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Post by alexandre on Nov 23, 2017 2:11:54 GMT
Hi, everyone. This is the beggining of a song I'm composing. I chose to go slow first, and share just the first part, since the entire song is almost ten minutes long. Feel free to comment, specially about harmony. I'm still learning all this stuff, sometimes it's hard to grasp something wrong with my babies. song: soundcloud.com/borale/28-bpdf: 28-b-exportar.pdf (68.57 KB) |
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Post by king2b on Nov 24, 2017 15:30:30 GMT
Just listening is okay but the music needs to be in a more accessible time signature for performance. I am sure that the greater knowledge in these pages will guide you to a finished product.
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Post by driscollmusick on Nov 24, 2017 17:41:03 GMT
King2b is right that you need to work on the notation here. This is fairly straightforward music that does not require a wacky time signature like 19/16 (this hides the actually rhythmic groupings and will only make it virtually impossible for a real-life player to read). Moreover, I doubt you're really hearing a group of 19 sixteenth notes in each measure (measure 2, for example, only has 18(!) sixteenth notes and as I hear it in MIDI, would be much more clearly written as a measure of 2/4 followed by a measure of 5/8).
I'm also not sure what you meant by all the fermatas, as they are not played in the MIDI and do not appear in all staves? Fermatas indicate holding on a note (not an accent), so really not sure what you intended here.
There are other points I could make but I do think getting your time signatures and beaming cleaned up is the first step. Even if the beat grouping varies from measure to measure, you need to make those groupings super clear to all the players (and consistently across all parts).
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Post by alexandre on Nov 24, 2017 21:10:18 GMT
Nice, that's what I need. To be honest, until now I have not worried about the legibility of my scores. I just choose a time signature that's not 4/4 and start to insert notes. About the fermatas, it's really about holding the note slightly (I configured them with very small parameters, so, they're played, but very subtle. They should only be written when there's a noticeable hold of the note?
I'll rewrite the stuff following your advice. Thank you very much.
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Post by driscollmusick on Nov 24, 2017 23:02:15 GMT
Nice, that's what I need. To be honest, until now I have not worried about the legibility of my scores. I just choose a time signature that's not 4/4 and start to insert notes. About the fermatas, it's really about holding the note slightly (I configured them with very small parameters, so, they're played, but very subtle. They should only be written when there's a noticeable hold of the note? I'll rewrite the stuff following your advice. Thank you very much. I think in this context, what you want is a tenuto on those notes (slightly elongated in comparison to the surrounding notes). A fermata indicates a real pause/break in the beat across the ensemble. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tenuto |
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Post by Dave Dexter on Nov 25, 2017 0:09:40 GMT
Nice, that's what I need. To be honest, until now I have not worried about the legibility of my scores. I just choose a time signature that's not 4/4 and start to insert notes. About the fermatas, it's really about holding the note slightly (I configured them with very small parameters, so, they're played, but very subtle. They should only be written when there's a noticeable hold of the note? I'll rewrite the stuff following your advice. Thank you very much. I think in this context, what you want is a tenuto on those notes (slightly elongated in comparison to the surrounding notes). A fermata indicates a real pause/break in the beat across the ensemble. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TenutoI thought a fermata indicated the note to be held to an unspecified duration at the discretion of the performers or conductor? Btw, welcome Alexandre! |
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Post by driscollmusick on Nov 25, 2017 0:31:49 GMT
I think in this context, what you want is a tenuto on those notes (slightly elongated in comparison to the surrounding notes). A fermata indicates a real pause/break in the beat across the ensemble. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TenutoI thought a fermata indicated the note to be held to an unspecified duration at the discretion of the performers or conductor? Btw, welcome Alexandre! I think you have to look at the score and listen to the MIDI to see that a fermata is not what is meant. |
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Post by alexandre on Nov 25, 2017 1:52:30 GMT
You're right, driscollmusick, it's tenuto.
Hi, Dave!
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Post by Bob Porter on Nov 25, 2017 16:52:11 GMT
Thanks for posting this.
About the holds. The romantic in me has no problem with those notes actually being held slightly and then moving on, without a break. Tenuto seems too short.
For some reason 3/4 comes to mind instead of 19/16. And at a MM that the 16ths become eighth notes.
"I just choose a time signature that's not 4/4". Go ahead and write in 4/4. Holds would break the flow up (or enhance it) so that it seems like it's not in 4/4.
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