Caprice in E

Ok

you may think me crazy for doing this, but at about 1:00 am my time, the theme in this piece hit me like a rock. I had to get it written down, and then I started to write some variations on it. The result was this.

I know the pieces ends on a weird note, and that the 3rd Variation isn't as good as the others, but I thought I'd see what you guys think of my way of burning the midnight oil.

here it is Caprice in E

(it's short, it's a Caprice, the first one I've composed for guitar that has variations, even though it's short)

Come on People! only 1 download Sheesh! what's it take to get you guys to comment on anything?!

1 million dollars is a nice start =p

1 million dollars is a nice start =p

I only it were true

'Sokay, I suppose.

If you're aiming for conventionality: there were several spots where there were very direct conflicts between notes, which is fine for effect, but which occured fairly often. It was also fairly unsteady rythmically, which I find disorienting in guitar music, which is necessarily spare and thin textured. That might also contribute to those perplexing dissoances, having no resounding chord to compare them to, as one does in orchestral, piano, or accompanied music.

If you're aiming for unconventionality: good. Do that more.

Personally, I would turn this inside out. But I'm a bastard that way. Perverse, even.

I do think this is a good sketch. But for it to be something worth publicizing, it would need to be longer (of course, they always say that) and more adventurous. Always more adventurous. Until you can't take it anymore.

Everybody to the Limit! Fhqwhgads!

I was aiming more for what I thought was good (which I guess could count as Uconventionality) I realize there are a few problems with it, I even said so in the starting post. One thing I am trying to do is make my own thing in music, you know, my personal distinct sound.

let me know if that counts as being unconvential

Reminds me of music from a documentary about Spain or some other Italian city.

Anyway, I'd pretty much so agree with hands. It's okay for ambiant, something you'd hear being playing in a corner of a fine restaurant on mother's day or something, but not something I'd intently really listen to otherwise.

Well I'm glad it's worth something

charming piece!

I was aiming more for what I thought was good (which I guess could count as Uconventionality) I realize there are a few problems with it, I even said so in the starting post. One thing I am trying to do is make my own thing in music, you know, my personal distinct sound.

let me know if that counts as being unconvential

Yes. It does. My best advice (which is perhaps very obvious, but I'll give it anyway) is not to worry about theoretical correctitude and formal concerns. There are some people who might give you crap about a missing development or something like that, but you can safely ignore it. If you have learned that casting a piece in a certain form, or using a certain procedure could make your piece better, there's no need to hesitate. But if you find yourself tempted to write a sonata just because it's a sonata, or because that's what composers are supposed to do, you might find your creative impulse is obscured or crushed. This is what happens to me, often. I find some compositions falling into a sort of loose, rondo-ish outline, but I've never done it intentionally. I once tried to write a sonata, because I thought it would make me sound really cool. Sonata No. 1! Yes! But I found that the farther I progressed, the more the piece sounded like half-baked Beethoven or lethargic Chopin imitations. Having in mind a form used by the geniuses of the Baroque through the modern can be more of an impediment to originality than anything else...

In short, don't listen to anyone who tries to make your music fit their expectations. It's yours.