Piano Prelude in D Minor

Hope you enjoy this short piece I wrote for piano, and have a nice day!!

[@aronbucca6777]

Rachmaninoff and saint-Saëns? Plus it's strange that you can write pretty well in counterpoint but struggle with harmony. Usually you start learning harmony and then counterpoint and fugue (even if counterpoint historically came first). Do you study composition with a teacher?

[@Evvymakesmusic]

I do not study composition with a teacher, which is probably the reason for that. Counterpoint was actually the very first thing that I ended up learning, so if I’m trying to write something without those kinds of horizontal lines then I struggle a bit. I have to work on that 😅. Thanks for the comment, I appreciate it!

[@aronbucca6777]

@@Evvymakesmusic you really should begin studying composition with a teacher: you have pretty good musical ideas when writing in counterpoint and learning with the help of a guide could make you improve a lot! You have talent and if composition is your passion it would be worth it to pursue this path.

[@Evvymakesmusic]

@@aronbucca6777 Thank you very much for the advice, I'll definitely look into it. I have a violin teacher who I think also teaches theory and composition, so maybe I'll reach out to him

[@aronbucca6777]

@@Evvymakesmusic have you ever shown your pieces to any music teacher? In my case, I started composing because my theory and piano teacher asked me several times if I wanted to study composition as he saw my interests in various aspects of pieces I had seen. Maybe, as you said, your violin teacher can help you.

[@Evvymakesmusic]

@@aronbucca6777 I've only recently started showing other people my pieces and uploading them to youtube, so I haven't shown any to a music teacher yet, but I'd very much like to. It's odd because I've been taking private lessons and have participated in my school's orchestra for years but have never so much as mentioned I write music until within the last week or two. I kept it hidden, I was shy about it