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BurningClocks
April 14th, 2004, 04:54 pm
O.K. Here are some of my compositions that i've been workin on. ummm... i've taken a break from composing. i haven't composed music for like a month or two now. I'm lazy. XP none of em are finished except for one song. the other songs, i have to expand on. a lot. well, these are all in MIDI format. here they are, these unfinished pieces of crap. enjoy! ^_^ please, tell me what u think. suggestions, whatever.

Enticed Into My Demise (http://ee.1asphost.com/BurningClocks/Enticed%20Into%20My%20Demise.mid)
Escape (http://ee.1asphost.com/BurningClocks/Escape.mid)
Forgiven (http://ee.1asphost.com/BurningClocks/Forgiven.mid)
Reach My Love (http://ee.1asphost.com/BurningClocks/Reach%20My%20Love.mid)
Reflection (http://ee.1asphost.com/BurningClocks/Reflection.mid)
Saved (http://ee.1asphost.com/BurningClocks/Saved.mid)
The Following Moon (http://ee.1asphost.com/BurningClocks/The%20Following%20Moon.mid)
Untitled (or rather, I don't know what to name it) (http://ee.1asphost.com/BurningClocks/Untitled.mid)

sakura
April 15th, 2004, 09:17 am
These songs are awesome! I didn't listen to them all, but from what I heard, it sounds great! What program did you use to compose these in?

BurningClocks
April 15th, 2004, 04:58 pm
oh YAY! ^.^ my first review! Thank u, Sakura! :)

hmmm... program. I used the freeest/crappiest one. NoteWorthy Composer. (freeest?)
I wish my mom would buy me sibelius or finale or sumthin, but she would never do that. She always discourages me from composing music. She tells me im wasting my life doing nonsense. :(

saner_sam
April 15th, 2004, 05:30 pm
whoa... ur really talented&#33; >_< u compose nice music..... personally i like "forgiven" and "reach my love"&#33; and "the following moon" was really cute too&#33;&#33; XD i luv them&#33; ur mom shouldn&#39;t discourage u from composing....... keep up the good work&#33;&#33; very soon u&#39;ll turn famous&#33;&#33;&#33; XD

Madmazda86
April 15th, 2004, 05:59 pm
Hey, don&#39;t knock Noteworthy - it&#39;s a good little program for a freebie, especially if you loathe floating palettes as much as I do ;) And hey, you&#39;re doing damn good stuff with it&#33; I like Enticed Into My Demise - reminds me somewhat of Secret of Mana. It&#39;s a the type of composition that can be used in a computer game as it can be looped to provide ambience.

Forgiven is really nice&#33; The top line (tremolo string solo?) is quite nice, but perhaps remove the tremolo aspect of it as when the chords are played with that instrument patch it sounds a bit crash-bang-wallopy - maybe just use a standard violin instead? Lovely ending too :)

Reach My Love is quite cleverly executed - you&#39;ve got a better mastery of Noteworthy than I have as the dynamics are gorgeous&#33; Again perhaps a standard melody instrument would be better for the top line - actually, scrap that as the panning adds a nice effect once you get used to it&#33; Nice piano into - I like&#33;

Reflection is a nice uplifting song - bit of a slow start but good use of the piano and organ together before launching into the piano solo. Nice pacy solo too :)

Saved is quite a cool passage - very rousing&#33; I&#39;d love to see what you do with it as it looks like turning into a really good song :D In terms of constructive criticism - the piece turns into a big forest of strings as it goes along&#33; It sounds nice at the beginning but as the texture gets thicker it&#39;s easy to get a bit overwhelmed by String Ensemble 1 ;) If you balanced that out with some other orchestral sections e.g. brass, woodwind etc it would sound totally awesome&#33; :D

The Following Moon is a good fledgling piece - I like the saxophone runs, very nifty&#33; Quite a jazzy style :)

Untitled is a great guitar piece - simple components making a good whole, good choice of instruments and I like the staccato passage in combination with the bass line about 15 seconds in&#33;

Meh, wish I had half your inspiration at the moment - my GCSE composition is due in this month and with the styles being limited to minimalism, serialism, Gamelan and Indian raga, I&#39;m feeling a bit restricted and am stuck with several non-starters :(

Edit: P.S. Don&#39;t listen to your Mum - the world needs more composers&#33; ;)

BurningClocks
April 15th, 2004, 06:16 pm
^.^ thank u for the comments. :)

Isnt it wierd, sam, that my favorite songs were also forgiven, reach my love, and the following moon? oOoOoOoOhhhh... scaAaAaAry...

