Today I submitted my entry for this month’s Monthly Music Challenge hosted by Cosmic Bos. The theme was #SuperSpectacular. If I’m honest I struggled with this quite a lot. Whenever I tried to start composing a new song all I could really think of was this song from my album Volume 14 - Whojammyflip.
I did consider reworking this song for the challenge, but that is not really the point. The idea is to write a new piece of music each month. So after much head scratching I decided to work on another instrumental piece.
Recently in my compositional studies I have been looking at chords, and triads in particular. I wanted to explore the possibilities of music using only 3 notes. So what is the most spectacular triad I can think of? C Major of course.
I started out on the piano messing around with the notes C, E & G. Adding more instruments as I felt they were needed. Some woodwinds, percussion and a violin. What I created was quite interesting, but it didn’t seem quite right to me. I left it a few days, letting the idea float around my mind and mature.
I realised that the percussion was overkill, and did not compliment the other instruments well. I also made a change to the notes dropping the E to E flat and turning the major chord to a minor. This is exactly what was needed, and it made the piece sound much more like my style.
I have given it the title No. 12 in C minor as it is the twelfth short piece I have created in my studies. I don’t think it’s the greatest, but I do think it shows what I am trying to achieve in learning composition.
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