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Hello there! I thoroughly enjoyed listening to your piece. I can tell you spent you a lot work into it. Bravo! My review will be broken down into the following sections: Musical form, instrumentation/orcstration, harmony, and counterpoint. I. Form: Overall, the form of piece is well established. As a listener, I can hear when the music is different sections naturally. Thus, I have no issue here. However... I feel that piano introduction can be shorter. Maybe, only two measures, and then have start A section. I hear a musical phrase repeated several times repeated in the A section. For mine money, at least. revisit this musical phrase and shape into something better! If it happens, label them! And think what is your b.i and etc. This will allow your piece to grow through each draft. The B section is done well. The melodic character is different in this section. I truly love it. The longer phrases established this too. 🙂 II: It is easier to talk about instrumentation and orchestration when it is a duet. *wink*. The first thing I noticed is that Oboe and piano double the theme in A section but not in the B section. If the Piano is to be accompaniment part, then my recommendation is to write the oboe as if it a solo line then write piano part. There are ton examples in repertoire of oboe and piano. I love the accompaintment in B section is makes the piano it is own character. You just need to do this in A section! III and IV: I need to see a score for this Cant't wait to hear your next draft

As a composer, sometimes I struggle with creating original, creative pieces. This struggle makes it difficult for me write and finish work. On top of this stress from non musical job and family stress just makes even harder. However, despite of all this, I can still take time to try write down my ideas.

HI angel! Yes, I can hear the doom influence on this track. You mixed classic with rock and roll very well. I love the choir very well. What libraries do you use?

You are welcome.

Thanks for the feedback! I wasn't sure if it would belong there because I was more focused on writing for a band than a choir.

I am not an expert on religious anthems; however, your short work seems to cover all the right notes, feel, and message..... Mark By the way your posting - I believe should be in the choral section.

Kvothe, I am intrigued you hear the Russian influence in the work. Thank you for listening to the work.

The piece sounds very nice. The two instruments are well interwoven. But I have the impression that the piano works with the bass on one side, and the right hand in a high batatne register, close to the oboe. That (by ear) makes me think that the middle register could be more exploited, but without score I don't know exactly.

Hello! Here is a short track I recorded for a chapter of my story about three years ago; I thought I’d share it here once I’ve made the score but that hasn’t happened yet, so it might not happen soon, hehe. Track on YouTube. Any comments are appreciated! Unfortunately, I do not know anyone who plays the oboe, nor can I play it myself, so I used the built-in sound in my piano. Let me know if the oboe sounds playable! Edit: I forgot to add that I am mostly happy with this because my priority is how it sounds with the scene it was composed for. However, I think I will change the oboe part from 1:33 to 1:53, because it doesn't highlight the piano and takes away from it instead.

Hi there, I have listened to your duet. I appreciate the interaction between the piano and viola. The viola provides rather interesting material, and the piano provides great dialogue. It reminds me of one of my favorite 20th century composers: Dimitri Shotoasky or maybe Stravinsky. I see nothing more to add.

Hello. I know this has been awhile since posted. Writing has been rather slow. Alas, I present a new piece: a waltz for strings and harp. It is 95% done. Here's what I need you guys check: 1: Harmony-Please make sure there is no counter point errors and such 2. Form: Go through this with mircosponic. i can take it 3. String writing: Check balance and such. Your feedback will be greatly appreciate

Hello! Recently I have talked with my high school's band director about composing an alma mater for our school because we've never had one. I was inspired both lyrically and musically by traditional church hymns (my school is a Christian school). Attached is a first draft of a potential piece and I would love to recieve feedback from y'all about it! I didn't write any percussion yet becuase I'm currently unsure of what I want them doing (they might remain tacit.) Thank you!

I thought so too! Musescore did that automatically, and any time I tried to change it, it just inputted the eighth triplet on its own (???) I guess maybe that measure is corrupted in the file and somehow the program didn't catch it? I'll try to do somethin' about it, again, at some point lol Thanks for pointing that out to me, confirming that suspicion lol! But I suppose it's easy for me with brass quintet music because I was a trumpet player for the better part of 11 years. I understand intimately, the timbre, range, and capabilities of a trumpet, and the other instruments in the brass family as well. Trumpet came naturally to me, as well, once I picked it up. LOVE me some brass ❤️

Hey there! This is the first complete work I'm posting on this forum. I was inspired by jazz big bands, and especially the tune "Night Train" composed by Jimmy Forest. Smack That Thang (Big Band Arrangement)-Score_and_Parts.pdfThis isn't the final rendition, but for now I am satisfied with it. I would love any feedback that anyone can provide. Thanks!

Hi again @UncleRed99! Nice quintet! I have struggled myself to write for brass ensembles as I often expect too much from the Trumpets and think that their range should extend much higher than Musescore allows. I really enjoyed the music and I think it was good that you found a way out of writer's block using this ensemble. I also do not think the piece sounds at all unfinished. I think it easily finds rest and resolution in probably many places - it just seems like one of those pieces somehow. I noticed something in the score which looks wrong: The 8th note triplets here take up only the duration of a quarter note and hence the measure for the French Horn here has a duration of 3 beats. I think the rendition somehow plays it as quarter note triplets akin to this measure: and even the pitch content in the French Horn seems the same. Thanks for sharing!

