Tyler

Guess you changed your mind. ;) This is true. Certainly it takes more effort than that required to post an angry face. :angry: :D

ZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZAP!!! That was a fun listen. Thanks for posting it.

Dammit, now the Theme of Huntington's Disease is going to play through my nightmares. :angry: It's really no fun when they all form simple triads.

10th, both hands. And that does me just fine.

I'm going to weigh in here too. It's best to start small, especially if you two are new to "digital music." Don't buy hardware synths, mixing boards, or even expensive sample libraries like VSL or EastWest. (By the way, EastWest's complete symphonic sample library is over $1000, while VSL charges that much just for the strings samples.) If you already have (or are willing to buy) a decently powered Mac, you'd be surprised what you can do for super cheap. Here's what I recommend to start with: Logic Studio with a cheap MIDI controller (you can get them for under $100). Logic Studio has all the mixing tools you need built in, so you won't need any hardware unless you want to record multiple audio tracks simultaneously. It also has tons of samples, including orchestral, world, and 80's-style synths. They're not on the same level as the super-expensive ones, but they're pretty good, and it gives you a "complete" musical sandbox to play in. That plus the MIDI controller will run you 600 bucks. The reason I think you should start with something like this is because you really won't know what you need until you've tried something out. If you decide later on that you want better-sounding string samples, no problem; just buy some. You still get to keep using everything else, so it's not like you've wasted money. Good luck to both of you.

Sure does. And that's definitely not me. Maybe career musicians feel differently. I guess that's true. Regardless of what the musician does with it, some pieces are written to show off a talented instrumentalist, and some are written to be damn good music. I prefer the latter. I know some pieces are intended to be both, but it's pretty rare for a showy piece to be enjoyable to me after the first impressive performance.

Brilliant. I'd love to try playing this too, but I'd have enough trouble finding a partner; forget about getting two pianos together. :(

I agree. I hate it when ostentations of technical prowess crowd out musicality. Can't speak for all musicians, but I like it somewhere in between. Simplistic music is boring to play, but I want some room to breathe, to focus on style, to enjoy playing the music. That's pretty well impossible if it's all I can do to hit the right notes.

Yeah, that second half was definitely not counterpoint. Fun to listen to, though. Any chance we could see what you wrote down? Reviewing counterpoint is always easier with a score.