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Kia Ora Alex, Nice piece. A few suggestions: Although tabs are quite common for notating guitar parts in pop styles, classical guitar pieces are generally only notated using standard musical notation. While you can still include a staff of tab in your score, it might be more conventional to remove it. If you do choose to include tab, please, PLEASE get an actual guitarist to write it out for you. The tabs generated by notation software are almost always shite and the one that Musescore generated for you is no exception. It has suggested some ridiculous unplayable shite (like in bar two, who the hell has hands large enough to press both the second and seventeenth frets at the same time?!) which render it's inclusion in your score quite pointless. All in all, this is a good start. I'm excited to see where this piece goes next! Ngā mihi, Archie

Hello hello! I've technically known about this forum for a while, but it's time to finally post! I'm hopefully going to start being more active around here to keep myself accountable and continue working on my composition skills To start this out, I wanted to share a piece I've been working on! It's still a WIP, (Basically the only thing in this file that is actively unfinished is the ending and I want to rework the start), but other than that it's a pretty complete piece. I wrote it for a solo-violin assignment in my composition studio, and because I got really mad at a choral concert I went to because they sang a piece called "Shalom" that had nothing to do with the language of origin or culture of origin. Anyway that's a rant for another bit. Here's the little klezmer!

Hi @Alex Weidmann! I am no expert in guitar writing so I can't tell whether it's playable or not, but I would say the whole music would sound like something written in Chinese instrument Zhongruan (my fav. Chinese instrument due to its cute look lol!). It's also a plucked string instrument like guitar: Thx for sharing! Henry

Hi @jejrekmek! I don't find the intro boring at all; on the other hand I find it very religious which reminds me of Buddhist or Hindu music. Your singing is like chanting which is religious as well, and the chords, like Peter said is other-worldly. After it it's more in the world but the accompaniment reminds me of Gamelan music in the interlocking repetitive structure. Nice use of some microtones as well. The section after 5:30 is so interesting to listen to, it's almost like a musical example in a World music class with those drums and percussions! The rhythm throughout the piece is fascinating, again reminds me of world music! The ending is really calm to listen to like many of the pop Japanese music! I really enjoy this one, thx for sharing! Henry

Based on overall how I felt that day. Associated poem: All thoughts welcome Horn trio on January 13th (ft. low brass and winds).mp3 Original poem on the platform where I share my poems Horn trio on January 13th (ft. low brass and winds).pdf

Hello Everyone, Thank you for your support in my recent compositions, I really appreciate the great feedback I always get from y'all. Today I have a piece that I really needed to write for myself. I've recently been under a lot of stress, with demands and expectations of other people really weighing me down. The struggle to meet those expectations has hurt my self-esteem. This piece is simply an expression of that feeling, and ends with the hope that I will conquer it all.

Thank you for your kind words. I agree about the development comment, I definitely think it would benefit from a longer continuation, but I need to start planning ahead for developments like that to make sense for me. And yeah I'll change the key, I wrote the melody starting on a C, and then immediately changed plans lol.

This piece is for a concert later this year. Just started on it tonight, and it's the first time I've written for guitar. So I'm sure it's probably unplayable! N.B. I decided to use two staffs to make it more readable. Think it would look very cluttered on a single staff.

87053bd8f2cb48d184ee054407d37bb8.mp3 Any and all feedback is greatly appreciated. Please note that some of the grace notes are written like they are due to a better playback performance. Any advice on what the genre is? When it was just the first piece it was a Bagatelle, but now I’m not sure

Hi @Alant, The chord progression sounds familiar but this one is quite interesting to listen to when you use different variation techniques. Just beware of some playability issues: the left hand passage in b.136-137 is barely playable and the constant 32nd notes at the end for the right hand would be quite difficult and exhausting to play. Thx for sharing. Henry

Hi @PaavolaPyry! I do like this minimalistic music, it's like the poem you quoted which reflect a passage in your life. I like the ending, it sounds oppressive with the bass instruments getting in in octaves. Thx for sharing. Henry

I started making this in October.

