etude #8

For this one I didn’t really have an idea to start, just that I wanted to branch out a little bit with instruments & I wanted to try to actually add drums.

I settled on a piano, a windy-sounding synth, and a backing cavernous pad for extra color. I also kept the dungeon synth drum pack I used for the last exercise.

etude #7

stumped on etude #7

I’m having the hardest time with this one. The question and answer part I more or less understand – at least, when it comes to melody. But I’m struggling with writing for percussion in general, and fall completely flat when it comes to figuring out how to express an answer (or consequent) with just rhythm, much less in response to a melodic question.

etude #6

Texture refers to how many instruments are playing at a time, but it is also related to other elements, such as melody, harmony, and rhythm.

Biphonic texture is when a main melody is accompanied by a bass drone.

etude #5 finished

I learned a lot with this exercise. Starting with the musical form I chose, a rondó, an outline of the new / better-understood concepts covered in writing this piece:

• form: rondó (and sonata rondó)
• theory: tension & release
• terminology: diminuendo
• theory: dynamics
• technique: better understanding of chord progressions
• form: counterpoint
• theory / terminology: note intervals
• theory: chords
• chord numbering
• technique: walking bass line
• chord inversion