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Another simplistic and semi minimalistic piece I wrote. It's in simple binary form with simple harmony. The purpose of writing this is for mainly practicing 4 part harmony writing and also as a way to cope with depression. Constructive feedback is warmly welcome

You're too kind! Means a lot to me. 🙂 It took me a little more than 3 hours to compose. Thanks for asking

Your treatment of the voices works well, alternating between parallel, contrary and oblique motion. Solid four-part writing, I think. Also really nice to listen to. Simple as you sought it to be, but without being overly repetetive and with a nice sense of breath in the melody. Definitely more than an exercise in four-part writing. How long did this take you?

I just gave your piece a listen and read along. A short summary: M. 7: This cadence does not really work. The i7sus4 is neither suspenseful nor consonant, just jarring. This is exacerbated through your bass movement, jumping from the minor seventh between g# and f# into a perfect eleventh. No style I know would use this movement to end a section. MM. 9 ff.: Weird chromatic movement, ending abruptly again MM. 13 ff.: s. above MM. 17: An almost pleasant Cmaj7 on the second beat MM. 21: Almost climactical, but Emin6 - G#minadd9 crashes it yet again MM. 23 ff.: Off to an interesting start(nice rising figure topped with an apoggiatura), only to go wrong again MM. 26 - 49(fin): This does not work at all Now, not to leave without proper constructive criticism, I might add: I skimmed through other works of yours. In your Fantasy for Violin and Piano, you mostly manage to deliver a coherent(although very diatonic experience), leaving odd jumps aside for a second. Your Concerto Sketch does this even better, despite being just a sketch. The beginning up to M. 7 works quite well. MM. 12-21 are also fine. Elsewhere, however, it is really disjointed. Especially the second half is just odd, the ending coming out of nowhere. What I think you fail at is subverting expectations: Instead, you introduce nice ideas and then go off the rails, leaving the listener behind. Maybe you should try your hands at a smaller, simpler form. This piece does neither work as a sketch nor a fully-fledged work.

Hi there! I have a performance coming up with the trumpet ensemble of the 126th Army Band, and since we have some doublers (one also plays horn, one plays euph, and I am actually a tubist), I decided to include those as well. I also recently built a subcontrabass trumpet seen below, so I figured this would be a fun opportunity to try it out. For the music itself, I wanted to create something with a relatively standard fanfare feel, but using some chords more commonly found in neo-soul music (min 11s and Maj 9s) to represent the area where we are stationed (Grand Rapids area) which is very hip and modern. I recorded all the parts and a multitrack video is coming soon!