La Danse du Corbeau (Crow's Dance)

http://m.1asphost.com/Therealnobody/No.%20...u%20Corbeau.mid

Does this have any future? Should I finish it? I can't decide if I like it or hate it, what do you guys think?

The beginning harmony gave me a headache. Sounds too similar to Chopin's Etude no.1 opus.10. at the end. If you want it to sound better, you should work on it longer. I think it has the potential to be good.

Just for my information, is it the harmony of specific chords or the harmonic progression? Thanks for the comments :)

Why would you even think of abandoning something like this? What you've written so far is quite sound, compositionally. I'd love to see a score of even just that little bit to see what crazy two-hand acrobatics are capable of producing so many notes.

Composing piano pieces like this with tons of notes in a small time period is an exercise in patience and in not getting exasperated. There are so many 'little' concerns to worry about that it is very easy -- if not inevitable -- to miss the forest for the trees, or perhaps to miss the forest for the individual leaves on the trees. I would say to keep pressing onward with it. If you are getting tired of worrying about all the little notes, why not just compose the skeleton of the rest of it -- the melody and just enough of the accompaniment to know what harmony it shall be? That way you can get an idea of the overall picture of your piece, so that when you go back to etch in all the fast notes, you at least have an idea of how it all fits together.

I can't see why you would want to stop work on this. It's very promising thus far.

Your title gave me inspiration for a piece ;)

So far, your Etude is fine - fairly pleasant to listen to - and concentrates on one hand at a time, which although I'm not a piano player, I suspect is not too hard as these things go. At this point however you have two themes that you have introduced and the trick will be to see what you can do with them. For what it's worth, the second them in the left hand with the major chords at the end is weaker in my opinion. Perhaps simpler (harmonically) is the way to look at it. Just my mentioning this should put some obvious ideas into your head.

I can't see why you would want to stop work on this. It's very promising thus far.

Thank you :ninja:, and thank you very much for your tips. I see what you mean, I may be getting too caught up with the details to see the big picture.

So far, your Etude is fine - fairly pleasant to listen to - and concentrates on one hand at a time, which although I'm not a piano player, I suspect is not too hard as these things go. At this point however you have two themes that you have introduced and the trick will be to see what you can do with them. For what it's worth, the second them in the left hand with the major chords at the end is weaker in my opinion. Perhaps simpler (harmonically) is the way to look at it. Just my mentioning this should put some obvious ideas into your head.

Yup it has! Thanks.

Definitely finish it.