cstoomey

Love it! Especially like the trill at the ending! Nice touch, and lots of variation in the tune.

If you get FL Studio, you can enter your midi as patterns, duplicate and vary them as necessary, and associate them into any number of VST channels.

It's not G Minor. It's Bb major. I would also add some trills to the melody perhaps. It's also very short. I would repeat the whole thing again, or some portion of the song I like the piece. The chord choices are pleasant to the ear.

If you can play the guitar really well, you could try branching off onto other instruments, so that you can eventually write for more than one type of instrument in the future. You "can" play any note over any chord, it depends on what you're trying to compose. Any note added to a chord makes it a different chord. It depends on the next chord you pick in the song where you usually can go with a melody, etc. Share some more about what you're trying to accomplish.

The crescendo is amazing! Love the 2nd violin arrangement at this part. Excellent piece. Must have been in a great mood when you wrote this. Love the simplicity and power of the piece.

I think one of the faster and easiest midi sequencers to use is FL Studio. I've used Pro Tools LE 7.3 to program midi tracks for composing and I find that simply having the ability to "right click" to delete midi notes, or being able to slide velocity settings on notes to give a track more human feel is well worth the price of FL Studio. It saves you a bunch of time programming feel into your midi. It's simply a great program and easy to use with sensible programming (your plug ins don't load until you use them vice Pro Tools LE that loads them ALL and sucks up valuable RAM). Another benefit to FL Studio is being able to duplicate patterns on the fly, which is very nice when you're composing a motive and need to add variation in a Virtual Instrument. But I come from the school of thought that you should hear your ideas before you transcribe them. I rarely print out any scores for my stuff. I spend more time mixing/mastering the sounds and composing the piece. I suppose you could convert the midi into a good scoring program once the piece is completed.