Abracadabra Posted July 11, 2007 Share Posted July 11, 2007 Ok, I’m not as lame as this is going to sound. I play various instruments as a hobby, (I’m not a professional musician). However, recently I've been wanting to compose music that I play intuitively. I would like to write the music into score but my lack of technical knowledge of music theory is a huge obstacle for writing down the music that I can actually already play. The following is an example. This piano excerpt may sound like a pretty lame piece, but it’s merely a few measures of a much larger piece of music. My problem is that when I actually go to write this music out I have no idea what time signature to use. I have absolutely no sense of meter and so I don’t know how to time this. I wrote it using 4/4 time. I also tried 6/8 time and 9/8 time, but nothing seemed to work well. In short I have no clue how to write this music, but I can play it on the piano and it sounds alright there. So my question is, how do I write this out? Using 4/4 time works, but requires dotted quarter notes on two of the chords. Is this correct? Or perhaps I should ask, “Is this acceptable?”. The piece changes meter to 4/4 time later and then returns back to this piano part. Is this piano part also 4/4 time? Have I written it correctly? Or is there a better meter that I can write this in? It’s hard for me to write music so that it has the same cadence as when I play it. So for me this is entirely a question of physically laying it out in the music score. I have to use links because my computer won’t permit me to upload attachments on this site. The following link is a graphic of how I’ve written the score in 4/4 time. (9 KB .gif) I had to use layers to sustain the chords. http://www.csonline.net/designer/ideas/piano.gif The following is a midi sound file of these four measures (1 KB .mid) http://www.csonline.net/designer/ideas/piano-J.mid Please let me know what you think, and thanks for pondering an idiot’s question. James Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mark Posted July 11, 2007 Share Posted July 11, 2007 I don't see anything wrong with how you've notated it there, although it looks a bit messy, but that's no big issue. The meter is fine, and it is notated as you've played it. :cool: Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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