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Thank you! It was a lot of fun making this!

Lol! I take it you are a fellow musician coder, very cool! And welcome to the forum. Can you explain a little how you created this music? Did you come up with the lyrics, and is some AI singing the words? I take it that some of the beats, and the music is AI driven. But you enhanced the beats with your drumming? I'm getting this from the YouTube description. Love the song, and I really do understand where you are coming from. Corporate tech is just not for me anymore!

What do you mean "might"? This is awesome!!

Got this idea the other day at the metro. I might expand it into a fully fledged piece Polyrhythm Trio.mp3 Polyrhythm Trio.pdf

Hi again. I am extremely sorry to have missed this detailed comment of yours, I should have been more attentive back more than a year ago or so. Regarding both figures you mentioned, I too have come to dislike overly repeated notes with similar rhythms in the most prominent, cantizans-like voices, so I can understand why they might also sound a bit off to you. This fragment of the composition is perhaps the oldest within, probably dating to late 2021 or earlier, so that might explain the awkward sound these sequences may ellicit. The "typo" you claim to have spotted however, unless both my eyes and my memory deceive me, are just two naturals placed atop one another, not joined together, as it might have seemed at first. I do have to admit they could have been spaced a bit further, which should be corrected by now. Regarding the fugue, some places have since been edited to make it less repetitive and more diverse in terms of modulations, specifically by adding a passage with relative major-field harmonies right before the pedal point, as follows in the attached PDF and updated audio files:

Hi @Hcab5861, A lot of fun listening to it, I found it witty and well constructed! Very clever transitions bars 5-8, 17-19 or again 29-31, subtle and intriguing. Super ending: reusing the transitional material and extending it fits very well! Thanks for sharing!

AUDIO: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1alcJUqBHl8WXmeudSlnnNaicmhbC7ikj/view?usp=sharing THIS AUDIO GETS INCREDIBLY LOUD!!! Hello! Today, I bring you a piece that took me about a week of diligent and meticulous work to create - Tyrant. I named it Tyrant because I wanted to create an evil atmosphere and I thought the name sounded cool. It could still use a little work in terms of engraving and notation, but I consider it mostly finished. The playback doesn't necessarily do what I want it to do around the fermata, but that's okay. I primarily use an augmented chord to guide my way around the piece. I use Finale with NotePerformer libraries to produce the audio and score. Hope you enjoy and any constructive criticism or opinions are welcome! PS It's my birthday tomorrow 🎂

Hi, Thanks for your detailed comment, and your suggestions. I'm planning to continue this experimentation with counterpoint. It's an interesting field.

Old Macdonald in the style of Tchaikovsky's 'Trepak' from his Nutcracker ballet. Trepak - Old McDonald.mid

Hello Peter! Thank you so much for your thoughtful feedback! I will consider recording the rhythm part on electric piano. I tried it out really quickly in Cubase. I came up with every chord at the guitar but my skill level is elementary and I agree that an electric piano might be an improvement -- especially a softer timbre. I'm glad this tune evoked a clear atmosphere for you; while writing it my mind went to taking walks around my California neighborhood in the morning with the sun being very strong. It kinds of melts any thoughts away and maybe that's why if the music sounds circular. I'm happy if the conclusion sounds solid; I struggle with endings in general lately. :S The assignment was: "Compose a short piece of about 32 bars in length in AABA song form that modulates to a distantly related key and then returns to the original key." Other than that it was really open-ended. 🙂 Thank you for listening! ☀️ ~ Gwendolyn

Hi @BC345! Very nice and atmospheric track! I love the voice and heavy use of delay on the piano part. It makes it sound especially apt for an exploration videogame. Some of it reminds me of the Chrono Trigger soundtrack. Thanks for sharing!

Hi @Henry Ng Tsz Kiu! This lament starts with very murky low cello and viola harmonies that make the piece sound like it's emerging mysteriously out the depths of a fog. Once the violins take over they sound like they're really crying and their theme is passed around to the different string instruments as they each cry in turn. The espressivo and non-tremolo violin melody is really brought out and contrasted well with the rest of the accompanying tremolo strings. The piece proceeds in a very serious and solemn manner. I like the sudden C minor section! You then go to G major before slipping suddenly back to F# minor. The C# minor section introduces the high string tremolos as a kind of high shimmering accompaniment. There are some parts that are very discordant (at m. 150) before you introduce the pizzicato glissandos and solo Bartok pizzicato exposed cello notes. Then the music takes a slightly lighter turn with some pentatonic melodies and harmonies punctuated by high violin tremolos. The weight returns to the music gradually as it grinds to a halt with highly stressed and deliberate viola and low cello repeated C# notes. I listened to the fugue right after this and I must say that it makes much more sense to me now that I can hear the thematic/motivic associations between this movement and the fugue! This lamentoso leads very well to the fugue - great job and thanks for sharing!

