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I've composed a few simple popular/popular-classical style songs with guitar accompaniment, but I'v
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I defined a somewhat new music form, or genre, called Music Polyminiature, and more generally, Music Polycomposition. This is described in the first video of channel
https://www.youtube.com/@Polyminiatures
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I am a beginner composer to write some quiet piano solo songs. I am using digital keyboard and connect it to FL studio to record. I use Alice Piano VST for most of my songs via KOMPLETE.
Even thoug I have already max the volume in Alice keyb
Read more…Hello all, I've been dabbling with writing music and songs on and off for a long time. I am very amateur as will be apparent from this request. In my song writing moments I can always string along some pleaseing basic chords to generate a verse or pe
Read more…Here is a recording of a new piano piece I wrote last week which now functions as the introduction for a larger work I wrote some years ago. It's in the format of a video which also gives information about the larger work which is a musical story for
Read more…My first ever piece to be published on an online community of composers/other music fans.
A fairly simple calming and intriguing(I hope :P) piano piece in the key of G Minor, inspired by -stars. The intention is to give the listeners an impression o
Read more…Over the past decade or so, the concept of melody seems to have changed from what it was for Rock or Big Band melodies. There are songs being written with the traditional concept of melody and I have provided some examples below. However, the most
Read more…Good evening fellow musicians, I'm opening this discussion asking for help, hoping that this is the right subforum to post in.
I am looking for poetry (German) to write a lied to, the problem is, I'm pretty ignorant and my online search attempts didn'
Hi all, I wrote this short piece for the Two Part Invention contest
a short while back . It was just sitting around gathering dust and I decided to try some new sounds.
Originally writen for piano or harpsichord, this mix s
Read more…I'm a composer and singer-songwriter. Although I do perform my own songs, my real dream is to write music to be performed by other amazing artists who I feel would do the song far better justice vocally, and of course production wise.
My questions is
Read more…This is actually not a real rhyme dictionary. Just a dictionary with all words alphabetized from the end of the word. But it works quite well! Say you want something that rhymes with "lead". The dictionary gives you the following words:
l
Read more…Questions for songwriters and composers - Peter Clough.doc
Hi guys,
I need songwriters and composers to fill in questionnaire to help me with my final dissertation for University.
I am a fellow composer/songwriter and my dissertation is an investi
Read more…So on the topic of orchestral arrangement, what are effective instrument combinations? In example, the violins and the flute go nicely together. What are some instrument combinations that would help beef my sound without it getting muddy? I love 'epi
Read more…I have written a very short piece for the ukulele; https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t-5sk2Tatn8 I hope you enjoy it, and please feel free to offer criticism! Jon :)
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My wife came home from work one evening and related a conversation with a co-worker that said she was taking up ballroom dancing to "meet a better class of men"
The (female) vocal in the MP3 is represented by a flute and the attached pdf
Read more…What do you do with a song after you write it?
I wrote this song. But it seems to me that what makes or breaks a song is the performer.
Here's the lyrics, and I have an mp3 of me performing the song. But I'm not much of a musician or singer. I'd
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I hope this is within the realms of 'OK to discuss', as I'm looking for advice/suggestions.
I've just been nominated as a finalist in the UK Songwriting Contest 2011 in the adult contemporary category. The winner has already been announce
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