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thank you, I'll examine them.

Thank You. I've marked the guitar part I'm not sure about after what you've written. Below the marked line it seems like you're saying they're just chords turned into arpeggios but what about the line with blue marked i.e. first guitar section. Isn't it a counter-melody? or the composer just transposing main melody with few alterations perhaps?

Thank you. As for counterpart and counter-melody, this is something I'd really wanted to learn a lot. I've read about it but the picture is not crystal clear in my mind yet. I'm sending you a small MIDI of Mike Oldfield's Hergest Ridge. Could you kindly listen to it and tell me if the flute(original one was oboe) and guitar harmony at the beginning is what counter melody is all about? Because this sounds sooooo lovely. If you separately listen to them they are independent to each other yet they form a perfect harmony when combined. This is what I wanted to do in my compositions. In my previous works and others this is the kind of music I'd like to make. It sounds so rich and beautiful. HergestRidge1.mid

I think I want to keep guitar and flute this way. I changed the way you suggested and listened in Sibelius and didn't like it. But, I'll add a second guitar, a nylon guitar possibly that'll do a counterpart or something like that to make the piece more interesting.

>What you should do is take that guitar part and work it to where it accentuates not the flute part BUT the accompaniement material! You mean guitar should play completely different thing yet in harmonic structure of the chord by being consistent with the main melody (with even maybe few accidental notes here and there to make it sound more interesting) Did I understand right? thank you by the way.

Thank you, I've been studying what you wrote and learned a great deal already. Those notes and time signature I took from a book which was written for Baglama(an instrument roughly similar to Banjo) so I kept the time signature but re-arranged the notes according to flute which basically putting staccatos and articulation etc. Btw, I can only play flute -and to some limited degree- keyboard. No guitar. And top of all, there's nobody around to play the parts I write. I just have to go with notation now and ask to kind persons like you to find out how would it sound or be played. (How would it sound is somehow ok because I have a PC with Sibelius, Sonar 8.5 Kontak Native Instruments plus Roland Juno-g entry-level workstation. ) I use Sibelius for all these notations. Sometimes I let the software to do the chord part and then go over and alter according to my taste and sometimes I do the chord part from scratch basing on common chord progression diagrams. I particularly love the sound of acoustic and classical guitar that's why it's always in my mind. Besides I believe flute-guitar make a very nice tonal combination and form a pleasant harmony. I'd prefer guitar to piano when I intend to use with flute. I didn't quite follow the things about the bass part but I'm scrutinizing it. The one I'm sending you now has 4/4, it's famous La Cinquantaine. What I did here was to leave the piano part out completely(from the original MIDI), re-arranged flute part with again staccatos and articulations. I let the drum part is written by Sibelius 6. But I did guitar and bass parts myself by following my basic knowledge of music. 1.How does it sound, harmony-wise? 2. Is any more instruments "necessary", you think? 3. What else can be done to "enrich" the sound, I know it sounds dull a little bit. Thank you very much for your time. La cinquantaine.pdf La cinquantaine.mid

thank you. Would you kindly examine this piece of music I've written for flute basing on a traditional Turkish song and tell me if it fits the pattern you described? If the frame is ok I may go with adding synth as you suggested. Ayrılık.pdf

I have a general knowledge of music theory. I know about scales , harmony, chord progression to some degree. I don't have an academic background but I'm a self-taught amateur musician. My question is, if I wanted to compose a small piece of music with flute(as I'm a flute player myself)as leading instrument and acoustic(or classical) guitar, bass guitar, drums and with occasional adding of piano/keyboard, how am I going to mix all of them nicely? : 1. Suppose I created a melody first(that's how I usually go, can't start with chords and make a melody out of them yet) and then built my chord progression. 2. Suppose perfected the melody and chord by listening to them together and agreed on vertical and horizontal harmony. 3. How am I going to distribute these melody notes and chord notes to the OTHER instruments? Am I supposed to give the lowest chord note to bass guitar and third of the triad to let's say to guitar and fifth of the triad to piano? or is it just a kind of trial and error which perhaps yield to a distribution unevenly among instrument. I don't want my piece to be a complex music as I will not be able to do it anyhow. All I want is a good combination of guitar, bass and drums playing a background music whereas flute is leading with melody. If what I'm talking about here is "arranging" then could somebody direct me to a good site or a book about this? Thank you.

Try SONAR , your samples will sound much better. I think they have a trial version to download.

A re-arrangement of a traditional Circassian folk song: Adige II.mp3 - File Shared from Box.net - Free Online File Storage Adige II.pdf - File Shared from Box.net - Free Online File Storage

with a bit of orchestration this piece would be another Tangerine Dream song :) good work.

thank you (te$$ekkurler :) )

either it's "Chase" or "Darkling"

You're right I'm being a bit selfish here but it's really first time I ever present my work to real composers. Otherwise I'm just a self-taught music enthusiastic who plays flute at home and do weird things with his keyboard and PC. :) Thank you very much by the way.

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