UNTITLED PIANO SHORTS - how do you think of names for your pieces and what kind of genre is this?

Hi, I'm new to posting music here and online.. and only used Musescore in the past. Please let me know if you any suggestions on composing, recording, finding your audience, any constructive feedback 🙂

I think the genre is new age or soundtrack? I like Yiruma, Studio Ghibli and Korean OSTs. Currently I'm trying to find my own style. What do you think?

My channel: https://www.youtube.com/@kaiyunmusic/shorts

Hello @kaiyunmusic and welcome to the forum!

I really like the 2nd piece you posted!  But on the whole, these are really extremely short!  Did you cut your recording down to only the short section you feel you can be proud of?  Since you're including background audio of rain and natural background noise in this, maybe you could title your tracks the way Lo-Fi Chill-Hop artists title their music?  I know a little bit about that because I had a prospective video-game company that wanted to hire me to write Lo-Fi anime-styled music for their game (they ended up not hiring me).  But I wrote two tracks as demos for them and I am proud of the music I wrote - I titled them "Heartfelt" (this one is for piano and strings and I played it at a local talent show and won) and "Relaxing in my dorm".  I think in the case of music like this, the only important thing about it is that the title matches the mood of the piece.  It could be like the kind of title a diary entry might have if you were writing a journal or something.  That's my take on it.  Thanks for sharing!

I would just keep calling these piano sketches or piano shorts, but at least number them! They're perfect for youtube shorts, if that's the goal. 

 @PeterthePapercomPoser and @Thatguy v2.0 Thanks I appreciate the genuine feedback! You both hit the spot. I am writing short piano sketches as practice, and am treating them as a "piano diary" 🙂

If I stumble across a melody I really like, then I make more efforts to complete it. It's easy for me to start a new melody, but for some reason it's so difficult to build upon and finish. I don't know why, I always get stuck after a few measures..

My goal is to practice improvising weekly to get better at composing, then hopefully make sheet music and full videos 🙂

On 6/22/2024 at 9:58 PM, kaiyunmusic said:

It's easy for me to start a new melody, but for some reason it's so difficult to build upon and finish. I don't know why, I always get stuck after a few measures..

I know why

study Mozart

watch analysis of his melody on youtube

study Beethoven 

watch analysis of his melody on youtube

study David Gilmour, Chopin, Mussorgsky, Shostakovich, Xenakis, Boulez, Danny Elfman, Matthew Bellamy, etc etc etc etc etc etc ETC...

watch analysis of... well, you get the idea

there's a lot to the art of composition, and the more you know of a given subject, the more you're bound to accomplish. 😄 

I've taught guitar for years, and I've realized that 90% of people give up and lose faith in their pursuit of music perfection because they realize early on that this craft takes hard work and effort. And through your hard work and effort, your melody writing will improve. I'm excited to hear the progress. Cheers, BRUH