My first post here! :) I'm happy to meet you Everybody!

Hello Everybody!

I am happy to meet you, my nickname is Lotsy,
and I just found this forum 2 days ago,
and I thought I want to upload a few songs here,
for critique (good or bad, I can handle both).

So here is my first music (video with sheet music) that I'm interested in your opinion about it:

Do you know online communities that have piano composers? (I mean compose music almost exclusively for piano only)?

I tried to find a community like this (this community looks really promising, I've read a few posts here, and people look really kind here, so I'm excited to be a part of this too! 🙂 )
Google and YouTube failed me in searching for such a community like this.
Is this so rare?

I hope I don't break any rules unintentionally by being a noob,
and I hope everybody can understand my non-native English text here,
feel free to ask/tell me if you think otherwise.

Thank you Everybody have a great day! 🙂
Regards,
Lotsy

Hello Lotsy, I am new as well!

As for your question about the community,  I think maybe this forum is the place you are looking for? 🙂 Surely it won't be easy to find these community as there is no much interest in new piano music (unfortauntely).

As for your piece, this is definitively not my genre (I don't like romantic and sweet piano music) - but in it's genre seems to work pretty well. You also use some interesting chord (hey, 0'29'', nicely done). If this is the style you are aiming at, I think you are doing great. If you aim to do more complex pieces, then the only advice I can give you (which works for me) is to find parts that you like in the works of the great masters and analyze them and try to figure out how the heck they do that. You will find that most of the tricks are not explained in the commond harmony/composition textbook, and they are actually not explained anyway. In fact, you can learn much more by analising a piece of Rachmaninoff than by reading a book on Harmony (assuming that one has enough musical knowledge for doing the analysis!).

32 minutes ago, Valerio said:

Thank you for your kind reply, Valerio!
Your analyzing tip is also really useful, I think I've ever done something like that before, but not intentionally,
I mean not planned, I didn't plan to sit down and listen and follow sheet music of great composers to learn composing that way,
I did it only a few times because it was required for passing music theory exam in my college (I still don't know Sonata form well :D I'm an organist, I don't know classical stuff well (by classical I mean (Mozart, Haydn, etc..)

I just saw that I accidentally linked a playlist instead of a single video,
but on my Firefox browser the play list was on another song,
but it looks like this website can play YouTube playlists only from the start,
and the song I wanted to share is actually the 2nd video in the playlist :), nevermind, I will do that song in another post.

I think I am interested in various styles/genres,
and I honestly enjoy searching for new music, even "weird" ones like Schönberg (but the "weird" of course is just my subjective thing, I don't think it's bad at all (on my diploma concert I've had to play some Messiaen and I quite enjoyed it, but I needed some time to let my ear and "soul" get used to the sound world to understand that music a little better),
when I'm "hungry" for that type of music, I can listen to stuff like that for hours,
but probably you are right about that I am interested in more tonal (maybe romantic(?)) music,
at least at the moment.
Although I don't really know, I don't really have an absolute favorite style yet.
Usually I have periods of time when I listen to only baroque music let's say (no wonder as an organist), and later I listen to classical music, and later I listen to romantic music,
actually nowadays I'm doing that, but I do the same thing with non-classical music too occasionally, like jazz or even pop piano stuff.
I don't know, my ear can "eat" almost everything :)

In the "contemporary composition sound" I wouldn't call myself a "real" composer,
I think I just try to find some ways to refine some older styles (at the moment maybe romantic style),
refining might sound weird,
I don't think I am revolutionary or anything like that :D
I just don't know the right vocabulary word for that in English.
Probably I should have just said enjoying instead of refining haha :)

Anyways, I am having fun with it at the moment,
so I'm going to continue my journey, and hopefully find other people on the same road on my journey so we can discover the new roads together
(that start to sound like a fairy tale so maybe I just stop here :D Thanks for your reply and tips!)

Just now, Lotsy piano said:

 

 

Hah, it says "Valerio said:"
Sorry I messed up something :) I didn't find a the reply button, so I just clicked on the Quote button which allowed me to start typing so I just went for it