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Thanks for taking a look and writing something even though its not something for your taste. Yes, writing for a string quartet is fun, safe but yet much too difficult. I really liked my first one so after some years I wanted to improve a bit and wrote the second one. So, thank you again for listening.

Perhaps the warnings scared the people :facepalm: hey the piece is not that bad!

It seems like it has been a long time since I shared something on this site. Here is a latest composition, I have literally just finished! I enjoyed writing my previous string quartet and I thought I could explore the medium a little further and expand it. Though there is only a single movement yet, it is 15 minutes long. I plan to add only another movement later on. The style is typically me, with lots of dissonance and few consonances here and there. (well, as close to consonance as I can get!) I hope you enjoy it.. WARNINGS: Dissonance, Long, Demanding String Quartet No.2

I used Battery, Addictive Drums and BFD2 on my album, and some of the tracks has 909 samples (which are not that bad). However it's all with the samples that you use that matters. To find a decent drum kit might be a painstakingly hard task. You should keep trying. Eventually you will find the sound that you are after.

This is pretty solid writing! I enjoyed it from start to end. Things that bothered me was so little that I don't even remember them. I have to listen it one more time... I think that there is enough variety on every aspect that makes it interesting and worthwhile to listen the whole thing. Harmony feels a bit static at places but then again, it creates consistency. At other places, I felt that you could have expanded the range. The violins as you know can go waaaay up, and it really could make a good impact at those high climatic points. When I skim through the pages I notice that the range is quite similar throughout. However, on the second listen I think this is not so important, it's just that my ears expected to hear some hight ear piercing moments ( a kind of masochism lets say) The repeats did not bother me at all. On my first listen I didn't look at the score so the way my ears judged it, it sounded ok to me. The whole tone section was a low point. I never liked that scale anyway, so it could be just me. But apart from that it is very obvious and stands out as the odd one. What can say, I don't know. This quite a big work and is wonderfully written. From this point you should try to find a quartet willing to perform this piece. I don't know if you had experience with players but I can tell you that you'll learn a lot from them. Things such as proper notation (not that yours was bad, I could not make a through analysis of your score). Good work friend, love to hear it sometime performed...

Lovely sweet harmonies and progressions. Simple but very sweet. It could do a little bit on the arranging side though. The drums need a bit more variety in my opinion, also the sound patch is not very good and not so much supportive of the expressive string lines. I have not experience in writing lyrics at all so I don't know what to say or suggest you there. I had some tries myself and found that it is extremely difficult. The bass line is really good and no need for any adjustments.My real concerns are the drums, and perhaps a little more diversity in the flow which could help being a bit static- some very short pauses in drums? Also some real electric guitars will elevate it's qualities even further. About the vocal line, I think it is a good way of creating demos but I personally would not use it to produce final results. I loved the general atmosphere of this track. It's silky smooth, gentle and expressive. Has a lot of potential and above all, has a character.

Thanks for listening John! Yes, we haven't spoke for some time and thats because I have been away from this site for some time. The Phd is ok, it gives me hard time but I'll survive. Thanks for your comments. Whatever this piece evokes in your mind is up to you, those were just my initial thoughts and does not necessarily should be associated with the piece.

Thanks a lot for your criticism. You sure touched some points that botheres me too. However, as you pointed out, considering the lenght of the piece the lack of transpositions are not that bad. Well thank you for listening. I appreciated the flaws you picked up.

My first attempt at writing a string quartet. Written 4 years ago, I still love this one. I will upload the 4th movement later. There is also a score for those of you who would like to know all those beautiful chords :) What my intentions were: Second Movement: To write a lyrical piece that will calm down the listeners after the intensity of the first movement. Well, it is lyrical in my opinion but also it is intense so I did not totally succeed in that To have an explosively emotional middle section. This I will not be able to comment because it was never performed so I could not know if my writing was good enough. To use minimum material. Yes, indeed I used so little material that almost every line is related to one another in one way. Careful ears could pick a lot of imitations and transformations of thematic materials. Ultimately, as with all my pieces, I tried to write something enjoyable for both the players and the listeners. As I said before, I still enjoy it and I hope you will too.. Third Movement: At the time I was experimenting with polychords. For example the oppening chords. So with this movement I was trying to apply my favorite chords withn the piece. It sounds too chord-oriented but the main idea came as a melody instead of a chord. Again with the second movement I used as less material as possible. Perhaps too less. I had a timeframe for this composition so I had to keep the movements short. String Quartet

Sys no use, I know this guy, he LOVES this stuff!! I personally tried to convice him a number of times. Ness, I appreciate your insistent attempts to create somehing with that software but trust me that it is limiting you. If you love those sounds they are out there as sample banks, VSTs, Reason refills and god know in which form. Grab yourself a decent multi track recording software and start collecting your retro library. This will open up a whole new world of possibilities for you. Please trust me.

"Extensive" was a right word for this! A lot of things are happening that is hard to keep track of. Though not many layers, there certainly is a lot of notes and oh my all those glides!! This is hard to focus, and hard to imagine your intention with it. Personally I think that it is very rough to my taste, but that is not important. What I could suggest is that there is virtually no harmonic changes. You keep the same chord progression for more than 5 minutes. Not only it is very intense, the lack of chord progression makes it tiresome and repetitive. One thing I learned about composing all these years is to maintain a balance no matter what style I am composing. For example if I am to employ a simple chord progression more than five minutes I know that it will be repetitive so I plan something to balance that out, to make it worthwile to listen to the end. Exactly what it will be to balance it out will be up to you and impossible to suggest something since each composition will require a different aproach.

Guitars are actually real and not samples. This is in fact from an ablum. Thanks for listenig!

Thank you for taking the time to listen. I am glad you enjoyed it, after all it was an effort to make something listenable and aproachable all the while attaining some form of originality and something new. All the credit for Engineering, Bass guitar and electric guitars goes to Emre Yazgin. I did the rest except the Sax.

What to make of this? :lol: A fun little experiment which could be improved by a better recording, some panning, and subtle effects like reverb (but not too much)

I found this to be much better than your previous post and not just because of the lenght. What software did you use for this? Some of the sounds really sound like the old analogue synthesizers although I can definitely tell that they're not. You sound very much like a moog person so I suggest you get yourself an arturia minimoog, an excellent moog simulator for PC. It's fun to play with synthesizers and I tell you it's something else to play with the moog. I enjoyed the beginning up to the point where drums entered. I think that when the drums entered you needed to introduce something else harmonically and not to repeat the previous idea you have played for almost two minutes. The drums could be a bit more prominent as it sounded to be in the background instead of supporting the music. For a longer piece like 5 minutes, instrumentation has to be interesting throughout. In order to keep it interesting for the listener, apart from harmonic changes, you should introduce some other sounds, special effects or whatever. Breakdowns are a good addition but it didn't help that much. I think overall this was a good effort, I don't know what else to suggest.