On this piece of music, I partnered up with Jerome and our objective was to create a piece of music that would go well with a tense or romantic scene.
We tried to be a bit unorthodox with the notes we used so I didn't play all the legitimate chords for example; for 2 bars I used F (sharp), A (sharp) and even D (sharp) together synchronized all of them played together doesn't make a legitimate chord, but it was still quite key in making the actual piece sound like how we wanted it to sound.
As Jerome used the right hand side of the keyboard to create a pitter patter effect it was contrasted to my arpeggio side of the keyboard which went to a more smooth and consistent rhythm. As the track went on we added more of a quieter and high pitch.
Overall this was a good piece of work but we could have made it better by using more of a variation of chords but I feel that instead of just changing the pitch and dynamics we could have also varied the tempo better.
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By: Shawn Simon 9CC
Hi Shawn,
ReplyDeleteGood reflection. I think the piece started off well and it has the potential to be good. I like the idea of the melody getting more complex over time, however I think you need to simplify the ideas. Don't introduce more complex chords, but rather, in order to improve you need to choose notes for the melody that match the chords you are playing more appropriately. For example in the chords of A (a,c#,e), you should be looking at making a melody out of these three notes so that it matches what you're doing in the chords. If you just play any notes against this chord then it creates a dissonant (this means clashing) sound. You mention that you should vary the tempo better, and I agree, though I think the whole thing should be glower.