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Excellent! Needs to be given to beginning music students so they can learn to follow repeats. 🙂

Hi everyone, I composed this piece as part of my bachelor in music. I hope you enjoy it. Leave a like or a feedback if you want! 😊

Thanks a lot Henry. Appreciate the comments. Yes INFP, so not only introverted feeling, but that combined with extroverted intuition. It means the intuition is naturally stronger and the capacity to learn theory is naturally weaker, so for me it's a choice between going against the grain and trying to learn in the conventional way anyway (which would likely kill my process), or try to find a different way (difficult as it's so rarely talked about....).

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Hi @guy500! I find the production of your video really nice! Also, nice face reveal! For the practical side I actually take your approach exactly. I write to learn instead of learn before write sometimes. For example I only learn how to write fugues when I tried a five part fugue in the 3rd movement of my Clarinet Quintet. I think only by writing you will know what you really need to learn from those theories. Although I love music theory myself to be honest haha. However, learning theory and using them in composition is completely different things. You have to be so familiar with those theories so that when you compose you can forget them completely and use your intuition (guess what, my MBTI is INFJ and so my primary function would be introverted intuition, as you mention MBTI in your video) to compose. That’s why I think learning theory, no matter drily or with love, is crucial. I guess you are an INFP because you weigh introverted feeling so strongly in your video? Thx for sharing btw! Henry

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I've really struggled to get my head around music theory - the way it's currently presented - since I started composing last summer. So, I've been giving some thought as to alternative ways of presenting it that might make it more accessible to new untrained composers, especially those who use DAWs and samples rather than manuscript. This video is meant as an exploration only - not suggesting better or worse approaches, or taking a position - only considering alternatives that could work for some people. Hope it's helpful. https://youtu.be/O_SSqvaVKDA?si=QXuksfXovuawS3Tf

Everyone is different and it's likely that John Williams is understandably perfectionist, and his insightfulness allows him to see what he could have done better. Being human, that's likely to lead to some degree of self-criticism and regret. My tendency is to look at things a little differently. I don't see any flaws in any music, including my own. That's not to say there aren't plenty of ways to improve, but ultimately, the music was that person's best expression of themselves, to the best of their ability at that moment in time. That different strategies or ideas could have been used is not a flaw (the way I see it), but a springboard for future improvement. Just yesterday, I was listening to the first ever piece that I composed from last July, which I don't think I've listened to since then, and I was expecting to cringe. Of course, I heard many things that I'd do differently and more effectively now, but I was struck - shocked even - by how much that music still resonated with me. Like you, I could hear many of the "flaws" (I don't really think of them like that - just as if you see a painting by a small child, you don't see it as flawed compared to Rembrandt, you appreciate it for what the child put into it), but the essence of any music can transcend these. If we can keep this more charitable outlook on our own and others' music, I think we'd be happier overall, as well as improving faster. I like your suggestion that trying to create the next masterpiece is unhealthy, as it's most probably about striving to create something that meets others' expectations or criteria rather than simply looking for the most authentic form of self-expression. I think that if we pursue the latter, it will be a more effective way of driving the search for improvements and expansion in our composing without the self-imposed pressure of feeling the need to prove ourselves.

instruments: Shakuhachi: Japanese bamboo flute Nokhan: a kind of Japanse high pitch flute like Piccolo Shamisen: a kind of plucked string instrument with 3 strings Koto: Japanese version of Chinese Guzeng as I don't know how to notate Japanese traditional music, there is no score here all in all, hope you like it! the video: 【日本民乐】作品8之1 无标题_哔哩哔哩_bilibili

Midi-Testing : ⬛ 𝑰𝒎𝒑𝒆𝒓𝒊𝒂𝒍 𝑩𝒐̈𝒔𝒆𝒏𝒅𝒐𝒓𝒇𝒆𝒓 | 𝑩𝒆𝒆𝒕𝒉𝒐𝒗𝒆𝒏 / 𝑫𝒗𝒐𝒓̌𝒂́𝒌 / 𝑩𝒂𝒄𝒉 1: Beethoven - Moonlight Sonata (1st Movement) 2: Dvořák - Humoresque No.7 3: Bach-Badinerie-flute-piano

haha thx! The ending four note is a quote of the tonics of each the 4 piano pieces of the set! Henry

Fun little piece. I especially loved the middle section with the change of tempo and key. The ending? Really sounds like a joke!

The final piece of my four Piano pieces set and just a lame joke. Can be developed into a postmodern minimalistic masterpiece by repeating the joke forever and forever...... Joke in A flat major.pdf Hope you enjoy this one! Henry

LOL I need rest too like these few weeks. I am having Tinnitus all the time and when I was teaching piano and heard high notes played by myself my ears ached for a second. I think I am still recovering from finishing the Sextet as I am continuously sick for at least 1.5 months or so Henry

For me, I like taking breaks where I don't review for a while because I feel the same way most of the time (only @Henry Ng Tsz Kiu is a reviewing super-musician who reviewed 10's of works at a time without a rest! LoL!!) But after a while I do eventually find the energy as I feel like it accrues after long periods of not reviewing. Besides, you can review as deeply or as casually as you feel like at any given time so it's not always an incredible amount of effort necessary. Thanks for your response! I added that option to the poll (although I do have to say that comparing yourself to others this way is not very conducive to improving because regardless of how good you are, there's always likely to be a historical composer, or specific piece which you can consider "leagues ahead of" you and feel discouraged by. Nobody can be leagues ahead of you being you though. And your strengths and weaknesses are unique to you and that's what makes you a unique, individual human being and composer. Did you know that Beethoven considered himself bad at counterpoint in comparison to Bach and Mozart?

Haha you don't have to always provide critiques, sometimes you may just name out spots you like or dislike would be great to the composer! Unless you provide "reviews" like "X-C-Lent" without using any thinking, leaving comments will always be great! Henry

I'm late to this topic but i wanted to chime in anyway because the reason i'm late is the same reason i don't review more works. For me it's lack of energy, i feel like that part of my brain that would analyze and give feedback, or even engage with topics like this, is just too tired and i end up not doing it. I selected a few of the options but that's the main thing. Oh also, an equally big reason is that many (most) of the composers on here are leagues ahead of me so how am i gonna tell them how to improve, y'know?

Thats a Good Thing..................

@bkho Ohh haha thank you, i've got a lot to learn before i'm near someone like mozart, but i appreciate the compliment nonetheless. Totally with you about the dynamics, they went through like four different iterations before i decided to cop out and leave them "up to interperetation". Maybe i'll try again

Really nice! I would just suggest more dynamic markings but otherwise if someone told me this was a lost piece by Mozart found in some dusty music library in Vienna, I'd believe them.

I totally hear you, i think it's the midi piano creating most of those problems. But a performer could take it a few bpm slower, i wouldn't mind

Thankyou Luis I didnt realize that there was a NAME for playing that fast...........so it can be done in Real-Time.

N.I.C.E. ..................And each one no longer than 2mins.

Yes its Good.....................What TEMPO-BPM.......... is that ?