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The Night Ends

Posted by Matthew James McMurry on June 16, 2011 at 6:04pm in Music Analysis and Critique

Being of young age and having no musical colleagues, I find it quite difficult to find good criticism. I shared this piece with a few of my friends asking for their opinions and I got 'nice', 'it's good', etc. To be honest I didn't learn much from those comments. It seems this forum is a pretty good place to garner some criticism, so I figure I'd give it a shot!

 

So anyway, here is my piece. The instrumentation is pretty sparse, just some guitar and some contrasting strings and synth. Tell me what you think!

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  • vincenti zghra June 16, 2011 at 10:02pm

    I don't know it's pretty simple, and pretty nice. I don't really like the strings, they sound like midi-strings with reverb and are quite muddy. But compositionally I would say this is fine, although for a complete piece I think you have to expand on the main motif and break away from the staticity rhythmically in some way. If I wrote this I'd probably write the strings as a second guitar instead and be a lot sparser, but your way could work just as well with some more work.

     

    I don't know if this helps in any way and I'm not an expert. It's a pretty nice piece though, has potential.

  • Matthew James McMurry June 16, 2011 at 10:49pm
    Thanks! You're spot on with saying the strings are midi. I agree that one of my biggest flaws is rhythms that are too simple/straightforward, and that's something I'm trying to break out of.

    vincenti zghra said:

    I don't know it's pretty simple, and pretty nice. I don't really like the strings, they sound like midi-strings with reverb and are quite muddy. But compositionally I would say this is fine, although for a complete piece I think you have to expand on the main motif and break away from the staticity rhythmically in some way. If I wrote this I'd probably write the strings as a second guitar instead and be a lot sparser, but your way could work just as well with some more work.

     

    I don't know if this helps in any way and I'm not an expert. It's a pretty nice piece though, has potential.

    The Night Ends
    Being of young age and having no musical colleagues, I find it quite difficult to find good criticism. I shared this piece with a few of my friends a…
  • vincenti zghra June 17, 2011 at 12:37am
    It's okay that the rhythms are straight forward in the first part tho in my opinion, although in the second part once they start to change you should expand on that a bit. At least in this piece. It would add a nice dynamic and give you more expressivity or room to move/feel.
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