Unexpected Mistakes

Hello everyone! I'm inviting you to check my new piano piece "Unexpected Mistakes" Hope you will like it 💚🙏

Beautiful music filled with longing/regret.  The changes in tempo and meter give this piece continued interest.  Although it could use a contrasting section in a different key or a modulating sequence or something.  You always have really great animated graphics in your YouTube videos .. how do you get them?  The graphics seem like they're almost more work than the music itself.  Nice job overall!

to be a bit personal...i have recently rekindled a past relationship and it is going very well, i am talking a forever well and that is great and all but that too shall pass and will not really last "forever" ((or heck, maybe it will)) and upon hearing your piece it kind of reminded me of certain journeys that we can take through life, filled with happiness but also tinged with,if not regret, then at least some sadness.

Did the rather abrupt end cause me to consider my own situation with some consternation? Nope, I realize that this is "only" music, not real life neither yours or mine so no such external considerations can effect my enjoyment and enrichment upon hearing it.

How did you find these notes and what process did you follow in organizing them into the music? 

On 3/15/2021 at 4:35 AM, PeterthePapercomPoser said:

Beautiful music filled with longing/regret.  The changes in tempo and meter give this piece continued interest.  Although it could use a contrasting section in a different key or a modulating sequence or something.  You always have really great animated graphics in your YouTube videos .. how do you get them?  The graphics seem like they're almost more work than the music itself.  Nice job overall!

 

Thank you so much for listening and your feedback I really appreciate it! 🙏
About the graphics, it's not my work. I ordered it from graphic designers. I added the credit of the animation creators in the description of the videos.

On 3/15/2021 at 9:27 AM, composerfeb said:

What an amazing video . As Paper said , great animated graphics.

Well done 

 

Thank you so much for listening! 💚🙏

5 hours ago, Advanced Blowhard said:

to be a bit personal...i have recently rekindled a past relationship and it is going very well, i am talking a forever well and that is great and all but that too shall pass and will not really last "forever" ((or heck, maybe it will)) and upon hearing your piece it kind of reminded me of certain journeys that we can take through life, filled with happiness but also tinged with,if not regret, then at least some sadness.

Did the rather abrupt end cause me to consider my own situation with some consternation? Nope, I realize that this is "only" music, not real life neither yours or mine so no such external considerations can effect my enjoyment and enrichment upon hearing it.

How did you find these notes and what process did you follow in organizing them into the music? 

 

Thank you so much for listening and sharing your feelings and thoughts I really appreciate it! 💚🙏
About your question, I'm just sat in front of the piano and thought about the feelings/situation/inspiration that I would like to turn into music and start playing and improvise. 90% of the time nothing special not happened, but sometimes some melody that I like appears from nowhere. after I get this, the "work" is starting and I start to think about how to improve it and make it a whole piece. I'm trying to compose an intro, I'm trying to think about the different parts of the melody, and play it again and again till I get a full piece. it's relevant for all my compositions

5 hours ago, YakoB said:

I'm just sat in front of the piano and thought

As far as improvised pieces are concerned, I follow a pattern at least somewhat similar to your own. I sit down at my Kawaii VPC keyboard and begin playing without any forethought about which keys I will press, when I will press them, the form of the resulting piece will be. Often I will start with a short phrase and then immediately answer it with, perhaps, a phrase following the basic rhythm of the first one but with a different melodic line, followed by more of the same and if I hit on an idea that has suggested itself out of all of the previous notes then I will go with it else create a new idea on the fly, go to beginning of this description, etc etc etc. The process may move along other lines than this. Some times I love the results, some times I hate them, some times I don't care. I often find that if there is only one moment (or more!), no matter how large or small that I find unique, interesting and/or cool then I can be satisfied with the work. I have not posted any of these as of yet, I only have a three-part-invention formerly called a "student fugue" and my experimental piece "whydoesthewindthroughwaterflow" on YC but I will be posting "AngularOrangutan" later this evening. The first was through composed, the second was composed not by myself or anyone but by the very universe itself - yes. seriously. there is a tale there to be told - the last is an improv. I never go back and work these improvisations into something more, less, different, agnostic or "better" but perhaps I should try that one day. Good to meet a fellow improvisor here. Let's keep the discussion going.

-Chris (not really a blowhard, advanced or no).

On 3/16/2021 at 5:23 PM, YakoB said:

about the feelings/situation/inspiration that I would like to turn into music

does the fact that this music comes from your real life make it tug so achingly at your heart strings if you are to listen to it again sometimes? based on personal experience, i believe i know the answer to that question.

21 hours ago, Pierre dbss said:

I'm really not a fan of minimalist music (if that's what it is, I'm no expert) and can't bear to listen to anything from ludovico einaudi for example, but this sounds really good to me. It manages to be very varied despite its harmonic repetitiveness (for lack of a better word). I think you exploited the melodic possibilities fully and judiciously.

 

Thank you so much for listening and your feedback 💚🙏!

all the piece is only 3 different chords and I tried my best to make nice melodic progression.

personally, I see a challenge in making good long melody in minimal chords progression. Everybody know how to improvise in Am and play for hours but not a lot of people know how to compose a good melody and make a whole composition with that.

On 3/27/2021 at 2:09 PM, AKAChristopher said:

does the fact that this music comes from your real life make it tug so achingly at your heart strings if you are to listen to it again sometimes? based on personal experience, i believe i know the answer to that question.

 

Yes I listening to it sometimes but not for a joy. I'm listening and search for the things that I can make better in the next time 

On 3/16/2021 at 5:23 PM, YakoB said:

I'm just sat in front of the piano and thought about the feelings/situation/inspiration that I would like to turn into music and start playing and improvise. 90% of the time nothing special not happened, but sometimes some melody that I like appears from nowhere. after I get this, the "work" is starting and I start to think about how to improve it and make it a whole piece.

i have piece here on YC in the stacks - the solo piano forum - called (for no good reason) suite-retro. to create this i played around with some themes and ideas for about a week and then i just sat in front of the piano and thought about the feelings/situation/inspiration that I would like to turn into music and start playing and improvise.

yes, i was lazy and did not feel like typing and did not need to as much of your description, the part that I quoted above - is exactly what i did. interesting!

differences is that i already liked the ideas i had and tried to extend them as i played. there is an ostinato broken chord idea followed on by a two note phrase meant to echo someone's two syllable name. i do not usually have programs to music but in suite-retro i sort of kind of did. i often think of the first of its three parts as the wonderful part of a love affair. in the second,  some tough times seem to be reached and questions arise. third piece, the romance has ended - i believe later in the third section a bit of the first one is quoted. seems like he is recalling better times at that point - "seems" because i did not plan that consciously, maybe sub-, but hard to say. i wont change anything in retro as is seems to match my psyche at time of playing. take a listen if you like and let me know what you think.