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Hello @raymond doerr and welcome to the forum! I'm glad we met! I love the warmth and high quality production value of this rendition! I can easily imagine this playing during a sweet wintry moment in a sappy Christmas movie LoL! Great job and thanks for joining and sharing this with us!

Hello again @HoYin Cheung! I think this is far from a pop song! And I think that's a good thing. Maybe the modulations are quite direct, but the style of it is still very classical to my ears. Does your new vocal DAW software that you used to create this support different languages or just English? Cuz I wrote three Christmas Mash-ups this Christmas and I can't help but wonder if it could be used to realize some of them. One of my Mash-ups (No.3) is all in English, but the other two mix Polish, Latin and English. Thanks for sharing this warm choral song!

Hi @mercurypickles! I like the nearly polytonal feeling that the soprano introduces when it comes in. Reminds me a bit of some of my polytonal settings of various Christmas Carols that I've made mash-ups of. I read up a little bit about what the Coventry Carol is about. It is quite sad that a whole generation of children would be wiped out. The dissonance in polytonal soprano melody seems appropriate in hindsight because of this subject matter. I wonder if it is just a Biblical story or if it's meant to portray an actual historical event. Thanks for sharing this haunting lullaby.

Hi again @Musicman_3254 and welcome to the forum! I don't know how nobody hasn't mentioned this yet but you prominently use the themes from apparently all three of the movements of Gustav Holst's 1st Suite in Eb. I was sure that you were using some kind of English Folk song but apparently these are Holst's original themes that he wrote during an English folk song revivalist era. I wonder, what is your goal for using all these themes? Were you hoping to improve upon Holst's piece? I think not only would better sounds give your piece more life but also a better understanding of the instruments and how to put them together to sound idiomatic and realistic (and well balanced with each other dynamically). But I find it a bit strange that you didn't let any of us fellow composers/reviewers know that you were using another composer's themes in your work. Thanks for sharing though and Happy New Year!

Hi @therealAJGS! It sounds like, because this is just an event and there are no duration requirements, you kinda just threw something together and didn't care to continue it and just abandoned it in the middle of writing it. If there was a 3 minute duration requirement, I imagine that you would have at least repeated your ideas with different instruments and different kinds of layering on top of each other to extend the piece in your usual fashion - which I honestly would have liked and expected of you. But it sounds like you just quit out of a lack of motivation or boredom with your own creation. But creation is its own reward! I'm sure you would have been proud of yourself if you had submitted something more substantial! Oh well - I'll hope for next time. Thanks for sharing!

Interesting, I'm glad i'm not the only one using technology lol. Don't get mad ok lol I'm not saying you are doing the same thing I'm doing cuz your way you still pick the notes unlike mine which depends on the lyrics is what suno spits out.

Hey @Mooravioli! It sounds like you took a really nice and simple melody and did a little jazz re-harmonization. I'm assuming that the melody is your own original one - but have you ever thought of re-harmonizing other well known Christmas Carols or even other well known melodies not associated with Christmas? There's a whole world of potential there! I just recently discovered the potential of combining different Christmas Carols together at once into Mash-up's. Thanks for sharing - I enjoyed the warmth of the piano tone and your performance gave it a real sincerity. Happy New Year!

Hello Mike, thank you so much, and happy new year to you! I know the audio quality isn't the best, but I am elated you enjoyed the work, especially for the 7ths and 9ths that were added.

Thanks! There is no piano in this - only a brass octet and an 8-part choir. Do you mean did I make it by playing the notes with a keyboard? No, I input the notes directly into Musescore using a mouse.

Sounded pretty cool to me, are you playing a piano or something? idk if you will take my observation but you asked, but uh around 1:06 sounded odd to me. Anyways yea sounds great overall

I wrote this piece over the past two months as a sort of challenge to myself and as a demonstration for a few other people on writing pieces out of short themes. I think it's structurally a lot more complicated than typical sonata allegros, but I kind of got carried away (especially in the recapitulation). Honestly, it sounds to me more like the scherzo (third movement) of a four movement sonata rather than the first movement, and I kind of tried following the scherzo form a bit by introducing some new material in the development section.

