ianmiller999

My first piece of music composition. How I wish I'd never taken music GCSE

Anyway available for people to listen:

http://www.millerfamily99.pwp.blueyonder.co.uk/CRAP.MID

wacky.banana

Just listened to it. Does remind me of the tune to go with the nursery rhyme "Sing a song of sixpence, a pocket full of ..."

Are you doing any more?

ianmiller999

I have written a drum piece but havent put that as a midi yet.

And now I havent to right a ballad for my third and final piece. I dont think my first piece was to bad considering I haven't got a clue about keyboards/pianos in fact I cannot read treble clef so I had to mess around see what I liked and then work out what notes it was etc and try and write it down.

ianmiller999

Two of my friends compositions

http://www.millerfamily99.pwp.blueyo...NeoAnarchy.mid

www.millerfamily99.pwp.blueyonder.co.uk/NeoAnarchy.mid

Kind of put mine to shame big style



[Edited by ianmiller999 - 1/28/2004 7:37:09 PM]

weapon69

ian-i had ONE HOUR music lesson a week at school for 9 months when we took our GCSE when i was 13!! How any of us passed i don't know!!!!!

[Edited by weapon69 - 1/28/2004 7:46:41 PM]

ianmiller999

Now the test have got so rediculous it is unbelieveable, in the marking scheme on one question it will say award a mark for getting the right composer or a composer from same period of time. Ona nother it will say do not award mark for naming composer?!?!?!?

No wonder not 1 person in the country managed to get in the highest mark band.

ajm

There can't be many people who can ONLY read Bass clef? What instrument do you play then? Bass? Tuba?

I played the organ (no not that ) for a while, bloody nightmare trying to read the music for 2 manuals and the pedals in Bass and Treble clef simulataneously!... gave up not long after!

ianmiller999

I play the drums so you dont have to know notes. The drum staves just tell you what drum to hit.

wacky.banana

Ian,

Your friend's compositions are good. Wished he/she hadn't mucked about with the volume on the first piece. Why don't you do a drum composition with, say, a guitar riff as a backing rhythm piece? That way you compose using a system you are familiar with.

Good luck with it.

WB

weapon69

Ian-Are drums the only instrument you play?

*couldn't think of any other way to word it*

lol

ianmiller999

I just listened to the piece i put online by him, the copy on my computer doesnt have the volume fluctuations like that. Strange

ianmiller999

Yes the drums are the only instrument I play and very badly at that as well.

If I had the choice I wouldn't do any expresive art but I don't have the choice so I choose music.

weapon69

OK, I only asked as i imagine its quite difficult with compositions? All mine were Flute/Piano based (for some reason the best marks were awarded to piano type things).