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Hey there The second installment of my mini series. Hope you all enjoy, Db this time. Reminds me of Final Fantasy now that I think about it. :D

Thanks guys! Interesting take, Peter. What's funny is it started as a chorale, was twice as long, and had the arpeggios enter in the middle. I ultimately thought it was too much, and reminded myself that these are preludes. Plus, the chorale-ness felt boring until the arpeggios anyway. I'm glad you found yourself listening to the rhythm in a different way, it wasn't intentional but I think it's cool you heard it like that. Thanks man, this was my nocturne prelude idea. I usually always go for unexpected turns and interest with the harmony, so I'm glad you enjoyed that. I was going for extended chords that sounded lush and not-so-jazzy. I also ripped off Liszt's Un Sospiro with the ending theme, but hey. The end was my favorite part 😄 My thoughts exactly! oooooh you're right! I'm taking your suggestion and changing the score to reflect that, thanks! I agree. I slapped on pedal markings to go with the chord changes, but I think I should've considered the melody a bit more when doing so. Thanks for the tip!

Hi Vince, For me this is very nocturne like and I feel this quite serene as it's in Db major, but with some sort of bitterness in it. I love usage of the fourths and sevenths here as it adds flavours to the otherwise sweet melody and harmony. I don't think the tempo is Larghetto here. For me it's quite Andante con moto with the flowing left hand motion. I am thinking about the pedal since it can be quite blurrrring in actually playing with those non-harmonic notes but it depends on the piano and how deep you press on the pedal. I enjoy your series so far and thanks for sharing Vince! Henry

Hi Alex, Your piece bascially focus on harmony until 1:30 when strings melody appear. I love your hamonic progression right now, it appears grand and drramy for me. Do you plan to have more variety of rhythm for different voices? They are uniform all over the excerpt. Also do you plan to add more melodic elements to the excerpt? Thanks for sharing, Henry

Nice job! I really like the hemiola-like rhythmic feel of this! Because you start the piece stressing an offbeat (offbeat in the triplets in the right hand in the beginning) it starts sounding like it's in 3/4 to me but with the triplet 8th notes as regular 8ths. Then when the melody comes in in the 3rd bar it sounds like a 6/8 hemiola to that established 3/4 meter. But after a while that becomes the dominant rhythmic stress and it makes sense why you notated it this way. This is really interesting harmonically and quite soothing at the same time. It's very mellow and sweet and cool, which can be a hard mood to pin down. You do a line-cliche walk down from Bb to Db from measure 18 to the end which is a great way to prepare the final resolution to a great musical satisfaction. Thanks for sharing! I think this one might actually be a little more difficult than No. 1.

Woah, this is really good. What a creative idea, I think In the Hall of the Mountain King is a perfect piece to create this mashup. Love the lofi effects you apply to the celesta, and beautiful usage of the theremin! I have to say you have some good sequencing skills, as your recording itself is really well done. And most importantly, I think Edvard Grieg would approve! Edit: Gave you a shoutout here.