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Hey, thanks. I use Sibelius with Garritan Personal Orchestra. :D

Hello! I have recently finished composing this piece, but I had no name for it, so I just called it Fantasia. This piece is a full orchestral piece with harp and orchestra. I started composing a month ago because I wanted to make a CD of my composition for my teacher so that's why I composed this piece. This piece is somewhat representing farewells, and memories and stuff like that... The themes and stuff were just random doodling on my piano and then when I put it on Sibelius, I messed around with the orchestration and stuff... The difficulties that I had composing this piece was how to continue it after 1:40, and that stopped me from coming back to this for like 2 weeks, and I practically did the rest of the piece in 3 days, so some of the dynamics and chording might not sound right and stuff. Please comment so I know what to improve, thanks. :) Click Here

I have a problem after I composed some of this piece. The problem is that I think this piece is to 'overdone' (as in like over decorated or too complex but yet doesn't make much sense). Another problem I encountered was that I do not know whether to repeat the main melody next or create another section. Silhouette_2.mid

:) Hello all! Here's my new piece Metamorphosis of Spring. This piece describes (to me) how the long harsh winter dissolves into the light-hearted and elegant spring and then to the summer. The beginning part is meant to be somewhat atonal/impressionistic-ish, but I guess I failed to do that, and ended up as a more atmospheric and non-melodious section ;) . That section portraits the winter's ending. The second section, a more light-hearted part (with the trumpet, trombone and piano), portraits the first day of sunshine of spring. Then, the third section, after the unsmooth transition, is the growth and reneissance of life in spring (played by all instruments). In the third section, there are three themes, and the first two are repeated in various different orchestration. The glockenspiel doubles the piano for a celesta effect and therefore it will sound more heavenly and spring-like. After that, a strange transition chord (I suck at transitions) it becomes a somewhat minuet like section with the violins and piano that represents people enjoying the weather of spring. Finally, the last section, joined in by various instruments at different times, represents spring into summer. This piece took me 3 months to plan, and 1 week to write... So it will sound somewhat rushed and incomplete in many ways, but I still like the atmosphere it conveys and some of the melodies. Also, the recording is a rough sketch, because I did not really fiddle around with all those funky knobs and MIDI stuff with Garritan personal Orchestra, so it doesn't sound as good as it should sound. But please enjoy and comment anyway! :) Metamorphosis of Spring

I just know around 3 oboists (my oboe teacher, another oboe teacher, and myself) around my area (in a town north of Toronto, Canada), and I know practically no bassoonists. ._.

Well, you can also look for it at www.geocities.com/composer_36 (my website) if it still doesn't work. =P

Well, the GPO sounds are pretty nice, and you don't really need to upgrade Sibelius to get the GPO sounds, you can just buy the GPO notation edition from the Garritan site, as there are no differences between the Sibelius Edition GPO and the GPO notation edition... As for the Notion question, I had read the sound list, and they don't have all the sounds you need if you're thinking of doing some serious orchestral work...

Hello. I have composed another new piece, this piece's instruments are flute, oboe, clarinets, alto saxophone, bells, piano, and 4 violins. The volume of this piece is terrible, that's because it's my first time using Garritan Personal Orchestra's sample, so please bare with it. x_x So please just listen for the general idea and the atmosphere and etc... This piece is suppose to portrait a sad and lamentful Christmas eve (as the title states ^^'). So please give me some critcisms and/or advice, thanks. *It won't let me upload for some reason x_x* So if you really want to listen, you can go to this URL (this is the other forum that i uploaded my piece at): http://forums.ichigos.com/attachment.php?a...27&d=1136057793

Hey, here are some of my ensemble works. :P Please give me some comments and criticisms. Thanks. PS: The waltz is an arrangement from the string quartet I uploaded earlier, and it's faster paced and more lively. Serenade.mid Waltz.mid

Hey, here's a new piece, Silhouette, enjoy, and give me some feed backs :P. Silhouette_beg_.mid

