Simple Song

Here's a piece I wrote on my acoustic guitar.

As the title states, it's a simple song.

I know, I know, it needs a vocal.

Enjoy.

-Rick

Hi Rick,

Your song is never simple! Or to achieve this kind of simplicity is very difficult! Very soothing overall (sorry for my limited usage of words as I always describe your pieces as "soothing"!)

On 4/25/2023 at 8:49 AM, epii said:

I know, it needs a vocal.

 

Yup it needs a vocal unless it's songs without words!

Thanks for sharing!

Henry

Nice job!  I really appreciate the guitar glissandos you introduce near the end.  I guess you can achieve those with bends or slide guitar.  I like the variety in your chord progressions and melodies - sometimes it sounds like you use some chord substitutions or change up the bass note of the chord to an inversion.  It's amazing that you're able to write this well without knowing how to read music.  Although honestly, it sometimes seems like the piano roll is replacing traditional notation in many composers work ethic.  It's sad because the traditional western notation system is such a superior way of viewing at a glance what's going on in a piece of music and understanding it.  Although, by no means do I mean to lecture you about that - you're obviously doing something right with the results you're getting.  Great job and thanks for sharing!

PeterthePapercomPoser,

Thanks. I think it's interesting what you said about some composers using piano rolls over traditional notation.

For someone like me, I wouldn't be able to produce anything without the colorful block puzzle that is the piano roll (in my case Sonar).

I admire those of you who can read music. I wish I could. I've tried but it's hopeless. I love math and to me calculus is easier than reading music. And calculus is hard!

So consider yourself fortunate if reading music is part of your muscle memory. That's a lot of power and music preservation would be lost without notation.

I sooo wish I could just snap my fingers a read and write music on a staff, but like I said... I'm hopeless in that regard. That just leaves me with my ears and that colorful blocky grid.

It's literally taken me years to get comfortable using Sonar. And I'm still barely scratching the surface of what it can do!

Thanks again, it's very kind that you think I must be doing something right. Funny, because in reality I'm probably doing everything wrong *hehehe*!

-Rick