July 4, 200916 yr This is the first piece I've finished in about a year and a half... I've had terrible writer's block since then. I wrote this piano etude for the etude contest thingy here on YC, and decided to post it here to get some feedback. The techniques I chose to write this piece around were: constant 3 against 4 patterns, bringing out a melody against accompaniment in the same hand, scalar figures, odd chord formations, and occasional hand crossing. Enjoy, and of course, any comments are greatly appreciated! Etude in C Etude in C.pdf
July 9, 200916 yr WOW, this is FANTASTIC! Really? No comments on this? WTF This is such an amazingly colorful piece. I love the inventive rhythm in it, lots of spicy chords! My favorite part is the middle with the trillish right hand and the left hand plunking broken chords. Awesome dude. Seriously, more people should be commenting on your music, it's wonderful. Vince
July 9, 200916 yr i agree it was an extremely well written piece... reminded me in parts of Debussy's piano writing (Prelude from Pour le Piano specifically) and John Adams. My only complaint was that it went by so fast that it was hard to keep up with the score ;)
July 10, 200916 yr Magnificent work. I'm currently learning to play it. I will post a audio file if I get it down good enough. I'm glad you snapped out of your writer's block. A very grand piece, various moods, and overall quite inventive. As said before, I hear a little "Pour le Piano" in the making. Bravo, bravo. And more importantly... Encore. I'd love to hear(and perform) other works of yours, if you write in this style all the time. Again, nice work.
July 10, 200916 yr Author Thanks everyone! Wow- when you get out of a long writer's block, you suddenly have NO clue how to look at what you've written... it's like you lose any concept of good or bad, because you're pretty much just happy something got written in the first place! But I'm glad to hear you guys like it. @Maestro - That would be great if you could record it! Don't kill your hands tho - start slow! I plan on writing another etude, in F#major very soon. Look out for it! Thanks, guys!
July 12, 200916 yr Very nice! I like it a lot. The only thing I'm unsure about is the exact repetition of the first part in the reprise at the end. To my liking, it somehow "tames" the piece a bit too much, by giving it such a perfectly round form. After all the interesting developments that went on before it, one can then finally lean back, already knowing what's happening, which I personally am not so fond of (but that's a matter of taste). Maybe it would be different if there was some unexpected twist at the end, but the bombastic final chord cements the formal closedness even more, without really being able to carry on the energy that kept the piece going all the time. But as I said, it's mostly a matter of taste and a detail. I still like it all very much.