Thanks for the feedbacks, I really appreciate it! :) And yes, I will look into the hard right hand piano part you were talking about, Wolf_88. Okay, here's two new pieces! It's a waltz and a piano solo. Improved.mid Valse.mid

Thanks for the feedbacks, I really appreciate it! :P And yes, I will look into the hard right hand piano part you were talking about, Wolf_88. Okay, here's two new pieces! It's a waltz and a piano solo, and in the piano solo, around 1:55 there's a harmony mistake so yeah... The waltz is basically called Waltz :) and the piano solo is a prelude so it's called Prelude XD... (yes i am very bad a naming pieces...)

Hm... I've looked at your piece, and I assume you still want it to sound Japanese/Oriental right? So, here's an important advice: if you're writing major key for oriental style music, the scale shall only consist Do - Re - Mi - So - La (so if it's C major, then it's C - D - E - A - G), so try to stay that range, even though sometimes it is allowed to change a semitone or so, but usually, in oriental, they emphasize it or whatever because it doesn't belong in the pentatonic scale. If you're writing a minor piece, then the scale shall only consist La - Ti - Do - Mi - Fa (so if it's in A minor, then it's A - B - C - E - F). Well, those two scales are the basic of the oriental style pentatonic scales, and it's used in both Chinese and Japanese music. I hope this will help somehow. :lol:

Well, I play the piano, the oboe (started recently), the gu-zhen (Chinese zither, which is the ancestor of the koto), and alto saxophone. I also own a xiao ( Chinese bamboo flute), which I only know how to play a scale and only one octave ^^'. I started piano when I was 9 years old (which to many of my classmates, that's a really late start). I liked it in the beginning, like as in the first 2 or 3 months, but then I hated it because of all the boring stuff I was learning, so I started to slack off and not practice. Then I switched piano teacher because of that reason, because maybe another teacher might use another way of teaching that can actually interest me... So it did, it worked... Somehow... and now I am practicing and interested again.... I started the oboe just around a few weeks ago, and I loved it when I had my first lesson, the teacher was nice, and the oboe was fun to play and blah blah blah... So I will continue it for quite a long period of time, I guess... The Chinese zither wasn't quite what I first wanted to learn =\, at first I was aiming to learn koto, but because of it's rarity in my area, I gave up, but my parents suggested me into the Chinese zither, which is basically the same thing, but sound just slightly more um.... Chinese... :cool: So I started it last fall and didn't quite like my first teacher for this and switched teachers around 2 - 3 months after I started (the teacher was nice, but she didn't really care about my progressions and stuff...) and my current one taught me properly and fine and etc.... So yes, I will continue this too! As for alto saxophone, I started it since.... 2 years ago, because it was part of my school's music program, and everyone is forced to learn an instrument. At first, I didn't quite want to learn the sax because back then, I liked the flute more. But I am glad I took it today, why? Well, basically, the fingerings of the alto sax and oboe is very much the same, so it's much easier to play oboe once I learned alto sax. Also, I discovered that alto sax is more expensive than most of my school's band's instrument, which is a good thing and a bad thing; good thing is that since it's expensive, meaning that there will be less saxes, meaning that it'll be more unique (I like being unique when it comes to learning instruments); bad thing is when I break it, I would have to pay lots of money for repairing. As for the wooden flute/xiao, I got it as a present from my last birthday, and I haven't studied much about it since then...

I like the oboe and English Horn, but English Horn seem to interest me slightly more because of it's mellow and beautiful sound. But the English Horn just interest me, so if I was to choose between oboe and English Horn, I'd choose oboe, since it's easier to play (and I love the three octave keys and the double reed XD). As for other woodwinds, I'd rank them: 3. Clarinets 4. Flute/Piccolos 5. Bassoon 6. Alto Saxophone 7. Tenor and Soprano Saxophone 8. Bass Saxophone