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This is an old piano piece I dug up from years ago (again) that I finally decided to salvage and finish. It's a little rough around the edges but I think that goes without saying with this kind of harmonic style/language. Although I did not actually intend this to be fully atonal - it is quite dissonant and not for the faint of heart! (I mean the bridge is falling down after all - right? LoL) Thanks to @Thatguy v2.0 for helping prepare this rendition in his DAW with a superior piano vst! He probably spent upwards of 4 hours perfecting everything about this little piece that I could pick at! Although our partnership was not without its minor strife I am eternally grateful for his help (even if I seemed at times ungrateful and demanding - sorry!) Thanks for listening and for any constructive observations, comments or critiques you'd like to make! Edit: I've included the original mp3 I exported from Musescore 4. I didn't use Muse Sounds because it wouldn't perform my velocity changes. Thankfully the MS Basic Piano soundfont did take my velocities into account and I added Muse Sounds reverb to it.

Blimey! You'd have to be a good pianist to rattle that off as per the rendering. Time you wrote your own set of Études d'exécution transcendante! It may be dissonant but it doesn't seem atonal by a long way.... like the Rite of Spring which is a modal work clothed in thick swathes of discords. Excellent. Exciting, well balanced and superbly rendered.

I like very much the contrasting harmony of the second part (in the first piece). D-B7-G6-Gm6-D-D+7-G/D etc... I think it's something like that. There's no sound for the second one !

Exactly my first thoughts when I saw the title, but I also came to the same conclusion. This often sounds beautiful... and when it doesn't, it sounds psychotic, which usually is even better!

you weren't ungrateful or too demanding, this is how we get things done. If you would have told me that everything was perfect right off the bat, it never would have turned out how you wanted, and I learned a bit about musescore midis in the process. Your music deserves the best representation possible, and I'd always be willing to share some time to make that a reality. Yes, I've heard this a billion times by now, but I wanted to share some thoughts on the music itself and not the audio. First of all, I thought this would be terrible. I hear too many renditions of stupid melodies like Happy Birthday and Row Row Row your boat that I thought this would fall into that same boring category. But this was something special. You're now so adept at the theme and variations style that you've melded it into something of your own; a seamless and smooth form structured with theme and variations but dripping with loads of experience and character. This is by far my favorite T and V piece you've done, partly because of how well you transition, and the other part with the musical craftsmanship and experience you gave this with your composing voice. Would you be willing to expand a bit on the tactics used in crafting this? I'm mostly interested in the musical language and harmony, but simply put this is lovely and grand in every way. The only thing better would be to hear a professional's take on this piece, it certainly deserves it. I'm very happy you agreed to let me tinker with the audio with this one, and anything less than what we made with the audio would be a slap in the face as far as representing your music. You're a true composer through and through, and I'll never get tired of saying how much I and everyone else you share thoughts with appreciate what you do here with your free-of-charge aid. I'm glad to have been a part of this piece, and your music is brilliant. Thanks for sharing, and thanks for being you!

Ok, the first starts in B min and ends in G maj, so… about that chord, G A# C# E,,,, it would be A#dim7/G … a bit odd.