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so your saying you want me to learn in 5 days.

@Thatguy v2.0 Thanks! I am a savant of music theory and put a passion into my music. I am personally picky on engraving, formatting and music structure, and if I were to go around scores, I think that'd be a bulk of my comments lol. If you really want to know... ask @UncleRed99. He's been on the receiving end of my comments lol

Melodies Themes Motives Harmony Chords Textures Form Development Structure Time Originality Creativity Score Presentation Instrumentation Orchestration Playability Execution of Given Challenge Taste 9.5 8 8.5 9 7.5 7 9.5 9 Entry: Trio Variations in D Minor Hi @TristanTheTristan I am going to highlight areas the areas that believe could reworked. As a pianist, I think those 32nd notes could be replace by tremolos instead. They have a similar effect. The readable in the piano section is hard at times. I do not where the beats are. You have difficult rythmn patterns that make it hard to play. Also, those single note tremolos, are not idiomatic. You will see them more in strings. What you need to do is write them out. Trust me! That is why you scored 7 in playabity and in 7.5 score presentation. You score higher in the other areas for it was original, creative, and you knew how to create variations. You carried through this competition. And you melodic material was spot on. It just needs better notation and idiomatic writing. 7.4/10

then learn. it is actually quite simple.

I don't know how to write a score and all the AI ones cost money

Good job!

Melodies Themes Motives Harmony Chords Textures Form Development Structure Time Originality Creativity Score Presentation Instrumentation Orchestration Playability Execution of Given Challenge Taste 9 7.5 8.5 8 tonality! 0 sorry, but there is none like, 8? 8 9.5 So, yeah... try musescore next time for a better score. Anyways, 7.3125, Standard

A average 7 is not bad for my first competition. 🙂

Hello there @therealAJGS Entry: A hallow theme for Melodies Themes Motives Harmony Chords Textures Form Development Structure Time Originality Creativity Score Presentation Instrumentation Orchestration Playability Execution of Given Challenge Taste 6.5 8 6 7 0 5 6 8 Average Score:6 Review: Melodies Themes Motives (6.5): I feel there are too repetieve. Harmony Chords Textures(8): As for textures, you have interesting textures. They interreact well each other. Form Development Structure Time(6): I feel this piece is rather repetitive. I do not know what the general form is. Score Presentation(0): I am sorry, but in this competition, you have to present a score to us. Alas, in this category you do not will score any points. I am afraid to say. Instrumentation Orchestration Playability(5.5): Again, with out a proper score, I not be tell playable it is. Having said that, the instrumentation is rather interesting. Taste(8): For taste: and 8 is correct. Next time; please provide us a score!

Melodies Themes Motives Harmony Chords Textures Form Development Structure Time Originality Creativity Score Presentation Instrumentation Orchestration Playability Execution of Given Challenge Taste 8.5 9 7 8 10 7.5 9.5 8 Wow! I am going to be Robert Schumann! -Hats off Gentlemen! A genius! Anyways, Average: 8.4375, Above Average

Melodies Themes Motives Harmony Chords Textures Form Development Structure Time Originality Creativity Score Presentation Instrumentation Orchestration Playability Execution of Given Challenge Taste 7.5 6.5 5.5 8 6.5 9 6.5 6.5 Average: 7 Standard

@Thatguy v2.0 Entry: From Above, not below Melodies Themes Motives Harmony Chords Textures Form Development Structure Time Originality Creativity Score Presentation Instrumentation Orchestration Playability Execution of Given Challenge Taste 10 9.5 9 9 10 10 10 8 Average Score:8.2 Review: Melodies Themes Motives (10): I truly felt you have achieved the top tier of what atonal writing should be. Like the unsettling of high winds, the melodic materials take on whirlwind adventure. I have nothing else to say on this matter. Harmony, Chords, and Textures (9.5): The tonal clusters of this piece truly blew me away. Nice touch. Form(9): Free form is excellent choice. Organity and creativity(9): you truly were pushed creativity to the mast here! Score (10): The score was readable. However, the only might I suggest is: the pedaling in the piano. instrumation (10): As I meantion before, Pianist like to change the pedal every now and then. If you hold the pedal too long...the notes become blurry. Execution: perfect! Taste: I am giving this 8 because is not for everyone, but it is for some.

Melodies Themes Motives Harmony Chords Textures Form Development Structure Time Originality Creativity Score Presentation Instrumentation Orchestration Playability Execution of Given Challenge Taste 9 (too simple) 6 6.5 8 7.5 7.5 8 7 Average: 7.4375 Standard

nice! quite a fitting piece. there is a lack of theme though. some interesting chords and great texture. Average: 6.875 Melodies Themes Motives Harmony Chords Textures Form Development Structure Time Originality Creativity Score Presentation Instrumentation Orchestration Playability Execution of Given Challenge Taste 4 8.5 9.5 7 7.5 7 6.5 5

I felt using col legno in the bass to introduce dies irae would set the mood. Then in the mid to high strings, I thought, there could be different ways to create variations from that. The introduction of piece lead to tonal cadences but not in traditional sense. I think that is why some think. The high sense of Chromaticism threw everyone off. The raising chromatic lines is very 19th century of me: Wanger! The romantics knew to use chromaticism a lot. Waltz like section, might seem tonal, but it is bi tonal. It is a challenge to use to use 19th and 20th century ideas. 🙂

To its improvement, I remixed one of the pieces in the post directly above:

id give it a 6.7 out of ten.

Awesome music, and welcome! Dude, you're fantastic. I almost went this route, kinda the dancey macabre but fun way. Loved it Your music is very well thought out, score is clean and neat, you obviously know what you're doing. Lovely playback too, the rendering is really smooth and polished. We'd love to hear your feedback on some of the entrees, you sound like you have a lot of knowledge for a young age. Well done! 🙂

the mp3 file wont open for some reason. is there a fix?

Cool music! Ah, col legno... I should have used it, really nice color touch. That was probably my favorite part, like footsteps of whatever we're running from haha. You did some cool things in the intro too, I like the overall esthetic you went for. Some of the entries used winds which were really cool for color, but we just had different options with strings. I like the shrill atmosphere the strings are capable of, sounds like you too advantage of that too. Well done! Vote for your own piece, or your favorite, or mine! 😛

agreed (this is not a joke lol)

lol I love the character you put in your posts as much as your music. This is so cool... descending chromatic harmonies like spiders, soft sweet out of tune sounding melodies, extra spooky reverb... so great. I really like how you gave us scary vibes, but there was a sense of lightheartedness too. Perfect score for character, this is a front runner to me! Nice work Daniel, glad to see you back around! 😄 vote for me

7.5/10

That happens to all of us. I will say this to you. Do you realize YOU'RE the reason we have a Halloween competition in the first place? Do you remember asking in the shoutbox about competitions, and I asked you about it? Then the staff talked on Discord and came up with the ideas and polls and implemented them, because of you. Then, since it was fun and poll based, I wanted to enter because I've done nothing but guitar stuff for the past months. The piece I wrote is one of my favorites, and it wouldn't have existed without you being the catalyst. You view this competition as a failure, but you helped create an avenue of innovation for me and others, AND you got to learn about the harmonies you deployed in your piece. You learned some things that worked, and some things that didn't. Thank you for helping make this competition a success.