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Hello @UncleRed99, Thank you so much for your feedback! I envy you so much for playing trumpet! Two of my favorite Jazz musicians are Miles Davis and Chet Baker, so the trumpet is one of the instruments I listen to the most! I got stuck with the piece because it became hard creating solos with the drums, bass, and everything together. It is still a work in progress and I plan to finish it all, but I think it will take me longer than expected to learn enough to complete it (particularly because I need to understand several instruments for creating the solos, and, specially the drums and creating transitions is being harder than I expected. I need to improve my improvisation skills too for making solos sound natural :S). In the meantime I am also trying to compose the shout chorus and the ending of the piece. Jazz is so different to classical music that I feel like I need to learn everything from scratch once more 😅 I will make sure to let you know when it is completed! Thank you for you encouragement!

In the Microtonal Invention, I only modified the 3rds of major and minor triads, although you could also modify the 3rds of the counterpoint. But if you go by the counterpoint then, as the piece progresses through different passages the tendency would be for the piece to get more and more out of tune in relation to 12 tet. I wanted to keep the piece basically in 12 tet and only modify choice tones to keep the best features of 12 tet which is good sounding perfect 8ves, 5ths and 4ths. Also, since major and minor 2nds are also compromised in 12 tet so that they can fit equally into the perfect 8ve, if you modified each interval in counterpoint to be more like just tuning, you'd get more and more out of tune especially if the scalar motion traversed larger intervals than the 8ve. Check out this video that @Henry Ng Tsz Kiu shared with me: Thank you! Yeah I was stoked to hear microtones in @Mooravioli's recent orchestral piece so I of course I decided I had to try it out!