Denny - very nice! What you have written feels sensible and flows smoothly. It is a bit short, but that is OK. I see pieces like this as exercises to something larger. I like your choices of sounds/patches. My main comment is.. after the nice calm intro and pretty cello line, GO BIG! Don't hold back with the energy in the second half of this one-minute journey. Life is short.This is my first composition with staffpad and I would love some feedback if you have a second . Overall I think it turned out pretty well; honestly I think I would count this as a personal best from a film/epic music perspective, although it's still in the kiddie pool relative to others on this forum. Still, it made me pretty happy to see it come together. Thanks!
Beautiful! I love the first half with the piano and cello! Just as Brandon I think the second half could go much bolder with a stronger buildup, more intense strings and brass, woodwind flourishes and percussion! And if possible, make it longer. You have such a strong theme going there that it really deserves a few rounds of starting soft, building up, going strong, calming down, and then totally exploding again in the end. Great stuff Denny!This is my first composition with staffpad and I would love some feedback if you have a second . Overall I think it turned out pretty well; honestly I think I would count this as a personal best from a film/epic music perspective, although it's still in the kiddie pool relative to others on this forum. Still, it made me pretty happy to see it come together. Thanks!
Haha, love this. Thank you!GO BIG! Don't hold back with the energy in the second half of this one-minute journey. Life is short.
I love this idea, just need to think about how to do it. Would some kind of bridge/B section serve to bring in some fresh air so it doesn’t sound like I am just oscillating back and forth between small and large variations of the same thing?You have such a strong theme going there that it really deserves a few rounds of starting soft, building up, going strong, calming down, and then totally exploding again in the end.
I've been away from StaffPad for a little while. Just messing around with it today... came up with a theme of sorts...
It's a fugue actually. Statement and answer. I just wanted to do the statement then answer. 3 part fugue at this time but it's hard to hear the third part in the bass/tuba/contrabassoonCan you talk about the structure? What path is the music following? Thanks!
Congrats on finishing your piece! Being a beginner myself, I can appreciate that alone is a big deal by itself! In terms of composition, my feedback would be that I found it a little hard to follow what is meant to be the foreground and what is meant to be the middle and background elements. It feels, to my ears, like there is a lot of stuff competing for attention, elements coming and going frequently, which makes it hard to follow the main melody and structure. Might be better to just settle into an accompaniment pattern for a while, reduce the amount of change happening, so the listener can focus on the melody before you move on to some other variation? That's just my two cents.Any feedback is welcome and encouraged (especially about the composition itself, but also any mixing/leveling issues that maybe I don't have an ear for yet).
Thank you for the feedback! In retrospect, I think I wanted a lot of ideas in a central theme that I could extract to use in variations, but admittedly there has to be some editing and focus if I want to write with clarity, especially with as tall of a score as this one. I'll keep this in mind for future work! Perhaps dialing back towards smaller arrangements with fewer instruments would benefit me for the time being.Congrats on finishing your piece! Being a beginner myself, I can appreciate that alone is a big deal by itself! In terms of composition, my feedback would be that I found it a little hard to follow what is meant to be the foreground and what is meant to be the middle and background elements. It feels, to my ears, like there is a lot of stuff competing for attention, elements coming and going frequently, which makes it hard to follow the main melody and structure. Might be better to just settle into an accompaniment pattern for a while, reduce the amount of change happening, so the listener can focus on the melody before you move on to some other variation? That's just my two cents.
Merry Christmas everyone
Thank you Brandon.Ole - this is simply beautiful. Merry Christmas.
Merry Christmas everyone
My handwritting is quite poor both on paper and Staffpad so copy and past is my good friend.Very nice. I’m curious, after you wrote it, how much time did you spend tweaking it (dynamics etc.,) to get it to sound to your satisfaction?
Also, was writing it (input recognition etc.,) basically the same as using a pencil? The same ease and flow of pencil and paper?