Morning Guard

've just been looking on my computer and discovered I had this piece floating around. It's been a while since I've done a bit of composing, and I'm definitley an amateur at the whole thing with no real formal training except two years of piano, but I've had nothing specifically on music theory except what I've found myself. As I said, I've just started to look at it all again, but I thought I'd put this piece on to see what you lot think and to see if you'v got any feedback. I apologise for the midi quality in advance as well.

'Morning Guard' is the title of the piece, as the first motive first came to me during one morning a long while ago (if I remember correctly), but over time I noticed it sounded a lot like the music of Jeremy Soule from the 'Elder Scrolls' series, and so I just came up with a name that would both fit with that, and would fit with what happens during the piece.

I hope you enjoy it.

I don't think your score and audio match completely. Maybe I'm wrong.

Anyway, what I hear is a sort of mix between sonata and a passacaglia, which I don't personally thinks well here. Form is present, but a lot of shifts take place within certain blocks, which makes the piece sound a little blocky. It flows a bit better near the end.

I also agree to what Monarcheon said. Beev, I too never took formal training and have been self taught so I definitely can understand where you are coming. Seeing as how you just joined first let me welcome you to the forums and since coming here I can honestly say my musical talents have increased ten fold in just a month or so. The forums will really help you reach your potential I can fully attest to that.

For your piano, I can hear that you're not clunky in the sense that your hands *knows* how to play and follow suit.

However...I'm not sure if I can detect the feeling you're trying to portray as it doesn't really have a direction I guess? so to speak. But I think you have great potential to reach beyond your limits.

Overall it sounds good and I understand this is old so I would like to hear something new from you.

The idea isn't bad. It would be greatly improved if there were smoother transitions between the different sections. I can see you've got good musical ideas to share. I hope you get to come back and maybe show us some more recent work.