Відео

Thank you very much!

😂😂 thanks very much Bob! I hope you're both keeping well.

Thank you!

....not too much!

Thank you very much Mr May!

Thank you very much Stephen!

Thanks! Never heard them...off to have a listen now!

Thanks very much! Good spot, yes, I was experimenting with chromaticism and going for a bit of a Shosty feel in places. Best of luck with the piano concerto! All the best. Jeff

Thank you!😀

Muchas gracias David!

Hi IMMAS, thanks! Sometimes things just come out without a fight, and this was one of them. I'm well impressed with the muse sounds sax sample. Looking forward to hearing your 2nd.. 40mnis?!...Mahler would be proud! I've just finished the 1st movement of the Cello concerto, will be posting it next week (and that was a fight!). All the best, Jeff

Muchas gracias😀

Thank you very much!

Thank you very much! I can see from your quintet that you already know how difficult and illogical dynamics can be in Musescore! Musescore dynamics are not suitable for real live players, but only to tell Musescore how to play it. The mixer balance is important to start with as not all instruments are correctly balanced at 0db. I have learned you need to tell it everything about dynamics and keep telling it throughout the score…do not let it make its own mind up with hairpins that don't have dynamic markings at the end of them - every phrase, every crescendo and decrescendo must be notated with dynamic markings and then unexpected jumps should happen less. Think “absolute dynamics” not “relative” dynamics. And, worse, newer versions of Musescore from 4.0 onwards often handle dynamics differently - my 4.1 scores sound wrong when played on 4.3.

Thank you very much Carsten. Greetings from England!

Thank you!

Thank you very much Wing! I began there because i had a tune in my head that needed to be dealt with! Yes, it is quite remarkable how convincing it sounds, especially at a slower pace. When you try something a bit more complex, it begins to show up the problems but I'm not complaining given how much it didn't cost!

Hi sir, yes, I would be honoured if you used it. Please send me a link when the video is published. धन्यवाद 😃

@@JeffWardMusic sure sir. But sir your music can allow to video for monetize?

​@@worldexplorewild6752 I'm not interested in money - please just use it if you wish.

@@JeffWardMusic thanks

Thank you very much Jean-Pierre

Thank you very much Jean-Pierre. I was very pleased with this but unfortunately UA-cam didn't agree so much! But a choir in northern France will be performing it this year, which is nice..

Thank you very much Jean-Pierre!

Hi Algodemusica, thank you very much for your kind words which I am so glad to hear from a professional musician! Almost everything I do uses only the Musescore 4 Muse Sounds library because I do not enjoy writing music in DAWs using piano roll editing and complicated sound libraries. They take the fun out of it and I prefer using proper notation. The only time I use another library and a DAW (Logic Pro X) is for the choral pieces so I can use the EastWest Hollywood Choir - that sounds much better than Musescore's choir and has a WordBuilder which can sing phonetics but it is very slow to input the text. It actually does quite a good job with Latin! When I do those pieces, I export the WAV mix of the orchestra and the MIDI for the choir from Musescore and then use Logic Pro to mix it with the EastWest choir...it's a very long job. Many thanks again!

Thank you very much! I was quite happy with them too!

His digital lungs are more than capable of such feats!

@@JeffWardMusic The blessed machine triumphs once again.

​@@SmileytheSmile 🤣In all seriousness though, Musescore doesn't respect breath marks on playback (it should put a brief gap in), so you have to end the phrase with a tied demisemiquaver (or whatever) followed by an equivalent rest for the breath. Looks very odd and is a pain so I've long given up putting them in. It doesn't respect slurs either so you can't differentiate tongued from legato, so I don't bother with them mostly either. I'm an oboist, by the way, and I just make my own mind up where to put the breaths and tongues!

Thank you very much Nils!

Thanks very much, I'm really pleased you like it! No, this one is Musescore cello - the real deal comes later, I hope. I'm fine thanks (apart from the back🤣), you too I hope. You'll have to look hard - it's one of those pieces where the percussionists get to spend the evening in the pub and come in for their one crash in the finale (bars 119- 120), then they can sneak out again and go finish their drinks! They'll earn their money in the 1st and 3rd movements though. All the best, Jeff

@@JeffWardMusic 😂, I don’t remember in which Brahms symphony it was, but there is a single crash cymbal beat the in whole symphony, you will get into trouble if you miss your one beat. There are folks that say playing through a piece of music with just a few bars of rest is way easier than playing through a piece with just a few bars of actual playing :)

​@@Imakemusicandstuff333 I couldn't agree with those folks more! When I was an oboist in my youth, counting rests was a nightmare (39, 2, 3, 4,;40, 2, 3, 4' 41, 2, 3...)! Ian related a story to me today of a choir who did a piece with an orchestra with just one cymbal crash at the end, a job one of the choristers took...at her appointed time she crept to the back, lifted the cymbals and came in one beat too late! Oops! Bruckner 7 has just one in the Adagio and the story behind it is controversial, discussed here... www.overgrownpath.com/2006/09/berlin-philharmonics-cymbal-moment-of.html

