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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

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

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?

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

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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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!

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