Last fallen leaf, an etude

Here is another song I am working on. I played/showed it to a friend, and he said, "you know, it sort of is like an etude with the number of notes you have to play" I said, I guess you are right. So, linked is "When the last leaf falls, and etude" Please let me know what you think of it so far.

-Chris

pdf:
http://chrisjohnsonsspace.com/whenthelastleaffalls.pdf

mp3:
http://chrisjohnsonsspace.com/lastleaf1.mp3

I rather like it. There seems to be elements of both impressionism and romanticism (is that a word?) in here. I rather like it. It does have a very dreamy, pleasantly descending feeling to it. I can definetly feel a modulation coming on. Anyway, definetly continue this.

I agree with Nirvana69 - this piece is well worth continuing. Is it meant to be a piano solo or could you introduce a wind instrument, say a flute, to float above the piano part?

A very nice piece. I liked it a lot. I get that leaves falling idea, its pretty obvious lol. I agree with all the guys its definitely worth continuing.
This is kind of obvious, but the score needs some clean up, you have a lot of collisions going on. But it Sounded great!
Keep up the good work!!

Welcome to YC btw

Thanks for the comments all. I agree that a wind instrument might add, and I will keep that in mind. I also know that the score is messy, and I have fixed it up a little, but just have not had the time to upload it. Thanks again.

I think this is perfectly fine (and quite idiomatic) as a solo piano piece. I really like what you're doing with this piece, and the harmonic language is pretty satisfying. So yeah, some cool stuff going on, you could definitely make it longer. Were you looking at any pieces as a model when writing this? I mean, there's almost kind of a jazz and pop influence too, and all that might just be instinctive. Either way, it's pretty fresh, and again, satisfying from an aural standpoint.

The only issue I have is how you develop your ideas, which isn't very much. You've established this idea in the first 6 measures, and it's a lot of D major for one, and then in measure 7 you expect some kind of change in color (it would certainly be effective) but you just give us more D major, except arpeggiated and twice as fast. And you know, it's "okay", but I think you have more in there that you could give us, the listeners. It kind of feels like one of those pieces I've played in one of my piano classes. But yeah, it's okay to break away from D major, that's pretty much the only thing keeping you from taking this piece to that next level.