expert21

Kia Ora Alex, Nice piece. A few suggestions: Although tabs are quite common for notating guitar parts in pop styles, classical guitar pieces are generally only notated using standard musical notation. While you can still include a staff of tab in your score, it might be more conventional to remove it. If you do choose to include tab, please, PLEASE get an actual guitarist to write it out for you. The tabs generated by notation software are almost always shite and the one that Musescore generated for you is no exception. It has suggested some ridiculous unplayable shite (like in bar two, who the hell has hands large enough to press both the second and seventeenth frets at the same time?!) which render it's inclusion in your score quite pointless. All in all, this is a good start. I'm excited to see where this piece goes next! Ngā mihi, Archie

@Kvothe I don't know what you mean by "Cantai isn't AI". It literally says on it's website that it's an AI tool for generating vocal mock-ups.

My view on the matter is that while any pieces of "music" that are generated using tools like Suno should be completely banned, the use of AI tools like Cantai to generate mock-ups from midi or notation should be allowed as they are not really any different from generating a mock-up using sound samples (as others have already said). With regards to the issue of how we should go about detecting AI "music", I like @UncleRed99's idea, though I recognise @TristanTheTristan's concern that asking for technical music theory things like starting keys/time signatures may unfairly exclude composers who do not work in theory/notation heavy genres. I propose that we require users to write a short description of their piece naming some musical elements/techniques that were used (e.g. chord progressions, instrumentation etc.) alongside any additional details they might want to mention, like maybe what inspired them?

Watching this Wuthering Heights adaptation for my Uni English course. Music is absolutely phenomenal.

Kia Ora Henry, This is unbelievably beautiful! As I mentioned to you on discord, parts of this piece remind me heavily of the second movement of your 3rd Sonata (Y'know, the one that sounds like "random music"). The section from bar 35 is probably the part that to me is the most reminiscent of that piece. Definitely my favourite of this set so far, though maybe my mind will be changed after laughing hysterically at the 'Joke' whenever you post it. Ngā mihi, Archie

Kia ora Henry, I quite like the contrast between the 4/4 sections and the 12/8 sections in this piece. However, as I mentioned on Discord, the recording has room for improvement; you said it was recorded in a rush and it kind of shows. Regardless, like the intermezzo, I think this is a very lovely piece. Ngā mihi, Archie

IT DROPPED !?!?!?!

Kia ora Henry, Lovely little light piece. Brilliant performance as always. Ngā mihi, Arjuna

This piece originated as a String Quartet early last year. I put it aside for a few months to work on some other stuff for my school composition portfolio before returning to it last September after I was asked to write a (moderately difficult) piece for a small chamber group consisting of a clarinetist, violinist, cellist and bassist. Due to the stress of my final year of high school and a bout of severe writers block/self-doubt I was only able to write about 24 bars of material for the version of the piece attached below. I had much more written though I trimmed it down to a point where it felt like it could stop so that I would be able to submit it in my composition portfolio. I've considered letting this piece rot in unfinished piece hell (where a good chunk of my pieces are), though I've now decided to try and complete a full sonata form movement. Maybe after I finish that I'll turn this into a proper chamber work. Maybe I might turn it back into a string quartet. Thoughts?

It's time for the annual Young Composers Christmas Music Event! The Brief Same as ever year - write anything inspired by a winter celebration (e.g. Christmas, Hannukah, Kwanzaa) or just Winter in general (or Summer for those of us in the Southern Hemisphere). If you want to participate, pop a comment below! You could have a look at last year's competition for inspiration if you like: As usual there are no prizes and everyone's a winner. You will however, be rewarded with a beautiful badge designed by our very own @PeterthePapercomPoser. Submissions are open now (8th December). Submissions will be included in this thread. There is no deadline, though preferably your piece should be done before Christmas or at least before the end of December. What are you waiting for? Get composing!

You can upload a pdf.

Kia Ora @Ferrum I love this! Like Peter I think the main theme of this song is awesome and I love how you treat it in so many different and interesting ways. I also love you're orchestration and how you share the theme around the instruments. Such a great piece! Nga mihi, Arjuna

Thank you very much!

Thanks for the debt lol! Thank you so much Henry!

Thank you so much Peter!