"A Piece of Me, for You" - Kyle Hilton (UncleRed99) - Original Composition

A Piece of Me, for You.pdf 

Despite the simplicity, I think this one turned out absolutely awesome. it was inspired by some... for lack of better words... interestingly put together scoring done by a novice user on the Musescore platform. The only thing that is anywhere near the same is the feel I thought he was goin for, and the key of Ab Major being used, with emphasis on the Major 7ths. (Which I love so so so much. Me and Major 7th chords talk with one another often... hehe) 

Hope you all enjoy. Let me know what you think! 

IF anybody wanted to pick up the piece to play it, please please please feel free to do so, I just want a recording of it 😅  😅  😅

On 6/27/2025 at 3:35 AM, UncleRed99 said:

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Despite the simplicity, I think this one turned out absolutely awesome. it was inspired by some... for lack of better words... interestingly put together scoring done by a novice user on the Musescore platform. The only thing that is anywhere near the same is the feel I thought he was goin for, and the key of Ab Major being used, with emphasis on the Major 7ths. (Which I love so so so much. Me and Major 7th chords talk with one another often... hehe) 

Hope you all enjoy. Let me know what you think! 

IF anybody wanted to pick up the piece to play it, please please please feel free to do so, I just want a recording of it 😅  😅  

I’d love to hear y’all’s thoughts on this, whenever time allots for anyone to respond 🙂 

LoL nice self promotion 😛

Will listen to it when I have time

Henry

A beautiful piece.
One observation: the accompanying pattern, where the final part of the bar consists of long notes, plus the fact that the melody is structured in one-bar “blocks,” makes it sound a little static.
Also, the fact that it remains in diatonic chords the whole time.

Nice piece! It makes me think of the C418 minecraft soundtrack. 

Yes, it does feel static, but personally I don't mind that at all. Although the best moments are when you break that staticness, like in bar 30-something with the sixtuplet.

I like how you - when using the same chord for two successive bars - thin out / change the texture. Well done!

Kind regards, Marius

9 hours ago, Henry Ng Tsz Kiu said:

LoL nice self promotion 😛

Will listen to it when I have time

Henry

 

Yeah sorry tried to do it on my phone and it broke and I couldn’t fix it. 🤣🤣🤣🤣

6 hours ago, Luis Hernández said:

A beautiful piece.
One observation: the accompanying pattern, where the final part of the bar consists of long notes, plus the fact that the melody is structured in one-bar “blocks,” makes it sound a little static.
Also, the fact that it remains in diatonic chords the whole time.

 

Yes, the intent was to be more static in the creation. As recently I’ve been trying to work on my form and trying to be careful with ensuring that the melodic / harmonic voices are distinct from one another, as I have been told in previous pieces that I tend to blur the line between them at times. 
 

plus, I believe that soft/heartfelt pieces express much of their beauty within their simplicity. “Less is more” is how I see it with this sort of theme. Allowing the sound of the instruments to breathe in the air for a moment, and giving the room a chance to carry sound, in my opinion, impacts an audience better than if there was fluently complex chord structures, and limited breaks between phrases. 🙂 

PS 

id also like to point out that this sort of theme is quite different from my typical stylistic choices when it comes to composing. So was really dipping my toes in the water with this one. I’m usually writing in a more “Adagio” or “Andante” style, rather than “Grave” or “Larghetto” 

2 hours ago, Marius_ said:

Nice piece! It makes me think of the C418 minecraft soundtrack. 

Yes, it does feel static, but personally I don't mind that at all. Although the best moments are when you break that staticness, like in bar 30-something with the sixtuplet.

I like how you - when using the same chord for two successive bars - thin out / change the texture. Well done!

Kind regards, Marius

 

You know what, that crossed my mind too 🤣 how it was reminiscent of the OG Notch Minecraft soundtrack. Love that someone else thought so too. 
 

and I’m glad that you enjoyed the subtlety of my work here 🙂 I succeeded in my intentions with the sections you mentioned! 
 

thanks for the feedback my man 

Hey @UncleRed99!

Personally I feel like the time signature of the piece should be 4/4 with one quaver reduced, since I find that extra quaver beat a bit long for me, but that's personal haha. Maybe this is one of the reason the music sound more static like @Luis Hernández said. But I must say this piece is really calm to listen to and I love those dissonances of seventh. Thx for sharing!

Henry

I agree.
There are many ways to generate emotion, or to try to...
I don't think that a sense of calm is incompatible with resources that focus on musicality and phrasing.
This is very evident in vocal music, even in the great pop performers.
A very simple and effective example from Beethoven: there is a first bar, which is isolated (by the quarter note rest), there is a second bar that is identical and works the same way. And then, the two simply appear without the pause. 
Wow, a super-effective way to generate tension, dynamism, and phrasing without changing the basics.

Charles Ives' The Unanswered Question is a fantastic example. The harmony couldn't be more static, but the melody (more or less dense in texture depending on the moment) does not conform to the divisions of the harmony. In fact, the tempo of the harmonic part is fixed (Largo) and that of the other parts changes.