Gravel Walk (Unfinished)

I've always loved folk songs. This is actually one of my favorite folk songs, and I decided to arrange it for concert band. However, a few months ago I had a big computer crash, and I didn't have the score to this piece backed up, and so now all I have is the audio file. I was thinking about trying to re-arrange this piece some time in the near future (or take my hard drive to a guy who may be able to get the lost Finale files back), so I just wanted to post this piece and get feedback for if I ever try to write a piece with this folk song again....or if I recover the file. I was still working on the end section, including the last chord of the piece. Maybe one day I'll be able to finish it. So....let me know what you think! I'm sorry that there's no score.

Gravel Walk (Unfinished)

Neat track Cransworth! You created a cool atmosphere with your dynamics and instrumentation. 1:00 was a good place to pick it up; it felt very natural

I think you could recreate this score pretty easily. I mean, probably 70% of the piece is the softer sections with only a few voices going on. The louder busier sections would be a little bit tougher, but you could always re-arrange them into something cooler than it was before.

The last section does feel like a little strange. It's not as polished as the rest of the track. Your piece has a nice energy to it that feels a little awkward ending with a fat chord. For the ending, you could try for fun a flourish that goes up the scale and lands on a short light chord and then drops down on a two short, light, lower chord 2 beats later. What do you think?

Neat piece!

-John

Neat track Cransworth! You created a cool atmosphere with your dynamics and instrumentation. 1:00 was a good place to pick it up; it felt very natural

I think you could recreate this score pretty easily. I mean, probably 70% of the piece is the softer sections with only a few voices going on. The louder busier sections would be a little bit tougher, but you could always re-arrange them into something cooler than it was before.

The last section does feel like a little strange. It's not as polished as the rest of the track. Your piece has a nice energy to it that feels a little awkward ending with a fat chord. For the ending, you could try for fun a flourish that goes up the scale and lands on a short light chord and then drops down on a two short, light, lower chord 2 beats later. What do you think?

Neat piece!

-John

Thanks for commenting!

Yeah, like I said, the last section - especially the last chord - was something I still needed to work out. I like the idea of the flourish at the end. I'll definitely try that out when/if I recreate/recover it. Thanks for the input!