San Francisco Rush Hour

It's 8.00 a.m. You're on your way to work. Of course you're going to walk, as it's a nice morning. Cars pass you by; taxi's honk their horns. Chaos rules the streets, and look! there's even an accident! But that's okay, because you're in your own little world having a great time. You pass buildings of all sorts, and come upon many different situations. Welcome to San Francisco.

lol

In reality, this piece was greatly influenced by George Gershwin's Rhapsody in Blue, and his American in Paris. The stylistic changes and seemingly endless (I mean that in a good way) music just seems to flow from one section to another, with no true sense of direction, but nowhere getting lost either. This was one of those pieces that just kept going along with my ideas.

San Francisco Rush Hour was written over the course of a few months, on and off; and is basically a compilation of both melodies previously written that seemed unfit by themselves, as well as new ideas that just came as I was writing. It started as a solo, but then i realized that it would be physically impossible to do some of the things i was asking the performer to do.

haha look. I got longwinded again.

i hope you enjoy: San Francisco Rush Hour

You must be using a non-standard music font, and you haven't embedded them! So the pdf is illegible for us without that font...

I really like the piece. I think it is one of the better ones I have heard on here. If I have a complaint, it is that it is a bit repetitive if anything. The main theme hits us over the head a lot. However, it also works to hold the piece together. The lack of real transitions is fine due to the nature of the piece, but perhaps you could design some transitions that actually make the changing to a new part sort of "rough." What I mean is, if we think of the changing parts as turning down a new road of traffic, maybe the transiition can be the confusion of the turn..half of the car on one street, the other half on another.
The theme around 3:30 does not remind me of traffic. Finally, I think the piece is too long..I feel that the listener gets the point after about 3-4 minutes. What makes it seem even longer is that you tend to resolve one idea and then move to the next. I would work on some more startling transitions, remove the ideas that have nothing to do with traffic, and I think you would have a really awesome piece

My only contention with this piece is that there really wasn't enough dynamic or tempo variation to pique my interest and I felt myself fighting the urge to stop the playback(likely a MIDI issue and not one of crafting). I tend to agree with benxiwf that it is a bit repetitive, and definitely too long. A well written piece, though it did feel quite "through composed."

it sound like Symphony No. 2 "The Big Apple" (A New York Symphony)by johan de Meij.
A great piece to play and enjoy

thank you all for the comments!
lol i know it was a long piece, but i wrote this for my own enjoyment. like i said, it ended up being just a compilation of random ideas i had.
thank you all very much!

I really liked your piece but the score to me looked liked those old medevial music scores. I liked the heticness (wrong spelling I think) of the piece. In certain sections it seemed like the melody was being played by two voices. Really werid, cool effect (not harmonically but as if two voices were switching every note and that made the melody). Modern and tonal for the most part. It was really, really good. Seemed influenced by progressive rock quite a bit but that might just be me. Good job and I wish I had the score to look at because alot of your ideas were interesting.