OMG madmazda&#33; thats a lotta typin u did&#33; I appreciate all ur comments. ^.^ so ur GCSE composition is due this month. well, i wish u the best of luck. im sure u&#39;ll do great&#33;

well, i hope i become famous as sam said. i wanna like write music for animes and stuff. i always wanted to hear one of my songs in an anime. well, hopefully my dweams will come twue. :D

Madmazda86
April 15th, 2004, 08:16 pm
Thanks - I&#39;m gonna need it :blink: My last composition (http://www.geocities.com/musketeer_creations/Anlach1.mid) took me forever and I&#39;ve got to actually perform it as well&#33; *totally can&#39;t play the first violin part* :o
If you wanna listen you may have to right-click the link and do Save Target As - Geocities is playing up&#33;

swim_fan
April 22nd, 2004, 02:58 am
hey i have finale note pad how do i make it into a midi pls e-mail me at kiro@1989@aol.com (incase for some reason it doesn&#39;t show(me a n00b))

BurningClocks
April 22nd, 2004, 08:45 pm
madmazda86, sorry i didnt listen to ur composition earlier. :(
very awsome song u got there&#33; ^-^ it sounds very nice&#33; i like how it starts off simple and then progresses into a more complex song. Good Job&#33;
say, do u have anymore compositions?

swimfan, sorry i dont have finale so i wouldnt know. but on NWC, i go to file, Save As, then where it says "save as type:", i choose MIDI. i dunno if that helped u, but i tried.

servbot
April 22nd, 2004, 10:14 pm
I felt an amazing connection with your Untitled piece. I actually closed my eyes unintentionally while I was listening (a habit of mine, when I want to concentrate on the music)

It has a wicked bass line&#33;&#33;

AznJoe
April 23rd, 2004, 06:48 am
great compostition, man~&#33; i wish i could do that.......really liked Reach My Love

Kenny
April 30th, 2004, 01:53 am
very good. impressive :)

shtell
May 5th, 2004, 09:41 am
may i know how old are you clocks..

your music is great...

i hope youll improve more.. coz itll sure be a great piece...

kage no tenshi
May 5th, 2004, 11:12 pm
wow they all sound great, they all sound different and unique too, wow I wish my compositions sounded that good (it seems I say that often, but I guess I always wish for the same thing, being able to compose great music :lol: )

Archangel
May 6th, 2004, 02:07 am
woah, your songs are crazy&#33; man, you&#39;ve got a knack and a gift for composing&#33; awesome variaty of songs&#33; hehe, keep it up&#33;

compose, compose, compose....

BurningClocks
July 5th, 2004, 04:58 pm
ok heres a new composition guys. hmmm... dunno what ta call it.
Whoa its been a while since ive posted here.

Al
July 5th, 2004, 11:51 pm
This was just too nice&#33; I loved the simple melody, the mood, the chords. Everything flowed and fitted together. This sort of thing is one of the hardest lessons to teach to somebody else, but you&#39;ve already got it down. So I&#39;m not worried about your composing future.

However, half the time, I was actually able to predict how your melody or harmony would turn out. Sad to say it, but stuff like this has been written before. I&#39;m not saying you plaigarized and copied off another song, but I&#39;m saying that you need to break the mold, maybe do something unexpected while still staying within the boundaries of your song.

Also, I think you were overdoing it a bit in the right hand. Dammit, what&#39;s the word for it, that vertical swiggly line that tells you to play all the notes of a chord in succession from down to up (or vice versa) . . . but yeah, you did that like every other bar, and it loses effect.

But yeah, the previous two paragraphs are just my personal opinion, I&#39;m not trying to pick on you, haha. I still think you&#39;re one of the better composers on this forum. Keep it up&#33;

Noir7
July 6th, 2004, 12:11 am
I have so heard this before..

BurningClocks
July 6th, 2004, 01:28 am
thanx for the comments.
ur probably right noir. but sometimes i dont know if what my mind is telling me to write is something ive heard b4 or something that im making. sometimes its really hard to tell. sorry.