The Angelic Hedgehog

I wrote this piece just this week. It was only a four-bar phrase up until about two o'clock today, when I attempted to make a short song out of a single extended cadence. As always, any comments are appreciated, so if you're thinking of replying, do it!

The Angelic Hedgehog.mid

Yeah, I've done that before. Make a cadential section go on forever and realise that I should probably end it.

I guess that all explains why I felt very little direction in the piece. About half way through the midi, it's great, but before that, it's kinda confusing and lost.

Nice sounds, just give a little more direction to the beginning half. Doesn't sound like it would be too hard to make work. I could see a whole piece emerge from just this.

Hedgehog? :sadtears:

I actually felt that it had less direction in the latter half. Maybe it just sucks.

And, erm, y'know, a hedgehog is a porcupine.

Up until about 5 seconds, I'm not really sure what's going on, musically, because the notes seem to almost fit into something harmonically tonal, and then it's chromatic, and there's nothing actually repetitive in the rhythm.

After that, chord progressions start "making sense", if that makes sense.

I like the harmony in a lot of places, it has a lot of depth. However, it seems to waver in and out of it, and when it resolved to the tonic at 24 seconds, it seemed abrupt and unsatisfying.

I know this wasn't helpful. Sorry. But I did listen, and say... something.

No, everything helps.

That first paragraph. . . are those complaints?

Not complaints, I just didn't "get it", I wasn't sure what was going on. There was no musical context for that to make sense, and it took awhile until I felt anything that was... harmonic or melodic.

Might be my fault though.

Well, I was working on the piece for hours in a row, and I know for a fact that it sounded completely different when I was finished working on it than when I didn't work on it for a few hours and listened again. Kinda cooler, kinda not as good, but different. Maybe I can try to recreate what I heard when I was working on it for a while.

Thanks for the comment.