Lesson with Ceresz

I feel ready, however please after listening to it give me some pointers like, what I can improve.

Good progress, you are working fast ! But I really encourage you that you give more time on composing. even if it is only poatatoes, have more patience and really like what you are doing. Play it over and over and ask yourself do you REALLY like it ?

You have added some seventh chords, that's good. But it is not consistent. The file that I uploaded I put some more 7ths and sometimes 9th chords so it will be more consistent. One thing we lack right now is continuity. There is no tensions, and resolutions. We need to put more cadances in there using dominant and diminished chords. I put some of my ideas on the score, its only to give you a bit more idea, I recommend you work on your own version. So far I am liking the A section, It could be good. As I said it only needs more tensions.

the B section needs a lot of more work. As you have already realised it is very repetitive. You need to give your piece more direction instead of coming back to same chords. I hope you know what I mean. I am not going to give you more ideas, I want you to work on it and realise what is wrong yourself. Your biggest problem so far is your patience. Otherwise I believe you can compose much better if only you can be more patient.

Sorry for not posting in a long time but I am currently on vacation in Brazil so, well you get what I'm saying Anyway, I will try to post what I have as soon as I get back, I really want to move on.
Cheers!
//Ceresz

Okay, here it is, I'm not good at modulating so the change from C to D may still be a bit... awkward...

Ok Ceresz, before we move on with this piece I want to make some things clear.
We embarked on this piece taking Prelude 1 as a model. And so far you have been working on the chords of the piece which of course will serve as the basis.
All we need to do right now is to finish the chord progressions and have a solid background of the piece on which we can work further.

As we have given quite a long break from our sessions please allow me to catch up on what were going on the piece. I listened the last file you posted and it somehow sounded different than what we worked before.

I will post a reply on this and suggest you some modulations in a few minutes..

I think I got carried away and made so much adjustments to the B section. Thats because we needed tat difference. Before it didnt sound so different to be the B section. With these new differences I think it sounded more like a different section.

take a look at the adjustments I made. I used a pedal tone to modulate to the B section. Notice that I didn't go with strict harmony rules. That will give your piece more freedom. And take a look at the B section. I kept some of your ideas and I re-worked most of the B section. Only to show you how to achieve a different sound than the A section.

Ceresz, I normally don't make changes to my student's pieces. Lessons from internet is kind of awkward and I can only show you my ideas through this way. This is our first piece so lets go on like this, our next piece I don't want to make any adjustments. I will just make suggestions.

That's cool, I like what you did with the piece. I can't really think of anyhting I would like to change
So... what next?

What next ? the million dollar question.

Anything could be next. How about start working your way until the end of the piece from where I left off. The B section started of good this way and it should probably give you a motivation to work on it. at last that was my plan !

We only need like 6-7 more measures and we're done with this stage of composition. if you can just find how to end this piece, I'll go over it once more and we can discuss what we liked and what we didn't.

I'll do that

How about something like this?