Etüde der Chromatischen Tonleiter

This isn't exactly one of my best compositions, but it's a fun little study for the chromatic scale. The hard part is switching the melody to your left hand and back.

Etüde der Chromatischen Tonleiter

This put a smile on my face :) Sounds like a delightfully twisted version of the "Bumblebee" piece :happy: I especially like your accompaniment chords for your chromatically running lines: they just fit the mood very well.

In all seriousness, nice job ^)^ Thanks for sharing :D

My heart aches for the poor, unfortunate child that will be required to play this piece in piano lessons... In all seriousness though, great job. My first thought, like Serge, was that it sounded very "Bumble Bee-ish," but I guess you will get that with any chromatic piece. Nice job!

It sounds like Flight because the melody basically follows the contour of the Rimsky-Korsakov in inversion, the accompaniment part is in the same style and has a similar format, and the harmonic progressions are pretty much identical. Put all that together and you have a strong aural association.

Be that as it may, it's definitely a nifty, fun little etude. Simple (relatively speaking), catchy, challenging, and constant theme for study. I think it's a very effective work. It's kinda funny that whatever machine/program you used to create the audio for this had a little trouble keeping time in some spots.

...a picardy third, though? Really? Well, if you say so. :phones:

To what Peter_W. said: Yes, well, I think the picardy third has been forgotten to the Baroque period. It's just a little mood-lightener for the ending of the etude.

Occasionally, I've had to use a 'whole note' to compensate for the modulation and to make it fit better, but it's actually hardly noticeable, (unless you play it yourself, of course).

First off, Great Piece! Second, I myself don't look on it as a flight of the bumble bee like piece, I look on it like a piano exercise like Gradus ad Parnnasum (I forgot who composed it.) This piece is very good for practicing the technique of playing a difficult melody in the right hand and a simple harmony in the left hand (this combo. makes it twice as challenging!)

Keep Composing

Jared

This reminds me of the "Chromatic" Chopin etude-- it's got a similar left hand pattern and most definitely a similar right hand pattern.

Linked here-- http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/%C3%89tude_Op._10,_No._2_%28Chopin%29

For such a short piece it's definitely fine to keep that same pattern of 16ths to melody (after all, was that not your intention, this being an etude?) but if you plan on expanding it and making it a "concertized" etude, then you might want to add a contrasting section. It need not be major, not must it be on a different theme, but it should drive the piece in a different way.

Nice use of offbeats from measures 9 to 16. The ending's a bit abrupt.

All in all, entertaining piece!

wow this is fun! Loved it all!

I think it works well in this short fashion, direct and not over-abused. Maybe making it too long on the same pattern will turn out to be monotonous. Once you understood the theme, the excessive use might not give a big benefit to the whole, unless you put something total different and makes this another impression in the whole.

I think it is perfect the way it is, nice, fun and challenging a bit! Bravo

It reminded me a little Flight of the Bumblebee by Rimsky Korsakov for his chromaticism. I was impressed as you compose. You use a unique style in a classic. Congratulations.