a nes game or something lol

Ok, this thread is SO old. Why did someone bring it up?!

Chords are what make harmonic composition, here's a brief experiment, pardon the guitar...had strong urge.

I liked the chords . . even though I'm not used to them, at least they weren't too off for me to appreciate. Problem is that my mind can't expand itself to think up new chords in that way.

Look Vocalist, you don&#39;t have to create a new thread for every new MIDI you create. It&#39;s annoying, unnecessary and pushes the other threads down. I&#39;ve told you this before, so it isn&#39;t new to you. <_<

Also, those chords are, if not identical, very similiar to the song "Shinra" from FF7.

Blah blah blah.

Originally posted by Noir7@Oct 17 2004, 05:24 AM
Look Vocalist, you don&#39;t have to create a new thread for every new MIDI you create. It&#39;s annoying, unnecessary and pushes the other threads down. I&#39;ve told you this before, so it isn&#39;t new to you. <_<

vocalist: Yes, I told you this before as well. You have lots of songs, so there is no point in making a new thread for every single composition. Please create a thread such as "compositions by vocalist" or whatever and put them all in there. Once you make that thread I&#39;ll merge all your other threads to that one.

Please take care of this right away.

I have to say that those chords are close.

Originally posted by Alfonso de Sabio@Oct 18 2004, 02:26 AM
I have to say that those chords are close.
Well I didn&#39;t think about/keep in mind ff7 song while making it, sorry about misunderstanding.

Vocalist: No, you don&#39;t have to make new threads everytime you mke something new.

Also, I meant that it had a similiarity to "Anxious Heart" from FF7, don&#39;t know why I typed Shinra. :think:

Vocalist69: Combined all your threads into this one. Let me know if you want the title changed.

Bravo Vocalist, your ending on your last one was actually decent, it didn&#39;t leave me hanging, but, it did leave me half hanging, I suggest you at the end, let the snare play a little longer, and slow it down a tad bit.
Edit:Slow the snare down A tad bit at the end.