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Thanks Heckel I literally only just saw this, I don't know why! I'm certainly going to take another look at it although I've been pretty busy recently! (Aren't I always!? :P ) Anyway I will get back to work on this and post a new version up here soon. Thanks so much for that lovely review! Adam

Ok so I know I haven't been very active recently for which I do really apologize, I've had loads of exams :( Anyway I've been working on a few pieces and this is one of them. Although I am a pianist I rarely write piano music.. until now. The piece is pretty crazy really I basically taken 3 or 4 main themes and developed them and played around with them. The aim of the piece was to be a difficult fast piece to play. As well as one that uses some quite complex harmony and some interesting rhythms. Anyway I hope you enjoy it :) Feel free to comment :) Étude No.1

I really like this piece, you achieved the cheeky feel very well! Rhythmically it's very interesting and in fact melodically it is as well. Personally I'd give the piano more melody I think the change in timbre would really aid the piece, in fact to keep it's cheeky feel maybe a little bit of a conversation between the piano and flute, if that makes sense? A bar of flute melody then a bar of piano etc.. would work really well But really jolly piece fantastic work well done abs260

Thanks guys I was having a look at it and I think the best solution is to basically switch back to the original midi sounds rather than sound essentials, it works fine then, just anoying having to change it every time I use sibelius. Oh well I guess I'll have to cope. abs260

Hey all, I was recently asked to write a piece for a Viol Consort (Two treble, two tenor and two bass viols). Anyway when I went into sibelius it didn't have any sounds for the lower register of the Bass Viol. From the F below middle C to the bottom of it's range. The rest of them are fine it's the lower register of the bass, which I could really do with having. I'm using sibelius 6 and sibelius sound essentials. Thanks Adam

Thanks guys :toothygrin: I suppose how repetitive it was would depend on where the piece was being used. I will take a look and see what I could do with it though. I too would love to hear it live, shame I haven't got a string orchestra and choir at the ready! Adam

I wrote this piece quite a while ago, and it was originally going to be a piece of music that I would have imagined to be performed in a concert hall. It turned out like this, in the film kind of style. I think the piece works quite well, perhaps it's a tad repetitive. Anyway any opinions I could get would be great. The Uprising

A nice piece First off it would be great if you could upload the a pdf file of the score, it makes it a lot easier to review. It's quite a short piece you could do with extending some of the melodies and some more repetition would be nice of the slower parts especially. Also the ending feels quite rushed, I like the way it suddenly stops but maybe you could repeat the last few 2 bars just to give the listener the sense of the ending approaching. You could maybe consider developing the main themes a liitle more. I really like the themes though and the way you have used the percussion is also really effective in setting the mood of the piece. Well done abs260

Well I was speaking to my conductor last night about this and he doesn't mind either way so I just left it in concert pitch because that's how I composed it. He's a very experienced conductor and can easily transpose everything anyway. Although if it was a conductor who wasn't as experienced I think I probably wouldn't put it in concert pitch just to make rehearsals easier, I guess it's just personal preference. I always put the parts in the key for the instrument it's just the score I wasn't too sure about. Thanks guys :) abs260

Hey all, I was just wondering whether I should put the scores of orchestral pieces I write in concert pitch when it's being played? Does it matter either way? Thanks, abs260

Thanks I only just noticed sibelius didn't put instrument names on.. strange. Well the smaller staff came from when I split the oboe staff for the solo oboe so on the parts the solo oboe comes up as well as the oboe part. I've seen this myself before in parts I have played. So in terms of the orchestration what should I be doing, adding things like broken chords to make it more interesting?