Duet for Clarinet and Bass Clarinet

This duet was inspired by riffs I had collected playing clarinet. The bass adds some harmonic varience, although it occasionally gets the melody. This is my first piece. Its still a draft. Please offer tips if you feel the piece is lacking. Thank You!

Duet for Clarinet and Bass Clarinet

I'm using a software called musicscore. Don't get it its horrible. I only included the inferior midi so that you could have a refrence point to the score.

I soon I will put up a recording of me playing the actual piece, but until then... enjoy.

I like that you took somewhat of a pop music approach to the piece but would suggest that whenever you try to use a more pop music sound on wind instruments, you still need to try to explore the more coloristic and agile abilities of the instruments. Clarinet does not have a particularly complex sound like an electric guitar would so you tend to need to try to use more complex lines and ornamentation. Nice start though.

Could you explain exactly what the "riffs" you gathered were :P

It's nice, it's a bit pop-sounding in parts. I don't have too much to say about it, it's pretty short and not too complex. It's a good start for a first piece.

Oh I used museScore too a few times and it is kinda scary lol Hope you get Sibelius or Finale.. would help you a lot. This is a nice balance between instruments. The simple counterpoint works well. You need to vary things a bit. Maybe you could add a variation of this with more shorter notes. Because it is only two instruments you are limited harmonically so you might need to use arpeggio shapes to show chords to us or ornament the lines more to keep it spicy thanks for sharing. for a first composition it is a nice solid piece

I always feel like the less instruments you use in a piece, the more you have to manipulate the ones you have to make everything sound full and interesting.

A big part of that is expanding the instruments across their range, using any kind of variation possible (articulation, tempo, rhythm, you name it), expressions to change tone color (not like we could hear it through MIDI now, could we? :hmmm: ).

I was once asked to write a piece for solo flute only using five notes. It sucked. BUT-because I had less material to work with, the more I had to use what I had to make it interesting. I think that's something really important to think about with smaller chamber pieces like this.

Make sense? Hope to hear another piece from you soon.

O my God, that's some of the most woefully bad midi I've ever heard in my life! DX I'm so sorry!

If you want, you can make a midi file of it, upload it to Box.net (trial membership is permanent and free), send the link to me, and I can run it through a MUCH better midi software!

PM if you want to do that, k?

As for the piece, I really can't say what I think of it until I hear it in much better form. Seriously, it's horrible! :(