UPLOADED A DEMO FOR ONE OF THE 3 DARK PIECES I HAVE BEEN WRITING LATELY, TWO OTHERS WILL FOLLOW SOON
well ive been very busy lately and havent got the time to spend that much time at music, but almost all of my free time has been spend well on music
for the once who are interested i am going to keep things updated frequently at a very simple system, wanna know more then just ask
trying to keep every musical related activity in here that keeps me busy whenever i have the time and even when i dont have the time :P
i could upload some demos, but decided not to because they are all on too early phases in my opinion, so you have to do with some words only for quite some time now
(the priority levels are just to show where i spend most time on lately or plan to spend a lot of time on)
priority high:
- learning: greensleeves
- learning: the legend of zelda wind waker - farewell hyrule king (a piano version on an older soundtrack from the zelda series, the legend of zelda a link to the past - hyrule castle)
- practicing and sometimes making attempts to get a beautiful recording of my newest dark themed piano piece
- following my piano lessons
- checking out my new music library (which has gotten HUGE)
priority medium:
- learning: the legend of zelda ocarina of time - lost woods
- practicing a small new composition which is harder then i can currently play (half in my head, half written on the computer... only a small concept being able to play), cant explain the style and dont know any piece in the same style either
- starting new compositions and improvisations
- making future plans on how to live as a motivated composer/musician in a wold where its hard to earn a living in the music industries (and im too much a beginner too)
- learning: chopin- Prelude op. 28, 15 (a way too hard piece again, but i love the song so im trying some part of it)
- writing a piece for harpichord suported by some wind instruments (and maybe some other instruments)
priority low:
- download music from great composers (low because im taking a break now... i have downloaded way more then i have the time for anyway)
- checking the great amateur music here on newgrounds
- rewatching nodame cantabile (a japanese animation series about classical music, its great)
- keeping all the pieces i already learned in my memorie by frequently playing them
- learning music theories
- making all kinds of musical plans
- writing a guitar piece for some people i know who play the guitar... might be an original piece or some piece which i have written already and altered to be able to play on a guitar
- taking some ear training to learn to detect interfalls, notes and those thing by ear
tolerateu
kinda jealous
really wish i can compose music.
I think of different music and how to mix and match, but draw a blank as soon as i dit infront of the piano.
Use ur skills wisely, young Skywalker....
Musical-Memoirs
i know some main reasons (there are a lot more though) why some musicians are not able to compose music themselves
one of the reasons that blocks you forever is the lack of creativity, but if you have something in your head already then thats houldnt be the case here, luckily
another reason is being a too skilled player already
some musicians can play beautiful music, sometimes very complicated music too... those people are so far that they wont be satisfied by something simple (and i mean something really simple (i could show you a lot of projects that i deleted long ago from here already or some pieces i never uploaded because they were so simple, yet with a lot of mistakes))
playing music and composing music are two different things (with similarities of course), both need different training... after all the time writing music (the electronic pieces are the same) i am only now at the level to make things in my head into reality a little, but even now, i can have beautiful ideas in my head but simply cant make it in reality (i dont even come close to what i wanted)
you just need to make a few small things of a few seconds while not being critical at all then slowly working to bigger and bigger... or try to improvise and simply continue no matter what mistake you make till you end up at some part you might be able to work on
but one thing is sertain... composing takes way more time then learning a piece, while not even achieving the results you wanted/expected to even when you dont mind it being simple... improvising is the only fast way, but at least 50% of my improvisations are completely useless whiteout any nice second and not even 5% survive it to sound kinda nice for longer then 30 seconds from the 5-10 minutes i usually improvise
while you are jealous about my composing, im jealous about you piano playing, though i never heard it i just know it would be way better then i am, even though im able to play some very complicated pieces, im still struggling with the beginner pieces xD
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and something else...
a piano piece i have been working on for a few weeks is finally 'finished'
i am amazed how much i have progressed in many ways
hopefully i can still record it today to show you, since that newest piece is my pride
may the Force be with you!!!