Was feeling quite inspired yesterday and I composed something really tiny!
Hope you like! There is a tiny mess up haha (which is funny seeing how I can't play the music I wrote)

http://soundcloud.com/evanthebouncy/fugue-1-1/s-ivX78

Now I have a account there I think i will be composing more full musics so stay tuned!! :D

review, comments please

Froadac

United States6733 Posts

January 03 2011 02:15 GMT

I'm getting a page saying it's not available

Kimaker

United States2131 Posts

January 03 2011 02:19 GMT

On January 03 2011 11:15 Froadac wrote:
I'm getting a page saying it's not available

ditto

evanthebouncy!

United States12796 Posts

January 03 2011 02:21 GMT

Ah shit how do I make it public, gimme a few mins!!
I'll pm u all when it goes up

edit: fixed!

Superiorwolf

United States5509 Posts

January 03 2011 02:24 GMT

really good! :D

evanthebouncy!

United States12796 Posts

January 03 2011 02:26 GMT

Conan how come you can find all my blogs hahaha

Froadac

United States6733 Posts

January 03 2011 02:29 GMT

very nice! Do you go to UCB by chance?

evanthebouncy!

United States12796 Posts

January 03 2011 02:37 GMT

I do go to berkeley, I study math and computer science (not guitar unfortunately)

iGrok

United States5142 Posts

January 03 2011 02:38 GMT

pretty good! feels like you're rushing some of the notes tho

Froadac

United States6733 Posts

January 03 2011 02:42 GMT

#10

On January 03 2011 11:37 evanthebouncy! wrote:
I do go to berkeley, I study math and computer science (not guitar unfortunately)

gogo berkeley.

gogo compsci

I'm still listening to it. Amazing stu ff.

evanthebouncy!

United States12796 Posts

January 03 2011 02:52 GMT

#11

On January 03 2011 11:38 iGrok wrote:
pretty good! feels like you're rushing some of the notes tho

Mmm if you're talking about the measure I want it to be a 4/4 that looks like
x--x--x--xx
kind of shape for a bar xD

Kimaker

United States2131 Posts

January 03 2011 04:01 GMT

#12

Has alot of potential. Clean it up a bit, and it'll sound so damn cool! I liked it alot btw.

Superiorwolf

United States5509 Posts

January 03 2011 06:07 GMT

#13

On January 03 2011 11:26 evanthebouncy! wrote:
Conan how come you can find all my blogs hahaha

"from the shadows, i come ^^" - protoss stalker

although i guess i'd probably be like a changeling . . . "bhuieahraekfahbdkflha!!"

Khenra

Netherlands885 Posts

January 03 2011 06:23 GMT

#14

Not to be a bitch, but doesn't a fugue have four interlacing melody lines?

It sounds nice, you should take the idea and extend it to like a two-minute song you can play to others

evanthebouncy!

United States12796 Posts

January 03 2011 06:55 GMT

#15

^ yeah i said it myself that it's not really a fugue hahaha but it kinda has 2 lines. I'll see if it is expandable. mm thanks!

Powerpill

United States1693 Posts

January 03 2011 11:33 GMT

#16

I like the dissonance and the sort of Spanish feel this has. As others have said, clean it up a bit, and possibly add a few more parts/progressions, could even add some vox if you're feeling saucy

evanthebouncy!

United States12796 Posts

January 03 2011 12:13 GMT

#17

what's vox? O_o

Powerpill

United States1693 Posts

January 03 2011 13:07 GMT

#18

On January 03 2011 21:13 evanthebouncy! wrote:
what's vox? O_o

Sorry, is short for Vocals

Starparty

Sweden1963 Posts

January 03 2011 13:45 GMT

#19

unless you are super worried about someone stealing your work you could set the tracks to public rather than private. Then you wont have to share that secret link everytime, and people can find the music without it

evanthebouncy!

United States12796 Posts

January 03 2011 22:51 GMT

#20

I know!! I really really want to, but how do you do it?

[NyC]HoBbes

United States803 Posts

January 04 2011 00:17 GMT

#21

On January 03 2011 15:23 Khenra wrote:
Not to be a bitch, but doesn't a fugue have four interlacing melody lines?

It sounds nice, you should take the idea and extend it to like a two-minute song you can play to others

it can be a fugue as long as it has at least 2 melody lines. This, however, isn't quite a fugue. Fugues are really, really strictly structured- your opening subject doesn't work as a fugue subject, since you have both melody and bass going from the very beginning.

Theoretically, you should introduce the subject of the fugue alone in one of your voices, then restate the subject, transposed to a related key, usually the Dominant (5th), while creating a counterpoint line (countersubject) in the voice that originally contained the subject. Once all the voices of your fugue have stated the subject, you have a bit more freedom. You basically continue to build on what you have, re-stating the subject and your countersubject(s), until you build to an ending, which should be a resolving cadence. A fugue on your subject could open something like This (sorry for the incredibly shitty sounding guitar playback; I don't play guitar well and my notation program is god-awful at playback)

It's hard to write fugues for things like the guitar, keys or just open-score are usually easier, as string instruments have some degree of limitation as to how many distinct lines you can play at once, which is the purpose of counterpoint. (see Bach's violin partitas for INSANE implied counterpoint on string instruments.)

I like what you've already written quite a bit as a theme and variations- it'd be fun to see what kind of stuff you could get from expanding it.

Hope this is helpful,
-Hobbes

Tuneful

United States327 Posts

January 04 2011 00:45 GMT

#22

Posting to agree with Hobbes, what you've produced here is similar to an invention or a theme and variations. There's also a lot of style rules to consider outside of the formal rules of counterpoint and theory (never tie notes 1:2, etc.). The style brise (broken style) that you've written in reminds me of a vihuela.