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Sort of ambient I guess. Oh yeah, it also sounds like it’s underwater.

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@YakoB Look- really, I'm not sure what you tried to achieve with the piece. To me it just screams "cliche!" which is... fine in some cases I guess. I'd try to get farther away from basic left hand patterns, all those useless octaves etc. Try to organize your melodic material better in a way that it doesn't sound like an improvisation (you know, the patterns etc.) The fact you haven't mentioned anything about what exactly it is you tried to achieve doesn't make it easier to try and guess. To me it sounds like what you'd get if you googled "emotional piano pieces" or "sad anime ost" which are... just so very common and basic. I'd say... try to rise above that. Try to get influences from other sources, a piano can be so much more than that (pls refer to modern jazz musicians such as Tigran Hamasyan or romantic/post romantic ones like Debbusy). שמע, אני בשיא הכנות חושב שזה בסדר, תלוי מה ניסית להשיג פה, העניין הוא שזה לא מחדש שום דבר ואני מאמין שאתה יכול ליצור יותר מאשר יצירה קטנה וזניחה מהשורה אני לא יכול להכריח אותך להעשיר את הידע שלך, אבל אני חושב שזה יוכל לעזור לך להשיג מצלול וליצור אטמוספרות שעד היום לא התעסקת איתם... ושיוכלו ממש להעשיר את העולם 😄המוזיקלי שיוצא לך מהראש

Hi! I was active on this forum a while back, but never in the piano music section. And I want to share this piano piece with you, just in case people have suggestions! Although I have a master's degree in composition and some success writing choral music, I've always been hesitant about writing solo piano music. So (somehow) this is my first solo piano piece (not including a couple silly ones I wrote many years ago, as a kid). My goal was to make something that sounds flashy but isn't too hard to play. So it's mostly just fast arpeggios without sudden changes of hand position, but hopefully the variety in harmony, register, contour, and dynamics keeps things interesting. I hope you enjoy it! Suggestions are always welcome. Youtube link includes both the score and audio.

i don’t really know what to say, besides that it was really good

If I had any comment at all it was the length of the pauses between variations that at times seemed just too long. The one at letter III seemed about right. I get the feel of what you say about repetitive but it works as it is. If it does concern you one possibility is swapping the Violin2 and Viola parts in variation 1, the Vn2 part transferred to viola an octave lower. But this was just a thought. The tempi changes otherwise avoid the feel of repetition to me, more than these are variations anyway. If you'd wanted to put one in multiple minor keys you'd have composed it that way. (An interesting prospect all the same). I couldn't spot any points where sul pont or tasto would enhance things. Variation 3 is too lyrical for sul pont but could be done tasto as a whole. The string writing came over as pretty good. Without a very detailed look I can't see performance problems. Most of the switches between pizz and arco are nifty but manageable. More of a problem when the following arco starts on an upbow and superficially I can't see any of these. All good! Edit. PS. you're right about a DAW. At times the notation performance lets things down. Example, the Violin 1 entry in bar 24 is too weak in the rendering, given you've marked it mp, slightly higher than the p of the others. You'd get more dynamic variation with a daw.

Thanks! I might repost this with a better recording though : P content wise, not sound quality wise.

ooooooooh I love me some I to bVI!! Nice job man! :)

It feels like I’m on the moon, staring down as the earth meets its final hours.

Is it your composition?

I think this is totally idiomatic. good writing for the piano. The piece is beautiful and interesting. Not anchored in old harmonies or structures. Nice that relies more in textures than in melodies.