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Hi everyone, i´m Fernando Ocegueda, i´m 17 years old, i´ve been composing for a year now, so i´m pretty much new to this whole composers world, but since i started i´ve been making songs like crazy and i find it very relaxing, it helps me relieve stress like in a therapeutical way. And since i´m starting to get serious about it i´d like to receive some opinions about what i´m doing. I´m new to this forum and i´m really glad i have found this site because i think it´s a great idea that many composers can help each other out, and, if you let me, i would really like to give people some feedback about their compositions, and help them in any way i can with my opinion, as well as they can help me. I don´t know much about musical theory, so my contribution with this forum could be telling you what someone who doesn't know al lot of theory thinks about your composition in a non very technical way. As i mentioned i´m not very good with theory, but i´m taking lessons and as i get better at it of course i´ll try to help some way. Well, to start, i´d like to know what you think about a composition i made about a month ago, it´s called "Esperando una señal" or "Waiting for a signal" in english, i´m mexican so this song is in spanish (i´m also trying to compose in english) so i don´t care that much about the lyrics (if someone speaks spanish i would really aprecciate some help though), it´s music, the melody what i really care about. It feels a little bit raw since it´s not very good quality because i only have a guitar, a mic, and a keyboard, also my room receives a lot of noise from other parts of the house, but i tried to make it sound as best as i could, i´m going to re-make it so it sounds better, but before i do, i´d like to know what you think about it. Thank you everyone for reading. Hope i´ll be here for a long time. Sorry for my english.

¡Bienvenido! Tengo 17 años también y me gusta tu composición. Tienes una voz muy agradable. Oigo talento. My Spanish does not go further than this, haha! I am looking forward to more works of you and feel free to review others' works as well. Reviewing others' means more reviews for you. ¡Saludos! (Your English is okay, though. Don't worry about that.)

@Maarten Bauer Wow, this is pretty cool. Nothing compares to the real sound of breathing and keys... You played it very very nice, and made real a little thing I did just for learning. I'm trying to download it but don't now if it's possible. Thanks a lot! And also because I've learned a lot about saxophones.

Thanks Maarten ;) You're right about the cymbals. They're mental. I didn't really listen to this properly before I put it up. But I'll get rid of most of those cymbals. As for the second half, I thought the gamelan sound fit there because it has a nice dark, mallety sound. Glad you liked it ;) Sorry about the choppy audio bounce as well. For some reason Logic decided to not bounce properly and it sounds terrible. I'll try to get another version up at some point.