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ello everybody, I've spent many months working on three short new piano pieces for beginning to intermediate students. These are originally intended for children to play, but could also be for beginning adults. In these pieces, I've also tried to discover my own voice and style, do let me know how I've done in those areas. Other feedback related to technique, harmony and playability would be much appreciated. Poem 1: "based on a theme by Beethoven", updated score Poem 2: "the quirky detective", updated score Poem 3: "the crazed capybara", score

Hey these are great! It's a bit dissonant and difficult for children imo, but like mentioned, intermediate kids or adults could benefit. I've always thought that if I were ever a composition teacher, this would be something that I would have people write. It's cool to tone your style and writing down to it's more bare bones, and I think it's wonderful to explore. You should write more of these! Nice job at making them all different. The third was my favorite, but I enjoyed them all. Well done!

Just finish watching Princess Mononoke, another fuxxing great film from Miyazaki. The soundtrack again by Joe Hisaishi, is again fuxxing great… Maybe this one sounds like FF soundtrack, idk!

Hey there I really like this! It reminds me of Mario 3 for some reason 😄 I like the catchy ideas with rhythm and melody, but it sounds like this is the start to something rather than being a completed piece. You have cool ideas over the static 5/4, but I think the music was ready to move on harmonically. I would explore your rhythm on the V chord (A) or somewhere else and see where that leads your melody writing. You've also set yourself up with some motivic elements, as your theme could be expanded and tweaked. Great start, I'd love to see where this piece goes if you decide to elaborate your ideas. Well done!

Are you a percussionist? Great percussion effects! A very interesting work ... although the motifs are recurrent - I didn't find it repetitive at all. The work's driving nature swept me along. You mentioned program notes ... I didn't see any on the link. I feel a narrative of the struggle in this "revolt" should accompany the composition ... as it is a programmatic work. Did you imagine different sections reflecting different actions? Mark

I found a mash-up of jazz standard "Take Five" and the Chocobo theme from Final Fantasy games! This is actually in FFVII:

Yeah Thinking functions are the weakest for INFP so it would be really to build up theories for you guys, unless your mind tell you you must learn those theories or you love them, then you would really learn them well! Given the secondary Extraverted intuition keep exploring new music and getting insights by brainstorming would really help you find your fav. theory learning method! Btw. I guess there are a lots of INFPs on the forum as well! Henry