Composed a pice before?

[ihatepop]

Has anyone ever improvised or composed a piece before? It does'nt have to be broadcasted or performed, you could have just, well, wrote something...Oh, yes, if you have, tell me the name of the piece (if it has one).

Cheers, 

ihatepop

[Motrax]

I improvise as a warm-up at the beginning of my practice sessions and as a "cool-down" at the end of my practice sessions. I try to improvise in the style of whatever music I'm playing. I wish I were better at it though... it's a rare occasion indeed when I enjoy my own improvisation.   

I also am writing three pieces for violin and piano - I've mostly finished 2 of them, and have been awfully lazy about working on the third.

[phil13]

Has anyone ever improvised or composed a piece before? It does'nt have to be broadcasted or performed, you could have just, well, wrote something...Oh, yes, if you have, tell me the name of the piece (if it has one).

Cheers, 

ihatepop

Yes. Composing is my second love.

There's a couple lists I've posted around this forum somewhere...none of my pieces have actual 'names'- I prefer to let the music speak for itself most of the time. In fact, I'm composing right now- the mind is ever-active. 

Phil

[ronde_des_sylphes]

Yes, I compose, but sadly I don't get as much time for it as I would like. I'm very into piano transcriptions and I like to create my own, as well as writing original material.

I'm also a borderline compulsive improviser; it often gets in the way of what I'm supposed to be practicing.

[Derek]

I love having improvisation get in the way of what I am practicing. I find that it helps to prevent repetitive stress injury from practicing technique or repertoire, as well as being, in very many cases, far more satisfying.

[ted]

If I didn't compose and, more especially improvise, I wouldn't bother playing the piano at all. It's about 95% of what I do in music and for me it's what music is all about. I do play a modest number of other people's pieces but in most cases I can go to the shop and buy a recording of any of a hundred people who can play them a damned sight better. However, nobody can play my own thoughts except me.

Admittedly I haven't written much out in recent months. I've tended to record improvisation instead - a tremendous heap of it. It takes me about an hour to write out something which I take an instant to invent and a few seconds to play, and then the notation is only a good approximation at best. In fact I have amassed a very large pile of written compositions over the years but these days I begrudge putting pen to paper when in the time I do it I could make up twenty other things.

It's good to see such a large proportion of creative players on the forum.

[nanabush]

Haha when I was 7 years old I wrote like a 15 second 'piece' called Ickis... I dont have my notes for it but from what I vaguely remember it had no meter, no general melody and the notes had no stems... (I was a n00b, but I still wrote a piece  )

[freakofnature]

Haha when I was 7 years old I wrote like a 15 second 'piece' called Ickis... I dont have my notes for it but from what I vaguely remember it had no meter, no general melody and the notes had no stems... (I was a n00b, but I still wrote a piece  )

Hihi, I did the same as a child. I just poured notes onto the paper (mine had stems - what makes me an advanced composer I guess)... It couldn't be that hard to write a piece, right???