@@JeffWardMusic that’s why I have possibly over 200 crash cymbal clashes in my second symphony… maybe I should add a few more. About the symphony, it is almost finished except I can’t write an ending that I am happy with. The form is quite unusual for a symphony and it’s very open, harsh and unpredictable. It reflects a lot on how unpredictable and chaotic life (or just anything really) can be, but the ending is where I want to bring the listener to order (that’s also what I am reflecting in the finale, order in moments of chaos and vise versa) and a giant major climax then fade out. I have the vision but I cannot accomplish it so I took a little break from it (the last 2 weeks), hopefully I can finish it soon.

​@@Imakemusicandstuff333 Sounds like you set yourself quite a challenge! I'm sure you'll pull it off and am looking forward to hearing it.. Time away from it is a great way of clearing the artistic block (I took 3 months away from this one before I could work out what to do with the 2nd subject!).

Thank you very much Stephen! Hopefully all things will be possible...🙂

Haha! Thanks! Maybe if we save up enough, we can perform it and you can show off your gift for conducting!

And I can show off my gift for starting lawn mowers....lol.....another triumph Jeff

@@petersmith859 🤣🤣Thanks Peter!

I, peter.smith2413 sent the lawn mower remark....lol....not the other petersmith

​@@petersmith859 🤣 He's a Smyth, not a Smith (not that Mac Mail is capable of discerning the difference!)

It may indeed not be payable Emilio, but since the chances of anyone ever playing it for real are exactly zero, I'm not too worried!

gratias tibi!

Thank you very much!

I didn't even know there was a "send to youtube" button🤣 I could have saved hours of work in Final Cut Pro!

Thank you very much!

Ha! Thank you so much for this and your other lovely comments. It's not often someone takes the time to binge-watch my channel and engage with such generous appreciation, especially when they clearly know their music. Yes, that orchestration would work well. The choice here, however, was quite deliberate (unusually for my random experimental approach to writing!) - I love octave/double-octave piano melodies as they have a lovely bell-like quality to them, and I was trying here to emulate the sound Shostakovich gets in his 2nd Piano Concerto (1st movement). The daft left-hand figure, which was the genesis of the piece, originally set out to try to emulate Rachmaninoff which proved impossible (obviously!) and I ended-up with this, so I plonked the melody on top! Strategy? Nope. Tactics? Nope. 😂

Thank you! I'm a big fan of 7/8 (being a progressive rock aficionado with an unhealthy dedication to Genesis). I love your suggestions here and agree wholeheartedly. I always felt that, although the fugal'ish, fugue-like, not-a fugue but trying to be one, build-up section needed more differentiation as it progressed. But, as always, that takes a massive amount of skill..Maybe one day! Thanks again.

With you all the way there! It was more a failed experiment than anything strategic. I'd wanted to do a fast, fugal variation of the main theme with some wicked modulations, all of which worked perfectly in my head,, but I realised quite quickly it was out of reach of my amateur capability! After battling with it for ages, I conceded defeat with something that sort-of worked and it stayed in🤣

@@JeffWardMusicyou should continue developing/improving this work. It does remind me of Mendelssohn’s Hebrides Oveture. Perhaps you could get some inspiration from it. I think I heard echoes on the Alps.

I'm so glad you are, thanks! Yes, that's a rather good interpretation. I really appreciate it when people come up with a scene in their heads from something I've written as, most of the time, I don't have one in mind. This one, to me, always sounded like dawn breaking and sunrise for the first coupe of minutes, but then it goes awry!

Thank you very much...made my evening! I'm a former oboist and I couldn't agree with you more, all that blowing for no discernible benefit. I still think I've done better balances with my No. 2 and No. 6 poems (I'd love to hear what you think of them if you get the time). O to get a room full of real musicians...now that would be an opportunity!

Thank you! Yes by chance I've already put this one and 2 others on Musescore...musescore.com/user/32381594

@@JeffWardMusic Thank you very much.

Thank you very much!

Thank you very much Jesus! I am always open to constructive criticism. Several more compositions on my channel which I hope you enjoy too! All the best, Jeff

Thank you very much! You're quite right...it started life as an attempt at a baroque style piece but, like so many things I do, it rather drifted off-target during the process!

Thank you very much Kalynn!

Thank you very much Markus! Yes, I think I was going through my suspensions phase at the time and used up quite a lot of stock😄

Thank you very much Alkis! I've got some more baroque pastiches coming, so keep an eye open for them. All the best, Jeff

Thank you very much Robert, much appreciated! I will😀

Thank you very much, I'm so glad you like it!

Glad you like it!

Thank you!

Thank you very much!