Towards the Horizon

This is my second completed piece as a beginner-intermediate composer. It has a Japanese anime feel to it. I enjoy listening to arrangements of anime music by Animenz (a piano YouTuber), and I wish I could learn more arrangement techniques and patterns. I apologize for the poor quality of the recording; I made a bunch of mistakes in it because I haven't practiced it well enough yet. It's still a draft, so there is definitely plenty of room for editing. I'd appreciate any suggestions, comments, or critiques! Thanks for listening.

A very motivically coherent and harmonically adventurous piece!  Very beautiful and affecting melodies!  I think the 6/8 section was played too fast and sounded very rushed and hectic.  But having that 6/8 section is a very cool and creative idea to bring variation to the main theme.  Your performance was very good for how fast some of the figures are.  Great job and thanks for sharing!

2 minutes ago, PeterthePapercomPoser said:

A very motivically coherent and harmonically adventurous piece!  Very beautiful and affecting melodies!  I think the 6/8 section was played too fast and sounded very rushed and hectic.  But having that 6/8 section is a very cool and creative idea to bring variation to the main theme.  Your performance was very good for how fast some of the figures are.  Great job and thanks for sharing!

 

Indeed I rushed a lot in the 6/8 section, especially since the part is really difficult lol. Thanks for the feedback!

Hello @yiminghuang47,

Yup I enjoy the Japanese anime feeling here in terms of your melody, harmony and rhythm. It's very soothing to listen to. It's a good variation set when you vary the keys, texture and mood with different anime themes. I especially enjoy your modulations between the variations as they are very sensitive. The piano writing is clearly idiomatic as you play that out yourself. That's the most important thing! Our forum needs more of live recording! Much better than writing like Liszt but in real life they can't in their own right exist.

Thx for sharing and joining! Also please feel free to check other members' posts and review them!

Henry

Wow, thanks for the live recording.
Although the sound sounds analog, it's phenomenal.
It's a great piece of work and with several sections, the important thing, for me, is that they flow absolutely well, even the first change into a waltz.
Congratulations.

Some very lovely moments here.... but at times it feels a bit pushed .... sometimes a little less is more.