I spent quite a while deliberating on what to do here, and I concluded that because the Aug 2 happens in the alto that it would be at least saliently permissible (since I couldn't find a better way to get the G# in the chord). I don't really know how to explain this honestly. It's been long enough that I've forgotten a lot of details about my process when I composed it, and looking back I think it sounds fine (despite violating rules of harmony as you stated) because the alto voice passing tone E creates an imperfect interval to essentially "rescue" the beat. That being said, I didn't really adhere to any style (and setting this chorale to text was actually an afterthought), so I just wrote what I felt like, and at the time I had been experimenting a lot with treating P4, m7, and M9 as consonant intervals (see my short fugue from a while back). I haven't actually had any formal training regarding contrapuntal conventions, so my process is essentially just the product of several years of trial and error (and a lot of listening to Bach and other Renaissance/Baroque composers).

@chopin Thanks! I redid it cuz i heard several mistakes that were bad and it wasn’t grand enough for a song about glorifying God in my opinion. I like this newer one better, I think I got rid of all or almost all of the mistakes. I’m not really sure exactly what a composer is, I can ask Grok I guess but can you tell me what it is to you for a more detailed answer? My assumption of it is somebody who makes like a orchestra or something and makes music for everyone in there to make them all sound good including lyrics. Music notation is that sheet music? I’m lazy lol only thing I know is tab. Got like a site that is noob friendly for composing? Also your program does it listen to a song and writes a music sheet? that would be great cuz i got 1 guitar song i practice and idk how to write it in tab, much less music sheet form. I’d love to hear your songs, sounds interesting. Thanks for your nice comments. I understand how people are, I used to turn my nose at things that I didn’t think was the right way to do it. Then I just grew up and stopped caring as much, so what if they do something that way, they are having fun or they are new and they are still learning. Also they aren’t harming me or others, I’m just wasting time and stressing about something that ultimately doesn’t matter at all in the grand scheme of things. Anyways excuse my mini rant lol. Thanks again Chopin!

@Omicronrg9 Thank you for your courteous message. You may not think you were giving me any good feed back but I think you gave me a lot of good feed back. Your ears are professionally trained so now I know that even if I didn’t disclose this as AI, you would have know anyways. That means a lot to me because now I will be even more meticulous in editing and iterating my songs so even the smallest hiccup or odd sound would make me remake it. Can you tell me exactly what kind of sounds would give a song away to be AI? I am no composer but I do play some guitar and I can hear mistakes easily with guitar since I play it a little. I want to know what you hear to discover if something is AI. You speak english more fluently than most people lol, I myself have english as a second language. Also i redid my song because when I listened to it again I heard several mistakes that really bugged me. Also I didn’t think it was grand enough for a song that is supposed to be glorifying God. I’m happier with this newer version. To be honest I only started this AI music thing cuz Grok told me about it, I am pretty amazed with this technology and I genuinely enjoy it a lot, I can put my thoughts and feelings into a song, I have something to leave my friends and the world. My main goal really is to let people know about God and how God loves them and how He has given us a way to be in heaven. Music is a fast way of doing that and since my music is distributed on most music platforms, my message will be there even after I die. Thanks again for your nice message and may God bless you! Happy New Year Daniel! - Voltaire

An epistolary work for choir with piano accompaniment. And yes, I did pluck a little clump of dog hair out of a box I was mailing that wriggled and turned out to be a small spider. The spider was released back into the basement, which I'm sure it and the person receiving the box were both grateful for. Thanks for taking a listen! My dear Sir, It may please you to know that this box does not contain a spider. A bit of fluff, pinched out 'twixt thumb and finger, pushed back in desperate protest, unspooling thread-fine legs, and we saw each other face to face, both equally surprised, and so I send your order and a reminder from the spider, who was not mailed to California, that when the hand of Fate plucks you up, beat with your tiny fist, and sometimes the grip relaxes, and Fortune herself will stare in shock at your small soul looking up.

Thanks Vince! I added a TAB part to the guitar part, although admittedly, I didn't edit it much for ease of playability.

