Music GCSE Composition

Hey, this is my GCSE 'Music For A Special Event' composition, the event was valentines day, aww.. :P Been meaning to upload it for a while...

When I gave it to my music teacher, I had recorded a vocal melody over the top too, but I prefer it without, the whole thing was rushed the two days before the deadline. Without the lyrics, it's kinda samey after the intro untill the middle eight, which I didn't know it had untill my teacher said he liked the middle eight, ;) so feel free to skip to there after the intro, it's around 50 seconds, and from 1 minute 40, it repeats untill the end, so feel free to stop it there..

Some bits are a little out of time, but it's only a rough version without the lyrics, might do it again for fun.. haha, any comments would be appreciated.. Thanks. :D

All the sounds except for the guitar are from a sound box, and I did not use a drum pre-set each part of the drum was on a different key... recorded all the sounds from my dad's keyboard.

The time on the actual tracks messed up, dunno why, but it means if you listen to it, and don't move the time cursor thingy on the track, the middle eight will start at 1 minute 50'ish, which is really close to the end of the track, even though it's only about half way through the track??? Oh well, happens on my mp3 player, and windows media player, anyone know why this might be..?

Click here to listen to Music-GCSE-Composition

I was soo pleased I managed to get steal pans into a GCSE composition.. lol :P

Wow this is really nice.

I actually skipped my GCSE in Music (because I didn't like the teacher) but when I did A level, our teacher pretty much left us to our own devices so when I got to University, I was pretty much self taught.

From the sounds of this, you are both very talented and have a teacher who gives dam!

Any ideas of what you got for this piece?

Thanks, shame about your teacher, yeah my music teacher was great, he would always go out of his way to make sure the music department was as well equiped and as accessable as possable, he made sure everyone was as prepared for the exam as they could be, and made the most of the time they had for coursework.. The last two years in music have been great fun.. Another great music teacher left in year 8, she was such a great teacher, our class performed a goodbye song for her, and me and another guy in my for bought her a didgeridoo.. :P

It got 30/30.

I am not surprised by that mark to be honest. Are you planning to do Music A level?

Wow this i really good lol I did a christening piece for my special events :P (organ for the win ^.^)

Can you post your integrated assignment too?

Awesome piece well done deserves the 30/30!

Ferret

Thanks for your kind comments.. :D Nah not doing music A level, really just something I do in my spare time. Probably post the intergrated assignment later, didn't like it as much.. :P

The instrument that sounds Jamican, which one is that. I love how you incoporate that instrument.

:cool:Ooh yeah!

The piano slide into the steel drums was tight.