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Hello there! A bit of back story... So, I've been really busy with music lately. Sure that's great, but it's been mostly learning a bunch of songs that aren't mine. I've started numerous projects in the past month or so, but put them on hold to be able to write shorter pieces while I'm unable to focus on larger works. I've decided to write a bunch of small piano preludes, one for each note as a tonal center. This first one is for A, and relies heavily on venturing into augmented scales and chords. I hope you enjoy this, I had a lot of fun so far with the intention of writing small and more accessible and easier piano pieces (some measures maybe not so much 😄 ) The whole goal of this new project of mine is to write music that's playable for anyone, not some monumental Liszt type of piece I hear too often. Yes, I play piano, but not as well as I hope to become. These set of 12 pieces coming in the future would be pieces I'd be able to play, and maybe there would be a few others out there that would enjoy them as well. I find it gratifying to rely on a simpler skill set, as the notes and ideas themselves would be my mark on the world rather than then plethora of notes I feel many seem to deem adequate for something to be "good". I recently yet again heard Mozart's Sonata No. 11 in A, and it's a piece that I've heard periodically throughout my life as the most simple yet most impactful music. Sometimes it's not how many notes you play, but how many right ones you play... something like that at least. That's what I'll generally be going for. Hope you enjoy, and ANY criticism, comments, and thoughts are always welcome 🙂 EDIT: I'm replacing the mp3 with Henry's performance. Can't thank you enough buddy!

Hi everyone! Here's my latest piece. Score to follow. Previous versions were posted as Incomplete Works; but I've expanded the piece a lot this week, and finished it off. The inspiration for this work was Bear McCreary's blog about his music for "Lord Of The Rings" spin-off series "Rings Of Power". He wrote about using the G maj to D flat maj chord progression to represent the Elven land of Valinor. The tritone separation of these chords evokes a sense of a mystical place that's forever out of reach. My piece all grew out of that simple chord progression, and I developed an A-B-A structure. Interested to know whether you think the music flows well, and if my orchestration works? Also whether my renditions are improving? I know the long strings and vocals sound a bit dodgy. Perhaps I should try using Logic Pro to make a better version. Updated versions of the score will be posted further down the thread.

I'd love to enter this. Thank you!