Considering this was above your usually level, then you did a really good job here. Fun motif, excellent dynamics and an overall wintery sounding mood! The piece is also very well structured and easy to follow. The only minor criticism I have is that you stayed strictly in key, but I'm pretty sure this was a conscious decision. If this piece hit the 2+ minute mark, I may then press you a little harder to break out of the scale a tad.

Nice lyrics, and the overall direction and structure of this song is solid. Very calming and the style is fun. You're in a forum where you may have a tough audience because most of us here are composers in some capacity, myself included. Maybe one day you will want to learn this art beyond prompting (lyric writing is a skill too which people should not dismiss here). But in the meantime, you're having fun with Suno which helps create more an interest I believe. I also use AI to create musical parodies btw, my main goal is to create laughs with catchy tunes and lyrics. So my stance on this matter will be a little more on the interesting side, especially coming from someone who is developing a music notation application!

Hi, welcome to the forums SeekJohn14v6! I kind of like AI overall I guess, but after listening to this theme you brought here thrice and listening to hundreds of other AI-prompted stuff I would say that I get more or less the same feeling that comes over me when I listen to this kind of "contemporary" music where, more often than not, one could replace parts of the score by "make random noises" and call it a day or additionally scramble the passages and play them disordered. It's not really that I don't like it (some I do NOT like it at all), but that I feel it and find it gray and boring. Judging by your recent posts here guess that you're satisfied with your work already, and I probably would if I was in your position. In fact, I am when it comes to make thumbnails for videos using Stable Diffusion or similar stuff (and then editing them, I must say). This adds up to the little feedback I could give you, unfortunately. I am no lyricist, and English is not my native language, so I'm not much into the world of lyrics so I cannot really point you towards a place where your stuff may be much more appreciated. This is not to say some people will appreciate or at least get impressed by what you have presented here, but I am unfortunately certain there won't be many people commenting on your stuff for any other reason than discussing if your use of AI should be considered a work or not... Perhaps another lyricist somewhere? The thing is there's little to comment since it makes little sense for most to explain what may have room for improvement, musically speaking. This usually helps composers, they rethink stuff and improve on their mistakes. But this is almost nothing like that. Now, I have read somewhere else that you clarify that these pieces are AI generated because you don't want to be a deceiver. That would be like showing AI art in some artists' forum and calling it a day expecting nobody would notice or suspect, right? From your POV it would be easy to deceive people into thinking this mp3 you submitted is not made by AI, I get you. However, and getting the AI song checkers out of the equation, to me and many others here in this cozy lil' forum, this would have hit as AI from the beginning to the end, which is again not necessarily bad, after all I'm just suggesting that many of us here are mostly pretty capable of distinguishing between AI music and non-AI music specially in these more pseudo-bombastic cases. It's an acquired thing. Maybe in a year or two, it'd pass. Depends on how profitable being as meticulous as possible ends up being. I am glad that you can make your ideas real and your lyrics go live with this technology and 0% or a small fraction of what an actual group or a producer would charge you to recording that. This technology will hopefully improve in the coming years and you'll be able to remake stuff better. At the end of the day, again, if you're satisfied, little else matters. But let me tell you that the world of composition is wide, and if you someday decide to venture deeper on it, you may understand why AI-pieces at this very moment are not much convincing to someone like me, musically speaking. That said, I am sure your album and pieces can get a good audience. Masses will never be that nitpicky, and this —and any random prompt as well ngl— is on par or better than half of the mainstream music produced nowadays 😆. Best of luck and Happy new year! Daniel–Ø.

This is EXCELLENT. Points for playing this on the piano. And I love the jazzy style, I absolutely love jazz harmony!

Nice layering of the different melodies! At one point I wasn't sure which song I was listening to because you blended them together so seamlessly. Nice change-up of the harmony towards the end.

And @Tunndy has also submitted a piece:

@SeekJohn14v6 has submitted another song:

nutcracker inspired final.pdfmy submission :3 I'd like to get reviews ofc nutcracker inspired final.mp3

Glory to God 1.mp3 My 2nd submission titled “Glory to God” I wrote the lyrics and included bible verses. The song is about God’s goodness and the reason for the season. I used AI, so if you don’t like AI, just don’t listen to it or make any comments on my post. Thanks! This image was also generated by AI Grok