cunparis

Hi, would you mind sharing how you got to the "4-part writing" stage? That would be helpful for me because I'm not there yet.

Great ideas, thanks for sharing. This gives me lots of ideas to work on and will keep me busy. It's not jazz, I came up with it while playing my native american flute. I lost my microphone so I have to order a new one. When it comes in I will be able to post in the unfinished work section. I'd love to get ideas & feedback from others so I'm really looking forward to it. Thanks for the suggestion.

Hello, I'm learning about composition and how to write melodies. Today I wrote a small melody in AABA form. At 90 bpm it is slightly over 1 minute long. Most pieces are 3-4 minutes. I'm at a loss as to what I can do to make this piece longer. The only thing I can think of is my A is too short - it's 8 measures. Then the B is 8 measures as well. So that gives me 32 measures total. My background is more in jazz and in jazz that would be very typical. In jazz it'd be played once, and then repeated with various band members improvising on the melody and then finish up with the original. But I don't really want to do a jazz style so I don't know what to do. Even if I had some kind of intro and then build it up by adding some chords etc. that probably won't be enough. Any ideas would be greatly appreciated. Thanks