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Did I slow down the pace too much there? I'll be more mindful of it. I see, so home key recap isn't that important for this style, that makes things easier 🙂 Yeah, that would work for sure, I keep making 1-theme songs out of habit, I guess :3 Thanks for the review, as always! Now I know what to focus on next 😄

Thank you for your comment, yes I will surely compose more pieces like this, I often write themes like this, but I only write melody with chords, like a jazz theme you know, there is never "a score" per se, but this one I decided to orchestrate it, I can do it again with other theme.

Hi there! I think this music is pleasant, however it feels incomplete to me. What I'm hearing for the first minute and a half is essentially a four chord progression that repeats on loop. This progression sounds like a part of a song, but not a complete song. I recommend trying to push your compositional envelope a bit more. Expand your initial progression so that it feels more like a complete piece. No matter how many ornaments or percussion samples you add, the progression gets old when it's just playing the same chords on loop for over a minute. Try some new directions so that the progression starts to have different parts (for example: verse, chorus, verse, chorus, bridge). Around 1:40 the music starts to get more interesting as you explore new chords. This was by far my favorite part. This felt like you were freeing yourself up a bit to explore, which is where the music starts to feel more like "art". I also like the note you end the piece on. You've got good instincts! Go explore more. Try to write a piece that is fundamentally interesting on a harmonic and melodic level before you start adding in percussions loops and other wing-dings. Simply adding a second progression early on in the piece will do a lot to making this music more interesting.

It starts very ordinary but soon grows into quite an expressive and nostalgic piece! It's very curious that despite the fact that it's major I feel like this is a sad piece. I feel like it loses some steam at around the 2 minute mark where you start just playing chords in preparation of returning to the main theme. I think this is one of those pieces where it wasn't so very important to end in the same key that you started so you could have recapitulated the main theme in a higher key, giving it a sort of burst of emotion when the new key comes in (although now that I listen again I can hear that you do play the main theme in another key - maybe you could introduce a contrasting theme there and save the key change for the true recap? - just a suggestion). I enjoyed the rich harmonies and listening to this multiple times. Great job!