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I like it. I think for the style it needs better dynamics. It is suppose to be emotional but there are little dynamics to support it. If someone is emotional, sad or angry, they tend to be irrational. This piece has the those aspects. But people tend to be unpredictable. The dynamics don't support this. Sad maybe be someone quietly crying in a corner or on their bed but this isn't that kinda sad. At least that is the way I hear it. I think it is improvisatory like but after a while it gets rather boring because of the lack of development. The second section has it and sounds the best but the rest do not so I'm not sure what your trying to say with them. Nothing, IMO, is bad but it starts to sound too much like rambling on about some subject rather than telling a story. This is because of the lack of coherent development. Now, if you want to express confusion and such then that's fine but generally that is not good. 1. Dynamics. Imagine somebody playing this piece that maybe is hurt. Say his GF just left him. He would play it very emotional. One chord he might hit very hard and the next very soft. He would have have emotional outbursts where it would be very intense. etc... etc.. etc.. 2. For long pieces you must use get into different tonal areas and colors. Without this almost always a piece will become tiresome. 3. Learn some theory so you can have a wider musical vocabulary so others can discuss with you in a more technical way. You'll also learn some things to get more mileage out of things such as common modulation techniques, altered chords, mode mixture, etc... Overall, because I can imagine some of the improvements I think it has potential(which is why I like it). There are a few anti-climatic spots that could be removed to help increase it's tension but there are some good spots too. It sounds chaotic but that's what I like about it. But without the dynamics it sounds more confusing than emotional. To me, what it sounds like is that you sat down and just "improvised" something without a clear idea where you were going/what you wanted to say. This is fine... or at least I sorta like music like that(probably because I do it too). But it is very difficult to hold a listeners attention for any significant length of time without a clear goal. If you don't have a clear goal almost surely they won't hear it. Anyways.... just my thoughts.

That's because you're gay. :P

*facepalm* Chopin, with all due respect, can you PLEASE fix the site before adding more features before you drive more people away. This erratic development is very frustrating to users.

The coding in the network. It still isn't bug free. Also, we have all these features (like Tutorials and the Wiki) that aren't being finished and just sitting there. Also, we need a base of PEOPLE to make ANY money-for-anything feature worth while. We simply don't have the users to make that venture useful. To auction services you wouldn't only need people who are willing to auction but people who are willing to BUY services. We have few in the first group and even fewer in the second. Like I've said before, Ambition is great, but you have to temper it with practical reasoning.

The bugs are better but the site isn't flawless. I'm using Chrome BTW. There are little bugs, like the login not always being consistent (looks like a cookie issue). Or sometimes the formatting of the forum content gets messed up. Or sometimes an upload won't work and an error message. These are getting less and less but the thing still isn't bug proof. The tutorials aren't organized properly and there's no coordination to get anything done. There's a problem with it being a "long term project." The system should be set up in the short term and ready to go, flawlessly, and then we can just upload content at our heart's content. Because right now, with the clunky organization and no system for review before it goes up that's in place yet (if one exists, its not being used), I am wary about writing this orchestration masterclass which is like writing a small or even medium-sized book and it not being integrated properly into the site. I realize there are "workarounds" for some things but that shouldn't be necessary. It should be ready to go right from the start. Good programs and sites are not developed as if in Beta actively online, otherwise users get frustrated, and the more users there are the more frustration. That's probably why Mike got away with the massive site transformation and the thing didn't completely collapse on itself. There were simply too few users to piss off, to put it bluntly. Non-tech-savy people hate things that don't work the way they should, but tech-savy people hate it even more because they know it can work. As I said before, fix the stuff above. Then build up a user base, then release an Auction thing. If you really want to you can set up a beta of the auction system, but DO NOT release it from the start or you will have another fiasco like you did with the implementation of the network in the first place. It will fall on its face without a user base too because without people to use it, its a meaningless service. Why is eBay so successful? Because people use it! No other reason really. So while this auction thing is a a neat idea this site can't support it in its current state. We can talk about it all day long, but focus your energies on something more productive, like fixing bugs and building a user base first. Lack of activity compared to pre-new-look days. It's getting into a nice rhythm which is good, but there are still only about 20-30 active users at a time, not 150-200, which is what y'all should aim for. Get people to come to the site and appreciate it and USE the services here. Its great as a hangout for young composers, but if you want all these services to work, you need people to use them. I wouldn't advertise this site yet simply because its too error prone and the code needs to be streamlined. The site is faster, but nowhere near as fast as it could be, and y'all know that (or if you don't, well, boo hoo). But no one's pressuring for a fantastic site of music here, only some mediocre hang-out spot on a random forum that no one's ever heard about. The old YC, full of polarizing flame wars, problematic behavior, and stupid people (kinda) is gone. Shed the old facade and begin anew. Let's build it up from here.