Ol' Village of Serenity

Just a simple theme fit for village music. Not too good with flutes but I hope it was done well. The biggest challenge was going from the C major scale to the E min scale, thought it would sound good together maybe.

Edit:

I wanted to so badly have a counter melody to the flute using the Oboe but didn't really know the correct way to do it since to me, the flute left no room for a counter (or perhaps it did but I didn't know) I find counter melodies hard to do and may need some advice on that for future reference.

Edited September 24, 20169 yr by LostSamurai

What happens here is that the melody never rests. It's good you leave moments of "silence", there you can write a countermelody.

In general terms, when there are two melodies, when one is less active (long notes, rests) the others is responding.

Your transition to E minor was quite good! I would put a little more emphasis on the B since that's the V of iii, and to put a little more attention onto it.
Suspensions: The general rule for suspensions is that the note you're trying to resolve to is not also present in the suspension. You also shouldn't be resolving to a 13th tone unless it jumps to that new key. Things for you to think about. Nice!

@Luis

So basically counter melodies are only possibe if the main melody sustains long notes or stops playing altogether?

@Monarcheon

What I tried to do there with the last four chords before it went to E min was I - V - IV - IV/iii 

In the last chord I added a E note underneath it...or was I suppose to add the E min chord under the F chord? 

OK. I think everything is possible.

But regarding two simultaneous melodies, particularly if the two  are equally relevant (principal), it's better that they "take turns".

Take a look at the master of masters: Bach, the first invention (two voices). Whe one is active, the other one is less active and vice versa.

See, this is where a score would be nice, haha. Are you sure your program doesn't have a score export?
IV/iii, technically really isn't a thing in the way I told you. The progression technically is I - V - IV - vi, with the vi chord functioning as that strange little anomaly there. 

@Luis Hernández

Thanks I'll take an in depth look at the sheet later.

@Monarcheon

I use FL Studio which I'm not sure if it has a score export I haven't really checked that out. I thought about getting Finale when I can afford it.

Ah ok. I thought I had to add a E key under the F chord...crap. I'll remember this next time around.

Thanks guys.

I cannot get the audio to play past 0:28. But the music I heard was pretty pleasant, and I got where you were going with it. 

As far as countermelodies go, Luis gave a good example to study. I would recommend spending some time studying counterpoint if you get a chance. Not that you have to follow all the rules in your compositions, of course. But those kinds of exercises are good at getting you to think about how good melodies fit together. It all really depends on what it is about writing the melodies together that makes it hard on you.

13 minutes ago, fishyfry said:

I cannot get the audio to play past 0:28. But the music I heard was pretty pleasant, and I got where you were going with it. 

As far as countermelodies go, Luis gave a good example to study. I would recommend spending some time studying counterpoint if you get a chance. Not that you have to follow all the rules in your compositions, of course. But those kinds of exercises are good at getting you to think about how good melodies fit together. It all really depends on what it is about writing the melodies together that makes it hard on you.

 

When it gets to 0:28 does it stop? That's weird I can try and send you the link?

Nevermind. I don't use firefox, so this particular player sometimes messes up for me, but for some reason it took way more attempts than normal to listen to this one all the way through. Now that I've heard it all, let me add that the transition to Em worked really well. I've been listening to all the stuff you put up on here, and I can tell you're learning a lot. So congrats!

@fishyfry 

Thanks man. Yeah just coming here to the forums and listening to music you guys post and reading everyone's opinion helped me tremendously.