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A piece of music I composed for my GCSEs, written for a film. (Also bear in mind this is a midi file taken straight of Sibelius) Judgement Day

So lets just study all of musical history then... Once we're 80, we'll be up to Stravinsky.

I'm very sorry I don't have a spare £400 lying around to pay for a better music software. I guess it's my fault I'm not made of money. Also, if you expect me to build on every single aspect of music in every section then clearly you have a screw loose. You've also clearly forgotten where you are. This is a site where, ready? NEW composers post their music in order to get advice and constructive criticism. Next time you write a comment, try and be helpful, talk sense and at least have some tact.

Yep. :phones: Nothing new.

That's the common notation for natural harmonics, although the sounding note with the little circle above it also can be used in some cases for artificial harmonics (alongside the diamond noteheads) to indicate the sounding pitch in more unusual cases (harmonics that require touching two positions, harmonic glissandi, harmonics consisting of higher partials etc.), although often for these cases one just uses a smaller notehead, or a notehead in brackets. For natural harmonics, just writing the sounding pitch like this, with the circle, is usually sufficient, as long as there is only one string on which it can be played. As soon as there are several possibilities (say, a D5 on a violin, which can be both a fifth harmonic on the G-string or an octave harmonic on the D-string), one should also indicate the string above said note (either with numbers I-IV or letters). P.S. I don't actually know, but I could well imagine that the circle above natural harmonic notes is originally the same sign as the 0 designating notes to be played on an empty string, since natural harmonics are also played on empty strings, so to speak. Considering that, it would really make sense only using it for natural harmonics and not artificial ones. But as I said, that's just a random guess.

Like this: the lower note is the note the first finger is fingering, the upper diamond shaped note is the harmonic node that the fourth finger is touching (but not depressing). The sounding pitch of the harmonic is generally not written.

I have a title for this piece, ready? "Ambien (Zolpidem)" because it put me to sleep after about 30 seconds... my face hit the computer keyboard- hard! Seriously though, what happened to texture, movement or activity? I know that it was an "intro" but that was a SAD intro if you can call it that. I know others have commented on the cheap MIDI sounds, why beat a dead horse? I can't even tell what instruments you were trying for, do you have another sound library. It's so lazy just putting these rambling MIDI pieces up. What happened to thematic development? Form? Oh wait, I'm the "Game & Soundtrack" section, never mind... Get better sounds. Add more texture to the intro for movement. Re-write the entire piece.