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Sorry, that I just had to press the „laughing“ button when reading your announcement of mashing up "O, Christmas Tree" with "Hark! The Herald Angel's Sing!", this must be wild! Now after listening to it I had to smile again on how confusing it comes to the listener having two carols at the same time being on the one hand well blended together but also producing some frictions so that listener is kept focused when he wants to follow and concentrate on either the one or the other carol. All in all that mashups were very inspiring to me and perhaps I’ll try to figuring out something similar for the piano and call it „double fugue“, haha!

Congratulations for showing well, what can be achieved with a full symphonic orchestra! Sometimes I joke that a symphony orchestra is a conductor's very special toy, similar to nowadays DAW software where one is able to mix dozens of tracks and special effects (yes, I attended a concert last year where video game music was performed by such a full symphonic orchestra and it was a fun for me to see what sounds could be produced with the natural instruments – even it is not my genre). But sometimes these enormous possibilities can also become a problem when there are dozens of bars with virtuoso cadenzas and effects, but the audience can no longer follow which musical idea or theme is being played. That’s why it is important to have a clear structure or even a „simple piece“ already accomplished as the base before the orchestration. Since this is the case in your piece, it is – in my opinion – easy to follow and so enjoyable with the colorful instrumentation, such as the harp and even woodwind runnings in bars 21-24 and the Glockenspiel/triangle in bars 27-34. The objection that you have remained in the same key is, in my opinion, not a problem for this short piece, which is only a miniature and not a large concerto or symphony. Having listened so many mashups of Christmas carols the last few days, I feel to hear citations of „O Christmas tree“ and „dashing thru the snow“ in your piece as well, emphasizing the Christmas mood. Thank you for this enjoyable wintery piece and a happy New Year.

@Henry Ng Tsz Kiu oh Henry, You haven’t answered my questions from the last post and here you are putting in your unsolicited 2 cents. Which are even worse now than what you were accusing me of last time. Putting words in God’s mouth and now putting words in my mouth. Sheesh, I’m starting to think you have poor comprehension of words. I never said that if you don’t embrace suno that you are blasphemous. (Prove me wrong and screenshot where i supposedly said that) I never said disagreeing with me is blasphemous. (prove me wrong with a screenshot) Hey Henry go back to my last post questioning you and answer those first before you even comment any new things because you are eroding your credibility with your false claims. Anybody can go look at my posts and your posts and you are just literally digging yourself a hole and destroying whatever reputation you have built in this community. See? I care, I’m trying to help you out here.

@Thatguy v2.0 That whole thing you wrote felt like a mockery of me using AI. So if you were truly just trying to make a joke then sorry if i reacted that way. It’s hard to tell sarcasm over voiceless text.

Thank you very much !!! Happy new year with plenty of health https://www.youtube.com/@patrickarmand4058

I was working on a second one but I didn't have enough time. Christmas was very busy for me.

This is really lovely. I don't have time to analyze the score in depth, but as others have noted, it sounds very clear and smooth for eight-part counterpoint. I'm sure that if I tried to write pure counterpoint like this for eight voices, I'd find them getting in each other's way constantly and I'd end up with a thicker, muddier sound.

Nah, anyone who doesn't welcome him completely and embrace Suno would be considered as blasphemy. Because he considered himself as God's disciple so anyone disagreeing with him would be blasphemous and heretical.

Whoa, there. Didn't mean to offend at all, sorry about that. Was just trying to make a joke, or lighten the mood a bit. The AI talk has been heated, I get that There was no sarcasm when I said welcome 🙂

This one's quite interesting, too! I like the lazy sound to the counterpoint (I don't mean that at all pejoratively; I'm just not sure how else to put it), where it really sounds like each group is doing its own thing and they're being allowed to combine in interesting and non-traditional ways.

This is a fun piece! I like the slightly off-kilter harmony; it sounds warm and comforting somehow. Don't know whether it was intentional or not, but in addition to the two carols you combine, I feel like I hear a little reference to "Deck the Halls" at m. 9.

@Thatguy v2.0 interesting, you remind me of someone. At least your comment is more entertaining. I guess you couldn't help yourself eh, just had to comment. That's fine. For someone talking like that your work must be good. Care to show your work so I may critique it? I expect something better or of the same quality as AI can create since you made it yourself. Show me yours and let's see if you are really Thatguy.

