TobiasWallin

Really nice tune, it fits the name very well. Some parts of it reminds me of a futuristic high speed racing game for Playstation 3, don't remember it's name though. But it has some great music in it. I feel an underlying very strong emotion but it sort of felt like it never fully got out, more like it acted as a frustration in the background throughout the tune. I'm not sure I would want that to change though, just some random thought. It's very interesting this way.

Thank you for sharing your thoughts about the piece SergeOfArniVillage: I'm glad you liked it I compose using the piano roll but I think my dad cleaned up the exported notes for this piece, I'll upload the score if I can get them. WolfgangSachs Thanks for your criticism. You might be right that I felt like I was done and just stopped but I also didn't really want to make an elaborate end, more of a statement I guess. To me, the piece has everything to do with it's title, but you're of course entitled to your view. It's a little bit presumptuous of you to say something like that though

This is the first piece in a larger piano worked called "Discovering your emotions", written as a result of an emotional crisis.1. Regret2. Helplessness3. Relief4. Acceptance5. Passion6. Love Regret

But isn't the "this sounds pretty" the important thing in music? What else do you want? It is a free art form after all. Some music are meant for a live performance while other music are meant to be played with a computer, both styles has their advantages.

Back to the piano roll, thanks for all the great input on the matter. I think of it this way: Notation is the unified method, and the most dynamic method of writing down music. The piano roll is a complement to notation which can be used to analyze music if represented in detailed way. Note length is reprecented with well... length and note velocity in color. You can get far with just two of those facts. "dan-j-b1" wrote "Piano roll should be used as a primitive form of notation", I'd rephrase it to "Piano roll should be used as a basic form of notation". And that's awesome because the logic behind is so simple that anyone can just start using it. I think that the piano roll should at least gain respect as a great start for new composers, the computer is making it easy to write music and I think that's great. Nobody is saying that it's better than notation but it is a great complement, and I think it deserves more respect for what it is, not disrespect because notation is better and a more professional form of composing.

flint-wwrr: I understand that you need to have a score if you want professional musicians to play your music. But having the computer play your music and play around with it's capabilities can produce awesome music as well, a skilled composer of electronic music can for example create very interesting art that nor notation or the piano roll can explain. I'm a huge Bach fan my self and nothing beats a live perfromance from professional musicians, but that doesn't mean I don't respect people making electronic music, which you don't seem to do? Correct me if I'm wrong, that's just how I enterpreted your post. The computer can never replace acoustic instruments, but the computer can do a lot of things which the acoustic instruments can't do.

Yes, but my point was that the piano roll works just as well for reviewing music as a score, if you have experience with it. Of course you who are experienced with notation instead of the piano roll will move on and so will a lot of people here. But my point wasn't weather or not people used to reading the score will review works created with the piano roll or not, but the general attitude towards it. As demonstrated by your last sentence in your post "But also use a real notation program." Will a score provide a perfect midi file? If not, why should I put in the effort to review it when you've barely put in the effort to present it? Of course I'm not skilled enough in music theory to review music but I was making a point that you assume the way you write music is the correct one and the way I create music is something that needs to be translated into a good score. Having said that, it doesn't take a genious to figure out that a good score gives you a greater chance for a good review since the skilled composers here probably use notation. But the practical ramifications weren't really the the point of this debate... Your attitude was basically "yeah use whatever you want, as long as you translate it the correct language when you present it in this forum" right? I just think that's a bit peculiar.

I've noticed a certain attitude here and amongst other people that the piano roll isn't seen as a real complement to notation, and I wonder why? I understand that notation is and old standard so it is the ideal form of recording when you for example want your piece to be played in a real orchestra. But most of the pieces submitted here will never be played in a real orchestra so why does it matter? I've learned how to use the piano roll, I know the system of notation too but I've never felt that it would do me any good. I really like piano roll as a way to compose, it's logic is like the keyboard, fantastic. The way I see it, the piano roll offers a better way to compose, but that's just my taste of course. I can also play from the piano roll, I can download any midifile, load it into Logic or even print it and play from it.

First of all, Internet Explorer is NOT on every computer basically... Secondly, this is and mp3 file played in a flash player, Flash is a plugin which is not associated with Internet Explorer, so I can't imagine why the Web browser would matter at all?

Thanks! :) I do apologize for the score, I can imagine it is hard to follow hehe... Thanks for the input, I will try and play around with the tempo on the fugue to differ it from the prelude.

Hi! This is a prelude and fugue I wrote in f minor for the piano. The fugue part is a counterpoint fugue which contains the subject twice as fast and backwards, also a part of the subject twice as slow at the end and a different subject i the middle. The score is probably messy since I compose via the piano roll, so the score is an export from Logic. mp3: Prelude_and_fugue_Fminor.mp3 score: Score

Thanks for your input, I don't know music theory but googled some, trying to understand what you meant. Do you mean that I should make the 16th notes into longer trill notes?

Hi! I'm trying to write a guitar peice as a birthday present for my dad, but as I'm a piano person I find it hard to see what's playable and not playable. He is very skilled with the guitar, played bach fugues for example. But I don't want it to be too hard. I'd like to think it sounds renaissance inspired but I'd love to have a second opinion on that as well. Sheet sheet.pdf mp3: http://tobiaswallin.com/music/gitarr.mp3 So what do you think, playable?

The peices are meant to be played as one continous peice, or rather different pieces as part of a story but yeah, some endings where perhaps a bit too abrupt. :) I definitely agree that the rythm/beat needs to be developed further, I was going for some sort of trance music-like beat but it's too simple now. Thanks for your comment! :)

Very cool theme! I really enjoyed listening to this but I think it would become a greater peice if you developed it further and introduced other instrumets, like violins or flute for example. I look forward to your next post :)