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Thank you Daniel for the MIDI version! Listening to it as a MIDI makes it sound different... It does need more articulation, and I can be proud of myself for just learning how to do that in Finale Notepad. I'll find a MIDI converter somewhere and revise it. Thank you for your comments so far, they're really helpful! :huh: chamber_1_.MID

I'm trying to figure out how to turn it into a MIDI. -_-o

I'll usually hear a phrase in my head, write it down, and then get completely stuck. 'Where to go next' is always my problem. So then I have to wait for another melody or motive to spring to mind... Or sometimes I just attack Finale Notepad with as many random notes as possible and pick something out of the charred rubble.

I have perfect pitch and the way I "learned" it was by practise. I would keep asking people to run to the piano and play a note for me to guess and eventually I didn't name everything flat anymore, I got the right notes... If you don't have an instrument, my mind is boggled and I'm not sure how to help you. For relative pitch, I'm almost certain all the intervals appear in the old Marine Land jingle. (There's a place I know in Ontario...) If you're not in Canada (EVERYONE LOOOOOOOVES MARINE LAND...!) maybe the Goldfish Jingle. :laugh: Commercials are so helpful for intervals.

Wieniawski's Concerto in D minor for violin is the hardest piece I'm working on and have ever worked on, right now. Currently it seems impossible but I'll probably find something harder later in life. It's all relative; when I was three I thought the variations on Twinkle Twinkle Little Star were gigantic mountainous problems, so perhaps this concerto isn't really all that hard and I'm just breaking my brain over it. For piano the hardest piece I'm doing now is Cat and Mouse by... A composer I can't remember. :glare: When the name comes to mind I'll say so.

Oh, a choral competition! I'll join as a competitor, it would be really good practise for me... I love choral music but I don't know how well I can write it. We'll see :glare:

I'm sorry it's so short, but there it is. My first composition ever ever ever... I don't know why this piece sounds so disturbing. I'm not exactly a horribly depressed person or anything, I just like to write 20th-century music like that. Maybe it's because I was listening to Shostakovich yesterday, which was my inspiration in the first place. It took several hours for me to work out even something short like this. It doesn't say so on the pages but the actual title is "Quartet no.1 in D minor" despite the lack of key-signature. When I started working on it I didn't know where I was going with it. I just let the music go naturally and it ended in d-, so that's how it is. This is the Introduction and there will probably be more following it. Feedback is appreciated! :glare: chamber.MUS

This is my first post here, and I can feel good for actually doing something creative... These are just my thoughts on your work. It sounds less like a string piece and more like a solo violin with random background pop music that happens to contain string instruments. The violin part is okay, but it might be better without the drum set and with more real harmony. As it is it sounds like a long commercial jingle. It needs another part to harmonize with, or else it sounds like a substitute for the human voice singing about Goldfish, you know they're made with real cheese, even though they look like fishies. I don't want to sound nasty, I just think there should be less drums and more harmony...