Ha, I read parts of Wilson’s books a while back and this account sounds very “Wilson” indeed, lol.

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My favorite of your Christmas pieces this year! The mash up pieces are cool, but for me it really shows your talents as a composer when you abandon the more complex ideas and speed-run a composition a day??), relying on chops to flesh out a simple and fun idea into something that's still stuck in my head. The trio was great too, and my favorite part was the entry of the basses. Thanks for sharing Peter, it's amazing how many pieces you've written lately!

Yeah I definitely would have composed more had I composed for this event specifically. I made it so that it loops (for a YouTube short), and most of my effort went into the presentation of the video. But hopefully Music Jotter will be done soon and I can start composing more legitimate works for 2026!

What a beautiful piece. The harmony and key changing is what makes this piece shine, although the short motif is definitely what holds the piece together. This has to be one of the most emotional Christmas submissions here. In fact I get a lot of mixed emotions, and this could very easily be music for a movie scene. My favorite part is at 1:36; that key change is stellar.

I do not like MuseScore's playback at all, so the fact that I really enjoyed this work despite the questionable playback of MuseScore, tells you everything. This is an impressive work. Is the beginning/ending loosely, Twelve Days of Christmas? After this though, I got so absorbed into your music, I forgot it was a Christmas piece! I don't even care though. You easily captivated my attention for the full 20 minutes, I even went back to listen to the first 5 minutes again because I could swear I heard 12 days of Christmas somewhere! But every part of your work is captivating and you often change it up. I have to say the 2nd half of your piece is even more captivating. This is where we start getting really deep. By this point, Christmas is gone, and we are now in some other dimension. You do manage to bring back 12 days of Christmas about 15 minutes in though, and end on that note. This will of course be an exhausting piece to play. The rigid playback of MuseScore doesn't do this piece justice in my opinion, because I know that if we could get past the rigid playback, this has the potential to sound much more pianistic.

Thanks for the impressive feedback! I will try to do that.

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This is a rather short and concise exercise in writing a sonata for cembalo that is playable even for me. It started with a minuet I wrote for a wedding; some improvising on the piano generated the idea for the allegro, and then only a slow movement was missing to have a three movement sonata, a basic structure popular in the 18th century. The allegro flows happily in 6/8, composed in sonata form; the reprise is slightly shortened so it is not too tedious, but also to have a balanced feel (Exposition: 32 bars; development + reprise 36 bars). The andante (binary form) provides some contrast by starting out in d minor, modulating to a minor and going back via g minor and F Major to d minor. The concluding minuet returns to more joyful music with a lively dialogue of left and right hand. I am considering adding a fast rondo, or composing another sonata concluding with a rondo; not sure about that.

@chopin Not gonna lie, I watched your video and I know it was well made and you are a master of your craft but I could not understand Lol. It’s like a child trying to understand what adults are talking about. Like people playing pokemon to just catch them all vs people who do competitive battling and know how to raise and breed their pokemon and have egg moves and movesets to complement their team and make their pokemon stronger than just leveling them up regularly. If you haven’t played pokemon then that wouldn’t make sense and thats how I felt when I watched your video 🤣 I know its good though lol. Like I was telling Daniel, there’s more customization to be done in suno and i’m literally only 2 weeks in to learning this tool. Some other people who have been using this tool has told me that you can really customize how your song would sound all the way to individual notes and how they sing. With AI once it learns something, it just builds on it so lets say a composer has been composing for 50 years. AI can learn all this persons skills and techniques in a fraction of the time. I know it’s unfair but that’s just how it is. A few years ago, AI could barely make videos that looked real but now, I cannot tell if a video is fake or not. I made my first music video with AI generated person and it looks real. Anyways yea, not trying to dismiss human creativity or anything cuz without humans there would be no AI but just like any other tool we have made, our tools don’t get tired, they can do more work than 1 person, they can do a lot of things. Just think of cars, planes, whatever gadget we got that has made our lives easier and cursed at the same time. I think you get what I’m saying, I just look at the facts and see where this is going. With all this said, what needs to be done is to prevent bad people from turning terminator and matrix into a reality. So yea lemme hear your songs, hopefully it doesn’t fly over my head like your video xD only people who have learned and studied certain things would understand.

