<pony><original><WIP><piano> Hello. I'm new here.

[Wolfram]

Hello. I'm "new" here. I say that with quote marks because I used to visit this site regularly years before. And now I suppose that I am reintroducing myself.

I wrote (read: slapped together) this piece based on the Castle of the Two Sisters, which was featured in recent episodes. It is rather repetitive, but I also didn't want to deviate from the main motif. I may plan to add more parts to the piece, but I can't think of much else to add to it. Ideally, it would be written for a somewhat earlier pianoforte.

https://www.dropbox.com/s/uaxwg4zpnawhktk/Writer-WIP.wav


Advice please (＾ｖ＾)

[CaptainFluffatun]

Did you play this? The composition is pretty complicated, so if you played it yourself then props. As for deviating from the main motif, don't be scared to! In fact, deviating far enough away from a motif is a very good strategy to effectively bring it back in. A classic example would be Beethoven's 5th, specifically the time I've linked http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fOk8Tm815lE#t=7m20s

The notes devolve into the main motif at about 7:23, and it really draws in the listener because it's calling attention to an already familiarized theme. In simpler terms, you be all "oh shit son, I see what this motherfucker did there!" So yeah, the further away you get from the main motif, the more effectively you can call back to it.

[Wolfram]

No, I did not play this, and I might never be able to (at this pace and machine-like perfection, anyways).

But yeah, I kind of figured that I needed to add more "stuff" to sort of lend space between the motif appearances, but I was afraid that I might not be able to work it back in effectively. My transitions, even without any deviance from the motif, are kind of subpar, so I was unsure of whether I could really be as effective as legends like Beethoven. But I'll be a bit more comfortable with testing the waters a bit more from now on. :)

[CaptainFluffatun]

Of course you can be! You just don't know it yet. As for machine-like perfection, what DAW are you using? I know pretty much all DAWs allow for velocity randomization, and Cubase (what I use) has an interative quantize feature, which basically means it randomizes the timing a little bit, to make things more human.

[Wolfram]

Yeah, I use REAPER, and it does indeed have a velocity and timing MIDI randomizer, but I meant "machine-like perfection" as in how the MIDI players can jump ridiculously far across the keyboard without slowing at all. It's certainly possible for a human to play it, but I imagine it requires simply ludicrous amounts of skill.

The heavily arpeggiated sections, for example, are at obscenely high tempos and jump a number of octaves at once.