I concur 🙂 Thank you for the feedback

I like it as it is, sometimes, when we try to lengthen the works without sense they become boring. I thought that a piece with a heterophonic organization all the time could also get tiring, but the truth is that this is not the case.

Here's another one for y'all. I wrote this one earlier this year, while I was getting my bearings with composing again. I started with Brass Quintets and other small ensembles, just to get the hang of it, and because c'mon.. Who doesn't like a brass quintet?! As the name implies, I ran out of ideas much earlier than I wanted to. The music on the page was demanding to be what it wanted to be, so, I caved in and just slapped in a resolution to what was already there, and this was the results. Let me know what you guys think 🙂 WB Fanfare.mp3 Writer's Block Fanfare.pdf

Hello, @Luis Hernández! Good to see you again. Thank you for the compliment! I didn't suppose my harmony was particularly inventive, but I suppose that's what you get for composing on the piano for too long 😅

Hello, @MJFOBOE! Thank you for the comment. I appreciate the time you took going through my work! 😊 While I originally had planned on maintaining a more sombre tone, I figured that'd get old somewhat quickly. After all, many of Chopin's nocturnes did not remain stagnant in a single key. An interesting thought, though! I might try writing sadder songs/pieces after this.

Man, I appreciate the effort and time you put into providing some very helpful feedback. In response to your suggestion, I'll say, I've always had a hard time sticking to a road map or preset plan of attack... I'm unmedicated and have ADHD, mixed type, and have struggled with being linear and methodical for most of my life. That said, I always try to keep in mind what the listener will experience in my works. But as you know, us musicians can tend to get writer's bias when listening back to our own music. I find that getting feedback like yours tends to be the most helpful in my self-taught composing path that I've found myself hobbying in. I miss, at times, being a full time musician myself, but I take what I can get, and give what I can give to the world of musicianship. I will keep in mind what you've said moving forward with writing new pieces in the future 🙂 Thanks again for taking the time to write your reply, and especially for taking the time to listen through this whole piece. It means a lot! 🙂

Hey man First off, I like this. The music is quite beautiful, and your orchestration is lush and cinematic. This could easily fill the background for some movie. The score is clean and professional looking (to me, a noob), and you give a lot of care to the engraving. A lot of people sifting through submissions of scores will not even take the time to even look at what key a piece is in if it looks like stock music notation software. It seems like you've done all you can for that, so kudos. Do you know Muse? The first movement reminds me of Exogenesis, a three part symphonic type of work they did some years back. Check it out if you haven't, it's pretty cool. The second movement kind of had Yiruma vibes to it, maybe some anime-type inspiration? Regardless, I think you have a talent for bringing out color in your writing. Just know, sometimes color is lost when lots of instruments are playing all the time. For instance, the breathiness of a flute can be hard to hear without subtle orchestration (or lack thereof). Not saying you did that per se, but there seemed to be a lot going on for most of the piece, and interesting color and variety can be found with extended sections of just winds, or just strings, etc. Just something to experiment with in future music. Like I said, this to me was cinematic, like it belonged in a movie or video game. Is that what you were going for? I only ask because the themes and motifs you used were more suited for the background. After a while, the themes got a bit stale to me. Sure, it's in 11/8 which is cool, but lengthening or shortening the 3 dotted quarters and quarter would be cool sometimes. Or breaking up that rhythm. Or giving that rhythm to a different section of the orchestra while new melodies soar over it. You get the idea. The lushness and overall texture was the highlight, but also think about the listener. When should there be a break? How long to make big tutti sections? How many themes do I have, and when/how should I repeat them, or change them, or whatever else? Think of something as simple as a song. Verse, prechorus, chorus, bridge, intro/outro. How many choruses or verses? Does it need a bridge? You mentioned how to lengthen or make changes to voices, and a lot of times just having a simple blueprint of your form does wonders for that issue. It doesn't have to be classical in form, it can be your own, but when writing for orchestra it really helps. I never pursued the path of getting music performed by ensembles... I'm just a simple guitarist, so I can't really help with what some concertmaster or whatever needs from you. But objectively, these are some ideas I had while listening with your question in mind. Good luck to you, and keep us updated on a possible performance. If you do get it performed, do everything in your power to get a recording, because it may never happen again. Cool music, cool pfp, and thanks for sharing

I echo this. It's very cool, it makes me think of rain for some reason though. 😄 However, like most piano music, I think a pianist would be able to bring out a lot of expression, moreso than the watery midi. The language is cool too, you always have a way of blending complexity in your voice with a tonality that's easy to digest. Well done buddy

Thank you for taking the extensive time to look it over, for me. I'm glad that you could enjoy that 🙂 Do you maybe have any suggestions for the last 10-20 measures, for what I might add into it? It feels... lacking, there to me.

Congratulations. It is a great job and a beautiful piece of work. I liked the first part very much, with a long crescendo, well elaborated, ...., always noticeable when the brass comes in. But the second part, calmer, I found it very emotional, and for me that is a plus.