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Thanks for all the comments and suggestions! I've been pretty busy lately, but hopefully I'll get a chance to really look over everything you all have said and see if I can improve it a bit soon. Yes, this is my first piece, but I've been performing for awhile and listening forever, and my guitar teacher has started working on composition and theory with me, and I must say, he is amazing. With everything I've learned since I wrote this, I have a feeling the next piece will be much better (when I get the time...meh...) Composerorganist, the Zeppelin thing confuses me, because I really never listen to them...at all...haha. :P I'll definitely check out some Hatfield. Maybe some early Zeppelin too, see if I can spot what you're talking about, just out of curiosity.

Thanks for listening :) I'll read some stuff on voice leading. I really don't know what I'm doing at this point, so yeah, I have a ton to work on :laugh:

I don't really know much about composing. This is my first serious try at writing anything, basically trying to get my feet wet and learn something. I should probably add fingerings to the score. I'm not really sure how necessary they are. Obviously, since I wrote it, the fingerings are obvious to me, but maybe they aren't to others. Let me know. Since I'm new to this, I would love some constructive criticism! prelude.pdf prelude.mid

Qmwne235, what I was getting at is replying to these types of ideas that have been flying around. I thought I would point out that the original idea of the pi thing being mathematical isn't very accurate. I was trying explain that math can be extremely creative. Why do you think it still takes humans to fill the role of mathematicians in the academic world? Because a computer doesn't have the creativity and artistic ability necessary to do anything other than crunch numbers. If you think that's all there is to math, then you are mistaken. Honestly, of all of the music professors at my school that I've had conversations with, we've talked just as much about the beauty of math as we have music. I guess the point I'm trying to get at (not really getting my thoughts out very well, sorry), is that science is inherently artistic. I personally can't see how to ever separate art and science.

Well, you have two fingering choices with the open A. The first involves a stretch from the 4th fret to the 9th. This is how I was doing it. It's a bit of a stretch for me. Or, you can go up to the 14th fret. I don't really like how the F# sounds playing it this way, so I went with the former. Maybe I'm missing something, or that stretch isn't a big deal for other people or something. Since johnoeth and dude both thought it was easily playable, I wouldn't take anything out. The only note that gets me is the F# in 23, and that's just me. Sorry for not actually giving any technical comments on how well it's written, but I'm hardly qualified :laugh:

For me, music is second only to math, so I suppose I'm a bit biased. However, using the digits of pi is not really math. It is more like mysticism. There is nothing special about that constant. I mean, you can look at the digits with a different base and it is then completely different, and since there is nothing special about base 10, there is really nothing special about those digits. I think writing this way, which isn't scientific in the least, shouldn't really be considered to have anything to do with math. It is amazing how much creativity and art is involved in real math. Writing music in a mathematical way is great, and for me is by far the best way to express my self (although I am fairly new to composing, so this may change, but I doubt it). But simply using an algorithm to write and doing nothing else doesn't involve much, if any, mathematical thinking.

I like it. It's an easy listen. There were actually a couple pretty awkward parts for me to play. Mainly the last beat of measure 23. Maybe dude is just better than me :P

That's really strange. It works fine for me. It could be IE. I'm using firefox.

If you want any extra guitarists to try it out and see if it's playable, I'd be happy to check it out for you. :)

The first link worked fine for me. There isn't much feedback I can give, but I really loved this.