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I'm going to try and write a piano piece.
« on: 01 Jun 2007, 21:42 »
Any tips you can give me?  Chord structures, keys, progressions, etc.  Anything will be helpful.  I can play by ear and I can make stuff up, but I really don't know anything about music theory.
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Re: I'm going to try and write a piano piece.
« Reply #1 on: 01 Jun 2007, 22:22 »
Write it down.

Repeat passages, but don't make them exactly the same.
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Re: I'm going to try and write a piano piece.
« Reply #2 on: 01 Jun 2007, 22:57 »
I play the piano I'm not that good at composing though.

I'm a pretty big fan of Arpeggio's maybe start there with your right hand and work in a few chords in your left and build up from there
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Re: I'm going to try and write a piano piece.
« Reply #3 on: 02 Jun 2007, 06:26 »
What kind of piece are you wanting to write? Because my attitude when it comesto writing on the piano is 'Fuck progressions.' Most of my favourite piano pieces, and most of what I write, is deliberately avoiding the traditional. I don't always succeed, but simply by not specifically being that great at piano, I end up writing stuff I really like.
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Re: I'm going to try and write a piano piece.
« Reply #4 on: 02 Jun 2007, 07:17 »
Write down WHATEVER you do. I have lost many good ideas by not writing them down.
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Re: I'm going to try and write a piano piece.
« Reply #5 on: 02 Jun 2007, 09:43 »
Thinking about this a bit more (I was actually putting together a song tonight) I think it's pretty important to establish what sort of mood/feeling you want you're music to have, when you've settled on the sort of emotion you're trying to get across you can work out everything else afterwards. Rather then getting overly concerned with a lot of technical details concentrate on settling on the feeling first.

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Re: I'm going to try and write a piano piece.
« Reply #6 on: 02 Jun 2007, 12:57 »
I've been told D minor is the saddest key signature.  So, there ya go.
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Re: I'm going to try and write a piano piece.
« Reply #7 on: 02 Jun 2007, 13:03 »
"yeah, that's... really beautiful.. Do you have a name?"

"I like to call this one, uh... Lick My Love Pump"
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but the music sucks because the keyboards don't have the cold/mechanical sound they had but a wannabe techno sound that it's pathetic for Rammstein standars.

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Re: I'm going to try and write a piano piece.
« Reply #8 on: 02 Jun 2007, 13:29 »
Quote from: IronOxide on 02 Jun 2007, 07:17
Write down WHATEVER you do. I have lost many good ideas by not writing them down.

You know what's worse than that?

Writing it down and realising you have no fucking clue what the stuff you wrote down means
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Re: I'm going to try and write a piano piece.
« Reply #9 on: 02 Jun 2007, 21:24 »
Quote from: Kai on 02 Jun 2007, 13:03
"yeah, that's... really beautiful.. Do you have a name?"

"I like to call this one, uh... Lick My Love Pump"

This Is: Spinal Tap reference?
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Re: I'm going to try and write a piano piece.
« Reply #10 on: 02 Jun 2007, 21:37 »
that was the plan
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Quote from: Mr. Doctor on 21 Sep 2009, 12:01
but the music sucks because the keyboards don't have the cold/mechanical sound they had but a wannabe techno sound that it's pathetic for Rammstein standars.

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Re: I'm going to try and write a piano piece.
« Reply #11 on: 03 Jun 2007, 15:29 »
Yay.
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Re: I'm going to try and write a piano piece.
« Reply #12 on: 03 Jun 2007, 20:23 »
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