5 Pieces for guitar

Just wrote some pieces for guitar! I have not had any time to practise them though, they are playable and I am a good guitarist, but I have some other projects I need to finish at the mo!

I have set up videos on youtube for them. these are recordings of the sibelius player playing them (sounds allot better than MIDI). The player has made a few mistakes but I will point them out in each piece description.

Oh and if you can only listen to one piece then try the choro! It's the one I'm most happy with. oh and the threnody is quite long at the end, you don't have to listen to it all but if you could have a look over the score that would be ace!

5 pieces for guitar.

I decided to write a suite of pieces for guitar, it originally was going to be 12 pieces using little ideas I had came up with but never fully developed. I then decided that I should focus on just 5 pieces as it meant I could make each piece of better quality.

Prelude

This was an idea that I had originally called 'arpeggios' because it only follows arpeggios and has no strict melody. The piece is also somewhat based around it being a study for guitar, and also inspired by some of villa lobos' etudes. The piece goes in an ABA Ternary Structure, with B being a kind of development and the last A being a rhythmical variation on the piece.

Clouds in the sky

Another piece based around some arpeggios at the beginning, although it is based on improvisation it is in rondo form. the first contrasting section is based on some latin styles; synchronization, and 7th chords etc. The last contrasting section is some kind of 'wrong' counterpoint. I started with a little theme and basically just built up some counterpoint that did not follow any strict rule.

Sib player note - sibelius doesn't play the appogiaturas well at all, they sound too fast than they should be.

Also for some reason it misses out some of the notes in one line of the arpeggio section.

Nocturne

Based on the night! I wrote this at night, when I could not sleep. I made a few themes and basically put them into different styles of playing rasquados, tremolos etc. I used these themes and repeated some to emphasize when you cannot sleep and you feel like the only one that's up in the world and time is simply dragging on!

Sib player note - sibelius doesn't play the rasquados (spanish style of strumming indicated by the arrows at the passage near the end)

Choro

This piece was based on a grade 8 guitar piece I learned called Rebolico by J Pernambuco. It follows the rondo form most choros do with each section changing key. It also contains some virtuosic passages.

Sib player note - Some of the dynamics changes only applied to certain voices of the piece, so at the end the bass may play quiet but the melody line might be really loud.

Threnody

Based on a piece called tristan by Astor Piazolla ( which you should check out, beautiful piece)

Okay I'm fortunate enough to not have anyone to dedicate this piece to. It was just when I wrote it it felt so depressing; what you'd get when someone dies. Also at the end it slows down to larghissimo - 20 bpm so it is incredibly slow and i thought this sounded effective and feels like someone's last steps before he kicks the bucket.

The dynamics and tempo are marked to literally 'die'

If anything it represents the 'death' or 'end' of the suite...I guess.

Please give me your feedback!

Thanks!

Part one - YouTube - guitar suite part 1

Part two - YouTube - guitar suite part 2

score - 5 Pieces for Guitar.pdf - File Shared from Box.net - Free Online File Storage

Hey. Wasn't you the guy that suggested MUSE? I hear in the first one the exact progression of "Ruled by Secrecy". Coincidence?

Hey. Wasn't you the guy that suggested MUSE? I hear in the first one the exact progression of "Ruled by Secrecy". Coincidence?

Haha yeah, well I was just doodling around with some notes, and I came out with that and I thought, kinda like ruled by secrecy, but then I realised this

1. It is only the first few bars with this and and it is vital for the chord progression

2. you've got to remember that Muse are influenced by classical so allot of their stuff sounds like other pieces anyway!

So although it obviously had some sort of sub conscious influence it was still something I feel I created.

But it's better sounding like Muse than crap eh?

Just wrote some pieces for guitar! I have not had any time to practise them though, they are playable and I am a good guitarist, but I have some other projects I need to finish at the mo!

I have set up videos on youtube for them. these are recordings of the sibelius player playing them (sounds allot better than MIDI). The player has made a few mistakes but I will point them out in each piece description.

Oh and if you can only listen to one piece then try the choro! It's the one I'm most happy with. oh and the threnody is quite long at the end, you don't have to listen to it all but if you could have a look over the score that would be ace!

5 pieces for guitar.

I decided to write a suite of pieces for guitar, it originally was going to be 12 pieces using little ideas I had came up with but never fully developed. I then decided that I should focus on just 5 pieces as it meant I could make each piece of better quality.

Prelude

This was an idea that I had originally called 'arpeggios' because it only follows arpeggios and has no strict melody. The piece is also somewhat based around it being a study for guitar, and also inspired by some of villa lobos' etudes. The piece goes in an ABA Ternary Structure, with B being a kind of development and the last A being a rhythmical variation on the piece.

Clouds in the sky

Another piece based around some arpeggios at the beginning, although it is based on improvisation it is in rondo form. the first contrasting section is based on some latin styles; synchronization, and 7th chords etc. The last contrasting section is some kind of 'wrong' counterpoint. I started with a little theme and basically just built up some counterpoint that did not follow any strict rule.

Sib player note - sibelius doesn't play the appogiaturas well at all, they sound too fast than they should be.

Also for some reason it misses out some of the notes in one line of the arpeggio section.

Nocturne

Based on the night! I wrote this at night, when I could not sleep. I made a few themes and basically put them into different styles of playing rasquados, tremolos etc. I used these themes and repeated some to emphasize when you cannot sleep and you feel like the only one that's up in the world and time is simply dragging on!

Sib player note - sibelius doesn't play the rasquados (spanish style of strumming indicated by the arrows at the passage near the end)

Choro

This piece was based on a grade 8 guitar piece I learned called Rebolico by J Pernambuco. It follows the rondo form most choros do with each section changing key. It also contains some virtuosic passages.

Sib player note - Some of the dynamics changes only applied to certain voices of the piece, so at the end the bass may play quiet but the melody line might be really loud.

Threnody

Based on a piece called tristan by Astor Piazolla ( which you should check out, beautiful piece)

Okay I'm fortunate enough to not have anyone to dedicate this piece to. It was just when I wrote it it felt so depressing; what you'd get when someone dies. Also at the end it slows down to larghissimo - 20 bpm so it is incredibly slow and i thought this sounded effective and feels like someone's last steps before he kicks the bucket.

The dynamics and tempo are marked to literally 'die'

If anything it represents the 'death' or 'end' of the suite...I guess.

Please give me your feedback!

Thanks!

Part one - YouTube - guitar suite part 1

Part two - YouTube - guitar suite part 2

score - 5 Pieces for Guitar.pdf - File Shared from Box.net - Free Online File Storage

hey very impressive...any more tracks..(I may have a go at a prelude like yours)