Hi all fellow composers!

This is just a couple of the compositions I've done. I've been doing them since...oh, last year probably. However, just to warn you, although I'm pretty familiar with the piano, I have actually never taken any formal musical theory class, and therefore sometimes things are slightly unsatisfactory (to me, at least) in terms of chord progressions. These were mainly composed with Finale 2006, although some were composed with Finale Notepad that I converted to Finale 2006 files. I also have a couple more that I haven't finished cleaning up that'll I'll post later. So look below and I'll say here thank you for listening/playing. I hope you'll comment!

So here is my first posting - this is by far and large my longest composition, a Sonata for piano. It is not my first one I made, but one of the songs I am most proud of. It was done as a year-long school project, and believe me, it took that long.

This is a song I composed while in the middle of composing the sonata above, actually. I thought of the left hand (in the first part, the octaves repeating) and the rest came along. The last part is pretty difficult, actually, and I can't play it.

This is song I just completed (yesterday, in fact) and I was taking a stab at composing for more than just piano. I think it turned out pretty well.

I have a couple more to add, but I have to clean them up and add dynamics etc., so this is all for now.

Something Evil:

I wasn't too fond of this. It's very well notated and all, but the music itself is very empty. I felt like this was a heap of ideas added into one composition. None of the parts fit together.

Sonata in Cm:

This was slightly better, but it suffers from the same flaws as the above. As the tempo was picked up though, it started to shine.

Aftermath:

I liked this over your other songs. You gave the Violincello the perfect amount of time here, and the overall mood is good. The stuff after #50 was weird though. At least for me. Bad repeat :/

Well, that's true. My problem has always been transitions, and I'm hoping when I take music theory/composition classes that will improve, so alot of times I realize that I sort of add new ideas on without a real transition. Although I thought the Sonata was free of that...hmm...well I know it still could benefit from more revision. Now you know there are three movements in it right?
And, yeah, in Aftermath after measure 50 it does get sort of weird, but I liked the soft trill, but different strokes for different folks I guess.

Sonata - Very nice piece there, though the first movment is lacking the normal form of a sonata, 'EDR'. Look into that something

Something Evil - Pretty nice, although I only like the last few measures with those banging chords. I know that that's a big part of the pice, but if that's all I could really remember, then somethings wrong there.

Aftermath - Good job, seemed like a Theme and Variations piece kinda, or a type of variated rondo if that too. Ehh, I'll go with a fantasia then.

Good work, love to hear some more from ya'.

Sonata - Very nice piece there, though the first movment is lacking the normal form of a sonata, 'EDR'. Look into that something

Something Evil - Pretty nice, although I only like the last few measures with those banging chords. I know that that's a big part of the pice, but if that's all I could really remember, then somethings wrong there.

Aftermath - Good job, seemed like a Theme and Variations piece kinda, or a type of variated rondo if that too. Ehh, I'll go with a fantasia then.

Good work, love to hear some more from ya'.

Thanks for listening.

Sonata-I really don't have Exposition, Development, and Recapitulation? Hmm...when I wrote it I was aiming for that too; perhaps I didn't do it clear enough...

Something Evil-Maybe I'm the only one that really likes this piece, heh.

Aftermath-Yeah, it sort of was, but sort of was not. I was just going with the flow, heh. I really like Yuki Kajiura's pieces and I think this was influenced by that, but not so much.

Well... hmmm... I felt kinda like these pieces were composed using too much theory and too little instinct/heart. My favorite would have to the "Aftermath." It was really nice, and the mood was set in great. Good job, overall, on these, although like Noir7 said, they're a bit "empty." Keep it up; I hope to hear more from you! ^_^

Empty? Could you define that more? Do you mean no melody, or melody is weak?
But thanks for listening!

Empty as in, good writing but no effect on the listener. One part of the song plays by, another one is picked up... nothing sticks :/

Ah...thanks. Maybe because I'm the composer it doesn't feel that way, so I needed that level of removal. Thanks.

And to add to this post is one more composition that I did in...oh, I don't remember. It was my third one, and I think I never quite finished it until a half-year after I started it. But I like it, and hopefully it's not as empty.

Here's another one I did...now, it's not that I'm prolific or anything it's that I've been writing them for a while and was too scared to share them with anyone, heh.

This one is called Chobada! which means "Fight!" in Japanese. There is actually a reason I named it this (the only one with a purposeful title). I was thinking about anime/manga fights, and how ridiculous they are. Like, the good guy loses but, wait, he has a SUPER secret 2nd level form! Then the bad guy levels up, and etc. etc. ad infinitum (did I use that right?) So it's a battle, and an anime/manga battle (or Japanese one) in that. So the tiny slow part is the death/funeral march, but then it gets faster as they begin to power up. Just thought I'd add that.

I kinda like this one myself, but that often means nothing because "self-praise is no praise but a disgrace" as is often said, so how do you guys like it?

The Last Rays: I don't know what to say, it sounds way too typical, and technical. The beginning was kind of boring through the held notes, and then when the next section comes in, you used a typical progression that a lot of people tend to abuse a lot. All though one thing you did better than a lot of composers around here is your notation; at least you placed all the markings appropriately and they are neat, readable and understandable, I've seen some that aren't :heh:. So yeah, good job on that. But other than that work on your 'overall' of the piece. ;)

Well, Sir_Dotdotdot, thanks for listening. As to a typical chord progression that a lot of people use, I had no idea about that, but I don't understand when you mean to technical, because it's a really easy to play piece. And I guess it [I]may[I] be difficult to hear on the computer how it's really played, because when you hold down the pedal throughout (although I never use pedal markings because I like to leave that up to the potential player, if anyone ever wants to) it sounds really nice if you just listen to the whole chord. But thank you for listening.

I like it. There are some places where what happened wasn't what I expected at all. Lots of times, that was really cool. I liked some of the cool rhythms you had going, although there were one or two really subtly jarring transitions from one rhythm to another. This piece had some really great ideas in it.