Henry Newbury

Indeed, I agree entierly.. :D

^^ Haha.. Anyway, I think that musical talent can be measured by how easily someone can understand music, and the rate at which they can progress their skills. Nobody is born knowing how to play the piano, it's not instinctive and cannot be evolved, but a persons understanding of pitch, and the detail in which one can recognise, and distinguish pitch can be evolved, and can in my mind therefore be hereditry. It is that ability to recognise and understand and distinguish pitch, that can aid one when progressing their skills in music. To say that one cannot do that because they were not born with musical talent is in the majority of cases not true, however, in some cases I would say that it is.. Some people are born, who cannot understand the difference between pitches, and cannot hear the difference between different notes. There is a name for this type of person, However, I do beleive that people can be born with different understandings and perceptions of pitch and tone, and therefore, some people are naturaly better at music that other.

I was about to say, 'magnificent seven'.. Lol... (That has to be 'the' best western orchestrated soundtrack of all time :P), Anyways, yeah what you have there is very good, very western, very nice indeed, you could consider adding something do give it a more consistent beat, during the beginning part of the 'magnificent seven' theme tune, there's a very nice, very obvious pedal note repeating in the 'background'. You could also consider timpani's, they add a nice impact at the end of phrases, and maybe some quiet, consistent string chords in the 'background' too.. Like what you've got, very good, keep at it.. :D

Hey, this is an experiment I did, kinda pop -esk tune, with strings, never really used them like this before.. Pobably will record it again, as I quite like the chord sequence at the beginning, though, if I do, I will probably use a string sound with more clarity, I think this string sound is a bit to dull... It's only short, I have this horrible habit of recording loads and loads of different tracks, knowing how the beginning is going to go, then get bored with each of the parts and play a little more carelessly, which then results in my getting bored, and starting a new track, and so on.. :P You can hear it in the end part of this track.. lol... Anyway, coments would be appreciated.., thanks! :D Click here to listen to Track01-shorter

Thanks for your kind comments.. :D Nah not doing music A level, really just something I do in my spare time. Probably post the intergrated assignment later, didn't like it as much.. :P

Thanks, shame about your teacher, yeah my music teacher was great, he would always go out of his way to make sure the music department was as well equiped and as accessable as possable, he made sure everyone was as prepared for the exam as they could be, and made the most of the time they had for coursework.. The last two years in music have been great fun.. Another great music teacher left in year 8, she was such a great teacher, our class performed a goodbye song for her, and me and another guy in my for bought her a didgeridoo.. :P It got 30/30.

Hey, this is my GCSE 'Music For A Special Event' composition, the event was valentines day, aww.. :P Been meaning to upload it for a while... When I gave it to my music teacher, I had recorded a vocal melody over the top too, but I prefer it without, the whole thing was rushed the two days before the deadline. Without the lyrics, it's kinda samey after the intro untill the middle eight, which I didn't know it had untill my teacher said he liked the middle eight, ;) so feel free to skip to there after the intro, it's around 50 seconds, and from 1 minute 40, it repeats untill the end, so feel free to stop it there.. Some bits are a little out of time, but it's only a rough version without the lyrics, might do it again for fun.. haha, any comments would be appreciated.. Thanks. :D All the sounds except for the guitar are from a sound box, and I did not use a drum pre-set each part of the drum was on a different key... recorded all the sounds from my dad's keyboard. The time on the actual tracks messed up, dunno why, but it means if you listen to it, and don't move the time cursor thingy on the track, the middle eight will start at 1 minute 50'ish, which is really close to the end of the track, even though it's only about half way through the track??? Oh well, happens on my mp3 player, and windows media player, anyone know why this might be..? Click here to listen to Music-GCSE-Composition I was soo pleased I managed to get steal pans into a GCSE composition.. lol :P

I liked that, one of the clearer ones. Nice to listen too.

I couldn't read music untill i started lessons a few weeks ago, i still can't read it much, but i compose, and do everything by ear. I think if you do do it by ear, it helps you tremendously, and makes everything so much easier. But still, i can see how reading music really well, and to sight read, would help you a lot as well.

Thanks ;) The second track is just after the first, i should have mentioned that. I'm gonna make it longer (the first one), and play it for my composition for music GCSE.

I used Yahoo, typed in 'Young Composers'.

That's alot better, doesn't sound like a polyphonic ringtone anymore, sounds more real. :wub:

^ Same, and because I have two naturaly musical parents, I find it easy to tell which notes are what. Personally i think music comes totally naturally. Some people have it, and some people don't. (If you know what 'C' sounds like, you can work out what any note is, by going up or down the right amount in your head.)

Dude that's kewl. :wub: Got a bit repetative, and there could be a chorus, but even so, it was nice.

Hey, I was looking for a place where i could put some of my compositions, and I found this site. It's done on my dad's Roland keyboard, we don't have a piano... *cries* :wub: P.S. Please escuse the mistakes in the second track (and my spelling), it is almost 2 in the morning. >_< ;) Link: Putfile - Compositions