Well ladies and gentlemen, I'm not exactly what most would call a composer, or at least I wasn't until recently. Typically, I just take songs I hear and try to transcribe them or arrange them in MidiMaker for fun. Worked out pretty well, and then I decided to move onto original pieces. This one is a draft, and I haven't exactly rested on an ending yet. Well, I'm just looking for opinion on this one, so let's cut the preface and move onto the song. I title it Celebration in Herot. (for those who read Beowulf, you'll get more out of this ^_^)

I really liked it! It was very fast moving and exciting, kept me interested. Some parts repeated too much though.

I think you should have a very exciting and abrupt ending, as opposed to a slow one, but I really don't know a thing so... you can just not listen to me.

a lot of unappealing dissonants, and just a TAD bit random... you have some pretty good ideas in there, though, you just need to play around with it and it'll sound great :)

It's on the verge of being random but it just manages to hold itself together. Your harmony needed working. The polyphonic texture was established pretty decently in some areas while in other parts, it was just simply horrible. Fairly well for a first composition, you have good potential.

Update, I have another work in progress I could use an opinion on. Once again, I can't end it. I'm thinking about something and I separated it and put it at the end as a sort of aside. Weird, I know, but it's the way I work sometimes. Here's the next piece up for your criticism, Kenichi and Danielle. Oh, and I'll throw in this one too. It's supposed to be dungeon/creepy music for an RPG I want to try and make.

For Kenichi and Danielle, I think it was better than Celebration in Herot, and you have a pretty good thing going. May I suggest that you open with the harp solo that's heard throughout the piece? Eh, I don't know ;)

For Caves, I think you shouldn't end the song and instead make it loop (repeat), since it's an RPG. I'm not sure if it will enhance the mood, but perhaps some low tremolo strings that crescendo and decrescendo throughout the song?

I think cave loops pretty nicely, and its a nice tune too.
As for Ken; some of the voices are a tad bit... jumpy at times but then again at times they are really good. I think both the songs have the potential of being awesome! oh and keep making songs in 3/4 , Me like.

I liked ken better than caves actually. I actually thought the sticcatos added great effect.

I like it, it's lively but I find theres alot of repitition, and I dislike the use of other instument in the song, if it was all piano all the way it would be awsome. I like the ending theme but I strongly dislike the lac of an ending, no song is complete without an ending. Other than that I enjoyed it I hope hearing some more of you.

Here's the start to a piece I've started recently. I'm not sure where to take it, but I think it might have a promise. It also needs a title, so if anyone can see anything in it, please be so kind as to tell me. Inspire me to create! ^_^



P.S. I converted Kenichi and Danielle into a full piano piece like you suggested, Celeste. Feel free to listen in on it, everyone.

without calling- Very peaceful, very beautiful I think theres a little bit missing at the end though. And it was very short.

Kenichi- I liked it, there was a few parts though I find that they didn't really fit good. Other than that awsome!

Good job,
cel.

Without Calling; at first I didn't really think it was too good, but it gets itself together by the end. As for Kenichi, I agree with Cel - some parts don't fit as good as I would've liked.

Other than that, nice job on these. ^_^ Keep it up!

As to Without Calling, it's nothing close to complete yet. That's just the intro, I guess you could say. I was just asking to see if anyone thought it sounded like it could go anywhere from there, becuase for a minute it sounded like I wrote myself into a corner. And with Kenichi, I get exactly what you're saying, I'm trying to find the right parts to tweak and replace. Thanks alot for the criticism, it's working wonders on my perspective.

the continuation of Without Calling. Not much, but it's still something, ne? ^ - ^

It's pretty nice overall, but it lacks a feel of direction. I don't know how to put it musically... It just doesn't move well. And it looped nicely, did you do that on purpose?

Oh it has lots of places to go, I think I can improvise about 2minutes past that point just out of feeling the direction of the music, which is what I don't get what Sir means by lacks of direction. I think it has a distinct flow that it wants to go toward, which in its way, have many different variations. It is still the beggining of the piece. In fact, I think it's a decent beggining. The melody had aspects I found awkward but in general, it has potential.

My Imagination:

From where you stopped, I hear an almost walts like section around the middle of the piano which then moves back to a variated form of your intro with a modern ballade styled harmony(A bit complexed love song), brings back the B section to slow the piece down before ending softly in the same way as your introduction only with lots of Rit. for the end.

This is just my imagination, if you can't understand it or just can't see what I'm trying to illustrate, then don't tire yourself out with it and just pretend I didn't say a thing lol! Good luck.

KK

Nice interlude, wish you could have made it flow better though. It went for like 2 or 4 measures, then a stop. Again, SAME STOP. Vary it up in short pieces like this.

Also, the loop was nice, but had too much of a major feel to it's minor appearance.

Hey, I was digging around in my stash of old midis and projects trying to find inspiration for the christmas contest, and I stumbled on this. This is one of a few of my better arrangements. I think I might try and do transcriptions for the site at some point because I'm much better at that than anything else in my opinion, but that's neither here nor there. For those still following my erratic train of thought...^_^; Here it is. The arrangement, I mean. I'm pretty sure the song itself was from Tenchi Muyo, and it was called Royal Teardrop. For all those wanting to listen, feel free. BTW, I'm thinking of doing a small preview on my sumbission (or more, one of like 3 potentials) because I need an opinion of wether it says christmas or not, you know? Alright, enough yammering. Here we go.

It's been a while since I've posted anything, (or seen any visitors for my thread,x_x ) so I'll put my latest pieces up. They're both total piano arrangements. One I got from a show I watched recently. (given what it was I didn't expect anything quite like it to be there.) The other's an original I've been working on. The first one, I don't know what it's called, but I name my original piece He Who Dares More. Note, I know that the notation on the second may be really weird right now, but I was trying to change the keys on the piece and things got complicated real fast...:sweat: It's not complete either, I'm just trying to see what people's opinions are at this point. I'm trying to get away from my problem with too much repetition, so look for that when you're listening. Alright critics, have at it.