August 18, 200719 yr Hi, This piece has ben wandering around my fingers in improvisations for ages, and is based entirely on a simple riff in the left-hand of Cmin, Aflat maj and Bflat maj. I finally got round to sibelius-ing it the other day and am pretty pleased with the outcome. It's very right-handed - sorry! Huckle BREEZE.MID BREEZE.PDF
August 18, 200719 yr Nice piece, even if its a little bit repetitive. I think it might make good computer-game music maybe. I think you could do with more variation perhaps - I like to use more than just 3 chords in my pieces. I liked the bit where it changed to 4-4 time and you did something different with the left hand.
August 18, 200719 yr Author Thanks! I did consider varying the chords, and left-hand pattern, but decided that the simplicity it gave to it was more in keeping with what I had been improvising before I committed it to paper (well Sibelius). This is the first piece I have written that only uses 3 chords, and I must say I'm not going to make too much of a habit out of it. As for your comment about game music, that is not the first time someone has said that about my music. Perhaps that is my ideal career? :closedeyes: In all this isn't exactly pushing my compositional abilities, it's just a nice piece that I decided is probably worthy of more than languishing on my hard drive for the next decade.
August 19, 200719 yr This piece flows well and the melodic line does seem to fix the harmonic progression to those three chords. But you might add variety with a transition to a new key still keeping the three chord approach and then back to the original key. Also you might consider moving the melody to the left hand for a section. Both of these techniques could maintain the charming simplicity of the piece while providing variety.
August 19, 200719 yr Author Yeah, I was thinking last night that it isn't a complete piece... More a sketch of ideas for incorporation into a more interesting piece. Perhaps a different key,different texture, variation of the left hand or a generally contrasting section will compliment what already exists and so accentuate that flowing feeling. I think its main problem is that it still feels too much like an improvisation, as that is essentially all it is.
