Can’t speak with authority as a composer here, but I found your piece harmonically okay and spoiled only by lack of logic and form, not lack of melody.
Here’s how you may get form: take a few measures of your piece that form a cohesive block, maybe from the beginning to the notes d c#, and play them repeatedly until your ears bleed and you desperately want the music to go somewhere else. Then go somewhere else—do something outrageous on the piano, and then return to your first few measures. Voila, instant verse-chorus form :-) The music should shift when you want it to shift, not just because a new measure has started and demands new chords. There’s nothing wrong with repeating a lot and rephrasing a lot.
Here’s something born from this kind of methodology. I lack your hearing and harmonic sense, so I just make the music as stupidly obvious and self-similar as possible.
Can’t speak with authority as a composer here, but I found your piece harmonically okay and spoiled only by lack of logic and form, not lack of melody.
Yeah, composing one chord at a time without writing it down wasn’t good for structure, either.
I think your idea is interesting, and I’ll listen to your piece when I’m not at work.
Can’t speak with authority as a composer here, but I found your piece harmonically okay and spoiled only by lack of logic and form, not lack of melody.
Here’s how you may get form: take a few measures of your piece that form a cohesive block, maybe from the beginning to the notes d c#, and play them repeatedly until your ears bleed and you desperately want the music to go somewhere else. Then go somewhere else—do something outrageous on the piano, and then return to your first few measures. Voila, instant verse-chorus form :-) The music should shift when you want it to shift, not just because a new measure has started and demands new chords. There’s nothing wrong with repeating a lot and rephrasing a lot.
Here’s something born from this kind of methodology. I lack your hearing and harmonic sense, so I just make the music as stupidly obvious and self-similar as possible.
Yeah, composing one chord at a time without writing it down wasn’t good for structure, either.
I think your idea is interesting, and I’ll listen to your piece when I’m not at work.