Hello @Gwendolyn Przyjazna! I think you picked the perfect title for this instrumental. It sounds to me like you could substitute electric piano for the rhythm guitar - and right now, the way it is rendered, it sounds more idiomatic to what a piano is capable of playing rather than a guitar imo. I think the guitar melody is especially evocative of solitude. It also uses a good blend of unity and variety - repeating certain phrases and elaborating on others in an unexpected and musically interesting way. The almost-aimless nature of the harmonic progression sometimes makes me think of someone in the throes of a heatstroke, which is very appropriate for a piece about summer! LoL I think It ends very nicely too - making a piece like this sound like its concluded can be difficult - it sounds like it just wants to go on and repeat itself forever. What was the assignment/prompt that this was written for? It is very interesting music and with a unique melodic sensibility that seems very individual and personal to you. Great job and thanks for sharing!

Hi @olivercomposer! Your unique style of writing still comes through in this inventive piece. It is catchy because the reused rhythmic motives are like an ear worm, but it also has variety because the intervals in your motives do not stay the same. Even though you use the bIII and bVI I still perceive the piece to be kind of tonic heavy (maybe because in the Baroque style it is expected that modulations happen through the use of secondary dominants or secondary vii chords and that they lead episodically to re-expositions of the motive in new keys which you don't do). I am glad to see and hear that you are still exploring new ways to approach the craft of composition! And the new aspects of music that you are exploring will for sure enrich all of your subsequent music! Thanks for sharing.

Hello Guys, This is my very first counterpoint attempt. It's just a brief piano piece. What do you think? The music sheet is an auto-generated one because I'm lazy...

I love this so much! It's so intricate and rich, but also so direct and transparent. I want to listen more and with more attention than I have, but so far I love many things about this... the triplets in the initial parts, but especially the razumowsky memory in the agitato b. 93ff., and perhaps the part I enjoyed the most, from about 170 onwards, reminiscent (I think? haven't listened to it again but...) of the first movement, beautiful cello singing and then progressively getting more agitated, dramatic, losing the serenity of the first movment-ish themel. Thank you, can't wait to listen to it with more time and attention!

Thank you! I think the pizzicato would punctuate the bassoon melody too strictly. I especially wanted there to be a legato between the D, D#, E chromatic rise because that is what I conceived of as being the characteristic "tortoise is poking his head out of his shell" sound. Thank you! Yes - I did pick the instruments with this in mind so that they mostly wouldn't get in each others way. Yes - you're totally right there. 8 measures might have been stretching the hairpin out too far. Yes - right again. In Musescore, if I change a dynamic too drastically right as a new note begins to play then there will be an audible blip where the note initially starts playing at the old dynamic for a very brief moment before being suddenly readjusted to the new dynamic and the only way to avoid this is to assign the new dynamic on a rest before the note begins so there's no audible change in dynamics. LoL 🤣 LoL - I haven't heard it described that way before. Must be a very slow cowboy haha Thanks for your detailed review! I felt inspired by your entry and by the competition as a whole and I couldn't let a great theme go to waste. Of course - for me, every composition is another opportunity to write yet another set of variations! LoL Thanks for your remarks! Peter

The beginning gives me such a, "Cowboy walks into the old town saloon" vibe lol When the cellos joined the Bassoon in stating the tortoise's theme, did you see what pizzicato cellos would have sounds like with the bassoon? I'm just trying to imagine it. Maybe it wasn't the timbre you were looking for? Just a thought experiment. The violin melody in the D section "Enter Fox" is very free-flowing and I like that a lot. The time signature swap caught me by surprise and it took me a second to feel the downbeat again. Great job blending the themes and their "adjusted" themes together in the E section. It's hard to explain, but you use different ranges of a given chord so that each instrument doesn't interfere with another's timbre. I am a HUGE believer in that. Also, there's a lot of contrary motion here that is very satisfying to the ear. Great attention to detail and this was my favorite section. There's a very long hairpin decrescendo on the bassoon that could be replaced with a decrescendo in the F section. There are also a few notation errors in the I section that are basically all the same mistake: the mezzo piano shouldn't be indicated under a rest. Maybe it's your notation software? Overall, this was a joy to listen to and analyze. I was impressed with how you crafted each section with its distinct character and seamlessly blended themes together. While there are some refinements to be made in terms of engraving, I believe you demonstrated a high level and capability of storytelling, creativity, and understanding of musical theory.

I wanted to share a recent project for school; I wasn't quite sure which forum this belonged in. It sounds best on headphones. I would love any feedback; this was made entirely with Cubase virtual instruments so the rhythm guitar might be slightly annoying. That said, I would love to make a proper recording of this piece in the future.

bro i was been lurking 💀 Liszt is my big inspiration for this piece in particular, but I love Berlioz and Mahler as well. Here is an update for the second section: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1ujRtZfOT3HOC2y7XrF7w0pS8EWUHACIG/view?usp=sharing

It's amazing effort for you Jonathon! And what a great future meme for "half playing"! I should half compose my piece and let AI write the rest LoL... Henry

I talked with him. He said he uses a midi keyboard and didn’t play the parts he had trouble playing. So he’s sort of “half playing” I suppose

He supposedly "played" for free and told me he edited it on his DAW too, I still think this is better than Musescore's playback anyway. Thanks for the feedback 🙂

I liked it very much. It is very sparkling indeed and has charm. And something I like is that it has a good speed, where everything is recognizable (I don't like it so much when we go too fast for no reason). The textures are nice and changing and I think they, on their own, are shaping the piece.