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Toccata e ricercare in d minor for keyboard. I usually write programme music, but this time is just for the sake of the instrument. I chose the affective key of d minor ( Melancholy womanliness, the spleen and humours brood. ) for this piece. 1. Toccata: The meaning of this word is "to touch". Its a virtuoso piece with fastmoving immitative parts. 2. Ricercare: A Renaissance and early baroque intrumental form in counterpoint. The word means "to search out". The ricercare is seen as the early fugue, with more free counterpoint. Please tell me what you think SimenN

I made this fun video about 5 levels of ambient guitar. We experience a lock down here and I can't do anything except playing music or doing part-time job I have from home. So, this is the video (and there's an announcement at the beginning of the video 😜)

You misunderstood me, I was talking about the voices. Not all the voices "talk" all the time.

It's a fugue (Italian: "fleeting"); it's not supposed to stop.

I can tell that you're doing your best to prep certain "moments". And it's done pretty well, like around the 2:30 mark. Your left hand dependence on octaves and fifths of the root is a little tiresome after a while. Since your chord progression primarily employs root motion by step, subversions of this with leaps to inversions or a secondary phrase model would spice things up, as would a change to its overall blocky texture.

Starting at like :15 or so it got there. The beginning might be a bit bass-heavy.

Nice. I like it overall and it would be good to hear it played by an ensemble. Personally, I don't really feel the off-beat rhythm you have in the accompaniment around 1:30 really jives with the melody as well there. But other than I don't really have any complaints, personally.

It's uplifting. I like the textures you have achieved in the percussion ensemble. I personally don't like the chimes. I don't think they really fit in at the start. They seem very 'chimey' compared to the rest of the ensemble. Maybe mixing them so they are quieter would help? At 1:14 I lost a bit of interest. It felt like the piece was losing momentum. More rhythm would be welcome here. I really liked the appearance of the wood block at 2:47. It gave the music a needed boost. There were a couple of unexpected dissonances, like at around 3:16. It didn't really feel right in the context of the piece. I found the ending very abrupt. I think you could expand a bit so it didn't stop so suddenly. Overall, I have to say, after the first section, that I struggled to keep interest. Maybe making the piece shorter so it was changing a bit more, or adding in a second section would make this considerably better.

Dsus2 C G thore are your chords? If I were you I'll go for this progression Dsus2 C G Am it is like a subdominant circle (Talking about functions) Just work with that progresion a while. Also at some point you can make it more tonal like using the circle of fifths. In some instance Instead of a Am play a E and then you go to an A and use that to go to a Dm finally resolving that sus2 that you were playing. And then you can go to a G and resolve it to a C and make it in C major, or even minor if you want too modulate but, C minor is a bit difficult on the guitar xd. (Just some circle of fiths. I recomend you to make some melody not just arpeggios, that would be boring, making the melody is up to you. If you want to learn to compose the basic thing is knowing harmony, you can start with tonal harmony, tonal harmony is the one based on the circle of fifths. Composing is 20% knowledge, 10% Creativity and 70% practice. You need to practice a LOT to learn to compose.

The problem with your search is that you are looking for a magic bullet, the composer bible. Unfortunately that doesn't exist. Books like composing for dummies attempt to be that one stop shop for composer but it lacks a lot of information you would need. What you really need are several books over a variety of topics. Books on orchestration Books on music theory Books on music history CDs and MP3 of any and all kinds of classical music from all periods of music. You also just need to get started on writing. The art of composing doesn't come from a book. The only thing gained from books is how to refine the craft and understand the music. They cannot teach you to be creative though, that had to come from within.