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Would anyone be able to tell me which chord progression would be best as an accompaniment to my vocals? I am singing in Ab Major

ohhhh ok. Yeah I guess I'm not conscious of that!

I would really be interested in hearing about that when i finish (since you can't see the details right now)

ok guys, i am making the score, it is for a competition so when i finish ill post it

This kind of writing I think could be greatly enhanced by paying attention to where the music is going at the macro-tonal level and coordinating that with giant dynamic gestures (big crescendo's or decrescendos). That's really the only thing I can think of that would make this even more musical than it already is. I think dynamics always tend to make music sound more alive and vibrant. Also - really cool use of extended harmony. Thanks for sharing!

Beautifully written. However, this really needs some expression/modulation to make it more expressive, especially with the inner moving parts (as it stands they are hard to hear). I second this, or at least a MIDI file.

an impressive introduction. It seems appropriate for the dramatic scene of an action or sci-fi movie. Do you have a score to see what's going on?

Hey guys! I recorded this piece, with live string quartet and and oboeist. It was a blast! Working with musicians is cool because it gives you so much feedback, and there's always mistakes to learn from. What I have learnt this time is that if most notes are staccato, and some aren't, they would probably play staccato if not noted. So, I should really have marked tenuto on the notes that I wanted to lengthen. So on this video they re-recorded the whole piece with my intended articulation. Also the high notes in bar 32 and 33 for oboe. I thought it would be hard to hit the notes, but it was rather that tuning it would be a bit hard. But she also fixed that in the second take, as you hear in this video. Otherwise it worked very well. The string quartet even added some crescendo in the first 8 bars, which I liked, but in this second take they kept the dynamics more plain. So that got me thinking, maybe I should try more dynamics from now on. Thanks for some of the feedback you have given before. This is just for fun, don't want any feedback on this video 😄 Check the result: