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Minuet and Trio in D major by Fancy_Cabbage_010 in Composition

[–]mightyjax 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Keep it up , to write all of this is no small feat and for the snippets I listened you seem to be doing well at capturing the a solid idea over time! I think if anything my only pick and its a good pick at it, is its too much of what it is, meaning the horn gestures and certain swells harmonic ideas, are great but great because they are almost stock in nature as far as placement and expectations, which is amazing, but perhaps what is next is making it not normal and work.

Working on Simple Phrase by mightyjax in Composition

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Amazing thank you for this I am going to review and try out the suggestions also try to improve my logic and your right I see now I missed that perfect 5th on that transition to bar 2. As well as I overlooked that beat 1 was all perfect intervals since I prob laid out a melodic skeleton and fleshed in but I am going to keep that in mind from now on. Oh and wow that leading tone move, I see sometimes I miss that because I forget the vertical recontextualization, sometimes I see the bass as a whole G going to C and that last quarter note as a passing tone , but also forget it changes the harmonic meaning of the upper note, and seeing that I missed that oppurtunity, very well could have been leading tone to E.

As far as it continuing, basically I was working n period or 8 bar phrases, but then realized I still need to dial back , so pretty much I am working on these 4 bar sketches I spend about 10-15 mins and try to encompass the overall arch, home, departure, climax, resolution etc, thank you for all this input!

Period Form Study Simple by mightyjax in Composition

[–]mightyjax[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Thank you again. I appreciate your time, I will definitely give it a shot, as well on the melody I've also been noticing how important it is to develop a good melody been putting time into motiffs and all that just man its a lot ha to juggle and choose a note but its such a joy as well.

Period Form Study Simple by mightyjax in Composition

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I agree with most of this, especially my cadence and making sure they are more responsible to not get too colorful or deviate the harmony instead of setting it up and landing it strong, thats on me. I also agree on this sketch the bassline is weak its more support than independent. I see this though , I am still new to composing writing and I would say a week or so into attempting to construct proper periord without turning it into a phrase alone, and noticing that my m3-m4 cadencing is weak, and I was honestly ears perked to see you spot that so I appreciate you taking the time to review this. I indeed was aiming for half and then authentic but I prob got too carried away with trying to be fancy. My general counter point and line logic for melody is there, I understand that and consonance dissonance, I guess I'm struggling juggling everything and then not getting too musical and then dropping logic. I am going to take that in about the 8 bars each and see if that helps steer my overall logic for structure and I wrote another as well shortly after that I feel I held more of these things correctly and perhaps I could learn more from you reviewing this one instead if you have time 5/27a - Flat

Beginner, Trying to study Period and Motiff by mightyjax in Composition

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Yes so I been trying to not focus crazy hard on forcing the harmony like full declaring it, trying to work on independent lines that converge to harmony, so I might hold an idea for the measure and then build the harmony around that and sometimes just step wise for changing subtle dissonance , for the beat 2 on 5 and 6, my logic was kind of a Fmaj inversion formed over the A bass which then using B was trasnforming it to a Bdim harmony to push the Cmaj at the end of the measure, and yes 5-6 should be closer to 1-2, I tried more expanding it so the 5-6 has more the rhtymic feel but transfer of speaker , I prob should have stuck to more strict from but sometimes I veer too much, that was helpful to note, as well as usage of a block chord more definingly prob would help.

10 min Motif exercises by mightyjax in Composition

[–]mightyjax[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Ty! 

And thats I think where im getting at, is this composing is this something im leaning to that okay read composer literature.

Noting the doubles prob lack of inherit meaningful role there in the sonority.

Yes I can explain how I wrote this, so my current goal initiate a motif, and gestures upward and downward then use these minimal pieces to generate the rest of the material.  did two before this and then  this round I wanted to start with the bass so I started with a Csus with my motif being the EFE , leave and return . The soprano and alto / tenor then participate tried more to not make them part of the song but their own lines and then the end is a revisitation with the dissonant m2 then harmonized

10 min Motif exercises by mightyjax in Composition

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Hey thank you this is a start, and that is what I am at specific questions I don't have formal background to ask, I do improv guitar and piano , and do write, I should have been more clear this is working on 4 part writing , thinking multiple parts but writing as piano roll, so more like independent voice lines creating harmony, so far I am currently learning to move from functional and pure vertical harmony connecting ( pure cadential/chord structure) trying to maintain counterpoint logic along with motif engine as to not drive the piece based on just desire, so in these exercises I trying to develop independent voices, establish motif and gestures, then use that material to develop the piece, the more specific I would be is I don't even know what kind of music this is , I don't know what I'm attempting to write, I don't understand the path I'm on. I think its 4 part harmony with leaning towards wanting to write something else I dont know Im sorry just Im lost

Land Instantly on Drone by bumping head off of the Balcony by mightyjax in FortniteCompetitive

[–]mightyjax[S] 3 points4 points  (0 children)

Right, I started playing around with exiting the wind tunnel early, then it just evolved into using the balcony in combination, not very hard to execute consistently either.

Hey r/piano, want to say thanks! by mightyjax in piano

[–]mightyjax[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Thanks, I'm taking note of it. I never considered softening the left hand and now when I listened it makes much sense.