Waltz No. 1 in A Minor
Hey all I just composed my 1st Waltz. I welcome all criticism. Thank you for your time. I just wanted to say what an amazing experience this has been finding this website and listening to so many gifted composers. I am in heaven. Some of you are so talented and I would pay to hear some of your works performed.
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I enjoyed this. Took a couple of playbacks to be comfortable with the D# in Measure 12 but I get it now.
In reply to I enjoyed this. Took a couple by underquark
Didn't mean to throw anyone off ;)
From a compositional/ Theory position there is nothing more to say - this is a fine piece. However Could you put in more line breaks after every couple of measure? This would let the Sheet be much more appealing and it would let the ties/slurs/legato be more visible. (Line Break is in the palette under Breaks & spaces.) Can't wait to see what else you got.
In reply to From a compositional/ Theory by stanknj7
I will see to it. Thanks for the suggestion. =]
Bravo - Bravissimo!
I really enjoyed this.
I agree with stanknj7 — it could use a little formatting work, particularly with slurs. (Hopefully 3.0 will fix this sort of thing automatically ☺)
Question — have you had any jazz training? Mm. 13, 16 suggest this to me.
Bravo! Your composition is sound and it will serve as a good example of your composition journey.
In my opinion, listening to music from gifted composers is 70% of your skill improvement, keep it up!
You can learn how to use half-diminished chords (such as B half-diminished chord = B-D-F-A) in your other compositions.
Dear Jonathon,
Your first Waltz? I thought it was written by Chopin himself.
Well done! A couple of points: When you have the Cres. and Dim.
hairpins you could put a dynamic making ( "p" and "f" etc.) at the
beginning and end to indicate the desired volume. Some of the
bars are very long (like the third last system) but this is easy to fix.