Hi @therealAJGS! It really sounds like cool game music! in 0:57 the passage sounds especially 8-bit like. Thx for sharing! Henry

Hi @Chikotora The folk elements in the music is very well noted with the Eb-F# major 2nd and the constant ending of each phrase on D rather than G. B.50 sounds really interesting with the glissando and it almost sounds like Chinese instrument Gaohu! i suspect the triple stop in b.33 is playable or not but I don't play violin myself so I can't tell. Thx for sharing your first post! Henry

skip to 3:30 if you get bored of the vibraphone intro lol

Hi @Some Guy That writes Music! I got to say, this one is the best music I have heard from you on this forum. It's full of Mahlerian dissonance which really portrays your stress and sadness which I can feel clearly. I love the constant F#-Gb to G-F dissonace and other direct minor 2nd chords throughout to show how intriguing you were. The dissonant counterpoint is well handled throughout. Also I love the pacing of the piece, you just slow introduce each family of the orchestra without forcing it, for example you only let brass get in in b.28 and let them slowly grow to a climax to b.36, unlike many brainless film music which always bombard without reason. The ending is very luminous and well prepared; it's a bit surprising to me that you end the piece in Eb major but I love it! I would wish it to stay longer and add a bit development onto it! One small thing: maybe a key signature with four flats would be more convenient since most of the piece is in F minor. Thx for sharing this very emoitional piece! Henry

Very nice piece, with the cross relations between E and E flat. And very nice performance by Henry, as usual. Well done to both of you!

The two staffs is a neat thought, but try out a single staff. There's a few moments where the higher or lower bits are on the staff that isn't higher/lower (Mostly thinking about measure 25 but it happens a few other times that aren't as easily solvable) and it just feels off. It would also solve a lot of issues of notes that are on both staves, which I would have no idea what to do with if I were to have to play it. As for if it's playable, I am no expert. But I can say that a lot of it looks suspiciously like you just threw in the 6 notes you needed and didn't think too much about fingering. Which, to be fair, is also how I would do a sketch. If you can, you really want to find someone who plays guitar and run it by them. Eveen having them just take a quick look is incredibly helpful (I know from experience). I've linked a pdf or two from when I was assigned to write a guitar piece so that you can also hopefully use them. (They are attached and are very helpful as someone who has never touched a guitar) As a piece itself, I like it! I am frankly not a great critic on pitch collection or form, but overall it sounds nice!

Thx! I didn't think much when playing as I was easily moved by Vince's music and all the details came from my mind through my hands! Henry

Hi Chikotora! Cool piece, as a folk musician (albeit Finnish) I find this very exciting. It feels very natural and folklike, which is a great thing to get in a written trad style piece! It definitely feels like Klezmer! Regarding the start, if you mark it as espressivo or as really slow I think it'll work. The first bar could work if it was played slow and expressively - most players would understand that instruction and make it work. Alternatively, you can always tell the player to improvise and if you want to be more involved compositionally then give them a framework to improvise around! Folk music and improvisation go hand in hand. The pizzicato would then work well as a gentle introduction and it also makes the listener's ear go into a groove. Here is an example of what I imagine the improvised intro could sound like, of course in your case it is just one violin: (Youtube) - This is an actual Finnish folk tune (composed by an old guy forgot his name right now). The intro is quite short but you get the idea and the feel! In the score it is just labelled as "improvisation"! Alternatively you could do some lick (jazz term) based on the melody and then go into the pizzicato. Anyhow I think you can sort of have anything short before the pizzicato because the pizzicato grounds it so well. I think there might've been some very difficult fingerings there somewhere that I'd have to check but as a general rule I would advise always testing everything. But overall seemed very playable and intuitive. With kind regards from Finland, Pyry.

LoL I am not familiar with idioms at all and thought you guys are talking about Fifty Shades of Grey! Henry