@Omicronrg9 Thanks for the nice insight, I’m still new to suno, my creations are still simple and I don’t know all the tricks yet. Some others showed me some stuff on it and how you can literally make your lyrics play in a certain key or note, or how to make it add more feeling to words whether, happy, sad or angry. So there’s like a lot, basically I just know ABC and not the notes in between. I only started this about 2 weeks ago when Grok told me about it. The more I learn, the more my stuff will get better and thanks to your feedback, it will be better faster. The AI songs you posted sounds nice, I’m not sure what you were trying to tell me about them though? Also the AI song checkers, wouldn’t they get messed up if the AI song was just re-recorded so when the song checker checks the file, it won’t find things that was on the original file since the new file is just a regular recording? 😭🤣 Your sheet music looks cool, yea its a pain in the butt and thats probably why I didn’t bother to learn it. But you make good points. I want to hear your piece you showed me cuz looking at it does nothing for me Lol. Just looks nice. My skillset is a driver and a diesel mechanic, gamer; basically how i think is, how do i do something faster and get the same results. I know there are different ways to do something but if it gets the same result with less time then why would I do it any other way? Which is probably why I don’t learn sheet music and i rarely write tab anyways. Right now the fastest way is writing lyrics and programming Suno to play how I want it and boom I got a song. Compared to; writing lyrics, look for singers, try to learn my guitar more or just look for good guitarists then look for a bassist, a pianist, a composer, a studio engineer, a manager. Spend a lot of time looking for all this and then spend a lot of money. Then make sure everybody gets along together AND make sure the music actually sounds good AND sounds how I want it to sound like for my vision and the feeling I want my lyrics to evoke AND if the people do not get along or someone is not skilled enough then I would have to spend more time looking for other people. So yea basically with Suno, I can do all of that and save a crap ton of time and money and I don’t have to deal with different personalities and I control how I want my lyrics to sound like. There’s probably programs out there to write out my suno songs in sheet form so i probably don’t even need to learn that either. This may sound bad or terrible to you but that’s just how I operate as a driver/mechanic/gamer. When I logically lay it all out like this, to me it’s a no brainer and the fact that tomorrow I could die and if I was making music any other way, i’d be dead with my lyrics on a sheet of paper and never turned into a song. But at this moment I already have 2 albums and 21 songs out on most music platforms so if i died right this moment, the only regret would be that I didn’t finish this album I’m making right now and the world won’t hear these songs. So yea anyways that’s my thoughts on all that. Just so people would understand why I do what I do. On the sheet music thing you were talking about. We would have to engrave our sheet music into rocks or something if the internet goes down if you want it to last. Somewhere on a mountain so less chance of people destroying it but even then someone might find it and break it anyways cuz you know thats just how people are. Also, nice explanation of a composer 👌

Possible performance notes: Calutions is a made up word that plays nicely with its antonym of concoction. It is a collection of complementary flavors. The origin of the word came from a large spice market located in New York City called Kalustyan's. This piece is a collection of modes and scales that have a main stepwise theme, but enters in many different variations in styles. theme : March in B major A; minor variation in B B; waltz in B Dorian C; Taqsim in Phrygian D; Fantasia in B lydian E: folk dance in mixolydian F; sinister March in Locrian G; variation in E Major Pentatonic H; Gagaku in minor Pentatonic I; variation in suspended Pentatonic J; shuffle in blues pentatonic K; folk dance in dominant Pentatonic L: Taqsim in A harmonic minor M; kinda maqsum in double harmonic minor O; Tarantella in A octatonic

Thank you all for listening. Seems that I failed to write a proper pop song, but something belongs to me! haha. I mainly used this >>ACE Studio<< DAW where I can use AI sounds with different style (pop/ classical, female and male), and they have violin sound library, too. (No sponser/ advertisement here, I am just here to show you if you are interested) @PeterthePapercomPoser Yes, you can make it work in different languages. You input notes and add lyrics accordingly. Then the software will automatically transform them into syllables. While the system only support English and Mandarin (?) at this stage, you can trick the system by manipulating the syllables despite the "wrong" spelling (that's how I dealt with the strange pronounciations). Let's dm for more details.